<TITLE>02. Par 12-25</TITLE>L-12   And this brother, oh, I've knowed them for years, and little old Brother Kidd is, oh, I guess he's eighty when they taken him over, and the doctors found out that his prostates had turned to malignancy. And so this growth just wrapped him around. Well, they said it'd have to be operated. So when they opened him up, "Why, there's no need of operating. He's too far gone." See? Said, "There's no way of doing it, at all." Well, brought the little fellow home. And, the operation, hard on an eighty-year-old man. And he only weighed about, oh, I guess, less than a hundred pounds.

L-13 So, Mrs. Kidd called up, down. I had just come home from somewhere. Brother Kidd was dying. And said, "He wants to see you, Brother Branham, before you... before he leaves." Well, Billy and I took a turnabout. We got the--the message, one night, about ten o'clock. We started, next morning, about four. Because, at noon the next day, I had to leave again. And we almost tore the tires from our car, getting up there.

L-14   Little old fellow, they got him up when I got there. And he had a little shawl over his shoulders, setting there like a old patriarch. It just done something to me. And when I went to look at him, he looked over.

L-15 There was another old lady setting there, been one of the members of his church since he preached in the mountains, coal country in Kentucky, where she washed for fifteen cents a day, to send her husband out in the fields to preach the Gospel. That was about ten years before I was born; preaching the Message! And he looked over, and he called her "grandma," and him eighty years old. And she was past ninety. And so he said, "Grandma, you look white as snow."

L-16 I thought, "That's the way for a minister to look at some of his congregation, laying, setting there, dying. 'Grandma, you look white as snow.'" Yeah.
And he looked back around. He said, "Brother Branham?"
I said, "Yes, Brother Kidd?"

L-17   He said, "Well, I guess it won't be long till He will send my chariot down." Said, "I'm going up, this morning."

L-18 And I said, "Wonderful, Brother Kidd." I said, "That's the way to feel."

L-19 And the little old Sister Kidd, how many knows her, in here? Yeah. I know, oh, lots of you know them. So he said... She said, "But, Brother Willy, don't you think that God could heal papa now?"
Said, "Sure, He could."

L-20 And he said, "Well, glory to God!" He said, "If He wants to heal me," said, "I'm--I'm ready to work again."
I thought, "Eighty years old!"
I started to kneel down. There come the vision. That was it.

L-21 Two days later, they took him back over to the hospital. His boys was on the police force there in the city. They couldn't understand it. Took him back to the doctor. And the doctor scratched his head, said, "Man, there isn't a trace of that I can find anywhere, now, tell me your story." And then he like to tore the hospital down. Right back with his tape recorder, here he come, playing the Message. And they live there at... And right there near the Chautauqua and there.

L-22   Now, as soon as I start The Seven Seals, as we did The Seven Church Ages. She called me the other night, she said, "Well, honey, if I just had the money," she said, "I'd sure like to come down."

L-23 I said, "Forget it, Mrs. Kidd. Your--your room is waiting. You and pop come on down."
She said, "Bless your little heart!"

L-24 And that just makes me feel real good, you know, 'cause they encourage me. At eighty-five or eighty-six years old, and is still going. Then me, complaining here, at fifty-three. So, my, it makes you feel like taking courage.

L-25   Well, we got so much to talk about, and such a lovely group to talk to, why, we could just stay here half the night.


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