“Cowards die ten thousand deaths, where a hero never dies.”

William Marrion Branham

David & Goliath

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36 And then in there I--typing of David which was a fugitive at the time of his excommunicating from his people, he was turned out, and Bethlehem was besieged, and the Philistines was garrisoned around Bethlehem. And David, a fugitive, a type of the church today of Christ... See, Christ is a fugitive to His own church today. They have... A fugitive is something that's refused. And David had been refused, yet he was anointed to be king, but--the prophet had anointed him.

And during this time, being a--a fugitive from his people, he had picked up many gallant Gentiles. One of them killed eight hundred men one day with a spear--or sword. And another one jumped into a pit and killed a lion on a snowy day. And--and they was gathering lentil (which is beans or peas or something) and--and the--all of them run away, and he stood and killed men till his arm got tired. They also killed those giant brothers of Goliath. Gallant men, holding to David, because they knowed he was coming in power. They knowed no matter what anyone said, God had the anointing on David, and they knowed it. They were Gentiles. No matter how much they turned him out, they yet knowed that he was coming to power. And one day there...

Arnold Von Winkelried

AZUSA JUBILEE LA CA 56-0916

E-25 Here not long ago in Switzerland, standing up there in the big high Alps mountains I was thinking of Arnold Von Winkelried. Many of you know the story. What a gallant hero he was many years ago in Switzerland. And how that the Swiss nation was being invaded by a mighty army, and the cities was being taken. And the gallant blood of the Swiss people congregated from the mountains into the valley with such little weapons as they could defend themselves with.

And when they stood there on the field, and they looked approaching them, and when they were approaching this great army, they were outnumbered fifty to one. And they were--they wasn't soldiers; they wasn't trained. They didn't know what to do. But this army that was invading was well trained, every man like a brick wall coming right in.

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E-27 And he screamed, threw up his weapon, and said, "Make way for liberty." And he started towards that army. And he went right towards the thickest of the spears. And when he got right down to where they was--hundred gleaming spears to catch him as he come; he threw up his hands and said, "Make way for liberty." And he grabbed big armfuls of those spears and threw them into his chest. And each one of those Swiss soldiers followed behind him. He broke the ranks of the enemy, and they won a victory like has never been won before.

And today you can mention his name in Switzerland, and their eyes will color with tears, and their cheeks will flush for their hero. That was one of the greatest heroes to my opinion, that's been in army life. But that's just a minor thing, just a minor thing. One day the sons of Adam was standing defeated; law, prophets and everything had failed. Every approach we had made had totally failed. And yonder in glory there was One stepped out called the Son of God. And the Angels said, "What will You do?"

He said, "I'll go down and give My life. And this day I will redeem the fallen sons of Adam."

Paul Rader

RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS ERIE PA 51-0729A

E-1 Thank you, Brother Baxter. Thank you, Brother Baxter.

Good evening, friends, or good afternoon. Very happy to be in this afternoon to speak to you of the love in my heart for this great Lord that we serve, Jesus Christ. And I'm hearing that glorious old song "Only Believe," and of Paul Rader, the writer of that song. And I was a little boy setting at his feet when he was writing that song. Guess, little did he know then that would be my theme song around the world.

But when I was at Fort Wayne and was in the room there where Paul studying the first night there, and I heard that coming in over that public address outfit, "Only Believe,

All Things Are Possible." I thought of that great gallant hero. How many ever heard of Paul Rader? Oh, practically all of you. Oh, what a heroic death he had. He never died; he just went to be with the Lord. He--he--he...

Stonewall Jackson

LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD SHREVEPORT LA 56-0723

E-26 That was the sacrificial Lamb. The Blood was in the shape of the cross, on the lintel on the door post and was a sign that death could not come to that house. And when death tries to strike us, that separation from God, then the Blood is applied by the Lord Jesus Christ, and the death angel cannot take it. No sir, for we are free then.

We are in Christ and led by the Spirit of Christ: led. Many men and nearly all men... I'll say all men, that's ever amounted to very much in this life has been men and women who have been led to do the gallant things they've done by the Spirit of God.

I think tonight one of the greatest generals that America has ever had was Stonewall Jackson. I believe there's never been a general like him since Joshua. Why was it he doing that? He was a gallant man. He was a man of prayer. He--he closed up everything, even made all his generals, and everything, don't even eat breakfast, or nothing, and lay on their face and seek God. Yes, sir.

The Lord Jesus Christ

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24 Now, Adam's race was all in bondage. There they were, without hope, without God, without chance, without mercy, without anything that could help them. The great enemies of the lower regions of the lost, had them shut up in darkness. There was not a way out. There was no one could help. Nothing could be done. It looked like a total, complete loss.

But our Hero, Who came down from the portals of glory, condescending down... For there was no man on earth could do the job. They were all, as worldly speaking, in the same boat. We were all borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. And none of us could help each other. We stood helpless, defeated, chaos on every hand, all ununited. We could not keep laws and ceremonies; finding their weaknesses and so forth, we could not do it. And it seemed like the whole human race was laid waste.

FF Bosworth

OUR HOPE IS IN GOD NEW YORK NY 51-0929 E-7 Now, in the book of II Kings, the 6th chapter... I just love to read this Word, and I'm... Brother Baxter was making an apology for taking up much of the time. I said, "Do not do that, Brother Baxter." For I was just standing behind the curtain listening to his marvelous message. Brother Baxter is a very much of a speaker. And I am very happy to have him in our party, to make up one of us. And Brother Bosworth here is one of the greatest teachers on Divine healing that I ever heard in my life, is Brother Bosworth. He's old, and he's--he--he don't--he won't--he will resent that.

I was standing down at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami one night; he was just as gallant and standing strong and straight. And I looked at him; I admired him. I knowed that the battles that he had fought down through life's time, and I'm just following the path that he car--carved out in the wilderness. And I said, "Brother Bosworth, you're seventy-three years old now, when were you your your best?

Threw his shoulders back like Caleb of old, and said, "Right now," said, "I am right now." He said, "Brother Branham, you misunderstand me," he said, "I'm just a child in an old house." So that's the way he feels about it, and God has kept him that way, wonderful.

Congressman Upshaw

BELIEVE YE THAT I CAN DO THIS? LA CA 51-0509

E-1 I want to say that I'm very happy. I want to start this tonight, that this elderly man who's eighty some-odd years old, about eighty-four years old. He isn't able to work no more. He's served his time. And if he has the enthusiasm to scatter the Message of Jesus Christ, I want to help him do it. God bless my brother. All right. Go ahead, Brother...?... May God bless each one. Come here.

[Brother Hall asks, "What are you going to start it with?"--Ed.] I'm going to start it... [Brother Hall asks, "Some money, huh?"--Ed.] Some money... [All right good, I will help you start it."] All right, sir; that's fine.

E-2 Just I want him to say a word. All right. Come here, Brother Congressman.

This is the former Congressman of the United States. One time, one of the greatest men in our nation. God... He was crippled for many many years, sixty-six years, was healed here in this meeting. And I feel a great honor tonight to stand before a man, or with a man like this. That these crutches supported him for all those years of his youth, while he was being prayed for time after time to be healed. And at the age of about eighty-four Senator...

[Congressman Upshaw give his testimony: Just eighty-four. And I'm eighty-four years young, speak three and four times a day, preach the Gospel of the Christ Who saved me, stood by me on bed seven years, and made me happy, and then took me off of the crutches that I have used for fifty-nine years and now, glory to God I'm walking--Ed.]

William Cowper

BELIEVEST THOU THIS? LA CA 51-0506A

E-10 Not long ago, I stood by the side of William Cowper's grave. He wrote,

There is a fountain filled with blood,

Drawn from Emmanuel's veins.

And sinners plunge beneath the flood

Lose all their guilty stains.

In London, England... And I stood there by his grave, and I laid my hand over on the tombstone, and I thought, "God rest your gallant soul." I thought, "Mr. Cowper, why were you considered a neurotic?" You know, after he wrote that song, "There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Emmanuel's vein," he came out of that inspiration and got--went down to the--to a cab--tried to find the river to commit suicide, to drown himself in the river. William Cowper; that's his history right there by his grave.

Abraham Lincoln & freed slaves

(On April 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln entered the city of Richmond Virginia, the capitol of the Confederate States of America. This messianic scene showing Lincoln being praised and almost worshipped by freed slaves and liberated Southerners. This was one day after the fall of Richmond to the Union army. A short ten days after this historic event, President Lincoln lay dying, a victim of the assassin John Wilkes Booth)

Abraham Lincoln and Freed Slaves

EARLY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES HAMMOND IN 52-0713A E-15 I was reading where Abraham Lincoln got off the boat down in New Orleans and during the day of slavery, and seen them taking a great big, burly colored man and his little wife, and his two kiddies, screaming, and crying, and praying. And they was auctioning him off there to breed him amongst bigger women, to bring forth a bigger bunch, healthier, fatter slaves. And that little mother standing there, and old Abraham Lincoln took his off of his head, hit his fist, and said, "That's wrong. That man's a human, just the same as I'm a human. And someday I will hit that with all I've got, if it costs my life." And he did.

“The son of a King who was a slave”

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E-104 And they happened to notice one young man, among about... a slave owner who hold about a hundred slaves. And this young man, he was just such a gallant fellow, always had his chest sticking out, his chin out. He was ready to do anything, be up at any time.

And some slave buyers come by, and said, "What makes this young man so gallant? Is... Have you made him a boss over the rest of them?"

Said, "No, sir. He's just a slave."

Said, "What... Do you give him a little better food than you do the rest of them?"

Said, "No, sir. He gets the same food with the rest of them."

"Well," say, "what makes him so gallant, and how he conducts himself."

Said, "I'll tell you what. I just found out." Said, "He's the son of the king of the tribe." And said, "Yet, away from home, he still knows he's a son of a king. And his conduct must be good to hold up the morals of the rest of them."