<TITLE>20. Par 228-245</TITLE>L-228   Old Brother Bosworth, I... he was going to come with me, and he was kind of tired. Just come back from Japan. He was going to be here. He's going on to be at Lubbock with me. And so he was... he had a little, bad cold, so he couldn't come on this one, he and his wife. And so he...

L-229 All thought he looked like Caleb. He stood there, he said, "Well, Brother Branham," that very dignified look, you know, he said, "let me go do it," and said, "if you don't want to."

L-230 I said, "O Brother Bosworth, I--I don't want you to do it. You'd go fussing."
He said, "There won't be one word of fussing."

L-231 Now, just before I close, listen to this. He went down there. I said, "If you won't fuss, all right."
Said, "I promise not to fuss."

L-232   Around thirty thousand people gathered for that auditorium that night. Brother Wood, sitting over here, was present at the time, and was setting in that auditorium. And I...

L-233 My boy said, or... My wife said, "You're not going down to that meeting?"

L-234 I said, "No. I wouldn't go down there and hear them fussing. No, sir. I wouldn't go down there and listen at it."
When nighttime come, Something said, "Go on down there."

L-235 I got a taxicab, my brother, and wife and my children, we went down. And I had went way up in balcony thirty, way high like that, and set down.

L-236   Old Brother Bosworth walked out there just like an old diplomat, you know. He had copied off some... He had six hundred different promises of the Bible copied off there. He said, "Now, Doctor Best, if you'll come up here and will take one of these promises and disprove it by the Bible. Every one of these promises is in the Bible, pertaining to Jesus Christ healing the sick in this day. If you can take one of these promises and, by the Bible, contradict it with the Bible, I'll set down, shake your hand, say, 'you're right.'"

L-237 He said, "I'll take care of that when I get up there!" He wanted the last so he could rub off on Brother Bosworth, see.

L-238   So Brother Bosworth said, "Well, Brother Best, I'll ask you one, and if you'll answer me 'yes' or 'no,'" said, "we'll just settle the debate right now."
And he said--he said, "I'll take care of that!"
He asked the moderator if he could ask him. Said, "Yes."

L-239 He said, "Brother Best, was the redemptive names of Jehovah applied to Jesus? 'Yes' or 'no'?"

L-240 That settled it. That was all. I tell you, I just felt something just going all through me. I never thought of that, myself, see. And I thought, "Oh, my, he can't answer! That ties it."
He said, "Well, Doctor Best, I'm--I'm alarmed."
He said, "I'll take care of that!"

L-241 Said, "I'm alarmed that you can't answer my weakest question." He was just as cool as a cucumber, and he knew where he was standing. So then he just set down there with that Scripture.
Said, "Take your thirty minutes, I'll answer after that!"

L-242   And old Brother Bosworth set there and took that Scripture and tied that man in such a place till his face was so red you could have struck a match on it, nearly.

L-243 He raised up from there, angry, and threw the papers across the floor, got up there and preached a good Campbellite sermon. I was a Baptist, I know what they believe. He never... He was preaching on the resurrection, "'when this mortal puts on immortality,' then we'll have Divine healing." Oh, my! What do we need Divine healing after we're immortal ("when this mortal puts on immortality," resurrection of the dead)? He even doubted the miracle that Jesus did on Lazarus, said, "He died again, and that was just a temporary thing." See?

L-244   And when he got through like that, he said, "Bring forth that Divine healer and let me see him perform!"

L-245 They had a little puddle then. Brother Bosworth said, "I'm surprised at you, Brother Best, not answering one question that I asked you."


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