<TITLE>04. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 So during the time of the meeting, I just kinda keep myself away and go out in somewhere in the woods and take my Bible, and so forth, and go out there and read and pray and do something until the services begin.
And then of a evening, my boy and Brother Cauble comes in. They give out prayer cards and then I come over. They... Billy sticks around here where some people come in late, why, they can give them a prayer card. And Mr. McSpadden (I don't guess he's here this morning.), he usually sets along here. He and I come over together at night from the McSpadden Market at--at Jeffersonville. We usually come together at night; we're quite friends. And so I'd go down in my old truck and pick him up, and we'd come over together. Then after service, go out from in here, weak and wore and tired. And sometimes I go home, and then the family has to put up with me for a couple hours over there. And only those who know what those things are: To you, I want you to love my family. If you don't love me, you love them, because they sure are deserving to have to put up with me after those services.

L-9 You might not understand why those things are. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, what would that have an effect?" I can't tell you. I just don't know. The only thing I know, it does. That's all. Just like if we'd say to ask...
Take, for instance, most all men, in the line of spiritual things, like poets, authors, and so forth, they're always considered just a little bit nervous, or psychic-neurotic, or something like that.
I'm sorry I made that statement a few moments ago. Mr. McSpadden is setting right back behind here. The young man ducked his head down, and I seen Mrs. McSpadden and there--He's setting there now. And...

L-10 Now, for instance, Stephen Foster, many of you all remember him, wrote the old, one of the--gave America its best folk song: "Old Kentucky Home." That's the national emblem, isn't it? That's it. That's right. It's the greatest song. (You know?) Will won't... Some Kentuckians ought to say, "Amen" somewhere. "An Old Kentucky Home," I'm telling you it's famous everywhere.
And I was out here not long ago, to the old Kentucky home. A little nurse here in the city, that's out here at the hospital, Saint Joseph's, and she was a good friend of mine. And my wife and all of us went out to, stood at the old Kentucky home. I was leaning over that little desk where Stephen Foster received inspiration to write that song. After they--they'd passed through, I was looking at his picture. And there was the angel that's supposed to touch him to give him inspiration. I thought, "Mr. Foster, you've had it in the head, but not in the heart. And you get inspiration; you go up and write" (You know?), "Old Black Joe" and all those famous old songs. And then as soon as the inspiration left him, he'd go out and get drunk; just stay drunk for weeks at a time. And then finally, he wrote a--a song and when he come out from under the inspiration, he didn't know where he was at, and--and he called a servant and took a razor and committed suicide. That was the end of Stephen Foster.

L-11 I stood not long ago in London, England, at the grave of William Cowper, where he was this great famous poet, author, and beloved Christian man. He wrote this famous song, the Communion song we use at our Tabernacle:
There is a fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
When sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
And after writing that song, when he come down out of that inspiration, he didn't know where he was at. And he found hisself in a cab, trying to find the river to commit suicide. William Cowper, considered in England, a neurotic, I stood by his grave while tears dropped off of my wrinkled cheeks, for I had a feeling for my brother and know what he meant.


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