F. F. Bosworth

===Health and healing===
Bosworth initially developed lung problems when he was 10 or 11 years old, shortly after his parents moved to University Place, Nebraska.  This occurred when he got overheated in a hot room helping with a friend's operation, then went to the cold outside and got a chill.  The lung problems continued for the next eight years,<ref name="FredFrancisBosworth"/><ref name="LifeStory"/><ref name="masshealing">{{cite book
  | last = Bosworth
  | first = Fred
  | title = "Mass Healing" (audio recording)
  | date = 1954-07-21 }}</ref> getting significantly worse when he was a young man (age 18 or 19), when the doctors diagnosed [[tuberculosis]] and  said that he would soon die.  Bosworth then went from Nebraska to his parents' new home in Fitzgerald Georgia for a last visit and arrived in a near-death state.  While there he attended a religious meeting and was approached by an older [[Methodist]] "Bible woman" who "used to walk the hills of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and [[the Carolinas]] selling Bibles and preaching the [[gospel]]."  The account written by Bosworth's son in a later printing of "Christ the Healer" says: "She prayed for him, he got up, and he was instantly healed."<ref name="christthehealer">{{cite book
  | last = Bosworth
  | first = Fred
  | authorlink = F. F. Bosworth
  | title = Christ the Healer
  | publisher = Revell
  | date = 2001
  | orig-date = 1924
  | isbn = 0-8007-5739-4 }}</ref>
Another account, published many years earlier, adds further details to this healing.  It says "Miss Perry told him how lovingly ready God was to make him well ... and laying her hands on him she prayed that he might be healed.  From that self-same hour Fred began to mend, until, ere many days, his lung trouble was already a thing of the past."<ref name="FredFrancisBosworth"/>