<TITLE>14. Par 59-63</TITLE>L-59 The night before there'd been a man up at Kennett, Missouri, been twenty years was blind, a shoe cobbler. And he received his sight that morning. And he went home; he run all over the city. He run into a Methodist church with his hat on his cane blind. There was white thing running through the church. And they throwed him out of there. And he went out to Catholic and they throwed him out of there. They just... He was taking the town.
So everybody was coming from everywhere. And so they... I looked there and this man kept motioning like this to me with his cap. I said, "Are you calling to me, sir?"
He said, "Yes, sir." Said, "I'm from up in Missouri." And said, "I got another trip to make tonight." Said, "I got a patient out there." And said, "The patient's already dead. And we had a house doctor." And said, "I can't find him anywhere. I don't know what to do. Could you come to her?"
And I said, "Well, sir, they wouldn't take my word pronounce her dead." I said, "It'd take the undertaker."
He said, "I wish you would come out. Her husband's just frantic out there. And maybe you could quieten him."

L-60 I said, "Well, sir, there's two thousand people between here." And that row, there's a big row just reserved there for ambulances along on the other side of the auditorium.
And so, he said, "I'll help get you out." There's a big group of men; I passed through the audience as we pressed through, and let... Mr. Reed begin to lead the songs again. And I went out there. And there was a big black ambulance setting there. And they opened up the door. And I got in.
A typical old Arkansas brother... Now, if there's somebody here from Arkansas, don't mean hurt your feelings. They're poor, poor, but they sure got something under that old blue shirt, brother, that beats true to God. That's right.

L-61 I'd rather have... I tell you what this old time salvation does. It'll make a tuxedo suit and a pair of overalls put their arms around and call each other brother too. And sure. It'll make calico and silk set together and call each other sister. Certainly will. It'll take all the starch out of you. You realize that we're all one person in Christ Jesus, brothers and sisters.
And there I looked in there. And a poor old fellow back there, and his shoes, soles was off of his shoes, and old faded out overalls... Remind me of my poor old daddy. And his shirt was patched all over it. And he had an old hat in his hand. And it was sewed up around the side with twine cord. And the whiskers was kind of long on his face. He hadn't shaved maybe for a week or ten days, a weary look on his face. And he was saying, "Oh, mother, why did leave me? Why did you leave me?"

L-62 Poor old fellow, I looked at him. I thought, "Oh, my, now, what can I tell him?" And I set back through the ambulance to the front where they opened it up, the door. And so, he looked at me; he said... I said, "How do you do?"
He said, "How do you do?" He said, "Are you the doctor?"
And I said, "No." I said, "I'm Brother Branham."

L-63 He said, "Oh, Brother Branham," said, "poor mother," said, "she wanted to see you so bad before she died." Said, "She's such a good woman, Brother Branham." Said, "She harrowed over those old clods up there and made me what I am." And said, "She took cancer two years ago." And said, "We took her to St. Louis. The doctors operated. They done everything." Said, "I've even sold my mules and everything," he said, "to try to--to try to get her healed." And said, "The doctors has give her up. And we heard that this man come up this morning testifying." And said, "We went and sold some quilts that she made and some blackberries that she canned last year, to get the ambulance to bring her down." And said, "Now, she's dead, Brother Branham." And said, "Oh, I don't what I'm going to do without her. To go back home, it's so lonesome."


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