<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 She went over, and stroked his head, kissed him, and said, "God bless mammy's baby." Great big fellow like that, dying in shame and sin, yet that mother's love went... He was still a baby to her. No matter how much disgrace he was, and how he disgraced the family, it was still that love of the mother went out for her baby.
I think of that sometimes and think, "If a mother could forget her suckling babe," but God said, "I can't forget you. Your names are engraved on the palms of My hand."
So backslider, tonight, remember, you can't get away from it. He still loves you. That's why you're here tonight. He's trying to give you another chance, knocking at your door.

L-30 I got down in the floor to pray. She got down by the side of his head, and I got down by his feet. And I touched his feet. It seemed like it was cold, sticky. Certainly, death was on the boy. And I said, "Auntie, being that you are the mother of the boy, won't you pray first?"
She said, "Certainly, Parson." She bowed her head. And you talk about a prayer, you could tell it wasn't learned in some school; it come from the bottom of her heart. Speaking to God, you could tell she'd talked to Him before. She knew what she was speaking about. And when she got through praying, she wiped her eyes with the old apron she had on, and she looked over at me.

L-31 I said, "I will pray now, Auntie." I put my hands over on his feet. I said, "Lord, I don't know what to say. Is this why You made me miss my airplane to come down here to pray for this woman's boy? If it is, O Lord, let it be known that You're God and You'll respect her prayers and her sincerity."
And about that time, that big fellow said, "Oh, mama." Said, "It's getting da--light in the room now. The darkness is going away." In a few minutes he was setting on the side of the bed talking to us.
I rushed out quickly, thumbed a cab, went to the airport. And when I got into the gate, they was making the last call for that plane. God had held that plane on the ground by the faith of illi--a woman that probably didn't know her ABC's, some poor dark colored woman, ignorant as we would call it. God grounded that plane, and held it there until her prayer was answered. He's the same God tonight that He was then.

L-32 About two years after that, I was going to Phoenix on the train. I was going through Memphis. I'd never heard of them any more. And if anyone's ever been in Memphis, the train coming from the East pulls into the station like this, and is going to make a twenty minute stop. I wanted to get some sandwiches, they ch--cost you too much on the train. About forty cents for a little bitty sandwich, I can get a sack full of hamburgers almost for that, and I just keep them in the train with me, and eat them as I went along as I got hungry.
So I jumped off to get me a sack full of hamburgers. And I started walking real fast, and I heard someone say, "Hello there, Parson Branham."
I looked over there, and a little old red cap standing there you know, and batting his eyes, come running over to me. I said, "How do you do, young man?"
Said, "You don't know me, do you?"
"I don't believe I do."
Said, "About two years ago, one morning you come down to my house."
I said, "You're not that boy."
He said, "Yes I am." He said, "I's a Christian now, serving the Lord."


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