<TITLE>14. Par 52-55</TITLE>L-52 I said, "Boy, that's a good apple."
And he said, "Yeah, that's a good one." Said, "That's right."
I said, "How old's that tree?"
He said, "Young fellow (all my fifty years, you know)," he said, "young fellow," he said, "I used to live up yonder on top of that hill. Me, and my pappy, and mammy, and all of us lived up there, where that old--old fireplace, old log house." Said, "Pappy built this house, and we moved down here." And said, "When he died, I took it over," and said, "I've raised my family here." Said, "I'm seventy-six."
He said, "I planted that tree there about forty-five years ago." And said, "She's produced a good crop of apples for me ever since she started producing."
I said, "Wonderful." I said...?... I said, "I notice the leaves are all falling off that tree."
See, my old mama used to tell me, "Just give a cow enough rope, she'll hang herself." See? So just tie your horse back on the end of the rope. Watch him while he get his foot over after while, you know. That's the way, without any--any... I just have to depend on God, just the simplicity of listening at His, going the way He leads. You see? With no mental powers of my own to cut them smart guys off, you know, you just have to let Him do it. You see?

L-53 So he said, "Well," he said, "yeah, the leaves are leaving."
I said, "Now, that's a strange thing, isn't it, sir." I said, "Here you are, here it is the middle of August, we have... (It was still hot, about ninety right then in the shade)," and I said, "The middle of August without any frost or anything, and yet them leaves are falling off the tree." I said, "I wonder what does that."
"Oh," he said, "the--the life left them."
"Oh," I said, "I see. The life left them. Where'd the life go?"
He said, "Down in the roots, the sap."
"Oh," I said, "it does?" And he said--I said, "What does it do that for?" I said, "You mean that life ain't up in that tree in the wintertime?"
He said, "Oh, no. It'd kill it. The germ of life would be killed in the tree if it was up there." Said, "The life goes down in the roots."
"Uh-huh," I said, "comes back up next spring, bring you another bunch of apples."
"Yeah."

L-54 I said, "I want you to answer me a question." I said, "Tell me, that tree doesn't have any intelligence, but there's some super-intelligence that tells that tree that 'it's coming wintertime, get away from there, and go back down in the roots, and hide down beneath the dirt. Next spring you got to bring this guy up some apples.' And if it doesn't mind Him, it dies. If it does mind Him, it continues to live, that intelligence. It's got to mind this intelligence."
He said, "Well, that's just nature. "

L-55 I said, "What is nature?" I said, "You mean just geographically, and the rocking of the earth?" I said. "Set a bucket of water out there on the post in the middle of August. Let's see it go down to the bottom of the post, and then--then in the springtime come back up, and have another bucket of water."
He said, "It won't do that."
I said, "Well, then, it's got to be some intelligence controlling this one." See?
Said, "Never thought of it just like that, but I guess you're right."
And I said, "Well, then, when you find out what intelligence that tells that--that sap in that tree to go down in the root to hide, to come back again, and bring up something to benefit somebody, I'll tell you the same intelligence was what told me that that woman was laying over there dying with a cancer, if she'd obey the commandments of God, she'd be healed."
He said, "You're not that preacher?"
I said, "I am."
"What's your name?"
I said, "Branham."
He said, "That's the guy. Can you prove it?"
I said, "Well, I guess I could. " And there under that apple tree, with that simple little thing, life, I led him to Christ.


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