<TITLE>25. Par 91-96</TITLE>L-91 I scooted down real low, you know, like way down low. I thought, "Seersucker trousers, you know, and t-shirt." So I got real low. And I didn't want to get up before them people anyhow. They had something that I didn't know nothing about, so I just set real still.
Directly, that colored man looked around me, said, "Say, you know him?" Oh, oh. Something had to happen. And I didn't... I knowed... I didn't want to lie to the man. I said, "Look, fellow, listen, I want to tell you something." I said, "I'm he. See?"
He said, "I thought you was getting down there kind of low about something."
And I said, "Well, look," I said, "are you a minister?"
Said, "Yes, sir." I said...
He said, "Go on up there, fellow."

L-92 And I said, "No--no--no--no, look, look." I said, "I want to tell you something." I said, "I--I--I've got on these seersucker trousers and this t-shirt," I said, "I don't want to get up there."
Said, "Them people don't care what you dress like, man. Get on up there."
And I said, "No--no, thank you, sir."
And somebody said, "Has anybody ever found Rev. Branham?"
He said, "Here he is. Here he is. Here he is."

L-93 Oh, my. I got up, and my ears red, you know. And I had my Bible under my arm, and I walked up to the platform kind of sheepish looking, you know, and scared to death. I walked up; I thought, "Oh, my, last night I was praying all night to give me favor, now God's going to let me get up before them. If I ain't going to get up then how am I to get favor?" So I got up.
Not a thing on my mind; I was scared and trembling. I never... didn't know how close to stand to that little old microphone hanging with a string, handing down like that. I didn't know how to stand by that. And all this great big tabernacle, you know, and I said, "Well, folks," I said, "I--I don't know very much about the--the way you preach and things." I said, "I just... I was coming up the road..." And--and I didn't know.
And I happened to turn over there to Luke to the rich man lifted up his eyes in hell. And he seen Lazarus far off, and then he cried. I took my text: "And Then He Cried."

L-94 And I got--got to talking, and I said, "Then the rich man down in hell there was no church; then he cried." I said, "There was no children; then he cried. There was no songs; then he cried. There was no God; then he cried." And I got started. People go to screaming; then I cried.
Away it went. And the first thing you know everybody on their feet, then he cried, and then he cried. And the next thing I knew, I was out in the yard. Well, I don't know what happened. And everybody was blessing God and carrying on, the congregation screaming and shouting. I don't know what I done; I just lost myself somewhere.

L-95 First thing you know, up come a great big fellow from Texas, a big ten gallon hat on, and cowboy boots, walked up, said, "Say, are you evangelist?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "How about coming down Texas and holding me a revival?"
I said, "Are you a preacher?"
Said, "Sure." I looked at them big high-heel boots, and that great big cowboy hat, I thought, "Maybe it doesn't make any difference what..."

L-96 Next thing, a fellow walked up, had on little golf pants like this. He said, "Say," said, "I'm from Florida." He said, "I have so many saints down there at a church, or somewhere." Said, "I would like for you to hold..."
I said, "Are you a preacher?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
I thought, "Well, my seersucker trousers and t-shirt ain't so much out of line after all around this place around here. So I begin to look at it. And we had a clerical coat and collar, and everything they wore, you know. So they... I thought, "Well, that's all right."


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