<TITLE>20. Par 77-80</TITLE>L-77 When I come home... When I got home, my wife, bless her heart, she was waiting as usual. She'd run out and meet me. She seen me coming. She's real... had a little old long black hair, pretty eye--brown eyes. She come running to me. She threw her arms around me, her and the baby. And--and she said, "Oh, I just know you've had a good time fishing and... up there in the lake."
I said, "Honey, I want to tell you what I done." I said, "I--I met the best people in the world."
She said, "Well, what?"
I said, "The best people in the world. You talk about people that's not ashamed of their religion, you ought to see them." I said, "They clap their hands, and they scream, they run all over the floor, and everything."
She said, "What?"
And I said, "Yes."
She said, "Where they at."
I said, "Up at Mishawaka." I said, "I'm going to tell you something. Looky here." I pulled out a long piece of paper. I said, "They want me to hold revivals for them all over the country."
She said, "You?"
And I said, "Yes."
She said, "Sure enough. Is that right?"
And I said, "Yes, sir. They told me I could hold revivals for them."
And she said, "Well..."
I said, "Will you go with me?"
She said, "Sure." Bless her heart. She said, "Sure, I'll go." And that's a real wife, go with you through thick or thin.

L-78 Well, now, when I started out to hold the meetings then, I was going to go to hold them. And I went and told my mother. She said, "Well, God bless you, honey." She said, "Years ago down in Kentucky at the old Lone Star meeting house, we used to hear the people shout like that long time ago, and had that kind of a demonstration." Said, "But it faded out."
And--and--and I said, "Well, mama, these people, It ain't faded out of them." I said, "They sure have got a...?..." And so she went...?... things.

L-79 When we got to her mother--got to her mother...?... When we got over there, why there's where the trouble started, right there.
She said, "William Branham, do you mean to tell me that you'd take my daughter out amongst a bunch of trash like that?"
I said, "Well, look, Mrs. Brumbach. They're not trash."
She said, "That's a bunch of holy-rollers." She said, "And you take her out of here, she'll starve to death." She said, "Today she might have something to eat, and tomorrow she might not have nothing to eat."
But brother, I come to find out what she called "trash" was "the cream of the crop." And bless my heart...?...
And said, "You mean to tell me that you'd take..." Said...
And Hope started crying. And she said, "Mother..." She said, "I--I--I want to go with him."
And she said, "Very well, Hope. If you go, your mother will go in a grave heartbroken. That's all." And then Hope started crying.

L-80 And--and there, friends, is where my sorrows started. I listened to my mother-in-law in the stead of God. He was giving me the opportunity. And there this gift would've been manifested long time ago, if I'd just went ahead and done what God told me to do.
But instead of that, I didn't want her to be angry, and I didn't want to hurt nobody's feelings. And so I just--just let it go like that. Just walked, I just said, "All right, we won't go."
And right there, the sorrows started. Immediately after that, my father died. My brother was killed a few nights later from that. I almost lost my own... I lost my father, my brother, my wife, my baby, and my sister-in-law, and almost my own life within about six month's time. And just started going down. My church, pretty near everything went down, down, down. Hope taken sick.


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