<TITLE>11. Par 71-72</TITLE>L-71 But then... And the other man said, "Mr. Branham," he said, "we find here, let me show you that we know where every penny that you spent is."
I said, "All right."
He said, "Here is a place where you was having a meeting in Canada, in Alberta; and in there you was given a love offering of three thousand dollars."
I said, "Yes, sir."
And said, "The following--Sunday previous, rather to that, you went out and found where there was an old church, and they were worshipping in this church and had no roof on it, and you give that three thousand dollars to them people to build a church."
I said, "That's right."
Said, "But you owe income tax on it." Said, "You gave it to the church." Said, "See, it was yours before it was the church's." He said, "Isn't it the truth, that a certain man (and I won't call his name, 'cause many of you know him), his house burnt down here in the country, and you coming off your meeting and you had fifteen hundred dollars (Now, that may sound a whole lot of money to one of you all, but that's just fifteen days for me to loaf or rest, costs me over a hundred dollars a day whether I preach or whether I don't to take care of the office and things.)..." and said, "You had fifteen hundred dollars, and that man was--house burnt down, he had about six children, and you gave him that fifteen hundred dollars." Sure, they had my check laying here.
I said, "That's right." I said, "What would you do: a man with five children living in a tent and it zero weather and snow on the ground? You think I could set a decent house and know that that man and them little children out there freezing, and coats tucked around them--with money could've helped him?"
71a      He said, "Isn't it true that a man died in a alley up here, and he come from Kentucky; he didn't even have money for his funeral service, and you buried the man, and you and your wife took money and went down to J. C. Penney's (pulled it out, the check)," said; "you spent over two hundred dollars just for clothes for those children."
I said, "That's right."
He said, "Isn't it a fact that an old woman right here in this certain city (that lives in then New Albany)," and said, "you gave her three hundred and something dollars to pay a back grocery bill that they'd cut her off on, and you paid nearly five hundred dollars for her rent that they was going to set her out in the winter, and you've paid up her--her rent till the following June, and also stood good for her grocery bill which mounted up to fourteen or fifteen hundred dollars again?"
I said, "I remember the case well, an old mother, eighty years old with a afflicted daughter and a preacher boy in Georgia afflicted by rheumatism, and laying on a bed and no other support." (What would you do about it?) I said, "Yes, I did."
Said, "Did your trustee board know this?"
I said, "No, sir, they didn't."
"Did your wife know this?" I said, "No, sir, she didn't."
Said, "Then why did you do it?"
I said, "Because my Lord said, 'Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.'" I said, "Have you got any law higher than God's laws?"

L-72 And just then the Holy Spirit came to the rescue so beautifully the way He does it. You say things subconsciously not knowing you're saying it if you just let the Holy Spirit do the talking. I said, "Well, well, if--if you claim that I owe that," I said, "I'll do the best I can..." I said, "I'm no boy no more, but I'll do my best to pay it." I said, "Don't owe anybody anything as I know of." I've tried to be honest; I went thousands of dollars in debt and paid it back at a dollar a week, but by God's grace I've got it paid. I said, "If you claim and prove to me that I owe that money that I give those people..." And they went ahead to show where there was nearly twenty thousand dollars in the last ten years I give away like that.
And he said, "The trustees knowed nothing about this."
I said, "It wasn't necessary for them to know it."
And so he said, "Well..." Then he said...


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