<TITLE>08. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 We went on up to the corner, and as I went up to the corner... Now, that's inside life; I don't tell that to people. Don't do no good. See? Just so they see you, and say, see believe. And so then they went on up to the corner. And the wife said, "Well now, how are we going to get back down through that--that... over them pile of cinders to get in?
And I said, "Well, I can go in that way. You all just go on in the front way, and tell that boy to open that door, and I'll come in that way." 'Cause you'd never get out. You'd have a pray line all, up-and-down the street. So then I--then nighttime come you'd be so wore, and you couldn't go into the meeting. And so then, I started across the street and Something said to me, "Stop here."

L-27 And I said, "Now, you all go on. Just go on down." They went over to a drugstore and went in there and got a little coloring book for the baby, 'cause it had to stay in the house for the day, or in the room, rather. And I thought, "Well, Lord, why do You want me to stop here for?"
I stood there a little bit, and nothing happened, and I turned around and went back up and seen people looking at me. And I went up here to this little place where it said fishing tackle. And I like fishing so well, so I thought I'd get up here and watch this tackle, and nobody watching me around like that.
I said, "Heavenly Father, what would You have me do?" I stood there just a few moments. And now, you may call it fanaticism. I don't know what you're going to do with it. That's--that's between you and God, but I heard It just as plain as you can hear my voice, said, "Walk down to the corner."

L-28 I went down to the corner, and I stood there. That's all I knowed. I stood there at the corner. Well, they had a big cop out in the street. He'd blow the whistle and let the pedestrians cross and so forth. I stood there about ten, fifteen minutes. People just come and go like that, passing by. So I thought, "Well, I don't know why I'm standing here, but I'm just standing here."
So I stood there a little while, everybody passing by talking and so forth. And I just stood on the corner. And I walked out to the edge of the street, and stood there a little while. After while he'd blow the whistle and a group went across.

L-29 Then a little lady come across, wearing a little checked dress, with a little Canadian cap, set on the side of her head. She had her pocketbook on her arm. And she had her head down. And she was just walking like that. Walked on across, and Something said to me, "Go close to her." Well, I walked up to her till she rubbed almost against me, just passed right on by.
Well, I thought, "I don't understand."
He said, "Go close." She walked about the distance of, oh, another twice the distance of Brother Bosworth, and she turned and looked back.
She said, "Brother Branham."
I said, "Good morning, sister."
And she started crying. And she run back and caught me by the arm. And I said, "What's the matter, sister?"
She said, "Excuse me," and she was holding my arm like that. She said, "It just feels like my breath is going from me."
And I said, "What's the matter?"
She said, "Brother Branham, have you got just a minute?"
And I said, "Oh, yeah."

L-30 And she said, "Well, I--I only allowed a hundred and fifty dollars a year in America." She said, "I used all that up," and she said, "I slept in a hotel lobby last night. I had five cents for a cup of coffee this morning. And I started out here to hitchhike, going back to Canada." A young woman about thirty, thirty-five years old, said, "I was going to hitchhike back to Canada down there." And she said, "I was going way down the street there, and Something said to me, 'Turn this a way,' but said, "it was off the highway, but I just couldn't go any farther. Said, 'Turn this a way.'" And she said, "I just kept coming till I happened to turn around and look at you."
I said, "What's your trouble?"


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