The following article was published in the Bible Hour Bulletin, 70 years ago in December, 1946.
Rev. Wm. Branham to Attend Watch Service
The Eighth Annual Watch Service of the Blessed Old Bible Hour will begin at 7:30 p.m. on December 31 and continue until after midnight. These have proved to be great services in the past and will be much greater this year. Bro. Wm. Branham and family are planning to be with us, and perhaps will bring some of their workers from Jeffersonville, Indiana. Of course we will be expecting many of the ministers and workers of this section to be with us for that night.
The program will be broadcast over KBTM, Jonesboro, from 10:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. - two full hours of broadcasting. Come be with us in this great service. We have almost been willing to give a prize the past seven watch services to anyone who would get sleepy during that time.
Tell your friends and make your plans now to attend the Eighth Annual Watch Service of the Blessed Old Bible Hour. Bring along your sick and suffering that night as Bro. Branham will also be praying for the sick in that service.
SCHEDULE OF BRO. BRANHAM'S HEALING SERVICES
- December 17-19: Moark Pentecostal Church, Noel Jones, Pastor, Moark, Arkansas
- December 20: Pentecostal Church on Randall St., L.D. Seagraves, Pastor, Kennett, Missouri
- December 20: Pentecostal Church, A.J. Johnson, Pastor, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
- December 22-24: Milltown Baptist Church, Milltown, Indiana
- December 26-29: Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, Indiana
- December 31: Bible Hour Tabernacle, Jonesboro, Arkansas
Indiana Railroad Man Writes
To Whom It May Concern:
I had T.B. for a number of years caused from an accident which occurred while I was employed by a railroad company. I had been a patient in the Rockville, Indiana Sanitorium, but still I was bothered very much with the disease.
I was visiting in Kentucky with some of my kindred when I began to have several hemorrhages.
About 4:00 a.m. one morning they called in my kindred for I was dying. The wife of a Methodist minister came in and many other neighbors, and had prayer for me. Finally I began to feel I was dying and could breathe no longer. In the meantime someone went to get Rev. Branham , who did not know that I was home at the time. I can just remember him coming in. Then it seemed I was going through air and I saw my mother who had been dead for about a year. I was just about to meet her when I heard the voice of Bro. Branham. In a few moments I was up and out on the floor, shouting and praising God. I have had no more hemorrhages since.
Friends told me that my pastor and Bro. Branham prayed earnestly for me before I passed away. My wife had been taken into another room and neighbors and my pastor were trying to console her. Bro. Branham was in the room with a Methodist minister's wife and another sister. He, too, turned to leave the room when suddenly some strange feeling came over him. Something seemed to impress him, "Don't you preach Divine Healing?" He turned to look at me again, and the Spirit of God came over him. He ran to the bed and threw himself across me, calling over me in the Name of Jesus Christ. It was then that I heard his voice and came back to life again.
All praises and glory to God be given.
New Albany, Ind.