<TITLE>05. Par 47-65</TITLE>L-47   I went home with him, one night, and he said, "I tell you. While Norma and them goes upstairs," said, "let's--let's just have a bite to eat. We got some corn bread and buttermilk." That's really good. And so we... I could treat it justice right now.

L-48 I haven't been eating for about three weeks here, just little, now and then, so that I could be at the best for my Lord.

L-49 And then we got a big glass of cold buttermilk out of the spring house, and a big piece of cold corn bread. And we set down, and crumbled this corn bread up in there, was eating. And he said, "Billy, I just don't get That what you're talking about."

L-50 So, we--we went to bed. Along about, long late in the night, he... We talked till about one o'clock. I went to sleep on him. And he--he woke up, and he said, "I--I dreamed that I was building a building up in--in New Albany, and the man left me the blueprint. He went to Florida. And he had, on this blueprint, he had a bay window. And I said, 'That man don't want a bay window out there,' so I just left it off. And said, "When the man come back, he said, 'I will not pay you for this building until you tear it down and rebuild it according to this blueprint.'"

L-51 I said, "There is a creek right down here. It isn't very far. So, you don't want to go tearing something down at the end of the road. You might not have time."
He said, "Is all right with my pajamas on?"
I said, "With mine, too. Let's go." So we went down.

L-52   So his daughter got real, real famous, and his grandchildren, on singing.

L-53 And they--they were United Brethren. His daughter is married, a United Brethren minister, or minister's son. And this boy, fine fellow, he was a machinist up at the boat works. And the little girl is trying to live for Christ. It got too much pressure on them.

L-54 They were very genius kiddies. One of them, at seventeen years old, was teaching music. She had majored, and she was a very smart girl.

L-55 And so this little fellow couldn't stand the pressure of be teased, and they'd tell her she was old fashion, and so forth. And after while, the kid had a breakdown.

L-56 They--they taken her to, what they call, Our Lady of Peace, a Catholic institution in Louisville, for shock treatment. And they gave her...

L-57 Course, that's a shot in the dark. If there's a doctor here, I hope I don't offend you by that. But sometimes it makes them worse than ever.

L-58 And so give her a shock treatment, and it made the child worse. So they sent her home. Few weeks, they had to bring her back again, and she was really in a terrific shape then. So they kept her, and tried to doctor her up over there, for quite a while, and she got worse.

L-59   And so three days from then, they were going to take her to Madison. That's the insane institution where they--they put them in a padded cell, from then.

L-60 So the mother said, "We're not defeated." And she said, "We'll see if we can get Brother Branham to come over and pray for her, if he's at home."

L-61 So they called up, and it happened to be I was at home. So he came up to see me, said, "Brother Branham, will you go over, pray for her?"
I said, "Sure."

L-62 So he called the doctor. And the doctor said, "Who was this coming?" So he told him it was me. And he said, "Well, I'll tell you, wait." Said, "We'll--we'll... You call me back, this afternoon."

L-63 Well, he called, and on till one o'clock in the morning. His wife kept saying, "He's not in." The next morning he called. "He's not in." And the third day they was going to send the child away.

L-64 So, I--I hate to say this, but I have a way of knowing. The doctor was just dodging the issue. See? So then the father was real nervous. I had to leave the following day, to leave out. That day was all we had.

L-65 So the mother and father, and the other two sisters, come up, crying, said, "He, he's just dodging."


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