<TITLE>07. Par 67-80</TITLE>L-67 So I had my old Ford, you know, that I claimed would make thirty miles an hour, fifteen this way and fifteen up-and-down this a-way. So I pulled it over to one side, I... when I got a place to park, and walked back down the street. Walked in, looked around, and everybody standing that could stand. I had to look over their heads. And they were screaming, and jumping, and falling, and carrying on. I thought, "Whew, uhm, what a people that is!"

L-68   But the longer I stood there, better I felt. I thought, "That seems pretty good." I thought, "There ain't nothing wrong with them people. They ain't crazy." I got to talking to some of them, so they--they were fine people. So I said...

L-69 Well, now, that's the same meeting that I went out and stayed all night that night, and the next day I went in. And you've heard me tell that in my life story. I was on the platform with a hundred and fifty, or two hundred ministers, and maybe more, and they wanted everybody to just raise up and say where they was from. And I said, "Evangelist William Branham, Jeffersonville," set down, "Baptist," so, set down. Each one tell where they were from.

L-70   So that next morning when I got in there... I slept in the field all night that night, and pressed my trousers between the two Ford seats, you know, and I--I... old seersucker trousers, little tee shirt, you know. So the next morning I went to the meeting, my little tee shirt on. I had went...

L-71 I didn't have but three dollars, and I had to get enough gasoline to get home on. And then I--I got me some rolls, that kind of old, you know, but I was all right. And I got to a hydrant, got me a glass of water, you know, and they were pretty good. So I had soaked them up a little, and had breakfast.

L-72 Now, I could eat with them, now, they eat twice a day. But I couldn't put nothing in the offering, so I wouldn't--wouldn't sponge on them.

L-73   So then I--then I got in there that morning, they said... I just have to tell this part of it. And so got in there that morning, and they said, "We're looking for William Branham, a young evangelist was on the platform last night, a Baptist." Said, "We want him to bring the message this morning." I seen it was going to pull me hard, that bunch of people, me a Baptist. So I just kind of scooted down in my seat. I had on seersucker trousers and a tee shirt; you know, and we wore clerical, so... And I set back in the seat like this. So he asked two or three times. And I set down by a colored brother.

L-74 And the reason they had their convention in the North, because the segregation was then on in the South. So they couldn't have it in the South.

L-75 So I wondered what this "Jesus Only" was about. And I thought, "As long as it's Jesus, it's all right. So it don't make any difference whether it's... how it is, just as long as it's Him."

L-76   So I set there a little bit and watched them, and so they called two or three times more. And this colored brother looked over at me, he said, "Do you know him?" I--I--I... The showdown was there. I couldn't lie to the man, I didn't want to.
I said, "Look, brother. Yes, I know him."
He said, "Well, go get him."

L-77 I said, "Well, I--I'll tell you, brother," I said, "I am he. But, you see," I said, "look, I... these seersucker trousers."
"Get on up there."

L-78 And I said, "No, I can't go up there," I said, "with these trousers on, like this, this little tee shirt."
Said, "Them people don't care how you dress."

L-79 And I said, "Well, look, don't you mention it. Hear?" I said, "See, I've got these seersucker trousers on, I don't want to get up there."
Said, "Anybody know the whereabouts of William Branham?"
He said, "Here he is! Here he is!"

L-80   Oh, my! My face real red, you know; and no tie on, you know; and this little old tee shirt, you know, and little sleeves on like this. And I went walking up through there, with my ears burning. I never been around a microphone.


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