<TITLE>12. Par 150-163</TITLE>L-150   Well, when I seen that, I run in. And she was in the other room. I knocked on the door. She had shut herself up. And I told her I want to speak to her. And I went in there and talked to her, tried to tell her what it was. I said, "Sweetheart, you know how I love you, but God didn't like that. You oughtn't to a-said that." Immediately after that, she took a trouble in her side.

L-151 We took her over to the doctor here in Louisville, Doctor Arthur Schoen, and he found a tumor on the left ovary, that I had found fifteen or sixteen years before. "Tumor on the left ovary, about the size of a walnut."
I said, "What about it, doctor?"

L-152 He said, "Let's see what happens. Bring her back again in a few months, about two months or something."

L-153 We took her back. It had growed, from a walnut to about the size of a lemon. Said, "Better come out; if that gets soft and turn malignant."

L-154 And I said, "Well, my," I said, "we're--we're going to Tucson. The Lord has sent me out to Tucson."

L-155   He sent her up to a female specialist; he didn't want it on his hands. So he must have told him about my ministry, 'cause he... The female specialist said, "It'll have to come out." So he said... We told him we were going to--to Tucson. He said, "Well, I've got a specialist there, a dear friend of mine. I used to live in Tucson." He said, "I'm going to send you to him."

L-156 So he wrote a note and sent it to him, and said, "Mrs. Branham is a nice lady," and went on like that. Said... Sent her the diagram of how big the tumor was, and so forth. It had turned tumor then; and said how big it was. And said, "I know..." You know, he knowed he... I think he thought, called me a "Divine healer." That's all he knowed how to put it. But said, "I have agreed that--that it could come out, and it should. If it has to be taken out, take it out."

L-157   But it was testing our faith. And constantly we prayed. And more we prayed, the bigger the tumor growed, till it got to a place till it was sticking out on her side. We kept it quiet; a few of the people here knew it; trying to see what would happen. On and on it went.
Finally, when I come down from Canada, from where I left...

L-158 The Lord let me lead that tribe of Indians to Christ. I'm going back to baptize them, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, this Spring, the Lord willing.

L-159 Now, come down, and it was time for her to go, when I was in New York... or down here to have another opera-... to have the operation, or be examined for the last time. I went on to New York. And when I came back, I stopped in here, and went up... After I had the meeting here, the last meeting, I went up there and called her from Brother Wood's.

L-160 And she said, "Bill, I can't even stand my clothes to touch it." It was just way out like this on her side then. And her leg on that side, she could just hobble along, and the worse week she had ever had. Now she is sitting there, listening at me. The worst week she had ever had. And she said, "I've got to go, day after tomorrow, for that examination."

L-161   I thought, "O God, if they cut it out, that'll keep us from going home at Christmas, and I done told the people I'd be there." And I said, "What a time! Oh, my!" I thought.

L-162 "Tell him, if he's going to operate, well, 'Let it go a little longer, till after Christmas.'"

L-163 Then I got to thinking, "It might be malignant." And back over here, you know, that's a bad thing, run back into the kidneys. If it straight, goes malignant, it'll kill you. So then I thought, "What can I do?"
And Meda said, "Well, now, you call me," said.


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