<TITLE>17. Par 64-67</TITLE>L-64 When they brought the old fellow out there, he was so old they had to lead him out. And about time he got all wound up to preaching, he jumped up in the air, clicked his heels together, said, "Glory to God! Whew." He said, "There's not enough room here for me to preach," and walked off the platform.
And I said, "Boy, if It'll make an old man act like that, I want that too. What will It do for me?" I said, "That's what I want."
I didn't have any money, so I couldn't eat with them. I had seventy-five, or eighty cents left besides my gasoline I had to buy. I couldn't stay in a tourist court, so I went and bought me a big sack full of second day rolls, you know. that'd... So I'd eaten them. I went out in an old cornfield and laid down that night, and I pressed my trousers between the two seats, you know, back seat and front seat, and put them in there and pressed it out. And I prayed all night for God to give me favor with those people. They had something that I wanted. And so I thought, "Oh, that's what I been looking for, right there."

L-65 So I went back down the next morning, and I'd all shined up, best I had. I had a T-shirt on and seersucker trousers. Nobody knowed me, anyhow. So I went in and set down. The colored folks was there. They had to have it above the Mason Dixie Line so this color could set around. And I happened to set down, and first thing you know a colored man set down by me, and I'm a southerner too, you know. I looked around and thought, "Now, this ain't right." Looked at him... First thing you know, they come up. All that big group of people, all of them singing, and going on like that. And I thought, "This is wonderful."
So the man come out. He said, "Last night on the platform, there was a young evangelists by the name of William Branham." Said, "Anybody know the whereabouts of him?" Two or three thousand people there. Seersucker trousers a T-shirt, so I just set real close like this. Said, "Anybody knows where William Branham is? We want him to bring the morning message."  Morning message, seersucker trousers, and a T-shirt? I just hunkered down real easy like this, you know, down under the seat.

L-66 So he announced again, said, "Anybody outside, if you know where William Branham is, tell him to come in." Nobody knowed me.
So this colored man looked around and said, "You know the man?"
I had to lie or do something, you know. So I said, "Look, I--I--I'm knowing, yes."
He said, "Well, go get him."
I said, "I... Look, don't say nothing." I said, "I'm he. See?"
He said, "Well, get up there."
And I said, "Why, I--I can't do it." I said, "Look here way I'm dressed."
He said, "Dem people don't care how you dress. Go on up dere."
And I said, "No, think..." I said, "Shhh, don't say nothing like that."
He said, "Anybody found William Branham?"
He said, "Here he is. Here he is." Oh, my. "Here he is."

L-67 Oh, my. Seersucker trousers with a T-shirt, here I went up. I never seen a microphone before. And here I went walking up in this great big, cathedral of a place, there, walking up there, you know, and I thought, "Oh, how out of place." 
I took my text of when the rich man, in Luke, you know, lifted up his eyes in hell, and he cried. I got up there, and I said, "And he lifted up. There was no children in hell, so he cried. There was no flowers, so he cried. There was no prayer meeting, and he cried. And there's no this, that, and that." Then I cried. And the first thing you know, the Holy Spirit got caught into that building, and I never seen such a carrying on in all... Why, I went unconscious nearly. I was right in the right place and didn't know it.


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