I know of an institution not very far from here, who was giving a widow woman help. She was a missionary to the Jews. And the woman had a daughter. And the daughter was laying in the hospital at the point of death, unconscious. Uremic poisoning, after the birth of her baby. She married a Catholic boy. And the boy believed on the Lord. And his baby, ... his first baby had been healed.

And so, I was out of town at the time. When I come back in, they asked me if I?€™d go over and pray for the woman. Well, I went over there, there stood the priest standing there. The mother-in-law had got the priest to stand there. And so they were arguing. One of them Protestant, the other one Catholic, and fussing with one another. And one of them said, ?€?Well...?€? The mother that had the priest there said, ?€?Well, it?€™s my grandchild, and I don?€™t want the grandmother to go to hell.?€? Said, ?€?I want the priest to go in and anoint her for death.?€?

Well, about that time, I walked up, and here was the doctor into it. And here I was going in to anoint her for life, him going in to anoint her for death, and the doctor standing there ready to whip both of us, I guess. What a picture. And I said, ?€?Now, if he goes in to anoint her for death, what?€™s the use of me going in to anoint her for life? We?€™re getting all mixed up here.?€?

?€?Well,?€? he said, ?€?the grandmother ... the two grandmother?€™s are fussing it out.?€?

And I said, ?€?Well, you ought to let the father make the decision.?€? And the father said, (well, he had been a Catholic boy), he said, ?€?Look, Reverend Branham prayed for my baby.?€? And said, ?€?I believe if he goes in and prays for it... I?€™ll say, let him go in.?€?

So, all of them stepped back, the doctor give me room, the boy went in with me. Woman was unconscious. I knelt down to pray. And while I was standing there praying, just humble as you would pray or anyone else, the boy... Someone knocked at the door, and he went to the door and stepped out to talk to them. There?€™s somebody else had come up, another doctor; they wanted to hold a consultation of something or another. They?€™d done give her up to die. So they was going to do something. The boy had stepped out.

And I prayed about ten minutes. I raised up and I said, ?€?Lord, don?€™t let a poor little mother die.?€? Well, I got up from off the floor where I was praying for her. And I got up and was kind of wiping my eyes, I had been crying a little. Started to turn around and looked, and I seen the woman at home looking at her baby going, ?€?shh?€? like that. And she was fixing the things around like that and fixing the dinner on. I looked at her for a little bit. My, what a feeling.

The vision left. I walked out the door kind of smiling, my overcoat on my arm. There stood the father and all of them out there ... the priest, rather, and the doctor, all of them standing on the outside there. And I walked out, the husband said, ?€?Reverend Branham,?€? said, ?€?have you any news??€?

I said, ?€?Yes, sir, I have some good news for you. ?€?Thus saith the Lord?€™, your wife is going home well.?€? I said, ?€?Now, she?€™s going to get worse,?€? I said, ?€?before the night?€™s over. They?€™re going to put a pull motor on her ?€?cause she?€™s going to be so low.?€? But I said, ?€?After that, she?€™s going to come out of it. And by this time tomorrow night, your wife will be home, ?€?thus saith the Lord.?€™?€?

And the people begin ... he begin to rejoicing. And the priest shook his head and looked at the doctor, the doctor looked and shook his head, walked on down, like ?€?he was gone crazy.?€™ So I looked at them till they passed on by, and the father of the boy run up and said, ?€?Look, son, haven?€™t we got enough of this nonsense??€?

He said, ?€?Look, Daddy,?€? said, ?€?I took my baby over, my first baby, and you know it?€™s the truth, over to Brother Branham, and he prayed for it at least four or five times. I took it over there, and never did it get healed.?€? It had clubbed feet. And said, ?€?One day I was over there with someone else and while I was sitting in the room Brother Branham told me within twenty-four hours my baby?€™s feet would be straightened.?€?

Said, ?€?The next morning the wife and I jumped up the same time and run at the cradle?€? and said, ?€?both feet was just as normal as they could be.?€? And said, ?€?If Brother Branham says ?€?thus saith the Lord,?€™ that my wife is going home in twenty-four hours, goodbye, I?€™m going home to straighten up the house to get her home.?€? That?€™s right. And away he went. Straightened up the house; in twenty-four hours she was home. Been there ever since. That?€™s been two years ago.

And this woman, the grandmother, well, it was the grandmother of the child, the mother of the girl, when she told that to an institution that was sending her so much money each month to support the Jewish people, when she?€™d accepted divine healing and saw that, they cut off her support, and said, ?€?We don?€™t disregard Brother Branham, we have nothing against the man, but we cannot entangle divine healing in our program.?€?

Well then, you?€™re out of God?€™s program at that minute, remember that. I?€™d rather be a fanatic to the world and be right before God, than anything that I know of. Yes, sir. That?€™s right. When God proves His doings and actions He vindicates them by signs and wonders. He?€™s always done it, and He will always do it. As long as there?€™s a world there?€™ll be a supernatural God here to control things. And He?€™ll always have somebody He can put His hands on.

William Branham, Sermon "The Great Warrior Joshua"
http://www.en.branham.ru/read_prop.php?date=55-0119