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Rain on the Mesa. Baptist Evans worked out his plan with King and two Presbyterian missionaries from New Mexico, the Rev. Ralph Hall and the Rev. Roger Sherman. Says Evans of their first planning session: "We spent half that morning on our knees, praying to God for the wisdom we needed. When we got up off our knees, we knew where we were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Under the Prayer Tree | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Back in Saskatchewan, Arthur Morton clung doggedly to hope. In his newspaper he read of an evangelist in Costa Mesa, Calif, who was said to be curing the sick by prayer. Ignoring the advice of doctors, he decided to make the 2,800-mile trip with his son, by then scarcely able to breathe, and wasted to a shadowy 20 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Can You Give Up? | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Answered Prayers. After a nightmare trip of six days & nights, the Mortons got to Costa Mesa. There the father and Evangelist William Branham prayed over the boy. "Then," says Arthur Morton, "our prayers were answered." Reading of the Mortons' journey in a Los Angeles newspaper, an elderly Pasadena woman persuaded Brain Specialist William T. Grant to examine the boy, guaranteed hospital and medical expenses. She too had had what doctors called a "hopeless" subdural hydroma, and had been cured of it by surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Can You Give Up? | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

MILDRED B. MILLER La Mesa, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants the way Grant took Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: How to Find Uranium | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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