<TITLE>21. Par 89-93</TITLE>L-89 I went in, and there stood my dear beloved wife in a corner crying. There stood Sarah and Rebekah fighting over some blocks in the next room, little Joseph screaming at the top of his voice, the last one had left. Billy and them had come up and got them all out, Brother Wood and my neighbors and them. So I set there; I thought, "Why, they was all nervous and upset." I thought, "Heavenly Father, we got to make this situation here different."
So I walked over; she said, "Billy, honey, what am I going to do," said, "I'm losing my mind, all day long, that pounding, and everybody in here, people saying, 'If you don't come to this city, they done got you advertised, and you're going to be cursed by God if you don't.'"
I said, "Honey, that's fanatics. If God wants me to go anywhere He will tell me." And I said, "I'm on speaking terms with Him." And I said, "If He wants to go... Don't pay no attention to them things." I said, "We have fanaticism in everything and saying this, that, and the other."

L-90 And she was crying, and I got talking to her; I said, "But you know, honey, I seen the prettiest little dress in a certain city, you know." And the first thing you know she was peeling potatoes, she was all quietened down. When she quietened the children quietened, Joseph quietened, all right. See, you have to change the situation. You can do it.
Let me tell you something. This is a little inside, you--you may judge me wrong after this. When I was game warden... I've had this to happen many times. You heard me speak about being in the mountains (See?), out in the mountains with wildlife. Now, there's something about it. See, you have to know the Creator.

L-91 Now, wild animals will hurt you if you're afraid of them. But if you're not afraid of them, and you love them, they won't hurt you. You can't bluff it now, you can't... you got to really mean it. I've walked face to face with grizzly bears, African lions, and everything else. See? That's right. They won't hurt you if you're not afraid. But there's something about you, your body puts out a... Your nerves puts out an odor. Did you ever see a dog? He will... [Brother Branham imitates sniffing--Ed.] Don't try to bluff him; he knows whether you're afraid or not. He does. If you're afraid he will bite you. You're not afraid; I've never seen one yet, what I walk and pet him, walk on through the yard. See? If you're not afraid of them, they know it.

L-92 Here, one day I was down at the bottom of the hill, turning some fish loose; I was in the conservation. We're supposed to wear a pistol, but I didn't want no pistol. I talked to the man; I believe I make a better guy out of him, than I could arrest him anyhow.
So then, went down there to turn loose some fish. And I remembered, across the hill, I had an old friend over there that was dying, or very sick. I thought, "I'll walk over and see him." I just closed up the truck door and started walking across the field, walked up over it. It ain't like here; there's just some little shrubs out in the field. And when I walked right out there and got in the middle of the field, behind those shrubs I didn't notice, but there...

L-93 About six weeks before then a great big Durham bull had killed a colored man, now he's a killer, long horn...?... down at the Burk's farm, he'd killed him. So this was up at another farm; they'd sold him 'cause he was a fine breed of bull. But when he was... That bull raised right up in the field; I forgot about him being in there. And there he was not over twenty spaces from me. And he raised up and looked at me; he let out a roar and throwed them horns in the ground like that. I looked back to the fence; I couldn't outrun him. There was no tree to get into. What could I do? I was in the same spot like I was with that maniac you was reading in the book. What could I do?


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