<TITLE>35. Par 139-144</TITLE>L-139 I remember trying to go to work after that, a little later on. I thought I'd... There's no place like home. If you ever had your home broken up, there'll never be no place to take it's place. I have found no peace nowhere. One day when I was ready to commit suicide. When I went into the room, I just couldn't stand it any longer. It just... I got up. I was on the line, and I got up on the post. And I was... One morning I was singing: "On the hill far away stood an old rugged cross." And I happened to look. And that cross arm on the post, me standing, swinging back in my safety. My shadow on that hillside where that post was, looked like the cross. And suddenly I thought, "Yes, it was my sins that hung Him there.

L-140 And I looked over, and I said, "O God, I can't stand it any more." I said, "Sharon Rose, honey, I'm coming to see you this morning." I took off my gloves. I was a lineman, you know, twenty-three hundred volt gloves. I pulled my rubber glove off. Here run the primary running right by me, twenty-three hundred volts; touch it, would break every bone in your body. I said, "Sharon, honey, do you hear me? Daddy's coming home to see you this morning." Then I pulled that glove off, and I said, "God, this is a cowardly trick but I... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-141 And I passed by, as always, tried to be a gentleman. I took off my hat, and I said, "How do you do, young lady?"
She said, "Hello, dad."
I said, "Dad?" Why, I said, "I'm as old as you are, how could I be your dad?"
She said, "Dad, you just don't realize where you are." Said, "This is heaven?" She said, "Where's my brother, Billy Paul?"
And I said, "What is this?"
She said, "Daddy, down on earth I was your little Sharon Rose."
I said, "Sharon, and you're a lady?"
She said, "Yes. Little babies don't be here, dad"; said, "we're all of one age." Said, "Mother's looking for you."

L-142 And I said, "Where's mother?"
She said, "Up at your new home."
And I said, "New home?" I said, "Why, I haven't got no home, honey." I said, "Branhams don't have homes. They're vagabonds."
She said, "But dad, you got a home here." She said, "Turn this a way."
And I looked. It looked like a hill, a great mansion setting everywhere, the glow of God coming up from around it. She said, "Mother's waiting for you up there, dad." And I...
She said, "I'm going to wait for Billy Paul. Mother wants to see you."

L-143 And I started running up, like that, the steps. And as I got up, as usual, there she stood, not sick any more, beautiful dark hair hanging down to her shoulders, her black snappy eyes looking at me, dressed in white. She reached out her arms, and she said, "Bill."
I run up real quick, fell down at her feet, took hold of her hand, and I said, "Honey, I don't understand it."
She said, "Stand up, honey." I stood up. She said, "Look."
I said, "I seen Sharon. Honey, she's a beautiful girl."
She said, "Yes, she is." Said, "She's waiting for Billy."
And I said, "Hope, I--I can't understand all of it."

L-144 She said, "I know you can't, but you'll wake up after while and then you'll understand." Said, "Bill, you are worrying yourself to death." Said, "Don't worry about Sharon and I. We're better off than you are." Said, "Everything's all right." Said, "You just go on and do as you promised."
And I said, "Well, Hope, I can't understand all about this."
She said, "Won't you set down?"
And I looked, and there was a great big Morris chair. I looked over at her. She said, "You remember, don't you?"
And I said, "Yes."


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