<TITLE>30. Par 115-119</TITLE>L-115 I just put my hands over on her. She said, "I know I look horrible, Bill."
I said, "Honey, you look all right."
She said, "Now, don't tell me that, honey."
I said, "O God, have mercy." I said, "Where's the babies?"
She said, "Mom and them has got them over next building."
I said, "Is Billy alive?"
Said, "Yes."
I said, "Sharon alive?"
Said, "Yes."
I said, "Oh, thanks be to God." I said, "I heard from mama, and mama's alive. She's over at some other place." I said, "I heard by radio, but I couldn't hear from you nowhere." And I said, "Oh, honey." And she said... I said, "You..."
And I felt somebody tap me on the shoulder, and I looked up. It was a very smart looking man. He said, "Rev. Branham?"
And I said, "Yes sir."...?... a sign. And I walked over there. Said, "Aren't you a friend of Dr. Sam Adair?"
And I said, "Yes."

L-116 He said, "Your wife, I'm informed to tell you... I'm the doctor here." He said, "I'm informed to tell you, your wife has galloping TB. She just has a few days to live." Said, "She's going to die."
Said, "No, doc. No--no, that isn't so."
He said, "Oh, yes it is, Rev. Branham, it is."
"Oh," I said, "it can't be, doctor. You mean she's..."
He said. "Yes." And said, "You'll be a very lucky man if your children pull through." Said, "I'm tending to the children, also."
And I said, "O God, have mercy."
He said. "Now, don't break down before her."
I said, "All right, sir. All right." I said, "Thank you very much. Where is Dr. Sam?"
He said, "I don't know where he's at."
And I said, "Thank you, doctor." And I said, "I--I'll... Let me go back to her," I said, "just to be with her as much as I can." I said, "I--I--I won't break down."

L-117 And I walked back nervously. I looked at her, those pretty black eyes setting way deep back there, and her hair and her forehead. Oh, I seen she was going. I looked over her, and I said, "Hope, sweetheart, you--you look all right."
And she said, "Oh, maybe God will have mercy and let me live, Bill."
And I said, "I hope He does, sweetheart."
And so, after a few days, I got her out of there, got her down to Jeffersonville to the home. And she kept getting worse, and worse, worse and worse. The two children begin to get better, but she got worse. And after while...

L-118 Dr. Adair, he tried everything he could. He sent to Louisville to a specialist of TB, brought over, and he said, "Well, if you have an pneumothorax machine." I went and borrowed the money and got a pneumothorax machine, and we give her the treatments. You know what pneumothorax is: they collapse the lung, you know, like that. And I'd hold her poor hand and it would grip so they poured that...?...in there and pump out the lung. If I had to do over again, I'd never let her suffer like that.
And so, trying, but they were working hard to save her life. Finally took her out to the hospital for x-rays. Here it come, right on up that tuberculosis pneumonia was coming right out off the left lung. He said, "You just got a few days, Rev. Branham. There's nothing in the world can be done. She's going to die."
I said, "Almighty God has called for her to answer."

L-119 Oh, how could I stand that? How could I believe? How could I do it? I looked down there, and there laid my little Sharon Rose, a little suckling baby, about eleven months old. Here was little Billy Paul just about eighteen months old, little bitty fellow. And them, with out a mother; and me. Oh, what could I do? I just couldn't believe it hardly. I walked the floor; I cried. I--I done everything. You... I tell you, brother, you'd better mind God when God speaks to you. You do what He tells you.
And I walked back and forth. Finally come the hour. I was out in the car and heard them call me that I must come to the hospital at once. My wife was dying, said she couldn't live any longer. I rushed to the hospital real quick, threw off my coat, run up the steps. And when I did...


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