<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 I know of an institution not very far from here, who was giving a widow woman help. She was a missionary to the Jews. And the woman had a daughter. And the daughter was laying in the hospital at the point of death, unconscious, uremic poisoning, after the birth of her baby. She married a Catholic boy. And the--the boy believed on the Lord. And his baby, one of his first baby had been healed. And so, I was out of town at the time. When I come back in, they asked me if I'd go over and pray for the woman. Well, I went over there, there stood the priest standing there. The mother-in-law had got the priest to stand there. And so they were arguing: one of them Protestant, the other one Catholic, and fussing with one another. And one of them said, "Well..." The mother that had the priest there said, "Well, it's my grandchild, and I don't want the grandmother to go to hell." Said, "I want the priest to go in and anoint her for death."

L-24 Well, about that time, I walked up, and here was the doctor into it. And here I was going in to anoint her for life, he going in to anoint her for death, and the doctor standing there ready to whip both of us, I guess. What a picture. And I said, "Now, if he goes in to anoint her for death, what's the use of me going in to anoint her for life? We getting all mixed up here."
"Well," he said, "the grandmother--the two grandmother's are fussing it out."
And I said, "Well, le... You ought to let the father make the decision." And the father said, "Well..." He had been a Catholic boy. He said, "Look. Reverend Branham prayed for my baby." And said, "I believe if he goes in and prays for it... I say, let him go in."
So all of them stepped back. The doctor give me room. The boy went in with me. Woman was unconscious. I knelt down to pray. And while I was standing there praying, just humble as you would pray or anyone else, the boy, someone knocked at the door and he went to the door to step out to talk to them; there's somebody else had come up. And another doctor, they wanted to hold a--a consultation of something or another. They done give her up to die, so they was going to do something. The boy had stepped out.

L-25 And I prayed about ten minutes. I raised up and I said, "Lord, don't let a poor little mother die." Well, I got up from the--off the floor where I was praying for her. And I got up and just kind of wiped my eyes (I had been crying a little.), started to turn around and look, and I seen the woman at home looking at her baby, going, "sh," like that. And she was fixing the things around like that and fixing the dinner on. I looked at her for a little bit. My, what a feeling.
The vision left. I walked out the door kind of smiling, my overcoat on my arm. There stood the father and all of them out there, the priest, rather, and the doctor, all of them standing on the outside there. And I walked out, the husband said, "Reverend Branham," said, "have you any news?"
I said, "Yes, sir. I have some good news for you. THUS SAITH THE LORD: your wife is going home well." I said, "There now, she's going to get worse," I said, "before the night's over. They're going to put a pulmotor on her, 'cause she's going to be so low." But I said, "After that, she's going to come out it. And by this time tomorrow night, your wife will be home, THUS SAITH THE LORD."


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