This is an article from the October 1955 issue of Voice of Healing magazine. It was written by F.F. Bosworth, who is telling a first hand report of the meeting in Germany.
Brother Branham, his son Billy Paul, Brother Arganbright and I took the plane from New York on August 11 and began the meeting the very next night in Karlsruhe, Germany, in a huge canvas tabernacle with seats for many thousands on the inside and room for thousands more on the outside. Thousands of people poured in from other cities in Germany and Switzerland and surrounding territories. The first Sunday afternoon seventy-seven great busses, like our Greyhound busses, were counted besides hundreds of other conveyances. The great tabernacle was packed with hundreds standing and looking through the openings of the tabernacle from the outside.
After a soul-stirring evangelistic sermon by Brother Branham several thousand German sinners quickly sprang to their feet to accept Christ as their Lord and Saviour. Some 1500 more responded to the invitation when I gave the invitation that same night after Brother Branham was through ministering to the sick and afflicted. During the entire time of the meetings in Germany and Switzerland Brother Branham preached the Gospel under great anointing "with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven," and the responses to his invitations to accept Christ were simply thrilling thousands at a time.
I preached in all the afternoon services, and also briefly before Brother Branham came to preach and conduct the healing services at night, and I never saw greater proof of the truth of the Bible statement that "Faith cometh by hearing . . . the Word of God."
The healing part of the services nightly mightily stirred the great audiences. Brother Branham's anointed ministry as a Seer was simply amazing. This part of his ministry has not been witnessed to the same extent for nineteen centuries. It was his miraculous discerning of all their diseases and afflictions and even their very thoughts that raised the faith of those in the healing line and of others in all parts of the audience to the healing level, and put the gift of healing into action. In every case Brother Branham was enabled by the Holy Spirit to discern and accurately describe all their afflictions. The spirit of God often showed him in vision the hospital and how many times they had been operated upon, even describing the surgeons and quoting their very words. He spoke only what he saw so that this phase of his ministry was 100% correct. Not a single time was he mistaken. The Holy Spirit through his lips in many cases told them where they came from, even their name and the secrets of their heart including their very thoughts.
This supernatural sign, he told them, does not heal them, but it does raise their faith until he could say as Jesus did, "Your faith has made you whole." This sign manifested on the platform was likewise a sign to confirm the Word to those in the audience, and as their faith rose to the healing level a light would appear to Brother Branham hanging over them and he would point them out telling them their thoughts, their diseases and the events of their life, where they came from and often, that their own faith had healed them. Many more were thus healed while sitting in the audience than those who were in the healing line.
When I arrived to speak in an afternoon meeting, some of those who had been so wondrously healed were on the platform giving their testimonies over the public address system. So I asked how many were present who had been healed. As they stood all over the audience I asked them as I pointed to them, one by one, to state what they had been healed of. Thus a hundred testified, and they were only a part of those standing.
That night when Brother Branham prayed for a young girl she was instantly healed of total blindness, and as her mother came to her she asked, "Are you my mother?"
And now she plainly saw the whole audience. A minute or two later a totally blind man received his sight, and then a man who was a deaf mute from birth was instantly healed as Brother Branham prayed for him, and he repeated English words as they were spoken to him. You should see his delight as he heard the singing of the people for the first time in his life.
On Saturday morning all the pastors of all denominations, including those of the State Church, gathered in a large banqueting room at a large hotel, for a ministers' breakfast. The Branham party was introduced to all these ministers of the city by Dr. Adolph Guggenbuhl of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a Doctor of Law and a most devout Christian. He became a member of our party both in Germany and in Switzerland, giving his entire time and taking us back and forth to all the meetings. It was he who had planned both the meeting in Germany and in Switzerland, his own country, having the advertising agencies put up large posters on the bill-boards and street cars in surrounding towns and cities. He speaks fluently in German, French, Italian and quite well in English. Each member of the party spoke briefly as we were introduced and were followed by a soul-stirring address by Brother Branham. It was a time of the sweetest fellowship. Many questions were asked by the pastors of the city. The next morning ministers of the State Church came to our hotel and after breakfast asked me questions until 12:30. One of these ministers had a totally deaf left ear for many years and asked me to pray for him. His hearing was instantly restored. On the last night of the meeting all the pastors of the city, including those of the State Church, helped to pray for the sick. The meeting ended in a blaze of glory. Only God knows what this visitation will mean in the future ministry of these German pastors of every church in the city. Many people motored all the way from Germany to the next meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. They told us that the entire city of Karlsruhe was stirred by the meeting.
In order to help raise the faith of the people in the afternoon services for the ministry of Brother Branham in the night healing services, I usually asked God to confirm my messages with two or three visible miracles such as the healing of totally deaf ears. This he did. Some of these who had ears destroyed by radical mastoid operations were healed instantly. One man who had his left ear entirely removed because of cancer, with the bandages still on, came to the platform and urged to me to pray for him. In an instant God gave him perfect hearing. Those who came to the next revival in Lausanne, Switzerland, told us that the entire town where this man lived was stirred over this miracle and were coming to his home to see if it was true.