<TITLE>12. Par 100-107</TITLE>L-100   But as I started walking on, I took off my hat again. I said, "God, I know that You are here. There is no doubt in my mind but what You're here. And I believe You, every Word. You, You make that sun shine down on my back. You're the One Who does these things. You're a Creator. I, I've been so dilatory, it looks like I'm afraid to take a hold. I'm afraid I'll do something wrong." I said, "There is one thing I will ask You to do. Lift the burden from my heart. There is no need of me trying to confess anymore, because for five years I've constantly cried out to You. What have I done? Tell me what it is."

L-101   And I was walking up the little hill then, right close to where I was going to stand for a few minutes, just to thank the Lord for my wife and for a successful marriage that God had give us, and the love we had for each other, these years, and our children. I do that every twenty-third day of October. And there was a little quaking asp, about, oh, ten inches thick, had come up about like this, and went out, kind of an L, and went up. And just as I was walking up the hill, I got real weak, and I just leaned over against that tree, like that.

L-102 And I could hear something patting on the leaves, just a minute. Now, the leaves had done dried, time I had walked there, about three hundred or four hundred yards. And I looked, and it was water coming from my own eyes, dropping off, through the gray beards, down onto the ground. I said, "O God, what a--what a failure I am." And standing there in that condition. I said, "I--I trust that You will be merciful to her." I said, "I--I ain't worthy to ask for mercy." I said, "Someday, I know I'm getting gray, and I--I got to go, Lord."

L-103   And I guess people think it's crazy, but I--I find God out in them places. That's--that's where it's real to me. I... It's just--just as real as it is right here; and, frankly, a little more so, 'cause, see, all of you, a part. There, it looks like I'm just standing with Him alone, talking to nobody but Him.

L-104 And as I stood there, I heard the brush break, and I kind of raised my head up; with a red shirt on now, and a red band around my--my hat, a red handkerchief wrapped around one of those western hats. And I--and I looked, and here stood two, three deer standing right by me, just walked up there; me in that red. All that shooting over there, a hundred man, they had been shot at forty times, I guess; why, sure, they'd have scattered right now. But they didn't. They just stood and looked at me.

L-105   And fine meat, two full-grown fawns and a big doe. And something said to me, "There is a deer for Brother Evans, one for Brother Welsh, and one for the Methodist preacher. There is exactly what the Lord God has given to you now. They can't get away. There is no way for them to." I had the rifle hanging on my shoulder right here. And before they could even got turned around, I'd killed all three of them, see, like that, before they could even move. They was right in my hands. And I... And I--I thought, "There they are, just the three. Easy to roll them right down the hill here, and then tote them right on out." And I thought, "That would be very easy. There is the three, then we could go home from there, take out and get out of the mountains." And as I looked at them there, they was standing, looking at me, just as quietly, about fifteen yards, twenty. Well, I just stood still.

L-106   And I don't know whether you fellows hunt deer, or not, but they're odd, when they--they don't... or are not certain, they'll fix their feet like this, go... [Brother Branham stomps his feet into position, and then repositions them--Ed.]

L-107 And then they watched me. I thought, "Well, there it is. Only thing, just throw my rifle over and they--they are gone."


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