<TITLE>28. Par 287-299</TITLE>L-287 Said, "Well, they won't take this one, this one's paid for." She said, "Sit down just a minute, I want to talk to you."
And I said, "Honey, I don't understand this."

L-288 And she said, "Promise me, Billy, promise me that you won't worry anymore. You're going back now." And said, "Promise me you won't worry."
And I said, "I can't do that, Hope."

L-289   And just then I come to, it was dark in the room. I looked around, and I felt her arm around me. I said, "Hope, are you here in the room?"

L-290 She started patting me. She said, "You going to make me that promise, Bill? Promise me you won't marry... worry no more."
I said, "I promise you."

L-291 And when then she patted me two or three times, and she was gone. I jumped up and turned on the light, looked everywhere, she was gone. But she just gone out of the room. She isn't gone, she's still living. She was a Christian.

L-292   Billy and I went to the grave here sometime ago, packing a little flower for his mother and sister, just on an Easter morning, and we stopped. The little fellow started crying, he said, "Daddy, my mommy's down there."

L-293 I said, "No, honey. No, she ain't down there. Sister ain't down there. We got a folded over grave here, but way across the sea there's an open grave where Jesus rose. And someday He'll come, He'll bring Sister and Mama with Him."

L-294 I'm on the battlefield today, friends. I--I just can't tell any more. I... [Brother Branham weeps--Ed.] God bless you. Let's bow our heads a minute.

L-295   O Lord! Many times, Lord, I'm sure people don't understand, when they think these things come easy. But there's a great day coming when Jesus shall come and all these sorrows will be wiped away. I pray, Heavenly Father, that You'll help us to be prepared.

L-296 And that last promise, when I kissed her on the cheek that morning, that I'd meet her there that day. I believe she'll be standing at that post, screaming my name. I've lived true to that promise since, Lord, around the world, in all kinds of places, trying to bring the Gospel. Getting old now, and tired, I'm wore out. One of these days I'm going to close this Bible for the last time. And, God, keep me faithful to the promise. Keep Your grace around me, Lord. Let me not look at the things of this life, but live for the things that's beyond. Help me to be honest. I don't ask for a flower bed of ease, no, Lord, when my Christ died there under suffering. And all the rest of them died like that. I don't ask for any easy thing. Just let me be honest, Lord, truthful. Let people love me so I can lead them to Thee. And someday when it's all over and we gather around under the evergreen trees, I want to get her by the hand and walk her up, to show the people of Angelus Temple and all the others. It'll be a great time then.

L-297 I pray that Your mercies rest upon each of us here. And those who are here, Lord, may not even know You. And maybe they've got some little loved one across the sea yonder. If they've never fulfilled their promise, may they do it now, Lord.

L-298   While we have our heads bowed, I wonder in this great huge auditorium this afternoon, how many of you say "Brother Branham, I want to meet my loved ones, too. I--I--I've got some loved ones just across the river yonder"? Maybe you made a promise that you'd meet them, maybe when you told Mother "good-bye" up there at the grave that day, maybe when you told little Sister "good-bye," or Dad, or some of them at the grave, promised you'd meet them, and you--you've never made that preparation yet. Don't you think it's a good time now to do it?

L-299 Excuse my breaking down. But, oh, my, you don't realize, friend. You don't know what--what sacrifice! That's not a spot, hardly, of the life story.


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