Pearry Green: Light Exposure

William Branham's "Message" cult members are manipulated into believing that light exposure before film development results in a "supernatural" photograph. While cult leaders have pushed this notion as part of the cult doctrine, many cult leaders were aware that the photographs were spoiled. In one sermon, cult leader Pearry Green admitted this fact:

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If it runs off the edge with any picture people bring me, I say light got in your camera. And Brother Fred Sothmann had a Polaroid camera that had a flaw and every picture he took had it that-a-way. And he would show it was the Pillar of Fire.

And I think I've told you people the story about the house up here. They took some for brother Elsie Mains and brother Straham which is related to brother Billy Wiggins, and they were saying look a-there, the Pillar of Fire's over brother Branham's swimming pool. And I'm working on the den hanging some curtains my mother made. And I told them, I said, 'Brothers, there's a way to find out whether that's the Pillar of Fire or not.' They said, 'How's that?' I said, 'Well that lawyer across the street,' I said, 'He's fought y'all on everything you've done, zoning and all,' I said, 'Take a picture of his house and see if the Pillar of Fire's on it.'

Well, brother Sothmann didn't want to take that picture. So I asked brother Mains who the film belonged to in that Poloroid camera, and he said, 'mine.' I said, 'What do you want a picture of?' And he said, 'We've only gone one left, but I want a picture of that house.'

So they went outside, and I kept hanging the curtains. Little while they came back inside, and nobody said a word about that picture. But I noticed in brother Sothmann's shirt pocket, that picture was stickin' in his pocket. I was hanging tht big long curtain up there that was made out of 'toe sack material' I called it, and I was up on the ladder and I asked brother Fred if he'd take a broom and hold this rod up there while I put a screw in it. And when he came over and did that, I reached down and took the picture out of his pocket. And I said, 'Well, look a-there!'

There's a Pillar of Fire over that lawyer's house!'

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