<TITLE>15. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 So I said, "Oh, my," then began to get real frantic. I got shaky and nervous. And I said, "Wait a minute, William Branham. What's the matter with you? Have you gone crazy?" And usually, that's just exactly what happens. You get frantic and you... They find you laying somewhere over a ditch, or where you shot yourself, or something like that, the hazards of the woods. And I said, "Here, you're too good a woodsman. You ain't lost. What's the matter with you?"
And I set down on a rock. I thought, "Now, you think you're lost, don't you? But you're not." And I said, "Why, that fog don't mean nothing to me. Why, sure, I can go right on, certainly." I said, "Now, let's see. The wind's coming right in my face. If it's coming in my face then I've got to turn back this way, 'cause the wind was in my face when I come up and I'll be going right for that." I thought... I started right on up. I said, "Sure, I'm all right," trying to bluff myself (See?), make myself believe that I wasn't lost, but I was lost. And brother that's the awfullest feeling that anyone ever had. If you're lost tonight, I sympathize with you. Being lost, not knowing where I was going, and an emergency on...
And if there ever was a time that there's an emergency on, brother, you better seek refuge while you can. If you're lost, you better hunt for the beacon Light tonight.

L-53 There, I kept on walking. I come to some low place where it was sobby. I said, "Now, surely I couldn't..." You couldn't see no piece, just the winds a blowing through the trees. And what I done, I got way down in the Giants and I didn't know it, that section there called the Giant's, Virgin Forest. And I didn't know that.
And I said, "Oh, if I could only see Hurricane Mountain, I would know which way to go." I thought, "Well, and that storm coming down, it's hard telling in these mountains how that wind can twist and shift and come any way now." So I couldn't depend on the wind, and I knowed that.
And I'd set down on a rock again; I'd say, "Now, you're not lost. You know where you're at. Why, stand still. You know where you're at." But all the hunting and woods ability I had was gone. I'm telling you; I was actually, completely lost. But I was trying to make myself pluck up to it, 'cause I didn't want to get frantic, you know, 'cause I knew my wife and baby would die that night in the woods if I didn't get to them. That's all. And I was miles away from them, and it was getting dark, that storm blowing.

L-54 So I walked on a little piece farther, and something said, "Now, Billy, get next to yourself. Get next to yourself. You know you're lost."
I said, "No, not me. I'm not lost. I'm going just exactly right." I'd hit up against a hill, and I thought, "No, I'm not right." I'd go back this way and I thought, "I never did see this before. Where'd this come from?" I'd feel myself shaking. I... perspiration running off of me.
I said, "Now, there's no need in fooling yourself. You're lost. And there's only one thing to do: that's admit you're lost." Well, I thought, "I am lost." Now, what if... If it wasn't for my wife and baby, I'd go over here in one of these cliffs and find me a place like I'd have to sometime, and stay there till tomorrow or the next day or whenever the storms down. Then I'll climb up to a high place, and look around and see where I'm at, and go on out. But you couldn't do it then. The fog was a moving.


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