<TITLE>02. Par -</TITLE>L-2-2 We're happy for the Lord. Now, I know... I see them ladies standing around. It's bad enough to see men standing, let alone them girls, and boys, and ladies, and so forth, standing around the walls, and little children. But we just haven't got the adequate seating room. So we pray that--that next time we have the meetings, after this week, after this time... You know, the next thing up, as far as we know, is those Seven Seals; and the Lord willing, we start on them just immediately as soon as the church is over--built so we can get in here. We're coming in for a rededication, and maybe anywhere from one to two, and maybe three weeks' straight meeting now, coming up for the--the Seven Seals. So we're expecting a great time in the Lord during that time. And we'll... All of you out-of-town people, we'll mail you the cards and everything and let you know just exactly the time, maybe a week or two ahead of time.
The contractor, as I understood Billy to say tonight, would be done the tenth day of February. Well, if he's done the tenth, we will start about the fifteenth then. So just as soon as they're finished, we'll start right in on that.

L-2-4 Old Sister Kidd called me awhile ago, and she was almost in tears. She said, "Brother Branham, we tried so hard to start that old car, and it wouldn't start." And so she said, "You pray that it'll start, and I'll come tomorrow." And she said, "Wonder if I could find a place to stay?"
I said, "Don't worry, we'll have you a--a room, Sister Kidd, as soon as you get, you..."
Said, "Bless your heart." Said, "You know, if you're going to have services till twelve o'clock, I don't want to get out at twelve o'clock."
You know, she and Brother Kidd's about eighty-five years old apiece, and they're still in the ministry. You know what they do? Got a tape recorder, and they take my messages and go from hospital to hospital, from house to house, playing the tapes. Now, if that isn't... Not giving up, that's not retiring. That's holding the faith till the end, dying with a Sword in the hand. That--that's the way to go. That's the way I want to do.

L-3-2 And then, and she said, "You know, if I get out on the highway at twelve o'clock," she said, "and after twelve o'clock in the night, trying to get home, and all them drunken devils," she said driving, said, "running into them on their way, drinking," she said, "them demons running around." She said, "I'd be scared to death."
Brother Pat, she sure is... Little old thing. How many knows Sister Kidd? She's sets here as a--just sainted-looking little thing.
And when... Just think, years before I was born (and I'm an old man), she was up there in them mountains, she and Brother Kidd. She would wash all day long on a washboard to get fifteen or twenty cents for her washing to send him out somewhere that night to preach. In them coal mines up there in Kentucky, where you--somebody had to guard you with a rifle to get up the hill to where you went to preach. Oh, my. Then I think:
Must I be carried home to heaven on a flowerly bed of ease,
While others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
I must fight if I must reign;
Increase my courage Lord...
That's... And I want His support by His Word. That's what I want tonight.


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