<TITLE>09. Par 88-101</TITLE>L-88 Did you ever hear that song? "And I'm glad I can say I'm one of them." I was trying to repeat that over, saying:
Come, my brother, seek this blessing
That will cleanse your heart from sin.

L-89   And as I went along, down the street, I looked, and there was an old typical Aunt Jemima leaning out over a little fence, and a little, colored house there, a little, whitewashed cabin like, leaning out over the fence. She had a man's shirt tied around her head.

L-90 And I just quit singing and started walking on. I didn't know where I was going; He just said, "Keep, just keep walking." And so when I got pretty close to her, I seen she was kind of smiling. And I looked over at her, and turned my head and walked on.

L-91 She said, "Good morning, parson." Now, in the South, parson means "minister."
And I--I said, "Good morning, auntie."

L-92   I looked back, and I thought, "How did she know I was a parson?" And I didn't have a Bible or nothing.
I turned back. I said, "How did you know I was a parson?"
She said, "I knowed you was coming."
And I said, "Kind of strange, to me."

L-93 And--and she said, "Did you ever read in the Bible about the Shunammite woman?"
I said, "Oh, yes, ma'am."

L-94 She said, "You know, she didn't; was barren, she couldn't have children."
I said, "Yes, ma'am, I remember the story."

L-95 Said, "And she promised the Lord, and she was going to raise that baby to the Lord, of course." And said, "You know, I was that kind of a woman." She said, "I couldn't have no children, the husband and I." And said, "I promised the Lord, if He'd give me a baby, that I would raise it for Him." Said, "He gave me a baby." And said, "I raised that boy the best I could, to serve the Lord." She said, "But, you know," she said, "he got in the wrong company, and he got a--a--a disease in his body." And said, "The doctor man has done give him all the shots that he can give him. And it's done went in," said, "his blood is four-plus, social disease," syphilis. And so said, "The part of his blood drops back through his heart. His heart has got holes in it." And said, "He is laying in there, unconscious." And said, "A doctor man was here, two days ago, and said, 'He'll never wake up no more. He is gone.'"

L-96   And said, "I just can't stand to see my baby die like that. And says, "Then I--I--I prayed all night, 'Lord, if You're going to take him... You give him to me; but I--I--I want to hear him say he is saved, so I know I'll meet him again.'" And said, "I--I prayed, and I prayed the prayer like about mentioned the Shunammite woman."

L-97 And said, "I--I went to sleep, and I dreamed a dream." She said, "And I said to the Lord, said, 'You give me the baby.' And said, 'I was like the Shunammite woman, but where is Your prophet?' And said, He said, 'Look, coming here.' And I seen a man with a little hat sitting on the side of his head, wearing that gray suit, coming down the street."

L-98 And said, "That was about four o'clock this morning." She said, "I have been standing here ever since."
He is still God. He answers on both ends.

L-99   I said, "My name is Branham. I pray for the sick. Did you ever hear of my ministry?"

L-100 She said, "No, sir, Parson Branham, I never did hear of you." And she said, "Won't you come in?"

L-101 And when I went to open the gate. It had a little old fence there, and the gate had a plowpoint hanging on it, like back in Arkansas. It was just across the river from it, anyhow, so you know what that was. So I pulled back the gate and went in.


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