<TITLE>21. Par 82-86</TITLE>L-82 And he tried to pull me back, and I just went on, walked down the hall, opened up the door and went in. And there she was laying like that, this sheet up over her. I pulled the sheet down. I looked at her laying there. I put my hand on her head, felt real sticky, and I said, "Sweetheart, can you hear me?" I shook her again. I said, "Do you hear me, honey?"
And if I live to be a hundred years old, I'll never forget those great, big, dark, angel eyes opened up. True, lovely woman, she looked up (twenty-two years old), looked me right in the face. She said, "Oh, Bill." I knelt down and started crying. She put her own arm over on me and begin to pat me. She said, "Why'd you call me back?"

L-83 Just then, the nurse run in, said, "Reverend Branham, you can't stay in there."
I said, "Just a minute, nurse." We knew her real well.
My wife called her over. She said, "Juanita," said, "I hope when you get married you have a husband like mine." Said, "He's been so good to me," and she had her arm around me.
And I said, "What was you talking about, honey?"
She said, "Bill, I was being taken home." The nurse left the room. And she said, "I'd been taken home, and some Angel's like was going down." Said, "It's just so peaceful, a great tropic," and said, "the big birds was flying from tree to tree." She said, "Now, don't think I'm beside myself."
And I said, "Yes."
What it was, her eyes were just opened to see paradise just as... And she said, "You know why I'm going, don't you, Bill?" And that's what hurt.
I said, "I believe so, honey."

L-84 She said--said, "I hope I didn't influence you when I was crying that day, when her mother said that these people were backwash."
I said, "No."
She said, "Bill, it's the most glorious thing in the world to die with the baptism of the Holy Ghost." She said, "I don't mind." Said, "I hate to leave you." Said, "But take care of Billy Paul." That's my boy setting right there. Said, "Take care of him and raise him a Christian." And said, "Then, you also... And Sharon, the little girl." And said, "Don't stay single." Said, "I want to ask you some things to promise me." Said, "Remember that time you wanted to buy that rifle in Louisville, and didn't have enough money to make a down payment, two dollars?"
And I said, "Yeah."

L-85 She said, "After I'm gone," she said, "go home, and look up under the folding bed on that newspaper. I was saving nickels to get enough money," to make the down payment on that rifle for me. She knowed I wanted it so bad.
You'll never know how I felt when I went home and seen about a dollar and seventy-five cents laying there. She'd saved it for months trying to get enough money to make that payment.
Said, "Will you promise me you'll get that rifle?"
Said, "Yeah."
And she said, "Then, I don't want you to stay single." Said, "You get some good Christian girl, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost that'll raise the children right." Said, "Will you? I want you to meet me there at the gate."
Said, "All right, honey. But I won't promise to get married again."

L-86 She said, "Please promise me." Said, "I don't want my children pulled from post to post like that." And said, "Promise that you'll never let down no more. That you'll always preach this wonderful, glorious Gospel, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost." She said, "Bill, there's not one worry in the world that I have right now." She said, "I'm just as... She was just as willing to die as the water flows down that river. Said, "I just hate to leave you and the children." but she said, "I'm going back." Said, "I have no desire to stay."


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