<TITLE>14. Par 50-54</TITLE>L-50 So she goes out to meet Elisabeth. And Elisabeth come out to meet her, you know, and throwed her arms around her, I imagine, and begin to hug her, and kiss her, saying, "Oh, Mary, I'm so glad to see you, darling," and them hugging one another.
Women used to do that. Men used to have a great fellowship. But that died out somewhere. That's right. We don't have love for one another no more, don't have no feeling for one another no more. Why, the only way you know you're neighbor's dead, when you read it in the paper any more. That's right. Nobody don't have any feeling for one another. Well, down in Kentucky, we used to go, and help shuck the corn out, and cut the wood, and everything, when somebody was sick. You don't know nothing about that no more. Nobody knows anything about it. Brotherly love just seems to be ceasing. It's too bad.

L-51 And I can see Mary and Elisabeth hugging one another. Here I'll tell this on my wife. I ain't spotted her yet; she's setting around here somewhere. She going downtown here not long ago, and we was riding along the street, and there was some girl said, "Hello, Sister Branham."
And I--I never heard her say anything. I said, "That girl spoke to you."
She said, "I spoke to her."
I said, "Well, I didn't hear you."
She said, "Well, I smiled."

L-52 A little silly grin... You know what? I like a good old fashioned, Methodist, pump handle shake like that, brother, got some feeling in it.
Paul Rader said one time, him and his wife was having a little spat, fussing, or something another. Said, "He setting at his table reading the paper, he'd always kiss her good-bye when he went out the door." And said, "He got up that morning, go out the door," and said, "she was standing at the door with her head down," said, "she puckered up her lips and he kissed her." Said, "She was always stand when he got out the gate, then he'd close the gate, turn around and say, 'Good-bye.'" Said, "He turned that morning, say, 'Good-bye.'"
She said, "Good-bye."
"Went on down the street, and he got thinking about it." Said, "You know what? What if something would happen to me today? And you know the Lord don't want me to feel that way about that." Said, "Maybe I was in the wrong."

L-53 He got thinking about it just as... Oh, he got so bothered about it till back up home he went, through the gate, rushed through the door; when he throwed the door open, she was standing behind the door crying. So he just re... Never said a word, just looked at her, pulled her around, throwed her up against him, and kissed her, said, "Good-bye."
She said, "Good-bye."
He went out the gate, pulled the gate together, said, "Good-bye."
She said, "Good-bye."
He said, "The only difference was, the last time had a feeling in it." And that's right.
Brother, that's what I think about religion. It's got to have a feeling in it; it's got to have something there, something positive, something real. Makes us know and feel that God is near, and this man's our friend, he's our brother, this is--this is friendship.

L-54 I can see Mary and Elisabeth out there, you know, just a having a great time rejoicing. I can hear Mary say, "Oh, Elisabeth, I'm so happy. You're an old woman here and you're going to have a baby."
"Yes." I can hear her say, "That's true. But you know, Mary, I'm just a little upset. I've hid myself now for six months, for you know, there's no life yet to the baby."
Now, that's subnormal. I want you to watch, the first thing that--about Jesus now. That's subnormal. About two or three months, life.
She said, "But this is six months and no life yet." Why, she was worried about it.
And then she said, "You know, Gabriel met me, and He--He overshadowed me and said that I was going to have a Child, knowing no man." And she said, "He told me I was to call His Name Jesus."


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