<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>61-1112, A True Sign That's Overlooked, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 147 min
L-1 Assemble this morning in the Name of the Lord Jesus... And after praying much and... This morning I didn't get up early. I was kinda late getting up. And I suppose everybody knows why that is just now.
I come home the other morning--or the other night, and my neighbor was standing in the yard, he and his little daughter. His wife is a nurse in the maternity room out at the hospital. So he had a--a cane in his hand about this long with a little citation on it, some ribbon, and a little thing, said, "Grandfather Branham, as of, I believe about, 3:40, 3:00 or 4:43, October the 11th!" Then great big parenthesis at the bottom said, "You're older than you think!" So I have legal rights now to rest a little longer mornings. Is that right, Brother Wright, when you--when you become a grandpa?

L-3 And so I guess that kinda excuses me then, Sister Kidd, this morning for not being up when you come by from Ohio. I sure feel about ten years older I think though, after that. But as you all know that I have a little grandson out there about seven or eight pounds, something like that, the ugliest little kid I ever seen. Said he looks just like his grandfather, so... And...?... sister, I was just seeing where he went, where Billy went. So...

L-4 Last night coming down the hall after making my calls, I met a group of loyal friends from Georgia and around, and we was all out there looking at the little fellows. And they are cute, now they're just... I always felt something like Billy; you're afraid you're going to break them, you know, they're so little. And I believe it was Sister Beeler said... I used to think..." She used to think that also, but--after she found out they didn't break so easy. So I think that's about right.

L-5 Yesterday afternoon I had the privilege of being down to one of our sister's homes here of the church, her daughter's home (and I think she also is here at the church), where they had a little birthday dinner for Brother Neville. And he had another milepost he passed yesterday. And so we're--say to Brother Neville, a "Real happy birthday," every one of us, because he's a very fine brother. And 'course, he just passed twenty-five a little bit, and so--just like me, and so... We just passed the second time. That's when... Now, that's getting to be an old man when you go to passing that mark the second time, you know.

L-6 I remember the morning that Frankie Weber come up here. And lives next door neighbor to us here--his daughter lives there now; he's in Florida. And Frankie and I went to school together, and Frankie put in his birthday offering. And I'd been preaching then about three or four years. I led Frankie to the Lord Jesus. And he put in a quarter. I think I was twenty-two. And he put in a quarter; I thought "Oh, my, do you mean to tell me that Frankie Weber's twenty-five years old? Whew! My, I dread the time when I get twenty-five." Now, I'm fixing to put in three of them, so then--pretty soon, so it--it just don't take it long to pass.
When I look over here and see Brother and Sister Kidd in their eighties and still going strong, I think, "Lord Jesus, forgive me for complaining at fifty-two, and them..." You're eighty and Brother Kidd's eighty-one, is that right? Eighty-one. And they're still in the ministry. I tell you; that gives us courage, doesn't it? Certainly does. The Lord is certainly good to us.


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