THE BRANHAM MEETING AT LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND by F.F. Bosworth
The Branham meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, began the following Monday after leaving Germany and continued through Sunday. This beautiful city is in the southern part of Switzerland near the border of France; and the people all spoke French. As the truth was presented through a French interpreter, faith rose higher and higher each day of the meeting. It thrilled our hearts to see these French sinners respond by the thousands to the invitations to accept Christ.
On Sunday afternoon after Brother Branham preached a stirring evangelistic sermon, between three and four thousand quickly stood to accept Christ; and when I gave another invitation that night, following Brother Branham's ministry to the sick, some 1,500 more stood to receive Christ.
After Brother Branham's invitation in the afternoon, 2,000 names and addresses were handed in before the cards for that purpose ran out. The thousands of seats in the great tabernacle were all taken and hundreds stood on the inside, beside the crowd outside looking through the openings from the outside. Brother Branham told the audience that he had never witnessed such a mass faith. Their faces fairly beamed with faith, and the miracles were amazing.
Among many others pointed out by Brother Branham was a woman with tuberculosis of the spine in bed eight years. He told her that she had just been healed and to get up, which she did, walking in her bare feet. The very next morning she went shopping and bought a new pair of shoes which she had on when she came to the platform the next night and told the great audience the details of her eight years of suffering and of her wonderful healing the night before. Just after her healing Brother Branham pointed to a paralytic and he rose from his bed completely healed. Then a totally blind man was instantly healed while standing in the healing line before his time came. In an afternoon meeting some twenty were healed of totally deaf ears, including some from birth, and two whose one ear had been destroyed by radical mastoid operations.
ANOTHER MINISTERS' BREAKFAST
On Saturday morning all the denominational pastors of Lausanne, including those of the State Church, and many newspaper reporters, gathered in the large banqueting hall of a hotel, for a ministers' breakfast, as the ministers in Germany had done a week before. The party was introduced by Dr. Guggenbuhl, this time speaking in the French language. After Brother Arganbright and I spoke briefly Brother Branham addressed them, urging love and unity between all denominations. His appeal was so sweet that I saw many of the ministers in tears.
Just as Brother Branham sat down with the party at the head of the two long tables, which extended into another hall, he saw in vision, as in the case of Congressman Upshaw in California, the life in detail of a converted Italian communist leader of 31,000 communists in Italy. This man whom Brother Branham had never seen before was sitting at the table near our party. As Brother Branham described his life and his need of healing he was instantly healed. While describing what the Holy Spirit was showing him in vision, as so often in the past, a light appeared over Brother Branham's head, and three different pictures taken by the leading reporter showed this light while the life of this converted communist was being described. Some 25 other photos were afterwards taken and none of them showed this light.
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After Brother Branham's address following the breakfast, he had to leave, but all the ministers and reporters, four long rows of them, kept their seats and I stood at the head of the tables while they asked me questions about the healing Gospel and ministry until 12:30. It was a heavenly time and all agreed that the meeting and Brother Branham's ministry was of God, and that it was Divinely attested by miracles. I am sure that great things will be the result of this ministers' breakfast.
The details of the German and Switzerland revivals if written, would fill a great volume which would surprise the world. Both Germany and Switzerland are ripe for a great Divine visitation. Brother Branham was continually urged to return, which he expects to do as the Lord leads. Many invitations from other cities in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France were received by Brother Branham before we left Switzerland.
We left for home from the beautiful city of Geneva, our plane coming down in Frankfort, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Manchester, England; Shannon, Ireland, and in Newfoundland before we arrived in New York.
We are surely living in the time of a great world-wide revival preparatory to the coming of our Lord!
F.F. Bosworth