I tell you very frankly that there's one thing
that I resent more than anything else in the
whole world. I cannot begin to tell you how much
I resent it. It's when people refer to me as
a faith here. Oh, when the news media write about
the faith here. I want you to know something,
and that is the fact that I'm not a faith here.
I've never healed anyone. Please believe me.
I have never healed a person in all of my life.
I have no healing virtue. I have no healing power.
These wonderful miracles that take place is a
direct result of the supernatural power of God.
And I can prove to you that I have nothing to
do with these miracles because... i'm the very
last person to find out about them for instance
i have a very lovely woman who is my guest today
and the first that i knew about her miracle of
healing was when her husband wrote me a letter
these people live in columbus ohio i shall not
read the entire letter but only a part of it
it was on sunday may sixth nineteen seventy three
when the miracle of miracles happened to my wife
ruth examinations showed that ruth had a malignant
tumor of the brain now this is no small thing
sometimes you know folks think these things cannot
happen to a member of my family perhaps this
husband it could not have happened to his wife
ruth that's the reason we need god what do folk
do who do not have him he's our security he's
everything the husband continues remember malignant
tumor in the brain for four years previous ruth
had one of her breasts removed it being malignant
the tumor had broken out again and was spreading
very rapidly. After exhausted tests were run
on her body, the doctors were sure that the reoccurrence
of the tumors on the brain and the chest were
due to her female organs. Decided to remove the
section of the organs causing the trouble. At
first, they were going to open the skull and
remove the tumor. Then they decided to use cobalt
to treat the brain tumor. It goes on and on.
It's something. but the thrilling climax to the
whole thing here it is we have been notified
by the doctors in columbus ohio that ruth's brain
tumor is gone who did it the great physician
and the doctors will verify The testimony that
you're going to hear today, the woman who was
healed of a malignant tumor of the brain. Besides,
I'd like to throw this in for good measure. She's
nepotism. Mrs. Allison, you've been through an
awful lot. Only God knows the suffering. Only
God knows... the the the worry did you ever give
up no at one point i did and my son is going
to college and he was to graduate in may and
i said i i just have to live to see my son graduate
from college and i did god let me live and god
had the plan for my life but there was a time
when you really planned for death you planned
knowing that there was no hope at one point But
then I just wouldn't give up. I just thought,
well, God will see me through this. And he did.
And it was a malignant tumor of the brain. That's
right. And the most wonderful thing, and let's
have an understanding right now at the beginning
of this, because when we begin, it looks so absolutely
hopeless. It did, really. And before we hear
your testimony, the thrilling thing is we have
word from the doctor, the verification. of your
healing and not one trace of that malignancy,
not one trace of tumor. That's really. That's
right. Not a trace of cancer. And you sit here,
a well woman. I had a brain scan two months after
I went home from the hospital. I went back and
had a brain scan and it showed that the tumor
was gone. There was no trace of tumor. That had
to be God. It had to be. And the doctors. I had
wonderful doctors. God works with the doctors.
Oh, I believe that. Yes, I know he does. He does.
He works with the doctors. Because after all,
we know that in a final analysis, all healing
is divine. It has to be. The greatest surgeons
in the world, you know, can perform surgery.
And yet, after they have performed their surgery,
they have to wait for a higher... power to do
the healing that is true the greatest doctors
the world can prescribe and yet they still have
to wait the higher power that's thrilling that's
wonderful all right um where shall we begin well
and i heard that you were going to be in columbus
i just i just knew i had to go i got home from
the hospital on wednesday And then I went to
church on Sunday. And I rededicated my life to
Christ. And then on the, I've heard you were
going to be in Columbus. And I'm on May the 6th.
And so we made arrangements to go. And I could
not wait to get up there. And you people mocked
it. Yes. And you'd never been to a miracle service.
No. This is the first time you'd ever been to
one of our services. One of your services, yes.
And the services, as I remember, it was in the
bedrooms memorial. that's right and i first held
a service in the stamp auditorium in youngstown
ohio in the morning then after that service then
we we flew to columbus and i said we'd begin
the service just so quick as i could get there
and i think i got there around at what six o
'clock yes the doors we heard the doors would
be open at six what time did you get there well
i just couldn't wait we went at one -thirty in
the afternoon in the afternoon and waited and
i waited in the car and slept while and followed
my husband oh because you were so ill yes and
weak and so when we got to he came down after
me at three thirty and then i sat in the and
we took our lawn chairs along and i sat in the
chair right next to the door until about a quarter
to five and then i started shaking violently
outside before the services began before the
doors were open And they didn't know what was
wrong with me. Was there a crowd outside? Oh,
a tremendous crowd. And they were all singing
religious songs, you know. And the Holy Spirit
was working with all these people, you know.
And there was two or three people fainted around
me. And then I started about 15 minutes before
the doors opened. I began shaking in my chair.
And you didn't know what it was? And my husband
tried to get the policeman's attention to open
the doors. Did you think you were dying? I thought,
I didn't know what was happening to me. Was it
a good feeling? Well, I don't, it was just, you
see me, they were shaking me up so that I didn't
know what had happened. That was the Holy Spirit
healing me. But you didn't know it? I didn't
know it, but this man, we was trying to get the
doors open, my husband was, and this man tapped
my husband on the shoulder, and he says, leave
her alone, that's the Holy Spirit healing her.
A perfect stranger. A perfect stranger. he had
been there before to one of your services and
he said that is the holy spirit healing her so
to get her along nothing about it was happening
and then pretty soon the doors opened and i continued
to be shaky but we found our seats on the fifth
row from the front you even remember what row
indeed i will never forget what happened in the
service well when the i was a little bit calm
after the service after the dino was playing
and jimmy was singing that i was calm and then
when the healing services began when you had
the um what do you think of all those miracles
oh it was unbelievable what did you see i saw
um people with bursitis and they had to come
out and they could throw their arms around and
the people that had one girl especially it couldn't
walk she had was in wheelchair and she hadn't
walked for years and show back strengthen your
feet and that gave me strength and then all of
a sudden i started shaking just like i did outside
and it only it was worse and then i tried to
hold on to the chair the in front of me and i
just could my hands kept going like this up and
down i couldn't hold on And so I started crying.
And you, a Methodist conservative. You, oh my
goodness. What do you think they would have thought
had you done it in your Methodist church? I don't
know what they would have thought. But you still
didn't know it was a part of God. Well, at that
time you suspected something. Yeah, I did. Yes,
I did. And when I was sitting there, and well
i was shaking so i just didn't know what was
going on you know and but yet i i had prayed
all afternoon all it says ask and you shall receive
and then i just kept going over in my mind i
lo i am with you always and i just kept praying
all afternoon that i would be healed and um the
thing was i understand that they could not remove
the malignant tumor because of it being so close
to your brain. That's right. And God had to do
something. God had to perform this miracle for
you. That's right. And, well, when I went to,
there was several of my friends from Portsmouth,
they were there, and they had prayed that I would
be at this service when they heard you were going
to be there. And sure enough, I was. They didn't
know where you were strong enough to attend.
They didn't know. And then when they saw me up
there, they were so happy. And then I started
crying and moaning. What made you moan? I don't
know. It was the man came over to me and said,
you will have to take her off or take her to
another hill. Did you get that noisy? Yes. And
yet you were a very quiet person. That's right.
So they was going to take me to another room,
and then I... What made you moan? I guess it
was a holy spirit. You mean you couldn't control
it? No, I couldn't control it. And it wasn't
like you at all? No, no. And then one of the
ladies, one of your helpers, came over to me
and says, come with me. And so she took me up
on the stage. Well, when we got up on the stage,
I started, I was shaking so violently. My husband
had his arm around me. He tried to hold me. What
did he think about all this? He didn't know.
he didn't anyway he thought i was being healed
but because i never acted like that before and
i was shaking so about and my heels were clicking
on the floor and they meant the man came over
and said you will have to take her to another
room until she is completely healed and says
uh in the choir but you couldn't stop no i couldn't
and then the ladies in the they didn't take me
out though yeah i don't understand why god uh
worked differently with some people than with
others one of the ladies in the choir gave me
her seat and she sat on the floor in front of
me she took her hand she put my hand in hers
and prayed and then about five minutes later
it may not have been that long but in a short
time i was calm and there was not a nerve quivering
in my body And I was just peaceful and calm.
And then Jimmy came after me and brought me over
to you. And then he told you what was wrong with
me. And then you touched me. Were you that sure
of a man number one that you'd been healed? Oh,
yes, I was. I couldn't have been shaken like
that. And it was just uncontrollable. And I knew
that I had been healed. It's so thrilling to
watch the Holy Spirit move. Because there's some
folk who are healed. who have no feeling whatsoever.
You see that? It's such an adventure with God.
It's such an adventure with the Holy Spirit.
It's greater than theology. It's greater than
man's preconceived ideas. It's... That's the
reason every time there's a miracle service,
I walk on the stage and I think, I wonder what
God's going to do today. And not... Every person
is here in exactly the same way. That's right.
I have noticed that. They're all different. For
some people, there's no feeling there at all.
That's right. And you, a very unemotional person,
a very quiet person. That's right. It's difficult
to even get you to speak loudly enough, you know.
And there you are with all of this emotion and
all this happening in the service. Well, when
you left... The service in Columbus that night.
How did you feel? Well, when I went in, I was
weak and they had to help me up a bit. But when
I came out, I walked down those steps without
any help at all. And I have been getting stronger
every day. And now I'm just fine. And the doctors
can find no malignancy? No trace of... When I
had the brain scan, they said if there was just
one fragment, it would show. And there was nothing.
Completely healed. Completely not? the brain
scan yes i did uh -huh two months ago and you
mean they can't find one thing no they cannot
the the uh if there was just one fragment of
tumor it would have showed and it was completely
clear and he was very proud i know because you
have the verification of it in writing from the
doctor we verify the healing in writing and that's
something when it comes to a malignancy of the
brain. That's right. Isn't God wonderful? He
certainly is. And I never cease to praise him.
What did your son think about it? Well, my son
wasn't there, but I brought him up to one of
your services in Pittsburgh. We made a special
trip to Pittsburgh so he could see your services
because he is studying to be in and enter the
ministry. And we thought we'd give him a deeper
insight by him. studying ministry, it would give
him a deeper insight in dealing with the Christians,
you know, with people. And he has three years
in seminary yet. Was your husband excited going
home? Oh, yes. He was very excited. It was just
almost unbelievable. That is right. That is the
reason that literally thousands are trying to...
analyze these miracles. You don't. One can no
more analyze these miracles than one can analyze
God. And be a very stupid person to try to analyze
God. You can't analyze God. Neither can you analyze
the power of God. It's beyond man's comprehension,
but I still contend that it's reasonable when
you realize that God is a great creator. He spoke
the world's into existence he said let there
be light and there was light we forget his power
we forget how big god we we forget that he has
all power to give life to take life don't you
understand how reasonable this whole thing is
don't you understand you sit there and you try
to reason away the power the supernatural power
of the great god don't you i've seen thousands
and thousands of miracles and i sit here today
still i marvel at the power of god hitting this
woman of malignancy tomb of the brave i can't
tell you how i don't know i only know that katherine
cooman had nothing to do with it that's one thing
i'm sure of don't give up hope i plead with you
i beg you whoever you are cancer all that dread
word and immediately there's defeat there don't
be Could you say I haven't the faith? Then depend
on His mercy. I learned a long time ago that
His mercy will never fail. You can depend on
His mercy. You can depend on God's love. You
can depend on God's power. Believe him this very
moment for that miracle in Christ Jesus. For
with him there's no defeat. Answer that simple
cry in that falling tear for Jesus' sake. Amen.