The Spirit of the Lord come into the audience and just sapped my strength. And just as I started to go down, my brother run to me to catch me. And I looked; I seen Congressman Upshaw. And he’d been in meetings ever since he was a lad when he first fell and hurt himself. He wanted to be healed then by God. He listened to Mr. Roberts; he’d been in Mr. Freeman’s meetings, Mr. Ogilvie, and many of them had prayed for him. Friends, I’ve got something to say along them lines after a bit. No matter how much faith you have, it’ll never change the predestinated will of God. It’s got to be by vision to see what happens. And as it started out, I seen him in a brown suit going down the street, tipping his hat to people like that. I said, “Congressman Upshaw is healed in the Name of the Lord.” There, after laying, been a crippled for sixty-six years, laying on a bed for many years, and rolled around in a wheelchair…Sent people through college by selling books on the streets, that’s now in our government; and served his time as a gallant man, as a great man, as statesman, and congressman of our United States of America. There, that man, for the first time since sixty-six years, threw aside his crutches and was perfectly whole. He minded what the Holy Spirit said do. There setting by his side was a woman, had arthritis just a few years, screamed, who said, “What about me?” How could I say? What could I say to her? The Father had to show me, first.

Who Hath Believed Our Report?, 1951-07-19, Toledo, OH, §6