<TITLE>16. Par 141-152</TITLE>L-141 Well, I went out there. And because that this was done... Now, I never knew it, I never knew. The Lord never told me nothing about it. You could ask the people, if you wish. So they... she... He never said it would. But, oh, my, to see such a--a thing! Her husband, being a sinner, come over and said, "Brother Branham, I--I want to give my life to the Lord Jesus."

L-142 And I said, "All right, just kneel down here and take hold of your wife's hand, and then you walk this straight life together."

L-143   The mother come back, she said, "Brother Branham, you know, here's me and my children," said, "we've all been in and out, and in and out, and around the Tabernacle, and things. We set and listen at you preach, and we'll go up to the altar and come back." Said, "I'm backslid, too, Brother Branham." She said, "I want to come back to the Lord Jesus, for His goodness to my child." Well, you see, that--that's very nice, but you don't come to the Lord Jesus because of that.

L-144 Along towards midnight, twelve, one o'clock, her mother dozed off to sleep. And she said, called her, said, "Mother."
And she said, "Yes, honey, what do you want?"
She said, "You know, I'm so happy!"
She said, "I'm so glad of you being happy."
Said, "I'm at peace with God." And said, "Oh, how fine it is!"
In a few minutes, again she called back, she said, "Mother."
Said, "Yes?"
Said, "I'm going home."

L-145 And she said, "I know you are." She said, "Yes, sweetheart," said, "the doctor will take the baby tomorrow. And then about a day or two, when your incisions heal up and you get away from here, you go back home and be happy again, you and your hubby and the little children, and be a Christian and live for God."
She said, "Mother, I mean I'm going to my Heavenly Home."
She said, "Sure, honey, at the end of the journey."
She said, "This is the end of the journey."
"Oh," she said, "now, what's the matter?"

L-146 Said, "The end of the journey." So said, "Yes, mother, within a few minutes I'll be gone."

L-147 Well, she thought she had just got nervous and delirious. She called the nurse, the nurse taken her respiration. Everything was normal. And within five minutes she was gone, she was dead.

L-148 And then when I come back home, in a week or two after that... I think Brother Graham preached the girl's funeral. When I come back home and Meda told me that that girl died that night, my, I couldn't...
I--I went to see the mother. "Yeah."

L-149   And I--I--I don't know what caused me to do it, but I said, "Lord God, You--You owe me an understanding, see, after me going out there and--and telling that husband, and him coming to the Lord after You done these things for him, and all like that, and then take that girl's life like that." I said, "You owe me an understanding."

L-150 When you tell God something like that, He'll leave you sitting alone. I don't... He don't owe me nothing. I'm in debt to Him. Well, He just let me pout it out for a few days, you know. And, after about three or four months, one day I was out on the creek bank and the Lord spoke to me in a vision, and said, "Now go to her mother, and say this to her mother, 'Did not her time come the year before that, when she was drowning in a creek, on a picnic? She should have went at that time, but I had to take her when she was ready to go.' And that's why all this happened and why you went out there."

L-151 Then I got down and cried. I said, "Lord Jesus, forgive me, Your poor stupid servant. I should have never said that, Lord."

L-152   And I had went back down to the lady, she lived over here on Market Street, and I went over to her, and I said, "I want to ask you a question."
She said, "Sure, Brother Bill."
And I said, "Is it true that this girl almost drowned?"


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