<TITLE>09. Par 27-28</TITLE>L-27 And so the next morning, I come in and set down. A little T-shirt on, you know, and seersucker trousers. We, Baptists, we even wore a turned around collar, you know. So we--so we got up there, you know, on vacation, so I'm--I set down there, and I set down by a colored brother. Now, they had to have their meeting... That's been several years ago, and they had it up north in their convention. Two or three different denominations of Pentecostals was having their convention. I think they've emerged now, they's called PA of W, and a PA of JC, or I think it's called the United Pentecostal Church now. So then... I think that's right. So however, they... I was setting up--the back there, and I set down by a colored brother. And so this young fellow walked up the platform, and said, "The--that young minister was on the platform last night, his name is Branham. He was an evangelist, a Baptist. We want him to bring the message this morning."
Oh, my, I scooted down in the seat. I'd never been before a microphone in my life. And I--I didn't know what to do, and seersucker trousers and T-shirt. I just scooted down.
So in a few minutes, he announced it again, said, "Anybody on the outside, that young minister named William Branham." Said, "Tell him to come in. We want him to bring the message this morning." They sang another song and waited. I just hunkered way down.
And this colored brother said to me, "Do you know him?"
"Oh?" I said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "Go get him."
And I said, "Look, brother, come here. Hold over." I said, "I'm him."
"Oh, you is?"
I said, "Yeah, I'm him."
He said, "Well, go on up there."
I said, "T-shirt and seersucker trousers?"
He said, "Them people don't care what you dress like. Go on up there."
I said, "No. No." I said, "Sh-h-h-h, keep still. Don't say nothing about it." like that.
He said, "Anybody found William Branham?"
Said, "Here he is. Here he is. Here he is."
I felt so funny, little seersucker trousers on, and T-shirt. I did have enough hair to be bushed up a little then, you know, so I walked up the platform, and I thought, "What am I going to say. All these people so happy like that." And I never forget I took my text from over in Job. And I'm not... I beg your pardon, I took my text from over in Luke: The rich man lifted up his eyes in hell and then he cried. And I said, "There was no children there, then he cried."
Somebody said, "Amen."
I never heard that before, when I was preaching.
And said... I said, "There was no flowers there, then he cried. There was no God there, then he cried."
They started going, "Amen. Amen."
I kept saying, "No flowers, or no children there, no Christian's there. Then he cried, and then he cried." Then I cried. [Brother Branham laughs--Ed.]

L-28 Oh, God is wonderful. Isn't He? Renews our youth. He renews our youth like the eagle.
Now, the eagle is a great bird. I could stay on this till morning, just about the eagle.
One of the most saddest things I ever seen, I thought, in my life. I was at Cincinnati not long ago, about three or four years ago, and I took my children up there to see the zoo. And I--I had my little fellows, and I was leading them around, showing them the zoo, while mother was getting the dinner on the table, and we was having a Saturday afternoon outing. And I went down to a big cage. And there I saw something...
I always felt sorry for any animal was caged up. I can't even have a canary at my house. See? I don't like to see nothing penned up. No, sir. I don't like anything in bondage. I believe in freedom.
And I go to the zoo and see those lions walking the floor. And when I was in Africa, they gave me two little pet lions, and I could've brought them back, but I said, "If I'd..." Say, "What will I do with them?" Said, "Another... In a year they'll be great big fellows."
Said, "Put them in a zoo."
I said, "Turn them loose, right here on the desert." I won't never put anything in jail. I don't like anything in bondage.


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