<TITLE>23. Par 260-273</TITLE>L-260   Well, the--the next night, they had about, oh, almost from here to the door, would be the platform, and just old shawls and old ragged clothes piled up there, to be prayed over. And it was pouring down rain, they couldn't get... And they come there that morning, around eight or nine o'clock; and I wouldn't be there until that night, about eight or nine. So there was so many people around. No seats to sit down in, like you got. They leaned against each other. Standing there in that rain, the women with their hair all down, wet, just waiting to hear the Word of Life.

L-261   And General Valdivia taken me in. I guess you knowed of him, he is one of the Christian businessmen. And first protestant ever taken in under the government protection. General Valdivia in Mexico, so then I was...

L-262 That night I got in, they let me down on some ropes, back out the back of the ring. I come down into it like this, by ropes, from back off of a car. And while I got down into the ring, I walked over there. And Billy come to me, my son, he said, "There is a fellow there been giving out prayer cards." I call him Maana, that means "tomorrow," he was so slow, and he never would come get me. So he would give out the prayer cards.

L-263   And Billy said, "Well," he said, "Daddy, there is a woman down there that's got a dead baby." And you all seen this article in the Business Men's Voice. And he said, "She has got a dead baby." And said, "We haven't got no prayer cards." And said, "I've got around three hundred ushers that can't hold her."

L-264 And she--she was a little bitty woman, just young lady, very pretty young woman. And she was... had this little dead baby, and a little blue striped blanket on it, holding a little stiff form, about this long, in her arms, had been standing there since that morning. The baby died at nine o'clock, and this was about ten that night. And so she was holding this little baby in her arms.

L-265   And I said--said, I said, "Well, just tell them ushers to hold her off. If you put her in with them people holding a prayer card," I said, "it'll make..." And I said, "Won't you tell her come around?"

L-266 Said, "You can't tell her nothing." Said, "She just won't listen to it."
And I said, "Well, enough ushers over there, surely, to hold her off."
Said, "You can't do it."

L-267 I said, "Brother Moore." How many knows Brother Jack Moore? He is a... I said, "She wouldn't know the difference between you and I. She don't know me." I said, "You go on down there and pray for her, Brother Moore."
He said, he said, "All right."

L-268 I said, "You go down and pray for the baby. And that'll satisfy her, and she'll go on home."
He said, "All right."

L-269   So I turned back around. I was speaking on "faith being the substance of things hoped for," and about Jesus, and how He did when He was here on earth, speaking to them. And just as I started to speak, I looked out in front of me, in a vision, and there was a little dark-faced baby, and he was--he was laughing at me. And I looked again.
Brother Espinoza said, "What is it, Brother Branham?"

L-270 I said, "Never mind, Brother Espinoza. Just keep the crowd entertained, just a moment."

L-271 And I went out. I said, "Wait a minute, Brother Moore." And so he had done got down to where the little... where the little woman was. And I said, "Tell her to bring the baby here."

L-272 And so here she come up on the platform. She fell down on one knee, with a rosary in her hand. She was saying, "padre," that means "father," you know.

L-273 I said, "Stand up now. Stand up." Got her stand up. I said, "Baby dead?" She couldn't understand. The tears running down her little face, and her hair stringing down. Now this is true; there is my Bible. And, see, I put my hand over on the little baby, and I thought that would satisfy her. I didn't know that was the baby. I couldn't say it.


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