<TITLE>14. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 Now, the news kept spreading, till one day it got way down into Sheba. Now, that's a long ways down there. And caravans would come through, you know, and--and they would... As they come in every traveler coming through, 'course they would come in to see the heads of the nations. And this little nation had a queen over it, called the queen of Sheba, referred to here as the queen of the south because it was south of Palestine. The queen of the south, said come from the utmost parts of the earth. That was the ut--utmost parts of the known earth, in that day. She was all the way down across the Sahara desert. Measure it on your maps, long ways down there.
So, sh.... Finally the news broke to her. And everybody would come from Palestine would say, "Say, we just come through Palestine. You ought to see the unity of those people.  Their God has anointed a man. And that man does the signs of the living God, a sign that a man couldn't do. Their God must be a real God."
     You know faith cometh by... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
"But you should see the great Spirit upon him. I never seen such discernment. Oh, it's infallible, every time exactly the truth. You should see it. I never seen anything like it." She begin to hunger, begin to thirst.
Oh, I love that: thirsting. Oh, when you're thirsting, there's something about it. You can't talk to a man about water until he gets thirsty, but when he gets thirsty he's going to drink from somewhere; he's thirsty.

L-53 Here sometime ago I was reading in Psalms 63; David said, "Because thy loving-kindness is better to me than life, I will praise Thy Name."
I thought, "What did David mean?" Life, that's the greatest thing there is, so there must be different interpretations of life.
Now, some people thinks life is drinking and carousing and going around. But that kind of life has heartaches to it. It--it finally... There's no... That ain't the kind of life that David was talking about.
Now, sometimes that kind of a life will make you take a pistol, and blow your brains out, jump off a bridge and commit suicide. People think because... "Oh, if I could just make a million dollars that would really be life." No, that's death.

L-54 Here sometime ago I was with Brother Sothmann in a great church, the arena up in Canada, at a certain big city. And it was going pretty good till the Americans come up. And they come up there at some kind of a lodge. And that night when I got on the elevator coming home from the meeting, there was enough whiskey bottles on there to make a case or two of whiskey.
And I said to the little boy was taking me up I said, "What's that?"
He said, "They're from across the line up here." Said, "Some kind of a--a society is having a--some lodge is having their jubilee here." Said, "It's been horrible." Said, "Are you Brother Branham?"
I said, "I am." And I said, "Makes me kindly ashamed to be an American."
He said, "Well, they have it here too."
So I went on up and got off the elevator. And when I got off the elevator, I heard something up at the other end of the room, long hall in this big hotel. I looked up there, and here was two women coming down through there just about twenty-five, thirty years old, just with their underneath clothes on, and men pulling after them like that. They had a bottle of whiskey in their hand: and both of them with wedding bands on, their husband baby-sitting perhaps at home. Oh, they was just having a little clean fun. No wonder we're doomed. Maybe belonged to a Sunday school somewhere, or a Sunday school teacher.


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