<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 Well, when that goes through the clearing house, there's a photostatic copy made of it. So they had every one of them. But they seen where I deposited them back here in the Branham Tabernacle to pay the expenses, and so forth, and the overseas meetings. Well, back and forth...
And then he said, "You--you can... They want to compromise with you."
And I said, "Well, I--I don't owe it."
He said, "Well, now here's what, Brother Branham." Said, "I believe you have ninety-nine percent chance if they call you to trial." Said that, "They can't indict you, but they're trying to call you to trial to say that you owe it. And when they do, they're going to have about one percent chance on what they say, that your name was on it, and you endorsed it. Therefore, it was your property. And then you turned it to the Tabernacle..." Said, "They could get a case against you."

L-15 And it'll all been deposited, was on deposit in the church, and so forth, which we were using as a non-profit foundation. Back and forth... Brother Gordon Lindsay, here this morning, he come up and fought for me, and--and everybody tried it. But there's no way of doing it. They just held it right down.
And he said, "Here's one thing, Brother Branham." Then when he told me what it would take to compromise, it scared me to death.
And I said, "I couldn't do that. There's no way for me to do it.
And he said, "Well, now here's one thing." Said, "We can take the case, and we're your attorneys. But if we go there, and have the case, there is a chance that we could tell them that these were unsolicited gifts and was untaxable. Then you get an inheritance tax. And there it might drag it over another four or five years."
And I said, "Oh, my." I said, "I don't want that. I'm about..." I said, "I never had a gray hair when this thing started." And I said, "Just the thought of trying to accuse me, like of being a crook or a thief..." And I said, "How does it come that they can take a minister, who's trying to preach the Gospel, and proved to use the money for the Kingdom of God to convert criminals, and so forth, and make this a better place to live, and want to make you do that, when the cigarette companies, and the whiskey, with vulgar television and everything else, put cancer in you from smoking and everything else like that, and can write it off, that advertisement, for their income tax for the government? It's just not fair." I said, "It's not fair. You're not treating me fair."
Said, "That's for the government to decide."
And I said, "God will make the last decision. That is true." So I held on.
Then the--the attorney said, "Here's what, Mr. Branham." And I was so thankful for that. He said, "There's a... We can't find one thing against your name. But if they ever call you to trial, and being a minister with your reputation, they'll mud it across the nation, going to a trial."
"And what happens then?"
Said, "No matter how innocent you're proved, among many people you'll still be guilty."

L-16 Like that precious Baptist brother down here not long ago, that a woman said he come into her house and insulted her. You heard about it. It was over here somewhere in the south, and about three years ago, or maybe not that long. And that minister proved with his congregation that he was a hundred and fifty miles away for days before, and the same day, and many days after. Even the courts wanted to turn around and ask the minister if he wanted-- she wanted--he wanted to sue the woman for slandering a minister's name.
Said, "Let her go."
And did you see that popular vote across the country? Quickly they slammed his name everywhere, and the people said, seventy percent of the Americans said, "Oh, where there's smoke, there's fire." Now, that precious brother will have to linger under that all of his days, when he's as innocent as anybody here. Well, there you are.


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