<TITLE>07. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Now, in this... When a little bitty baby, I'd see visions. Seen visions all along through my life, all the way down. Not exactly when the Angel come and told me what to do as you've heard the story and read it many times, but it was--it was all my life. And it's always been to me, something that usually, the type of people that I usually get is what went through those healing lines and so forth in other places, and has been the left-overs. The people that's been in healing lines somewhere, and failed to have appropriate enough faith under the preaching of the Gospel, and they drop back into the meeting again.
Well, what does that... That's a good thing. Then God has a reinforcement back here to catch that type. See? Now, that's good.

L-23 Now, for instance, I happened to be... I met a friend awhile ago. I was looking to see where I--if he was here: he is. First time I seen him in years. It was one of my first callings when I went to the ministry of Divine healing. He was in St. Louis. Many of you has heard me talk about... Many times in my meetings that I used to carry a Bible under my arm and walk around when I was first ordained in the Baptist church, and I thought I was a preacher. So I happened to go one day in a tent meeting. And I heard a fellow preaching that would preach till he got plumb out of breath, buckle his knees together, and catch his breath. You could hear him about two squares away, come back up preaching. You've heard me say that a lot of times. That man's in the building tonight. I said from then on, I was kindly kept quiet about being a preacher. I didn't say much about it. My old, slow ways don't think of it that fast.
But anyhow, it was just at the time of the Angel of the Lord had just met me up at the place called Green's Mill up there, Tunnel Mill and had told me about these things. That minister is Reverend Mr. Daugherty from St. Louis.

L-24 He called me over to his home to his little girl. He'd heard of some things, and he called me to his little girl who was laying with... The doctors didn't exactly know what was the matter with her. I think they called it something like a... It's like a... You get palsy, and shake, and--and it's a Saint Vitus' dance. I believe that's the right way you pronounce that. And doctors had done all they could do for the little thing, and ministers all over the city had prayed and reverently and everything, and they'd anointed the little child with oil. And this, her father was a great believer in Divine healing.
So he called me, and at that time I didn't have clothes fit to wear over to St. Louis. And my congregation... I didn't have any money, so they made up eleven dollars and got me a chair car that night, and I left Louisville, Kentucky, on a train to go to St. Louis to meet Brother Daugherty. One of the brothers let me have his overcoat, and one of my other brothers loaned me a suit. And I went over to St. Louis. I never forget when the train pulled in the next morning, Brother Daugherty was standing there. He looked weary. He said, "Brother Branham, have you heard anything from the Lord?"
I said, "No, Brother Daugherty. How is the baby?"
Said, "She's real bad."
I went to his home, and there I met his lovely wife, and her face drooped down. She's just wilted.


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