<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 I've been going through some testings at home, and... And I've been called in to witness some things in a--for a trial. And they'd comb me over, and over, and over, till I was just so tired, till I--I... Looked like that the whole world was a poultice, pulling on top of my head.
I come home that morning and the wife said, "Well, how you doing?"
I said, "Honey, them things would drive a person out of their mind."
And so, I just set down to eat dinner, and--and the phone rang. We have an answering service, and this was the private phone at the parsonage. So just then it rang, and she went in, answered it. She put her hand over the phone, she said, "Billy, them attorneys again."
"Oh," I said, "Honey, I--I couldn't stand it another afternoon (about six or seven days of it then)." I said, "I just couldn't stand it." And I got up from the table and went out the door. I said, "Tell them I'm not in here now," and went around behind the house.
I felt real bad. And I come back. And my--my wife is a whole lot better woman than I am a man. So when she come to the door, looking at me, she said, "Was that just exactly right, Billy?"
I said, "Sure." I knowed it wasn't already. But I wanted to make her think that my story would stick, so I said, "Yeah, I wasn't in here, just then."
She said, "But you were in here when they called."
I said, "Oh, it's all right."

L-6 And I went on out. There was one waiting, a man with a sick baby. All the way down to pray for that baby, my... I--I--I just felt awful. Then when I got down there to pray for the baby, Something said to me, "Why, you are a liar. And you mean that you're going to lay your hands upon this baby? This man's come for about four hundred miles for you to pray for this sick baby, and--and you just told a lie and had your wife to tell one." Then our hearts condemn us. You see? That was wrong.
So I said to the man, I said, "Mister, if you'll just hold your place, I'll pray for your baby. But I'm not worthy to pray for your baby," I said, "because I've got something to make right before I pray for your baby." I said, "I done something that's wrong, and--and my heart's condemning me. And I've got to go make it right first."

L-7 And I took out down to the attorney's office, and knocked on his door, and he come to the door, said, "I thought you were gone."
I said, "I was only gone around behind the house while you were calling." And I said, "Sir, I tell you what I did." And I explained it to him. I said, "You all had me in such a fix," I said, "I--I--I just didn't know. You questioned me this way, 'Did they do this?' or, 'Did you see this?'" And I said, "I--I told you everything I knew, over and over and over." But I said... I told him I went to pray for a sick baby, and what happened.
And he said... walked... Got up out of his--the seat and walked around behind his desk, looking me right in the eye, put his hand over on my shoulder, reached down got my other hand, he said, "Brother Branham, I always had confidence in you, but I got more than ever now."


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