<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 And so a... I--I--I come to. And I could hear somebody saying, "Brother Branham," or "Brother Bill, oh, Brother Bill..." And my mother was calling me. And I thought, "I here one, one way a..." coming out of that vision you know, kindly droggy, and I said, "What do you want, Mom?" And in the next room where she was sleeping, and she said, "There's somebody knocking at your door." And I heard it, "Brother Bill..."
And I opened the door. It was a man stepped in. His name was John Emmel. He lives in Miami, Florida, now. And he said, "Brother Bill, you don't remember me."
I said, "No, I don't believe I do."
Said, "You baptized me and my family," but said, "I took a road that's wrong." He said, "I killed a man, here some time ago, hit him with my fist and broke his neck in a fight." Said, "I've lost one of my little boys, the oldest one." And said, "The youngest one is laying home, dying now." And said, "The doctor of the city here, had just left and said, 'The child has double pneumonia' and it just barely can get its breath." And said, "I--I--I--I just... You come on my heart, and wonder if you'd come and have prayer with it." And said, "Now, as you know, I'm a cousin to Graham Snelling." (Which, Graham Snelling, the Reverend Graham Snelling now, had not become a minister at that time--a nice Christian boy.) He said, "He's my cousin. I'm going down to get him (which lived about a half a mile from me, down in the city). And said, "I'm going down to get him. And will you go up?"

L-16 I said, "Yes, Mr. Emmel, soon as I put my clothes on."
And so he said, "I'll take my car and take you up."
And I said, "All right."
Said, "Soon as I get Graham. And I want you all to pray for the baby."
And I said, "All right."
So then I went to getting ready and mother said, "What was the matter?"
I said, "There's a little baby to be healed."
And so she said, "Healed?"
And I said, "Yes, mother." And so I said, "I'll tell more about it when I come back,"
So in a few moments he knocked at the door, and Brother Graham was with him. We was going up here to what we know as the boat-yard now, which was the old Howard Shipyard, at the time.
I said, "Mr. Emmel, do you--where do you live at now?"
He said, "In above Utica."
I said, "You live in a little a--what we call shotgun house, little two room."
"Yes, sir."
"Sets on a hill."
"Yes, sir," he said.
And I said, "Your--your baseboard here, is made out of tongue and groove and it's painted red."
He said, "That's right."

L-17 I said, "The little baby is laying in a iron poster bed, and he does have in the house, at least, a pair of blue corduroy overalls."
Says, "He has them on."
And I said, "And the baby is teeny fellow, about three years old, and he's also got a little teeny mouth, little bitty thin lips, and he's got light brown hair."
He said, "That's the truth."
I said, "Mrs. Emmel is a black-headed woman. And in this room you have a red duofold and a red chair."
He said, "Was you ever there, Brother Branham?"
And I said, "Just awhile ago."
"Awhile ago?" he said.
I said, "Yes."
"Why," he said, "I never seen you!"
I said, "No, it was spiritually." I said, "Mr. Emmel, you've heard me tell, if I baptized you, of things that happens to me. I see things before it happens."
He said, "Yeah. Did something like that happen to you, Brother Branham?"
I said, "Yes, and Mr. Emmel, ever what It was that told me, has never told me a lie. Your baby's going to be healed when I get there."
And he stopped the car, fell over the wheel, said, "God, be merciful to me. Take me back, Oh, Lord. (See?) And I promise You to live for You the rest of my days, if You're going to spare my baby's life." And there he gave his heart to Christ.


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