Word: branham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little farm town of Vandalia, Ill. just about doubled its population in one day. Some 4,000 newcomers, almost all of them blind, deaf, lame or incurably ill, were there to be healed. The self-styled healer: William Branham, a bald, narrow-shouldered, shiny-eyed Kentuckian and ex-power company lineman. As each patient walked or was carried past, Branham prayed over him, felt him to see if he vibrated with demons. When the last hallelujahs had died away and the collection had been taken, one young man announced that he had flung away his hearing...