<TITLE>10. Par 37-42</TITLE>L-37 And just then, the milkman come up, and he was looking at her, all of us standing around. And a opossum and a kangaroo is the only two animals that have a pocket to carry their young in. So the old opossum had let down her string that held the--the pocket together, and nine little baby opossums, naked, about that long has crawling on the ground. I said, "Look at that. Now, come here, Leo, Gene." I said, "There is real mother's love. There's really more mother about this old opossum than there is about that woman that drowned her baby. She doesn't have over thirty minutes longer to live, and she's willing to give that thirty minutes to fight for them babies. It's mother's love that's in her, that makes her do it."

L-38 And while we were looking at it, Mrs. Wood said, "Brother Branham, what are you going to do with it?" Said, "Won't you--you kill her now." And said, "Take them little ones and just kill them quickly, because they got a round mouth and they can't nurse a bottle. So you'll have to kill them."
I said, "I just can't do it."
"Why," Mrs. Wood said, "I... Go and get you a gun and kill it." Said, "I thought you was a hunter."
I said, "I'm a hunter, but I'm not a killer." I said, "I--I just couldn't do it. That's a mother, and she's fighting for her babies. I haven't got the heart to do it."
She said, "Well, let Banks do it (that's her husband).
I said, "No, I can't do that."
Said, "You don't mean you're going to let that poor thing lay there and suffer." The woman was right in her way of thinking. Said... Being a veterinarian, she knowed the humane thing to do was kill them.
And I said, "That's right, Mrs. Wood, but I just can't do it."
She said, "You going to let her lay there like that?"
I said, "Yes."

L-39 And I let the rake up and she made her way up to my doorstep and collapsed. We went up there and poured water on her. Every once in a while she looked like she grinned just a little; how the opossum does make the grin.

L-40 That night after long days of service, Mr. Wood said, "Brother Branham, you, service long enough today," said, "let's go out and take a ride." Coming in that night at eleven o'clock, there laid the old opossum, still laying there. He said, "Now, you know if she'd have ever moved any more, she'd move when the sun went down." Those little babies still nursing that almost dead mother...
All night I couldn't sleep.

L-41 The next morning I went out about six o'clock, there was the old opossum still laying there, dew all over it, flies all over the leg. Well, I thought, "That poor old thing, and I can't kill her," those little babies still nursing at her. I thought, "Suppose she's dead." And I kicked on her a few times with my foot; I seen her move just a little; she's still alive. I thought, "Oh, my."
And just then I heard my little girl, Rebekah, here. She's going to be a spiritual little girl. She just saw her first vision, recently, in school. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-42 Quiet just a moment. I'm going to do something that or try something, if God willing. I'm going to ask Him... I'm going to ask you people tonight... I told Billy not to give out any prayer cards. We already got prayer cards out, not to give out any more tonight, which we usually do. But I'm going to ask those who's got prayer cards just hold your peace for a minute.


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