<TITLE>15. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 And women in them days are not like they are now, you know. They--they run and throwed their arms around one another and hugged one another. You know, I like friendliness, don't you? I just hate to see this little old silly stuff, this 1960 version of friendliness. Oh, my, there's not enough of it. Now, you that's southerners down here don't notice so bad, but up there, oh, my! I went to my uncle here not long ago in New York. He'd been living in one house twenty years, and his neighbor as close as that Texas flag there, to him. I said, "Who lives there?"
He said, "I don't know."
I said, "You've fallen from grace." I said, "How long has he lived there?"
Said, "He was there when I come here." You don't know your neighbor's dead till you read it in the paper. That's right. No friendliness.

L-46 Here not long ago, Brother Moore and I, and Brother Brown went down to see a little boy named David, a few years ago down here in Cal... or, Florida, they had us out there. And Brother Hukstra, I believe it was, told me, said, "The Duchess wants to see you."
And I said, "The who?"
Said, "The Duchess."
I said, "What's that?"
And said, "It's the woman that owns all this property." Said, "She's wealthy."
"Well," I said, "I can't see her. There's too many sick people."
Said, "But she's the Duchess."
I said, "That don't make her any different from anybody else."
So he said... Well, they had her there when I went out. And when I went out... I'm not... God forgive me if you think I'm making fun of the woman. I'm not. But she had enough jewels on her hands to send a missionary around the world ten times with the gospel. That's right. Standing out there... And she had on a pair of "specs." She didn't have them on, but she had them on a stick holding it out like this. Great big, old, fat lady. And she come out. I walked out the tent. And I said, "I ain't got time to see her. If I got any time left, let me see them sick people out there," see.

L-47 And said, "But she lets you have the grounds."
I said, "Well, that's all right. If she let David have the ground, and we appreciate that. But she's all right, nothing wrong with her. Let me see these people down here." Well, they wanted me to see her, so when I went out.
She said, "Are you Dr. Branham?"
I said, "No, ma'am." I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
She said... Now, you know nobody can look through a pair of "specs" that far away from you. And she looked over like this, she said, "Well, Dr. Branham," she said, "I'm charmed."
I reached up and looked at that hand (Held out her hand to shake hands.). Well, I thought I'd be a gentleman. I got a hold of her big hand and pulled it down. I said, "Get down here so I'll know you next time I see you," like that. Oh, I like something feeling!


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