<TITLE>01. Par 1-1</TITLE>52-0713A, Early Spiritual Experiences, Civic Center, Hammond, IN, 120 min
L-1 Brother Baxter. It's all right. Good evening, friends. I'm very happy to be here. God bless you, Brother Upshaw. I'm so happy to see him; I didn't think he would get back in time. But he was telling me he had been up and back, and been many places, and met thousands of my friends in--in the Scandinavian countries, and very happy to get to see him again.
Heard he got an infection in his feet. Missionaries have a hard time, Brother Upshaw. I had some of my own. I--I know what it is to--to be a missionary. They confront everything, all kinds of perils, and dangers, and sicknesses, and diseases, and so forth, but God delivereth him out of them all. The God that could heal you after being an invalid for--for sixty-six years, can sure take care of an athletic foot, can't He? That is right.
Now, today I am very happy to be here. I never knew, and I, when I come, I told you that coming in this place without an air condition, and under the circumstances, and everybody telling me, "You're going to graveyard. Boy! They'll all die in Chicago." And so forth, not to go, but the Holy Spirit told me to go. And I minded the Holy Spirit.
And yesterday afternoon, little did I know, that what was taking place. But He did last night. Something happened last night. You'll hear of it later. It was just before it happened, I said. Yesterday afternoon, I didn't know my boy was over in the bed, had went out and got hot, felt a little ill, and couldn't come in the service. I thought he was down here giving out prayer cards. And I found him over there in the bed, and I said to the wife. I said, "Something is just fixing to happen. I don't know; there's something strange." And then, I went on down. I went over to Brother Baxter's room, the prayer room where he's got. I went in. I said, "Brother Baxter, something is just fixing to happen."
He said, "Think anything's wrong, Brother Branham?"
I said, "No, it's to--it's to the good. It's the Angel of the Lord fixing to do something." And then last evening here He did it. You'll hear of that last nights meeting for a long time.
And now, I'm at liberty now. The Holy Spirit... There maybe many more things happen during the time of the service, but I see now from the depths of my soul, why the Holy Spirit sent me here to this place.


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