<TITLE>05. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 And so we went on up, said we'll buy some beef and curios, and so forth. Went on up, and we just passed by. I looked and there set the little lady sitting on the side of the road, little colored girl with her--with her skinned placed on her head. I thought, "That's the girl. I'll just see what they're going to do now." They went way on up the road, and they happened to look, and it just about half a square away. Said, "Say, there's one of the salesman." Squeaked on his brakes, come back. I looked at Brother Baxter. He never; he just looked like he didn't think of it at that time.
Turned back around. When we got down there, I said, "Brother Baxter, don't you remember this?"
Said, "Yes, there it is. There's the little...?... the only one on the road in the twenty-nine miles."

L-20 You know, brother, they set on the road everywhere there of those sell those... the only one on the road, just like He told me. Never been in the country... Just been there about twenty-four hours. And so he said, "Now..." And there she was setting there with that. And we went back, and Brother Baxter taken his camera and took a picture of the native. We drove on up, sure enough there was the doctor with that...?... hip, just exactly like was said.
And then, the following day, we--we was out on a--a place there where Brother Baxter there was odd bird that He told he would look at, there it was just the same way.
Then he come and said, "We're going--got to go down there."

L-21 "Well," Brother Baxter said, "now, Brother Branham, if it was in America, I'd have the jurisdiction and I would say, 'No!'" Said, "But we're over here at the mercy of these people. They don't understand." Said, "Now, I'm with you a hundred percent." But said, "Now, to make these men understand it, that'll be something different."
I said, "Well, whether they understand it or not, I know what the Lord told me to do. I'll do what He said do."
So next morning, here come the cars up, got to go down to the Klerksdorp, a little place of about four thousand, five thousand, or something like that, something on that order; leaving Johannesburg of about three hundred and fifty, or four hundred thousand, to leave that, just a hundred miles difference... But as I've always said, "If you want to get muddled up, just fool with preachers." And that's where you sure get fixed up. Not all of them... But I mean, just to get a bunch of men. "They promised Brother So-and-so that they'd have us over to his place, and Brother So-and-so, they had to come down there."
Now that's all right. But, brother, when it comes to leading of the Spirit of God, you follow God. See, see?

L-22 And so they said, "Oh, we--we must go. That's--that's all." So they loaded up the cars. I was still setting in there; I wouldn't go. I wasn't going. No, sir.
So they said, "You've got to go. You must go."
So I said, "Well, all right." I got--went out, started down the road.
And as they kept going down, the Holy Spirit kept condemning me, "You better not do that."
I said, "God, if I ever go to crossing Your line like this; but I'm down here, what am I going do? I'm at the mercy of these men." It kept getting worse.

L-23 I said, "Stop the car!" Stopped the car, up come the different cars, the men, and--and Billy Paul, my son, and--and Mr. Stadsklev. And oh, Mr. Bosworth, and a bunch of the committee men and all of them come up. And I was with Mr. Schoeman. There it is. Brother Baxter was in another car.
So they went over and told him, said, "He refuses to go." Said, "You'll have to go talk to him."
I said, "I ain't going no farther than right here. It's just... The Lord done told me to go back. And I can't do it."
And they said, "Well, Brother Branham," said, "look..." They kind of got a little huffy about it. And I said... Said, "Don't you think God speaks to somebody besides you?" one the committee men said.


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