<TITLE>21. Par 64-67</TITLE>L-64 I thought, "Maybe there's somebody coming along there, maybe some trouble, maybe bypassing me from an accident. I don't know." I went on, just kept walking, walking, and walking, passed on the hotel, went on down, on down, on down, down towards the river, way down towards the north Memphis there, on down through that way.
I got down amongst the little colored haunts like down there, little houses, and things, way down there. And it was coming up just about, the--the sun was way up, way past time for me to catch the plane. I thought, "Oh, my."
But the Holy Spirit still urging me on, "Go on, move on."...
I was walking on down the street. I was singing that little song, you Pentecostal people sing about:
There's people almost everywhere,
Whose hearts are all on flame,
With fire that fell on Pentecost,
And cleansed and made them clean.
You know it, I guess. I was trying just to learn it. I said...
There are people almost everywhere,
Whose hearts are all on flame
The fire that fell on Pentecost,
Which cleansed and made them clean;
Oh, it's burning now within my heart,
Oh, glory to His name.
I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them.

L-65 I was going along, singing like that. I happened to look down there on the street, and there around a little, old, whitewashed fence, an old colored woman, typical Aunt Jemima, about a hundred yards from me, had a man's shirt tied around her head like this, and she was leaning over a little old gate, like that. And she was looking down the street. I just kinda quit singing, started walking on. I got up there, grinning like that, and the big tears run off them big fat cheeks, like that. She just kinda grinned at me. She said, "Good morning, parson."
I said, "Good morning, auntie." Started walking on like that, and Something said to me... I said, "Say, what'd you call me?"
She said, "Parson."
I said, "How did you know I was a parson?"
She said, "Did you ever read that story in the Bible about the Shunammite woman?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am."

L-66 She said, "I's that kind of a woman." She said, "I couldn't have no children. And I promised the Lord, if He would give me a child, that I would raise it for His glory." Said, "I's a washwoman." And she said, "And I's a Christian." And she said, "And I... The Lord give me a fine boy. And I raised him up." Said, "But I'm sorry he took the wrong road." And said, "He took a horrible disease, syphilitic." And said, "And he got out amongst the wrong company," and said, "and he went so long; he getting sick," said, "I didn't think of any thing like that, till it's done eat him, till he's full of pus in his blood; and the holes has eat through his heart, until his blood drops back when his hearts beats it." And says, "He's going to die." And said, "He's laying in there," and said, "he's been unconscious for two days." And said, "I couldn't stand to see my baby die like that, unsaved."

L-67 And she said, "I prayed all night." And I said, "Lord, I's Your servant. And You give me this baby, but where's Your Elisha?" Said, "What must I do?" And said, "This morning about four o'clock," said, "the Lord told me in a dream to go and stand at this gate," and said, "you'd be coming, wearing a brown suit and a brown hat." She said, "The only thing that I missed, is where is that briefcase that you was supposed to have?" And I'd left it in the hotel.
Don't you believe God still is the same God that was with Simeon?
I said, "My name is Branham, auntie."
She said, "Branham?"
I said, "Did you ever hear of me?"
She said, "No, sir, I don't believe I ever did."
And I said, "I pray for the sick."
She said, "You do?"
And I said, "Yes."
She said, "Will you come in?"


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