<TITLE>17. Par 74-78</TITLE>L-74 I said, "Now, wait, take your hands off here." You think I'd get her hands... I couldn't pull them off of me. She wasn't going to let me get away. She was holding like that. And I said, "Will you turn me loose?"
She said, "No, suh." Said, "Has mercy on me, Brother Branham."
I said, "Well, sister, I pray to Jesus first."
She said, "Have mercy."

L-75 And I thought of that song. She'd heard about that man being healed up there. Blind Fanny Crosby said, "Pass me not, O gentle Saviour. Hear my humble cry. While on others thou art calling, do not pass me by."
I thought of that, and I said, "...?... sister, if you'll let me have a hold of your hand," I said, "while I pray." And I had to pry her hand loose from me, one of them. And I held it like that. I said, "Now, you just bow your head and close your eyes."
She said, "Yes, suh." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
... started praying, I said, "Now, heavenly Father, You know this need. And why would I have to come back behind this place?" Do you believe all things are ordained of God? Sure they are. And I said--and I said, "I--I don't know why I'm back here. But this poor old blind colored girl," and I said, "here she stands." I said, "Father some nineteen hundred years ago, there was an old rugged cross come dragging down through the streets of Jerusalem, dragging out the bloody footprints of the Bearer. On His road up the hill to be crucified, His poor little frail body riven side. He couldn't pack the cross no longer and He fell. And there come Simon of Cyrene, a colored man, picked up the cross, and put it upon him on shoulders, and helped Him bear it."

L-76 I said, "Father, I'm sure You understand that. And here tonight staggering in total darkness, is one of his children, along here in total darkness. And upon that cross, the Blood for the healing of this girl was...?... Won't You please have mercy upon her like that." And just then something happened.
She said, "Something went through me. My eyes feel so cold." I noticed the life went out of those cataracts, but she had wait for the shrinking.
I said, "Just keep your lids over them, sister, for a moment." I said, "Don't say nothing. We'll be known here. See? Don't let no one see us." And they wasn't paying any attention, just moving along." And I said, "Now--now, just raise your head just about where you think I am, and then open your eyes, 'cause Jesus has give you your sight."
She said, "Yes, suh." She said, "Is my head about right?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am. Now, open your eyes." She opened her eyes.
She said, "Is them lights?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am."

L-77 Said, "Is them spots? Is them people going there?" I said... She screamed to the top of her voice and jumped off in that crowd, screamed, "Oh God, I who was once blind now I sees."
That--that startled the crowd. Here they all come running everywhere. I looked and I seen my man coming around the corner pressing through the crowd. And there was an old man standing there with a club, where he'd walk on it. He had a twisted leg like that. He said, "I know you, Brother Branham." He said, "I been standing eight days. I've got five little children at home. I been a crippled." Said, "I believe you're a good boy. If you ask God to heal me, he can do it."
I said, "Do you believe that, brother?"
He said, "With all my heart."
I said, "Then in the Name of Jesus Christ give me your club." And when I stand at the judgment bar before this group of people, you'll know then whether it's true or not. When he handed me club, God honored his faith. His foot come straight like that. He leaped up in the air, begin screaming to the top of his voice.

L-78 And then they was coming to me. And up... And the people pressing through the crowd, they'd seen the miraculous and seen God move in the audience and so forth. So they just believed. That was all.


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