<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 And we have different things started off at that time, a child. Many habits in life we can think from that time.
The immoral woman, she might raise up to testify and say, "I was once as pure as a lily. My mother raised me to be a lady. My father was a godly man and my mother also. They taught me to go to Sunday school and to do what was right. And that I did years and years.
And finally, one time there was a young man visit our church. And I noticed that he--he was not just like the boys that were saved. But he was a nice-looking little fellow. And I went on a date with him, and he persuaded me to--to take a--a Coke one time. And it was--it had something in it, and when I come to myself I was--I was polluted. And from that time, I started the wrong road. See? From that time, that started it.
"We can go back and find the time I felt that my virtues of life were gone and what difference did it make now. And so, I just started running." See, from that time, it happened at a certain time.
The drunk man. The man that's an alcoholic...

L-19 Here not long ago, I was in New York City. Just for... I always make that the hopping off place. And--and I go to that arena there, where they do all that wrestling and fighting. And we rent that, because I have thousands of friends in New York, and they usually pack it out for a two or three nights meeting: Saint Nicholas arena, that's where it is.
And Dr. Burg and I were very good friends. So they had several missions down on the bowery. And I said, "Dr. Burg..."
I had... I was trying to get by without taking a yellow fever shot to go to Africa, and they wouldn't let me board the plane, so I had to wait over a couple days and go down at the Navy and get a yellow fever shot. They wouldn't accept me; it wouldn't let me come into the country without it.
So I--I said, "Let's go down to the bowery."
And he said, "Very well, Brother Branham." We walked down to the bowery and got off--or went to the bowery, rather, in a car and stopped and went down. And perhaps many of you has been down along the bowery, under the trestle.

L-20 And what caused me to do that, I was with a Swedish woman. I forget her name now, a godly old saint that was a friend to Sophia, the wash-woman. And who hasn't read of Sophia the wash-woman, and of--of New York. Led even the mayor of the city to Christ.
When A. B. Simpson died, the flowers that... they thought they'd lay some of the flowers from off of A. B. Simpson after he was taken out. They had so many they could not take them to the graveyard. And thought they'd send some over to old Sophia.
And when they got ready to preach her funeral, who come in but the mayor of the city and set down, Chief of Police. And they all got to testifying one to the other, how Sophia the wash-woman had led them to Christ.

L-21 And her partner, a Swedish or Norwegian woman, that was there staying in Mrs. Brown's home, was telling me about how she and Sophia worked the bowery. And it raised an enthusiasm. I wanted to go down and see what the bowery was.
So going down the street, we went into a little mission. And he introduced me to the pastor, and he said, "Brother Branham, could you speak for us tonight?"
I said, "No. I've--I--I'm going to wait. I've got a big service coming in Africa, where I probably have a hundred and fifty, two hundred thousand people waiting. So I better rest."
And he said, (talking about the alcoholics dying) he said last year from September until March, they taken one hundred and eighty dead ones out of the church, that died right during the service, of alcohol. And they dope... And I thought, "What caused it?"


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