Questions & Answers
Questions 431 (COD Page 1184)
We are called...(Now, here’s that question the other day.) We are called unclean birds, because we go to Junior Jackson’s church. Sometimes because we’re with the–the...He don’t comply with the new church rules here at the church. Are we out of the perfect will of God to attend there at times?
191 No, sir! I believe Junior Jackson to be a man of God. I’ve already explained it. I believe...
192 Now, we don’t agree upon the order of the church. Now, I believe that Junior’s–Junior...Why he...How many knows Junior Jackson? Why, we know that man’s a godly man. He believes this Message just the same as I do, and he believes these things. Frankly, Junior and I are just buddies, just like the rest of these man here, J. T., and–and Brother Ruddell, and Brother Jackson, and Brother Beeler, and all of these brothers here; all of us, we’re together. Now, we don’t...might not see just eye-to-eye alike (see?), but we believe this same Message (see?), and we stick together. There’s Brother Hume over there too, a missionary, and oh, so many different ones, I...Sometimes I don’t even get to call their names, but you–you know I mean you anyhow, brother. Sure.
You’d like to get away from doing nursing...
190 I asked that. Remember? It’s a dear sweet sister that wanted to know about doing nursing.
When I was small, I was...told everybody that I wanted to be a preacher. (I got that. I got that too.) Then what should he do about today?
194 Well, this is a letter from a–a minister worker for Christ, that’s not...It’s just a personal letter to me. It’s from Brother Pat Tyler, one of our brothers here at the church. That’s all of them. Thank the Lord. I’m grateful to you people. I just get the...[Blank spot on tape–Ed.] ...are one, Our comforts and our care.
195 Wonder if Sister Wilson’s still in the building? I seen her here. You know what I was doing awhile ago, Sister Wilson? I was looking at the pictures when we layed the cornerstone. I looked upon the picture and seen Hope and I before we were married. I didn’t even know that...I remember seeing a picture when I come out of one of my fights, when I won a championship. Looked at my picture the other night when I was state game warden here in Indiana. And I think of the church. You know, I guess there’s not but about one person setting here tonight out of that group that’s left. How many’s here from the time we laid the cornerstone back there at the beginning? Raise your hand.
196 My Brother, Sister Wilson, I want you–to ask you two something. Remember how we all started? Remember the old floor when it was all full of mud? Had old windows that shook. We had eighty cents to start it on. A big pile of weeds, all of this was a woods like behind us here when we built it, the tabernacle.
197 Look at all of us that took our vows and marched around the altar. We seen them come and go, one from the other. Have you noticed those who stayed with the Message, how they went? Now, think of the ones who got away from the Message, how they went. Think of it.
198 Here we are tonight, after all that group of three times what we have here now at our fullest meetings. Think of it, when school buses would be parked all right over the country here from all around everywhere, up and down through this lot. Even the overflow in tents setting out in there to take care of it, and still you couldn’t even set the people nowhere, gathering together. I was just a boy preacher. See? And out of those thousands that we had, there’s three of us left in here tonight.
199 I remember Sister Wilson there when I was called to her bedside dying with T.B., hemorrhaging, till the sheets and pillow slips was laying, bloody, in the corner. I remember the Holy Spirit stopping the blood. A few days afterwards I baptized her in the Ohio River in icy water in the Name of Jesus Christ, and set her in the back of my open car, a little old roadster, and rode her from Utica...Wasn’t that right? From...[Sister Wilson speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.] Yeah! Sister Hope, my wife, sister there, was in the front seat of a little roadster, and my mother and Sister Snelling in the back. I got their picture, Sister Snelling, Mom, and all, Mrs. Weber, Mrs....my mother-in-law, all of us down there, and Meda, just a little bitty girl standing out there, and now, gray-headed woman. [A sister speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.]
200 I remember when they had a little tag day to get our first money. And I remember Hope standing on the corner. She was just a girl, about sixteen; she was selling like this, holding this tag out. Give them a tag. You could put in... A drunk come down the street; he said, “Pardon me, Miss!”
Said, “What are you selling?”
Said, “Nothing. So I give you this tag.” Said, “It’s a donation for the church. If you want to put anything in here for a donation, we’re trying to get enough money to build a tabernacle for...in the city.” Said, “If you want to put in anything, you can, but if...”
Said, “I ain’t got nothing.”
Said, “Take a tag anyhow.” He took and looked at it. On one side said–said–said, “Where will you spend Eternity?”
And on the next side had a question mark. “Where will you spend Eternity?” A question. He staggered back, looked at it; he said, “Miss, you’re asking a serious question!”
She said, “But it must be settled!” That’s right. She’s gone beyond the curtain tonight. I remember the last words she said.
I remember what I told her; I remember it. Yes, sir!
201 Lot of water’s went down the river. We used to stand
down...And before we even had a church, we used to stand and hold hands and sing this song here. I can just hear it. Myrtle was just a little bitty kid then. I got little Leroy’s picture standing out there, just a little bitty tot like.
Bless be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred mind
Is like to that above.