<TITLE>19. Par 63-65</TITLE>L-63 And I set down by a colored brother. And I set down there; they had the conference up in the North. So they couldn't have it in the South on account of the--the mixing of the colored and the white. And so, I set down by a colored brother there. I had on a little T-shirt, you know. Nobody knowed me, so and a pair of seersucker trousers. I was setting there listening, and a man, I believe, from Cincinnati by the name of Kirks, and he came out. Now, he belongs to one of those Pentecostal organizations, don't know which one it was, but best I remember, the man's tabernacle is named Raugh, R-a-u-g-h, a German, Raugh, Raugh, or something like that. And it was a... I got set down there, you know, and I thought, "I'm going to enjoy this well today."
So this minister walked out; he said, "Last night on the platform there was a young preacher here, I believe the youngest we had in the audience; his name is Branham. Billy Branham," said, "If he's in the audience? Well, we want him to bring the message this morning."

L-64 My, I hunkered down real low so, seersucker trousers and T-shirt you know; so I got down real low, you know. And he announced again, said, "Anybody outside know anywhere of Billy Branham is, from Indiana, down at Jeffersonville." Said, "Tell him to come to the platform."
Oh, I wasn't going up there 'fore all them preachers like that. And I... Why, I couldn't preach, my old sassafras, slow, Baptist ways couldn't think of it that fast, so, way them fellows was preaching. I just set real still like this. And so, got down low in my seat. This colored brother looked over, said, "Say, you know who that guy is?"
Oh, I was on a spot. I said, I--I had to say something then. I said, "Look fellow, look; I'm he, you see," but I said, "don't tell them people." I said, "Look, I got on these seersucker trousers here, and this T-shirt."
He said, "Them people don't care what you dress like; get on up there."
And I said, "No, I can't go up; you keep still."
He said, "Anybody know what... and the where, Reverend Branham?"
That colored brother said, "Here he is!" Whew. "Here he is." Seersucker trousers, T-shirt.
Said, "Come on up, Mr. Branham."
Oh, my, I looked back at that brother, and he's just laughing, you know.

L-65 I started, and I thought, "Lord, I prayed, now what am I going to say when I get up there?" I started sneaking up the platform, my ears real red, you know. And I thought, "What am I going to do?" And I was afraid of that microphone hanging down there, you know. They had a hanging on a wire hanging down. And I got the Bible, and I was trembling so I couldn't hardly take a hold of it. I remember I got my text from, "The Rich Man Lifted Up His Eyes In Hell And Then He Cried," and then he cried, and then I cried. Ha-ha-ha. Something got a hold of me. I didn't know nothing for about a half hour; they had me outside. And all the screaming I ever heard in my life.
Here come a fellow up from Texas, had on a cowboy boots and a great big hat, you know, said, "Say, I'm--I'm--I'm preacher so..." Well, I thought, "Them seersucker trousers' not so bad after all, then. I looked at him; he said, "I heard you was a evangelist; I want you to come hold me a revival in Texas."
And another fellow walked up, had on these little old golf pants, you know, that you, knickerbocker pants. He said, "I'm from Florida; I have a big bunch--a church down there with so many people in it, will you come?"
Well, I thought, "Well, my T-shirt's not so bad, these are just home folks." So I--I believe...


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