<TITLE>19. Par 74-76</TITLE>L-74 So after they got through with all the jubilee part, then he said, "Last night on the platform, there was a--a young minister by the name of Billy Branham."
I thought, "Oh, oh."
Said, "If he is in the building, tell him to come forth and speak for us this morning." Well, I never even seen a microphone before. And I was sitting back there with a pair of seersucker trousers on and a little T-shirt. I just hunkered down real easy, you know.
So they said... That fellow come up again, Mr. Kurt, you all may know of him. Yeah...?... from Cincinnati. Reverend Kurt, he's a chart teacher he was there at the meeting. He said, "Anybody outside know where Reverend William Branham from Jeffersonville." Said, "Tell him to come up at the platform and come to the service."
I got down real low like this. I was setting right beside of a colored man. He looked over to me; he said, "Do you know that guy?"
My, what was I going to do? I just couldn't lie. I said, "Yes, sir."
And he said, "Well, go find him."
Well, what was I going to do? I--I--I just couldn't lie to the man. I said, "Hold over here a minute, brother, and I'll tell you something...?..." I said, "I'm he. But I can't..."
"You is?"
I said, "Yes." I said, "I can't..."
Said, "Go on up there."
I said, "Let me...?..." I said, "I--I got on these seersucker trousers and this T-shirt." I said, "I can't go up."
Said, "Them people don't care what you dress like. Get on up there."
I said, "No, no."
And in--and in just in a few minutes, he said, "Did anybody find Reverend Branham?"
That colored man said, "Here he is. Here he is. Here he is."
Seersucker trousers, T-shirt, talk about...?... Wonder what...?... My...?... you know.
All them people looked at me, them people who really have their religion, you know. And me up there my old cold Baptist ways, you know, and the... got up there, you know.
And I said, "My." I thought, "Lord, if You ever helped anybody, You help me." I said, "I'm grateful to..." I finally thought, "Well, what am I going to read? Or what am I going to do?" I was so nervous, I just couldn't hardly hold myself together.

L-75 And I got over here, and I jumped over to Luke there where It said, "The rich man lifted up his eyes in hell and then he cried." I just happened to fall on, "And then he cried." I took that little three words, "And then he cried." I started talking. Everybody got to hollering, "Amen." And then I cried.
First thing you know about--about two hours later, become... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Outside. The next thing I know, It done got on me or something. I got out of that...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Some fellow walked up with a big pair of boots on, big Texas hat, said, "I'm Reverend So-and-so." Elder, I believe he called his name.
I said, "Are you a preacher?" Them Texas boots on, and a big hat. Well, I'm not so bad off after all. I said, "You a preacher?"
"Yes, sir. I'm a Pentecostal preacher. I..." Said, "Why don't you come down to Texas and hold a revival for me."
I said, "Me?" He said... I said, "Look--look, brother," I said, "I--I just don't know religion that good."
He said, "I don't care. Come on down, I like it," he told me.

L-76 About that time a fellow tapped me on the shoulder, said he was a preacher. And he had on a little old knickerbocker golf pants like, you know. He was a preacher from Florida.
I said, "Well, my seersucker trousers are not so bad after all."
Well, I looked around like that, and they had...?... A woman come up was a missionary to the Indians. And why, I had all kind of places to... Why, my, you don't know the places I had to go.
And I went out there and got down in the corn field, and I just praised the Lord for giving me the opportunity, jumped in my old Ford, making forty miles an hour: Twenty miles this way, and twenty miles up-and-down this a way. Down the road...?...


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