<TITLE>16. Par 69-73</TITLE>L-69 And they--they got this Jim Crow law there, segregation or had then. And here come a young colored girl about sixteen, seventeen years old, just, her eyes white with cataracts. And she was pushing through that crowd trying, hollering, "Daddy, daddy. Oh, daddy," nobody paying any attention to her. See? Just...
And I thought, "Poor thing. Look like somebody'd help that girl." And she was coming my way. So I slipped out real easy from this fellow and got away, got over on the side here. And I kept getting right in her line, which way she was coming so she'd bump into me. And she bumped into me. And she said... Put her hands on me. She said, "Pardon me." She said, "Daddy."

L-70 And I said, "Well, what's the matter?"
She said, "Sir," she said, "I've lost my daddy. Could you help me find him?"
And I said, "Well, I don't see any more colored people around here, lady." I said, "Where you from?"
She said, "I'm from Memphis."
And I said, "Uh-huh."
I looked over and seen that chartered bus line. I seen one chartered bus from Memphis. And I said, "Yes, ma'am." I said, "What are you doing over here?" I thought I'd... Poor thing. Isn't that awful to take advantage of her like that, and her blind couldn't see me? And I said... I was just trying her faith.
And I said, "What are you doing over here?"
And she said, "I come over to see the healar." That southern talk. "I come to see the healar."
I said, "The what?"
She said, "The healar."
And I said, "I don't understand what you mean."

L-71 She said, "Well, sir, I listen to all the good radio programs." And she said, "This morning I heard this man from down here towards Corning that couldn't speak a word was talking on the radio." And said, "That man that was blind that got his sight up there..." Said, "I'm blind too, as you know." Said, "When I was a little girl I got cataracts on my eye, and the doctor told me when they got ripe..." I don't know what ripe means, but said, "when they got ripe, that he'd take them out." And said, "Now, they're ripe." And said, "He said they's wrapped around the roots of the them, around the optical nerve of my eye, that he can't take the--the cataract without taking the eye too."

L-72 And she said, "I don't have a chance to see." And said, "I come over to see the healer." And she said, "And they tell me this is his last night. And I haven't got a chance to get into the building." And said, "And my... And I've lost my father. And I can't find my way back to the bus." She said, "Would you help me get back to the bus, kind sir?" Just as intelligent as she could be...

L-73 And I said, "Yes, ma'am." But I said, "What I want to question you about, about this healer." I said, "Do you believe that in the day that we got all these fine doctors and surgeons, that God would do something by sending an Angel like that?"
She said, "Yes, suh. I believes it."
And that made me feel ashamed of myself. And she said--she said, "Yes, suh. I believes it."
I said, "Well, looks like that in this fine day when we got all these doctors..."
She said, "Sir, none of them can help me."
And I said, "Yes, ma'am." She.. I said, "Well, you don't really mean that you believe that?"
She said, "Sir, I tell you what. If you'll take me by the hand and lead me to where that man is. Then I'll find my father." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
That just made me just go right down. I said, "...?..." Must have... I felt like a hypocrite. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... made me stand there. I looked at the poor old thing, and I--I said, "Well, sister, maybe I'm the one you're supposed to see."
If I live to be a hundred years old, I can't forget that. She grabbed me right like that. She said, "Is you da healah?"
I said, "No, ma'am." I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
She said, "Oh, Brother Branham."


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