<TITLE>15. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 "Oh, I stand at the door and knock." [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit--Ed.] That's the age He would stand and knock. "If you'll just open and let Me come in and take control, I'll clothe you with pure linen." Oh, the righteousness of the Holy Spirit, "I'll clothe you. I'll take all the shame away from you. I'll put your name in the Lamb's Book of Life. I'll give you Eternal Life."
Oh, you'll be hated by the world, certainly. "All that live godly in Christ Jesus," says the Bible, "shall suffer persecutions. I'll make you what you ought to be."

L-50 And remember, the Bible said they were blind--blind. Oh, there's so many blind people today. He said, "I counsel of thee to come and buy from Me salve, that I might put on your eyes so that you can see, some eyesalve." That eye salve is the Holy Spirit.
I was raised in Kentucky and my... We lived in a little, old log cabin, that had--made out of logs and the chinked up with mud. And a lot of that had dropped out, because it was old. And we had clapboard shingles on top of the house. And they were put on at the time in the light of the moon, and the singles had drawed up like this. And the rain would blow in, the snow would blow in. And just had two rooms, no floor in it, just the earth...
And I remember Papa had made a--a bench for us little boys to set behind the--the block table, that had been sawed out of a piece of a log with sticks under it to support. And the little, old step stove in there... Mama had an old trunk setting up on two pieces of a--a log, had little dents in it, an old cabinet the same way. And that, a couple of beds, that's all we had.

L-51 And us little boys had to sleep up in the loft. And there was a... They had two poles cut down with some saplings nailed across it. And up there, there was a--an old straw tick. And on this straw tick was a feather tick.
Then Mom would come up there at night and put all the blankets she had on us and the coats. And then over the top of that she'd put a piece of canvas, because if it rained, we could get under this canvas. If it snowed, keep it out of our faces.
And these three little Branhams laying up there, the wind blowing through those shingles at night, maybe, we would get cold. We'd get cold in our eyes. And the next morning, Mama would call us; she'd say, "Billy, come down."
And I'd try to open my eyes; I couldn't do it. And I'd punch my brother, Edward; I called him Humpy. I said, "Can you go down?"
He said, "My eyes are sticked together too."
Then we'd punch Melvin, see if he'd go down. "No, my eyes is sticking together too."
We'd caught cold, Mama told us, through the night. And I said, "Mama, I--I--I can't come down."
She said, "What's the matter, Billy?"
I said, "You know, my eyes is full of matter."
She called it matter; I don't know what it was; it's cold. And she said, "Your eyes is full of matter?"
She said, "Well, just wait a minute, honey."

L-52 Now, my--my mother's a half-Indian. Her father was one of the greatest hunters that I ever knowed of. And he used to hunt, and he would trap these raccoons and sell them. And, you know, when he'd get those coons, they'd be fat. And so he'd render out the grease. And coon grease was the cure-all at our house. That's all we had for medicine way back there.
I wonder how many in here, ever set by a grease candle, a little piece of yarn in a... Sure. How many ever burn a pine knot for... Well, that's the way we had to do it.
And if the neighbor's fire went out, we'd take fire from our own fireplace and go over and help make... No matches or nothing. You had to start it with a piece of flint or something, pack fire one for another... And I remember that they used to do that many, many times on a shovel and go way down the road to the neighbors. And when... We had it hard in them days.


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