<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 And one of the fenders on the left side hit one little boy right in between the eyes like that, and threw him over, and smashed him into the tree, and concussion of the brain and broke his bones up. And the other one, it run right straight over the top of him, like that. Went over, and it throwed him, where the back wheel hit him, all the way across the road into the grass flat. The car went over the hill, and smashed into a bunch of rocks, and turned over.
We arrived at the scene, there'd been a--a someone else a...?... that had got there before us and took the little boy that was breathing, taken him to the hospital. And the chief man of the city (which is equivalent to a mayor of the city.), he was there, the doctor had gotten there, and... But the law in Finland, that they couldn't move this child now, until the parents come. So they'd gone on horseback or carriage to the field to find the child's parents, to bring them in.

L-10 And well, we stopped. Brother Gordon Lindsay, Brother Hall's brother-in-law, was along, Brother Ern Baxter, and Brother Jack Moore, and several of the brethren; and we stopped. And Mrs. Isaacson; she may be right in this meeting tonight; she lives out in here somewhere. Are you here, Sister Isaacson? She was my Finnish interpreter.
And so, they got out of the car to look at the little boy and come back. We'd seen an accident had happened. They come back and they said... I said, "What was it?"
They said, "Oh, come out and look, Brother Branham. It's a little boy was killed. There was another one killed too; they done--they done taken him to the hospital."
I said, "Oh, I don't want to go." I said, "I'd think of my own little boy, Billy Paul." And he was just a lad, and I hadn't seen him for months. And as you all know, his mother's dead, and I've been both mother and father to him. In fact, we've been chums together. She asked me to never leave Billy when she was dying, and I... He's--he's been my chum ever since.

L-11 And I--I--I didn't want to look at the little boy. It'd just bring... He'd be about Billy's age then, about nine, ten years old. And you that all remember how I told you the little boy would look: He kinda had one of those crop hair cuts and brown eyes. And he was little... wearing them what we used to call in my days "little panty waist" like, and then his--his long stockings, and his foot would be mashed through his stockings, and his... He'd be killed in an accident.
Well, I didn't go over, and Mrs. Isaacson said, "I believe you should go over."
Went to look and the little boy... I went over there and they had his coat over his face. When I see that poor little fellow laying there mashed up like that, I just--just started weeping. I turned around and something laid his hand on. I thought it was Brother Moore. And I looked around, and there was nobody around me, and that hand was still laying on my shoulder. Well, I said, "That's strange." And the hand left away from me.
I don't know whether you believe in--all of you believe in supernatural things or not, but it happened just the same. And I started to move again, and the hand laid back on my shoulder again. I thought, "Well, I wonder what this means. Maybe I'm supposed to pray for this little lad." And I thought, "Well..."


<A HREF="P4">Next Page</A>