<TITLE>08. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 And so I got my box... And when I got my box and went out, I seen Brother Wright coming down. He said, "Brother Branham, I've got to do some trading up on the hill here." Said, "If you want to, you can go up with me." I said, "All right. I just set my box down here--be a little bigger crowd time I get back." And I went up the hill, and we passed by a big, old, white church. I said, "What kind of a church is that?" He said, "That's an old Baptist church." Said, "The preacher got in some trouble and..." Said, "He turned to be a gangster and ravished some man's wife, and they shot him. And a whole lot of stuff went on." Said, "The pe--congregation is scattered." And said, "They don't have church any more."

L-23 Well, I started to go on around the church with him. And when I did something said, "Go over to that church." And I went over there, and he...
I said, "Let me stand here till you go on up the hill."
He said, "All right."
I said, "They're not having church here?"
"No."
I tried to open the door, and the door wouldn't come open. I said, "Heavenly Father, is there something about this church the reason You just called me? Is this church what's all wound up in the brush? Is this what You are hollering Milltown? If this is where you want me, open that door for me." I took hold the door; it wouldn't open. Well, I set down on the step.
And just about that time, some man come walking around the church. Said, "How do you do."
I said, "How do you do, sir."
He said, "Did you want in the church?"
And I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "I got the key." He opened the door.

L-24 I looked around in there; I said, "Who owns it?"
Said, "The city."
I said, "Wonder if they can have some meetings here?"
Said, "Go over to the quarry and ask them."
And I went over there and he said... I said, "I work for the Public Utilities; I'll put a meter in it. I'd like to have some services there."
Said, "Help your self, no rent on it at all. Just keep it up."
And I said, "Thank you, sir; I'll do that."
And I went over, and put me in a meter, started a revival. The first night there I gave out, "God is a... Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. God remains God." And Brother Hall... A man wrote a little piece in there... Or not Brother Hall; Brother Wright wrote a little piece in there and said, "Come, hear a little Billy Sunday." Well, that night I had a great congregation: Mr. Wright, his two daughters, and his son, a church that'll seat about five hundred. Well, I preached just as hard as I could.

L-25 The next night I had the same congregation. Right along about time I got ready to... Setting up behind the pulpit in the chair, I was going to call the church--the service to order, passed out the song books, had them laying all around, dusted it all out. Worked hard all day and come in and dusted it out. I started down along this song books--with these song books... Give Brother Wright one, rest of them one, went back and set down. About that time I heard something going [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit four times--Ed.] on the door. I looked and here come a fellow in.
Brother Wright said, "Oh, my." Said, "There's the biggest hypocrite and infidel there is in the country." And he knocked his old corn cob pipe out on the side of the house, walked in like that, one tooth was out, his hair hanging down in his eyes. Said, "Where is that guy called, little Billy Sunday?"
I walked back and I said, "Your name, sir?"
He said, "I'm Bill Hall, the florist up here."
I said, "Well, I'm Brother Branham."
He said, "Are you the little Billy Sunday?"
I said, "That was mistaken." I said, "No, I'm not a little Billy Sunday." I said, "Won't you come up here in front and set down?"
Said, "I'll be satisfied right back here."
I said, "All right, make yourself at home. Here's a song book."
Said, "I don't know how to sing."
I said, "Well, neither do we. But we'll make a joyful noise to the Lord."


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