180 GOOD MORNING, HOLY SPIRIT
miracles, deliverance, and healings right in their seats. No
lines for "the laying on of hands." God began to do His
work all across the auditorium—so freely that there was not
time to hear all of the testimonies.
The press began to take notice. On the front pages of
the Toronto Star, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and other
papers across Canada there were stories of the "Miracle
Rallies" we were conducting.
In December 1976 the Globe and Mail sent a reporter to
one of the services to describe in detail what was
happening. He wrote of the healings and testimonies and
ended the article by quoting me: "I'm not interested in
building up Benny Hinn. I'm not and never will be. Jesus is
the one... to be built up and exalted. We want to reach
souls for the Lord Jesus. I want to see souls, souls, souls,
souls, souls. People, do you understand that?"
Under the headline, "Does Faith Healing Really Work?"
the Toronto Star presented four case studies of people who
had been healed in our services. He told about a shift
worker at the GM plant in Oshawa who had cancer of the
throat. "This week, following a checkup at the cancer
clinic, he was told there is no trace of malignancy."
He told the story of a Beaverton trucker: "A nonchurch-
goer, who had suffered from congestive heart failure and
slight emphysema (a lung disease) for seven years, was
persuaded by friends to attend a healing crusade. 'I went to
the doctor three days later, and he told me he could find
nothing wrong,' he says. 'God must have done it.'"
What about their doctors? The reporter quoted one as
saying, "Look, there are more things happening in this
world than we know about."
Television stations began to film documentaries on