<TITLE>21. Par 74-77</TITLE>L-74 I saw a vision of her after I couldn't get over it for awhile. I had a vision one night when I knelt by the side of an old dirty cot where I was sleeping. I couldn't give them up. I was trying to work, and I was--couldn't satisfy myself. I remember coming in that night and kneeling down. I al--tried to commit suicide, nearly, that day. I was getting frantic. I couldn't stand it no longer. I knelt down by the side of that old cot. And I said, "O God, why'd You take my baby?" I said, "I just can't understand it, God."
And I fell into a trance. I thought I was walking along down on the prairie. As you all know I worked lots on a ranch herding cattle and so forth, outdoors. And I was walking along, had a hat on. I was whistling that song "Wheel on the Wagon is Broken." There the old prairie schooner was broke down. There stood a lovely young girl there.
She said, "Hello, daddy."
And I said, "Why, lady," I said, "I'm as old as you. Why would you call me daddy?'
Said, "Daddy, you don't know where you are at." Said, "This is glory." Said, "We don't have little babies up here; we're immortal. We're all young here forever." She said, "Mother's waiting for you up there." Said, "Where's Billy Paul, my brother?"
I said, "He be coming along."

L-75 I remember going into the house and looking at her there, seeing her. She said, "You're home."
Well, we never did have a home. We're ramblers, all the Branhams. And I said, "Look it there. Is that my home?"
She said, "Yes, daddy. You got a home up here."
I went up there and looked at that home. And I seen my wife coming. She was a German, black hair and black eyes. She come with her hands out, reaching for me. See took me by the hand and I knelt down.
And I said, "Hope, I don't understand it. Look how pretty Sharon is."
She said, "Billy, you're worrying too much about Sharon." Said, "We're all right." Said, "Don't worry about us." Said, "Promise me you won't worry." She put her arm around me, commenced to pat me. She said, "Billy, don't worry. Will you not worry?" Said, "Everything's all right here. We're far better off then you are."

L-76 And just then I come to in the room. It was dark. I felt her arm around me, patting me. I heard her voice. I thought, "Oh, it can't be. It can't be. The vision's over." And I shook my head; I looked. Her arm was still around me. She was patting me.
She said, "Billy, promise me you won't worry no more."
I said, "I promise, Hope."
She took her arm away, and that was all of it. I've never worried since. I tell you, brother, a real anchored faith in God can take its stand upon the beaten rock of the rock of eternity, and stand there, look off into the heavens when the waves and things are beating against its bows and look to Him that said, "I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." Brother, it takes something here in the heart.

L-77 The state senator of Indiana comes to my church. He met me going up the road a few days after that. I was walking along crying. He said, "Billy, I want to ask you something." He jumped out of his car, put his arm around me. He said, "I've heard you down here on the street corner." I was just a young Baptist preacher. He said, "I've heard you on the street corner, preaching. I've heard you over yonder at the Baptist church preaching, in the Tabernacle and so forth." Said, "What does Christ mean to you now. Do you still love Him?"
I said, "Mr. Isler, if He sent me to hell, I'd still love Him." Why? It wasn't just something in my mind. Something happened down here. That's what I am talking about, brother, is love.


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