<TITLE>12. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 And I went down there, you know, and I was preaching and Brother Bosworth said, "Would you stand right back here, Brother Branham?" Said, "The Duchess wants to see you."
And I said, "The who?"
He said, "The Duchess."
I said, "Well, who's she?"
And he said, "Well, it's the lady that let us have this lot."
I said, "Well, what's she any more than anybody else?" See?
So he said, "Well, you stand right here. She's coming around."
In a few minutes here come a great big woman around like that. She had a pair of specks in her hand on a stick, holding them out that far from her. You know people can't see that far out from you like that through glasses.
And she come around there with about enough clothes on to go in a--wad of musket shotgun, and she was standing along like that, walking around like that. She said, "Are you Dr. Branham?"
I said, "No, ma'am. No, ma'am." I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
She said, "Well, Dr. Branham," she said, "I'm charmed to meet you," holding that big, fat hand up like that.

L-43 I got a hold of her. I said, "Looky here, sister, bring it down here so I'll know you when I see you again." That's it. There's too many of us today trying to put on what we call the expression "put on the dog." What are you anyhow? That's right. You're not nothing but just people.
I was passing by a coliseum, or museum, rather, here not long ago, and they had a picture of a man's body in there that weighed a hundred and fifty pounds, said he was worth eighty-four cents in chemicals.
Put a hundred dollar suit on eighty-four cents, walk around with your nose up in the air, like it'd rain it'd would drown you, thinking you're somebody. You're not worth but eighty-four cents if you weigh a hundred and fifty pounds. Wrap a five hundred dollar mink coat around eighty-four cents and won't even speak to your neighbor. That's right.

L-44 That's what's matter with the world today (Amen.): people stuck-up and starchy. God will have to pour out the Holy Spirit and wilt that thing down in you. Every one of us, we're just exactly on the same level.
God made us all out of one pattern. No matter if you live in a better neighborhood, go to a better church, you're nothing but what has God's made you, and who are you to glory. Glory comes to God. Yes, sir.
Them couple boys standing there, one looked and said, "Well, John, we're not worth very much, are we?"

L-45 I said, "Look, fellow. That's your body, but you got a soul that's worth ten thousand worlds." That's right. I said, "That body will go back to the dust some of these days, but you got a soul that will live forever. Take care of that."
Look at the value that Jesus Christ put on it to come from glory to die to redeem you. That's the trouble. We look at the outside and take care of the outside, but the inside we let it go. Yes, sir.
I can see Martha, as she, or, Mary, rather; she run and hugged Elisabeth, and she kissed her, and begin to pat her, you know, and having a rejoicing, happy. Said, "Oh..." Now, let's listen in on their conversation.
I can hear Martha say... Now, this is drama. I can hear Martha, or Mary say, "Oh, Elisabeth, I am so happy. Oh, the... I have been told (not how), but I have been told that you are to be mother."

L-46 "Yes," Elisabeth said, "that's right," but she said, "I'm just a little bit worried."
"Why?"
"Why, it's six months as me as a mother and as far as we know, there was no life yet." That's subnormal. See? Life about three months, two months. So they said, "It's subnormal. I have no life yet, and I--I'm worried, and it's six months with me."
She said, "But the Angel, Gabriel, has met me and told me that I was going to be mother too, knowing no man," and said, "I would bring forth this Child, and I would call His Name, Jesus."


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