<TITLE>07. Par 64-77</TITLE>L-64 And at the meeting there at the auditorium, they seen a girl that was had this here disease, that, she's turning to chalk or stone. And she had, already paralyzed her, way above her hips, that she hadn't moved for, oh, several months. And it come from her feet. She was prayed for, one night, and the next day she was running up-and-down steps, just as hard as she could go.

L-65   And Mr. Wood brought his son. Course, he never got in the meeting. And immediately after that, I was taken overseas, went over for our Lord. And on the return I was having a meeting up at... in Ohio, and he brought the boy, named David. And he was setting way back, oh, almost a half a city block.

L-66 And the Holy Spirit came in and said, "There is a man here tonight. And he and his wife sets way back in the back." Never saw him in life. And said, "The man, name is Wood. He is a contractor. He has a crippled boy that had polio, that drawed one limb up under him. But, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the boy is healed."

L-67 Him not being used to such, the boy set there for a while. And after a bit, his mother said, "David, why don't you try to stand up?" And when he stood up, the leg was as normal as the other.

L-68   The man sold his business and moved over, next door neighbor. Oh, he's such a lovely brother! The other morning when he knowed I was coming out here for extended time, he's... About daylight, when I left home, there he was, standing out on the street, crying like that; hitchhiking, like he was going to go with me. And he hugged me and went on down the lane. Such a wonderful brother! He's been a real chum to me.

L-69   We were down in the state of Kentucky, squirrel hunting, about three years ago. And it got real dry. And now, if any of you eastern people know what a gray squirrel is, he... Houdini the escape artist is an amateur, to him, when he's scared. So, I love to hunt them, so we hunt them with.22 rifle. And we had hunted. I was on my vacation about two weeks, and we been camping out. And it was very dry. And you could just walk through the woods and break a--a leaf, and that little fellow, oh, my, whew, you just can't see him. He's gone.

L-70   So Brother Wood said, "Brother Branham, I know a--a place down here that's got deep hollows."

L-71 How many knows what a hollow is? Well, what part of Kentucky you from? And that's what they call it down in Kentucky. Down here, I believe you call it a canyon or something, where the water goes down the branch. And you get in those deep places, and it's still damp, and you can walk and not make noise.

L-72 He said, "But the old fellow is an infidel, and, oh, he hates preachers." And I'd only been in the country once before, and that was in a meeting.
And I said, "All right. You, you know him?"
He said, "He knows my dad real well."

L-73 I said, "Let's go ask him, because we're not doing any good here."

L-74   And we went over in his little truck, and up through the woods, and down over the hills. Oh, my! Finally we arrived at a little place. And there was two old men setting under an apple tree. It was about the 20th of August.

L-75 And so he got out of the truck, went over, and he said, "My name is Wood." Said, "I am Banks Wood." He said, "I wonder if it would be all right if we hunted on your place."
He said, "Are you Jim Wood's boy?"

L-76 Now, his daddy is a reader in the Jehovah Witness, or he was. And the whole family come to Christ, every one, by visions. Every one, tell them just what would happen, and it did just that way. Oh, how wish I could stop and tell you just that family story, how they come in. Every one of the children in the Kingdom of God now, baptized with the Holy Ghost.

L-77   And so when Banks accepted it, his... all of his people excommunicated him. That was all. He was out.


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