<TITLE>04. Par 29-47</TITLE>L-29 Like here in one of the chapters, not long ago; I have to tell this to Brother Williams and them, the brethren. They said, "We will now stand and sing the national anthem--anthem."

L-30 And I said, "For my old Kentucky home." So nobody joined in with me, so... That was the only anthem I knew. And so we was--we was now...

L-31   All right, sir. [Brother Branham is handed a note--Ed.]: "Please have prayer, for a lady in here now is bleeding at the nose."
Let us pray:

L-32 Dear God, I ask You, Lord, Thou art the--the great Healer and I ask that Your grace and mercy will touch this dear woman just now and stop that blood. As a believing people who assembled together, the lady has come here to enjoy the Word of the Lord and the fellowship of the people, and I ask You, Lord, just now, to rebuke the enemy and stop the blood. In Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. (And we believe it...?...)

L-33   On with the little story just to kind of get a feeling before we get right down in the few notes I've got written here, and some Scripture.

L-34 Now he said, "Well, this old man, we'll go over and see him. He's got a lot of hollars in his place," he said, "but he's an infidel." He said, "If... He just about curse us out if we went over there."

L-35 I said, "But we're not getting no squirrels here. We been camping two weeks. And we was dirty, and beard all out on face.

L-36 And he said, "Well?"
l said, "Let's go over."

L-37   So we went a few miles down, about twenty miles. I'd been in the country down there once before, for three nights, at a Methodist campground where there had been some great things the Lord had did, and great healing service amongst the Methodist people. And then we went way back over some hills and hollars and ridges. And you just have to know Kentucky to know it, what kind of a place you had to get into. And while we went back there we come to a house, and there sat an old man, two old men, setting out there with their old hats slouched down over their face, and--and he said, "There he is," he said, "he's a tough one." Said, "He hates that word of a 'preacher,'" he said.

L-38 So I said, "Well, I just better set in the car, or we won't get to hunt at all." I said, "You go in and ask him if we can hunt."

L-39 So he got out and started walking in, he spoke to them. And in Kentucky, always, you know, it's "come in," and so forth. And so he went up there and he said, "I just wondered if we could hunt a while on your place."

L-40   The old man setting there, about seventy-five years old, tobacco running down his mouth, he said... spit, and he said, "What's your name?"
He said, "My name is Wood."
He said, "Are you any relation to old man Jim that used to live..."
He said, "Yeah, I'm Jim's boy." Said, "I'm Banks. Yeah."

L-41 "Well," he said, "old man Jim was an honest man." Said, "Certainly, help yourself." He said--said, "Are you by yourself?"
He said, "No, my pastor is out there."
He said, "What?"
He said, "My pastor is out in the car," said, "he's hunting with me."

L-42 He said, "Wood, you don't mean you've got so low-down till you have to tote a preacher with you wherever you go?"

L-43   So he's a rough, old character, so I thought I'd better get out of the car, you know. So I got out and walked around, and he said, "Well, and you're a preacher, huh?"

L-44 I said, "Yes, sir." He looked me up and down; squirrel blood, and dirt. He said--he said... I said, "Don't look much like it."

L-45 He said, "Well, I kind of like that." He said, "You know, I want to tell you something." He said, "I'm supposed to be an infidel!"

L-46 I said, "Yes, sir, I understood that." I said, "I don't think it's much to brag about, though. Do you?"

L-47 And he said, "Well," he said, "I don't know." He said, "I'm going to tell you what I think of you guys."
I said, "All right."


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