<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 If anyone knows what it means to be in the mountains when fog comes, you just have to house in. You don't know where you're going. I knew I had to get back; she'd never been in the woods. And I started hurrying. And I walked and walked up a little stream. And I said I know now that this stream, where it makes the bend, that's where I cross over, and go down on the other side, and I knew how to come out. Well, I thought, "Looks like I ought to be that bend." And I stopped, and I begin to perspire. And I was standing right by the side of my deer again. I'd come right back around to it. I did that three times. Now, the indian calls that the death walk. He's walking a circle, but where do you go out. Well, I seen I was lost, but I didn't want to admit it.
That's the way human beings are; they don't want to admit they're wrong. There's no doubt men and women in this building tonight, or out in radio-land that's not right with God, but you don't want to admit it. You're covering it up by going to church, or saying some kind of a prayer or a creed. That isn't getting right with God. Being borned again, becoming a son or a daughter of God, that's God's requirements. Be right with Him.

L-21 Then I walked farther, and I said, "Oh, I'm too good a woodsman to be lost." I said, "Now, Bill Branham, you just come to yourself. You're foolish. You know how to get out of here. Go on." And it was so foggy; I couldn't see nothing. And I started walking.
And after a while, I kept hearing a Word, "I'm a very present help in the time of trouble." I walked a little further, and it got so that I could hear It speaking out, "The Lord is a very present help in a time of trouble."
Well, I thought... I knelt down and I said, "Lord, I'm admitting that I am lost. I'm not worthy to live. But my wife and Billy, a little suckling baby, they're worthy of living, Lord. Don't let them perish."
And I prayed, and I got up, and I said, "Well now, I will have to choose the best that I know how." So, I started walking straight ahead. Thought, "I'm going right--st--exactly right. The wind's in my face."

L-22 And just then it seemed that a hand laid on my shoulder. And I turned to see who it was touched me. And I looked up, and a little place cleared in the skies, and I saw Hurricane mountain and the ranger's tower where I was going to. Oh, what a feeling. He's a very present help in the time of trouble.
Be right with Him now. But when death, or sickness, or whatever it is strikes you, then He's a present help.
I never forget. I pointed my hands straight towards the--the way I was going. If I'd have went the way my choice was, I'd have went into Canada. But I was... went this a way, to my right where He turned me around. And I held up my hands.

L-23 It started getting darker. I walked for about three hours, almost dark. And then it got dark. I couldn't have seen the tower line that run from the tower down to the lean-to, about six miles. And I knew I was on Hurricane Mountain. I couldn't change my course, run up over the slabs. Oh, it's a rough road when you're trying to go right sometimes. But it's right; it's the only way out. I walked. After it got dark, I held up my hands until they felt like they were going to drop. Oh, they were cold, and the snow a blowing. And I thought, "If I could only touch that line." So dark... And I'd stop and I rested my hands a moment, keep my directions set right. Then raise my hands and start again.
You'll never know how I felt when my hand touched that line. I knowed I could hold onto that line. I helped put it up there that spring. I could hold onto that line. And right at the end of the road of that line where it stopped, waited my loved ones. That was a great thing.


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