<TITLE>16. Par 63-67</TITLE>L-63 Here sometime ago, I was having a meeting down in Florida. And I went down, and they had a tent up back there on some big place. And we had a great meeting. And there was about eight or ten thousand people attend the meeting. And one of the managers said to me, said, "Brother Branham," said, "the Duchess wants to see you."
I said, "The who?"
Said, "The Duchess."
I said, "What's that?"
Said, "The woman, the Duchess that owns all this property here your--your tent is setting on."
I said, "Well now, looky here at them poor sick people that wants to see me too."
"Oh," but said, "she is the Duchess."
I said, "Well, that--does that make her any different from somebody else?" See? Not a bit.
You know, we stick our nose up and like we--rain, it'd drowned us, and think we're somebody. And after all, we're only worth eighty-four cents in chemicals. That's all. You put a fifty dollar or a hundred dollar mink coat around eighty-four cents. You really take care of it. But you got a soul that's worth ten thousands worlds, and you'll poke anything down it. Yes.

L-64 I--when I was coming off the tent that evening, there was a great big heavy-set woman standing there, with enough jewels on her hand to sponsor a missionary ten times around the world. She said, "Are you Dr. Branham?"
I said, "No, ma'am." I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
She said, "I am charmed." And she had that big hand up here.
I said, "Get it down here, so I'll know you when I see you again," like that. I hate to see anybody put on dog, don't you? What they call dog.
And she had a pair of specks, she had them on a stick, ho... You know, nobody can see out like that, holding that glasses like that, looked, said, "Are you Dr. Branham?" That's just--that's trying to be something that you're not. You're not.

L-65 As Congressman Upshaw once said, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." Now, that was a congressman in the United States. Many of you know his testimony. They brought him to Los Angeles that time. He had been in a wheelchair for sixty-six years. I saw the vision go over the top of him. And I said, "Sir, Jesus Christ makes you whole." And he run to the platform, touching his feet back and forth. Congressman Upshaw, dear old saint of God. Knowed Winston Churchill, just like that I'd know one of my minister brothers and all of them. Went, testified about his healing to him and all this. And just a glorious old man, just went home to meet God at nearly ninety-something years old, a year or two ago.

L-66 Now, when... The other day I was going down the street with my wife. And there was a sister coming down the street, and we were driving along. And this sister said, "How do you do, Sister Branham?" I looked around, and I said, "Honey, that woman spoke to you."
And she said, "I spoke to her."
"Well," I said, "I'm sure she didn't hear you," I said, "'cause I'm setting not a foot from you, and I didn't hear you. So how is she going to hear you out there twenty feet on the street?"
And she said, "I smiled." A little old silly grin, I like that old--big old pump-handle handshake. Put it out here, you know, like that. Don't you like it? So you got a feeling in it. That's right.

L-67 Paul Rader said one time, said he was setting at the table, him and his wife got in a little argument. He started to go to work, and he always kissed her at the door, and said, "Bye, honey." Went on out and she'd wait, when he got at the gate, wave good bye, and he went on down the street.
Said that morning he had an argument. And so, little family spat... And so, he said he started down the street. And she said, "Bye," and waved at him at the gate, "Bye." And said he got to thinking, "She's such a good woman. What if she would die? What would I do? How would I do without her?"


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