<TITLE>23. Par 74-76</TITLE>L-74 They took that little boy, them old Christian daddies would've got around him and pushed his head down a little, it didn't get puffed up. That little boy was a preacher, not "Mama, you little Jesus born... Don't...?... What was the next mama?" No, no, that little boy took a text and handled it like a preacher. And if all of them would got around and not let him get puffed up in his head, he'd have won tens of thousands of little children to Christ. But no, each one of them had to have a little David.
There was Mrs. Willet and them down there, with all kinds of little Davids, and two pages to put little Davids. So he asked me if I'd come down; he's hung up. And I went down there, and they had some kind of duchess or... What is it? Is that right, duchess? Some kind of a woman, that duchess, I don't know what it means, but she was a great woman. And oh, thousands were around there to be prayed for. That's when Brother Bosworth came in. And...
Oh, somebody come to me, Brother Lindsay did, and said, "Brother Branham." I believe it was Brother Lindsay or Brother Moore, one, said, "The Duchess wants to see you."
I said, "The who?"
Said, "The Duchess."
I said, "Who's the Duchess and what is a duchess?"
And he said, "She's a great woman, some kind of great something, you know." And said, "She owns this ground out here."
I said, "See her and let these poor, sick people lay here? And about two thousand trying to get to me to be prayed for, me leaving this afternoon, and see a woman that's well and healthy and let them poor people lay there?" I said, "No, sir, I'll see these sick people if I got time to see another one."
"Oh," he said, "but Brother Branham, she'll be standing at the door when you walk out." Said, "It won't take much of your time. She just wants to meet you."
Well, I said, "All right."
And as I went out, here stood a great, big woman with enough jewelry on her hands to send a missionary around the world fifty times preaching the Gospel. And here she come, and she had a pair of specs on a stick. She had it held out like this.
And she said, "Hello." She said, "Are you Doctor Branham?"
I said, "No ma'am. No ma'am." I said, "I'm just Brother Branham."
And she said, "I am charmed to meet you," and held her hand way up like that.
I got a hold of that big, old, fat hand, and pulled it down, said, "Get it down here so I know you when I see you." I tried to get her... Oh, I tell you, brother, I... Oh, I never... What's the use of putting on what we call (excuse the expression), "Putting on the dog," when you're aren't nothing anyhow? Oh, if our American people can't put the dog on?

L-75 Brother Arganbright, I've got a good notion saying what we seen in Switzerland, bring--that woman, coming down there with all with all this ten-cent store jewelry. We was having a good time till Miss America come in, set a poodle dog on the table and I... Oh...
It's enough to make you sick. I didn't enjoy that steak that day too much, Brother Arganbright, down there in Lausanne. I never... It just makes you sick. Oh, she's Miss America, the cigarettes... The doctor must have told her to stay as far away from it as she could. She had it out like that. And a great, big stick out there, trying to put on the dog. Oh, I never seen such in my life. What of it?

L-76 I was passing through a museum not long ago, and they had the estimation of a man's body laying there. And it was just about enough whitewash to sprinkle a hen's nest. And the man weighs a hundred and fifty pounds. And just about enough calcium and potash... Anyhow, estimated altogether, a man weighing a hundred and fifty pounds, you know how much he's worth? Eighty four cents.
And you'll put a--a twenty dollar hat on eighty-four cents, a five hundred dollar mink coat on eighty-four cents. Turn your nose up in the air, if it'd rain, it'd drown you, trying to think you're somebody when you're not. You're nothing but eighty-four cents; that's all.


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