<TITLE>08. Par 32-33</TITLE>L-32 I was down in Florida some years ago, and we were having a great meeting in a tent out there at the Flagler Dog Track, or out that way on Flagler Street. And there'd been a little boy had been down there, a little preacher, David had... down there in the tent. And he'd asked me to come down and help him; he'd got in a little trouble. And I went down to see if I could help the little fellow. And the people were crowded so much in there, that I could hardly get in and out without three or four people around to help push me in. And sick people laying...
That's where Brother Bosworth come into the ministry. He said, "That's what I've prayed for since I was a boy."
When he seen the Holy Spirit go out in a meeting, and say, "You setting out there, you're a man that been throwed on a horse a few years before that, and his arm broke up." Said, "You was riding on a horse Sunday afternoon, racing. You run a fruit market down here. The horse throwed you, and you've never moved your arm since."
And he said, "That's right."
Said, "Straighten out your arm, Jesus Christ makes you whole." And there went his arm straight.
Old Brother Bosworth run up there, and said, "That's what I've looked for! Oh," he said, "I've watched the Scriptures for that." Certainly.
Then at that meeting, they said, "Brother Branham, the duchess wants to see you."
I said, "The what?"
Said, "The duchess."
I said, "I--I don't know what you're talking about."
And he said, "Well, it's a great woman; she's a duchess." And said, "She's right back behind the tent here."
I said, "Well, why see her? And what about all these sick people laying out here?"
And she... They said, "Oh, but she owns this whole thing through here."
I said, "Well, my Father owns all this whole thing across here. See?" I said, "Why--why see her?"
I said, "That's His children laying out there sick, and He sent me here to pray for them. If I can see anybody, let me see them."

L-33 So when I went out, they had a woman standing there, whether you said so or not, great big woman, had enough diamonds on her hand to send the missionaries around the world fifty times. You never seen so much gold and stuff. And the woman had a--a glass in her hand, had a--had specs on the end of them, her stick. She held out like this, and looked down through there. Now, you know that any common sense would tell you, you're not going to see through a glass out like that, holding out like that.
And she said, "Are you Dr. Branham?"
I said, "No, ma'am, I'm not."
She said, "Well, I was told that you were Dr. Branham, the Divine healer."
I said, "No, ma'am, I'm Brother Branham, the servant of Christ."
And she said, "Well, I am charmed," or "delighted" or something like that, with her hand up like this.
I looked at her a little bit, and I thought, "That's the funniest... We don't shake hands like that in Kentucky."
So I--I seen she wanted to shake hands with me, so I reached up and got a hold of her hand. I said, "Well, get it down here so I'll know you when I see you again." See? See?
What is it? It's somebody trying to act something that they're not. That's just exactly... It's a lot of put-on and has no meaning to it at all. She was no more then six foot of dirt, like the rest of us. That's just exactly it, but trying to be something. You see?


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