Healing the Sick and Casting Out Devils

Tulsa, OK: Evangelist T. L. Osborn, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Publisher's brown cloth gilt in pictorial dust jacket, book very good with ink stamp from the original bookseller on the flyleaf, Roy E. Fox, "The Bible Man," Pittsburgh and some soil or foxing to upper inner corners of the double frontispiece of the author and his wife, the rest of the text clean and bright, unmarked. The dust jacket in tatters but with both panels and flaps intact and a third of the spine still there. 285 (1) pp. Author's first book and very rare in the first edition in the trade, especially in dust jacket (notwithstanding its condition). Osborn was a Pentecostal evangelist. "The Osborns first gained public notice shortly after returning from India, as evangelists on the Big Tent Revival circuit in the United States and Canada. There, they preached to audiences often numbering over 10,000, in open-air meetings and under large tents in settings such as fairgrounds and stadiums. Other young contemporary evangelists, including Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Jack Coe, R.W. Schambach and A.A. Allen, were also on the circuit. The Osborns emphasized the love and compassion of God, rather than the "fire and brimstone" theology style commonly used by evangelists of the era, and they practiced supernatural healing in their meetings. The Osborn's egalitarian ministry philosophy was also not accepted by many conservative audiences." (Wikipedia).