<TITLE>22. Par 253-262</TITLE>L-253 He said, "Right in this same drugstore," he said, "during the time of the depression, I was sitting here. My boy, which is now married and runs a drugstore in another city," said, "he was waiting on customers." And said, "People had..." Said, "They had to go to... You remember when you had to go get an order from the county, to get your medicine. Whatever you had to have, you had to go get an order for it." Said that he seen a couple stagger in the door, and said he looked. "Poor, little mother, expecting, could hardly stand up; a young woman, she was just walking."

L-254   And said, "The young man walked up to my son, and said, 'I'm got an order here for... The doctor sent me down to get an order, rather, from the county agent here, to--to get some medicine. My wife needs it real bad.' And said, 'She just can't stand it no longer,' said, 'she is so sick. Doctor told me, "Get it right now and give it to her."' Said, 'I wonder if I could get the medicine, and give her the medicine, and she could sit down here?' And said, 'It's going to take me two or three hours, stand in that line, 'fore I can get my order for it.' Said, 'Wonder if you could give me the medicine now?'

L-255 "The young man said, 'Sir, I'd like to do that.' Said, 'I can't do it,' he said, 'because that we have a--a rule here, that, we, it's a cash-and-carry basis.' He said, 'We have to have it.'"

L-256 And said he was sitting back there, reading the paper, elderly man. He said, "'Wait a minute, son.' Looked at that poor little woman just holding like that." And so he said, "'Go fill that order.' He said, 'Hand it here to me.'"

L-257 Said he took the prescription the doctor had give, went over there and filled it. Said, "I filled it up, and thought, 'If she never pays it, all right; don't make any difference.'"

L-258   Said, "I walked around to where she was at. I raised it over, to give it to her hand." And said, "When I laid it in her hand," said, "I looked up." Said, "Brother Branham, I don't know whether you'll believe this or not." Said, "I put it in the hands of the Lord Jesus." Said, "I seen Him standing there, looking at me, and the Blood running down His face, and scars upon His head." And said, "I shut my eyes, like that, kind of staggered. And I heard her husband say, 'Are you all right, Doctor?'" And he said, "'Yes.'" Said, "I looked back, and the women was holding the prescription."
Said, "Do you believe that?"

L-259 I said, "Sure, I believe it. 'Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these My little ones, you have done it unto Me.'" A paradox, indeed!

L-260   Many of you brothers here has read the writings of Saint... of the saints of the early days, how that the Lord dealt with them, paradox, how things happened. We believe in paradox. One of the...

L-261 Saint Martin was one I was trying to think of. See, he was a soldier, and in France it was ordered that he should follow his fathers work. But he always kind of believed. His mother was a believer. And one cold day... He was a very humble man, and they always furnished a man to polish his boots, and keep him looking neat, like a soldier should. He polished his servant's boots. He didn't go to their traditions and strains. He thought man were made equal.

L-262   So one cold day, he was standing by the gate of the city of Toras, when he was going in, and said there laid an old beggar in the street. You've have read it, no doubt, many a time. There laid a beggar in the street, freezing to death, a real cold winter. He was begging people, "Come! Will--will somebody give me a cloak? I'll freeze, tonight. I can't lay out on this ground like this. Will somebody give me a coat?" Nobody. He said, "Please, somebody have mercy; an old man, I'm dying. I've served my time. I've done my best. Don't let me die. I'm freezing to death. Somebody wrap me up, will you?"


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