<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>62-0121E, The Marriage Of The Lamb, Fellowship Tabernacle, Phoenix, AZ, 122 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Edward. The Lord bless you. Good evening, friends. It certainly is a privilege again tonight to be here in Fellowship Tabernacle. When I passed by this afternoon, and looked at where it was at, and I seen the word "Fellowship," that suited me just right. I like that, Brother Edward, "Fellowship." That's what we believe in.
An old friend of mine, which has just gone home to be with the Lord... Many of you might've knowed him: Dr. F. F. Bosworth. Many of you... He was here in Phoenix, I believe, with me one time, a very gallant soul. And he was--had a--he was a sainted old man, but had a sense of humor. And he said to me once; he said... I kept talking about fellowship.
And he said, "Brother Branham, you know what fellowship is?"
And I said, "Well, I think so, Brother Bosworth."
He said, "It's two fellows in one ship."
And so that's... And that's about right, sharing room with each other.

L-2 And I seen many of you put up your hands of knowing Brother Bosworth. Being that you knew him, I'd just like to speak a word of his last moments here on earth. I'd knowed him for some time. And he was out here preaching the Gospel and praying for the sick before I was borned. So you can see what age he was. The Lord let him live, I think, about eighty-five years, something like that, and still a gallant old man when he died.

L-3 When he was seventy-five, I believe it was, he and I were at the, I believe the Edgemont Hotel in Miami. And we'd had our--our supper, and walked out to the seashore where the waves were coming in to watch the moon come up. And here I was about forty years old, my shoulders drooped down, walking out like that, and him, about seventy-five, just as straight as he could be. And I looked at him, and I admired him. And I said, "Brother Bosworth, I want to ask you a question."
He said, "Go right ahead, Brother Branham."
And I said, "When were you your best?"
He said, "Right now."
Well, then I felt ashamed of myself.
And he said, "You forget that I'm just a kid, living in an old house," he said.

L-4 And that was Brother Bosworth. When I heard that he was going to meet the Lord, I just almost burnt the tires from my car going down to Miami to see him. And when wife and I got there... And the Bosworth family and our family had been great friends. And we went in. The old patriarch laying on a little couch, and he'd raised up his little bald head, little thin arms held out to me like that, the tears running down my cheeks, I grabbed him in my arms, and I cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." Because if there ever was an old man that ever put dignity in the Pentecostal move, it was Brother Bosworth. He certainly was. He was a great flower.

L-5 And, you know, the first thing he wanted to do, is tell me a little joke--like that, you know.
And I said, "Brother Bosworth, are you going to get well?"
He said, "No, Brother Branham. I'm not sick to begin with." He said, "I'm just going home."
And I said, "Well, that's very fine."
We'd just come off the mission fields of Africa, he and I.
He said, "I'm just too old to live any longer." He said, "I'm going home."
And I said, "Brother Bosworth, what would you advise me to do?"
And he said, "Stay with the Gospel." And he said, "Get back to the mission fields as quick as you can." Said, "That'd be my advice."


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