<TITLE>12. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 She said, "Won't you come in?"
I've been in four king's palaces. I've been in some of the best homes in the nations around the world. I never was any more welcome than I was in that humble little home that morning. I walked in the door. There was no pin-up girls on the wall. There was a little sign up over the door, "God bless our home." I looked at an old chunk stove setting in the floor, a little iron poster bed setting in the corner, and a great big, about a hundred and eighty pound, dark boy laying there with a sheet in his hand going, "Mmmmm, Mmmmm."
She said, "You see, parson?" Said, "He's been unconscious, now, this is the second day." And said, "He thinks he's out on a big sea, and he's lost."
And just then he said, "Mammy, it's dark. It's dark. I's just don't know where I's going."
She said, "Oh, parson," said, "do you hear that?" Said, "I can't stand to see my baby die like that," and reached down and kissed him on his forehead.
I thought, "O God. No matter what he done, how much sin he was in, he's still Mammy's baby. She couldn't forget him. That's her baby." And I thought, "God, if that mother can't forget her baby, yet You said, 'A mother may forget her suckling child, but I can't forget you. You're engraved on the palms of My hand." And I thought, "O God, that poor woman."

L-38 And she was crying. And I said, "Auntie, my name is Branham. Did you ever hear of me?"
She said, "No, sir, Parson Branham, I never heard of you."
And I said, "My ministry is praying for the sick."
She said, "I's glad to know that."
And I said, "Auntie, will you kneel with me for prayer?"
She said, "Yes, parson."
I said, "Lead, Auntie."
And she knelt down there, and oh, brother, you cause... She might have been a wash woman, but let me tell you, when that old woman started praying, you could feel the power of God moving in the room.
She said, "Dear Lord..." Her baby laying there dying, but not a bit disturbed. She said, "Dear Lord, I comes to You in Jesus' Name." Such a prayer, I stood there and took the sheet and wiped my eyes with it once she got through praying. Said, "Lord, You have sent Your parson, now Lord, let me hear my baby say that he's saved before he goes."
I looked at her. I thought, "Bless your old heart." I said, "Now, I will pray, Auntie." I said, "Heavenly Father, my plane's been gone nearly two hours, but You said, 'Walk.' That's all I knowed to do. I was expecting You to do something. Now, I can't do nothing, Lord, but talk to You." I just felt his feet. They was cold and sticky. Death was on him. I said, "All I can do is talk to You, Lord, but will You have mercy on this boy? Save him, dear God, and heal his body for the sake of this poor old mother."
And when I got through praying, he said, "Mama."
She said, "Yes, honey?"
Says, "It's getting light in the room."

L-39 Five minutes from there, he was setting on the side of the bed shaking hands with me. I jumped out and grabbed a plane, and went to the station, the plane was still waiting, just making its last call. God, through grace, stopped that airplane, and kept it there because of a poor, ignorant colored woman. Think of grace, measureless and boundless is the grace of our God. Grounded an airplane, and held it setting there for the prayer of a poor wash woman. Oh, my.
About a year ago, I was passing through, the train... Well, the train stopped. If you ever went to Memphis, how the train pulls up; I started down to get me a sandwich; it was too high on the train, so I went down to get me a hamburger. And I got out of the plane--or the train, started walking down; I heard a redcap "Hello there, Parson Branham."
I looked around, I said, "How do you do, sir?"
Said, "You don't know me, do you?"
And I said, "I don't believe I do."
Said, "You remember that morning that the Holy Ghost led you up to my Mammy's house?"
I said, "You're not the boy?"
He said, "Yes, parson." Said, "I's healed, and I's a Christian, now." Amen. Oh, my.


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