<TITLE>31. Par 120-124</TITLE>L-120 I will never forget it. Little Dr. Adair, a fine little fellow, and he come walking down the room. We fished together; we hunt together; we slept together; we were bosom buddies. And he's--he's a specialist. And he come walking down the hall with his head down. He happened to look, standing down there, and he seen me, and tears rolled down his cheeks, and he stepped off into a room.
I run down the hall real quick, pulled open the door; he put his arm around me, said, "Billy, boy..." Patting me.
I said, "What is it, doc?"
He said, "I just can't tell you, Bill." Said, "Just go ahead out and let the nurse tell you."
I said, "Come on, doctor. What is it?"
He said, "She's gone."
I said, "She isn't gone, doc."
Said, "Yes, she's gone."
I said, "Doc, go with me to the room, will you?"

L-121 He said, "Bill, I can't do that." He said, "Hope, how we... Why, we was just like my sister." He said, "I--I can't go in that room again."
So just then the nurse come in. She said, "Rev. Branham, here's some medicine. I want you to take this."
I said, "I don't want your medicine." So she said...
I went out to the room. She said, "I'm going with you."
I said, "No, let me go alone." I said, "Let me go in and see her." And I walked in. I said, "Is she gone?"
Said, "I--I think she is." Said, "Dr. Adair left a few minutes ago, and said there was nothing more could be done: she was gone."

L-122 So I opened the door, walked in. And I looked laying there, and she had her eyes closed, her mouth was open; her little body was drawed down to about a hundred pounds, less than that, oh, like this. And I put my hand over on her forehead; it was sticky like. And I said, "Hope, sweetheart, will you answer me?" I said, "Do you... Will you--will you answer me, honey?" I said, "Will you speak to me just one more time?"
I said, "God, I know I have been wrong, but if You'll just let her speak to me one more time. Will You, Lord? Please let her speak." And while I was praying, I looked. If I live to be a hundred years old, will... I will never forget that. Those big dark eyes opened up and she looked at me. She motioned for me to get down. I looked at her; I said, "Sweetheart, you're all right, aren't you?"

L-123 She said, "Why did you call me, Bill? Why did you call me?"
I said, "What do you mean?"
She said, "Oh, I was so easy." She'd been suffering so hard.
And I said, "What do you mean, 'easy,' honey?"
She said, "Well," she said, "Bill, you know I'm going, don't you?"
And I said, "No."
She said, "I am." And she said, "Bill, I don't mind it." Said, "You know why I'm going, don't you?"
And I said, "No."
She said, "Bill, you remember the day we went up to mother and that bunch of people?"
I said, "I know it, honey?"
She said, "We ought not to have did that." Oh, the grinding my heart...

L-124 Just then the nurse run in the door, said, "Rev. Branham, you better take this." She motioned to the nurse. She took me by the hand; she said, "Louise," we knew them all well. She said, "Louise Hale," she said, "I hope, when you get married, that you have a husband like mine." She said, "He's been so good to me." She said, "I hope..." And Louise, she--she just couldn't stand it. She set the medicine down and went out of the room.
And I said, "Honey, are you going?"
She said, "I was being taken home, Bill." Said, "There was someone dressed in white setting on each side of me. I was going down a big beautiful path." And said, "It was peaceful, and the big palm trees like an orient, and the big birds a flying from tree to tree." Said, "It's such a beautiful place."


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