<TITLE>16. Par 144-159</TITLE>L-144 And many of you remember that. Sure, you do. Stand in the line, to get a little okay from the county, that you could get these drugs, or get something to eat.

L-145 And he said, "I was sitting here, one day, reading my Bible, and, and," said, "somebody come in the door. And my son got up, young, went up to the front." And said, "I heard him say, 'No, we can't do it.'"

L-146 And said, "I listened close. I laid my Word down and I listened close. And the man said, 'Sir,' he said, 'my wife is about to faint.'" And when he looked, he said he seen the woman ready to be delivered of a baby; the young couple. And the young man said to him, "He said, 'I--I--I've stood in that line there,' said, 'oh, a city-block long.' And said, 'My wife just can't stand there any longer.' Said, 'I wonder... I've got the prescription from the doctor, she must have the medicine, right away.' Said, 'Will you fill it, and then I'll take her home, and then I'll go stand in the line? I'll--I'll get the--the order for it. If you'll... '

L-147 "And the son, boy said, 'Sir, that's against the rules here. We, we can't do it.'

L-148 "He said, 'Well, I didn't know.' Said, 'Thank you, very much, son,' turned to walk away."

L-149 And he said, just as started to walk, somebody said to him, down--down in his heart, said, "Joseph and Mary was turned away, one time, too."

L-150   And said, "I raised up and said, 'Wait, son! Just a minute!'" And said, "The fellow stopped. And I went and got the prescription, and got back behind there and filled it; while he waited, holding his wife by the hand. And she was so faint, she was just leaning over on his shoulder."

L-151 And said, "I walked out there, and I..." He said, "I'm sorry I have to do this, sir."
He said, "That's all right."

L-152 "He had his head down, and just handed out." And when he laid it in his hand, he said, "Brother Branham, I saw Jesus." Said, "I laid it right in His hand." Said, "Brother Branham, there He was, just exactly the way the picture shows it." And said, "I--I couldn't talk. And the man turned around and walked out of the building."
He said, "Do you believe that, Brother Branham?"

L-153 I said, "I believe it with all that's on the inside of me. Certainly."

L-154   Saint Martin of Tours, if you've ever read of Saint Martin, he was a soldier. And he was--he was his... followed his father's footsteps. He always felt a call of God. Only, I think, his people wasn't exactly religious. And one day he was coming...

L-155 It was a bad winter, the history says. And he was... There was an old beggar laying out at the gate, and he was freezing to death; and many people, who could have fed that old man, or give him some clothes. He was crying, holding his hand up. Just an old whiskered, dirty man laying at the gate of the city. And he's saying, "Help me, somebody. I--I'm freezing. Tonight I'll die. Somebody give me a garment."

L-156   Saint Martin had done give all he had, away. He just, as a soldier, he had his coat on. He stood by one side, and watched and see if somebody wouldn't do it. The people come and gone, and nobody would help him.

L-157 Then he reached up there, and looked at the old man. He had compassion on him. Pulled his own coat off, and took his sword and cut it in half. Wrapped part of it around his shoulders, took the other half and wrapped the old beggar in it, so he would live through the night, went walking on.

L-158 The people laughed at him, said, "What a funny-looking soldier, with only a half a coat on."

L-159 That night, while he was a sleeping in the bed, he woke up. Somebody had walked into the room. He looked, standing across the room, and there stood Jesus with that old piece of garment had been wrapped around him. He knew by that.


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