<TITLE>15. Par 76-80</TITLE>L-76 And I said, "What is the matter, Mr. Emmel?"
And he said, "You remember over on the banks of the river that day, when you were cutting corn down there in a bottom, and we were down there fishing, and you talked to us about the Lord Jesus Christ?"
And I said, "Yes."
"And you took me with your overalls on, me and my family, and went out to the river and baptized us."
I said, "Yep, done it, them things many time." When I was a game warden, walked around in my uniform over in the water, and baptize, and get up and dry off a little bit, and run around, get in my car and take off again on patrol. See, it don't matter... You don't have to have so much pomp and stuff. And when a believer's ready, baptize him. It's time to be baptized. God ain't no ritualistic affair anyhow. It's, "He that believeth and is baptized."

L-77 He said, "Well, Brother Branham," he said, "I had two little children then, two little boys."
And I said, "Yes, I remember." It'd been four, five, six years before.
He said, "Well, I'm sorry. I took the road that's wrong. He said, "I was been working up here in one of these powder plants," said, "I killed a man." And he said, "I hit him with a hammer; we was in a fight. And he hit me first, and he was going to kick me into a big vat there, where they had some of that boiling cottons, ever what it was." And said, "And he hit me, and I grabbed a hammer and hit the man, and it killed him." He said, "I--I served a year for it," but said, "'cause it was self-defense."

L-78 He said, "And I come home, instead of going to God, I started drinking and doing wrong." Said, "I lost my oldest child." He said, "Brother Branham," said, "just a hour ago, the doctor, here of the city, Doctor Bruner, just left my house. My other little boy is dying with pneumonia." He said, "Doctor says he can't make it till daylight." He said, "I thought I'd come ask you if you'd forgive me for what I done, and would come and ask prayer for my baby?"
"Why," I said, sure, brother." I said...

L-79 He said, "I'm going down to get my cousin," which afterwards become one of my associates, Graham Snelling. He said, "He's a Christian; I thought we'd all get to pray." Mother come in.
And I said. "I'll make ready and you come on back and pick me up." Mother made ready, or I made myself ready, rather, and went out. And mother said, "Billy, what was the matter," said, "in there?"
I said, "Mother, it's a vision." I said, "This man's got a little boy, I believe it's going to be healed." She didn't know him. And I said, "Well, I believe he's going to be healed this morning."
And she said, "You going... are... You're not going now?"
And I said, "Yes, I'm leaving now. He's coming back after me." In a few moments he picked me up. We started up the road, and he said... Going along up there by the old shipyard, over on the side of the river going up...

L-80 And I said, "Mr. Emmel," I said, "You... Where you live at?"
He said, "I live in above Utica, up in the country."
I said, "I haven't heard from you for years." I said, "Don't you live in a little long, like a shotgun house, like that?"
He said, "Yes."
And I said, "You come up through a little gate like this, and go up some rocks, up, and there's some big sycamore tree standing."
He said, "Yes."
I said, "You got--you got red paper on the walls."
He said, "That's right."
I said, "Your little boy is laying in a bed, at the right hand side of the door, when you go in, little, iron, poster bed."
He said, "Was you ever there?"


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