<TITLE>16. Par 61-63</TITLE>L-61 We... I went down, I had enough money to go to Sears and Roebucks and make a--a payment on a--a breakfast set that had... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Painted it yellow, and put a great big green shamrock right on every chair, an Irishman, you know would. And we--and we had an old folding bed. How many ever knowed what a folding bed is? Somebody give it to us. And I went over to a junk dealer and got a stove for seventy-five cents, a cooking stove. And I had to pay a dollar and something to get grates to go in it. And we put her in there and went to housekeeping. We didn't have very much, but we were happy. We had one another. That's all that mattered. We loved one another, and that settled it.

L-62 Later on along, God gave us a little boy, standing right back there looking at me now. And how happy we were when this little fellow come into the world. And we loved God with all of our heart.
Just before, or just right after the boy was born, I took my first vacation. We saved up enough money till I had, I believe, around six, eight, ten dollars saved up, besides the car payment. And I went up to Michigan to visit an old friend of mine that I'd met, by the name of John Ryan, setting right here now.
I didn't know too much about Pentecostal people. And this old man, I thought, belonged to the House of David, because he wore long hair and beard. But I found out it was wrong. I went to visit him. And guess, you remember, Brother Ryan. We stayed up there a few days.
And on my road back is when I got my first acquaintance with Pentecostal people. We come through Dawa... or Mishawaka, and there was a... Mishawaka, Indiana. And there was a great convention going on. And there were old Fords, and Cadillacs, and everything setting around, and I heard a lot of noise. And I went in to listen to these people. And they were shouting, "Whooo," all the dancing, and running, and screaming. I thought, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, such manners in the church." And how they were going on. I thought, "Well, that's terrible for people to act like that in church." So I listened at them, and they were running up-and-down the floor dancing, and a screaming, and a carrying on. And I thought, "That's just awful that they'd do that." My self-styled Baptist ways, you know, so I--I thought...

L-63 So that night I just waited to see what the would do. They had all the preachers come up on the platform.
They said, "We're--we have..." About five hundred of us up there, and he said, "Now, we haven't got time for you to say nothing, but just say who you are, and where you're from."
So I just said, "William Branham, Jeffersonville." Went...
Next day, there was something or another them preacher's preaching, they--they brought an old man out there, an old colored man, had a great big old long coat on. All them preachers had been preaching about different things that day, but he took his text from over in Job. "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world..." and so forth. They had been preaching about earthly things, and he preached about heavenly things. And he took Christ up before the foundation of the world, brought Him in the second coming, down the horizontal rainbow.


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