Farm Bell

This old bell has been on the farm for many years. In fact, we guessed it could be approximately 150 years old. It used to hang in the "summer kitchen" that was attached to the house. After different roof repairs here and there over the years it got put away in the attic since it wasn't used anymore. We have it in the barn flower bed now. I imagine at one time it used to ring out to call the farmers in to dinner. Maybe it was even used if there was an emergency and you needed help. With our convenient cell phones today, farm bells are seldom used anymore. It still has a nice ring to it even after all of these years. In the quote below, Bro. Branham compares the molding of a bell to our trials and testimonies in life.

" Did you ever see them when they was fixing to mold a bell, some famous bell for a church chime or something, that had to give a certain ding? You see, if you're ringing a chime, it takes a certain range for each bell. And it takes certain materials to go in there, so much brass, so much steel, and so much of other ores, to go into this bell. If it's just straight brass, it won't ring right. It's got to have all kinds of materials throwed into it, to make it ring the right kind of a tone. And the man who has put the mold up, and set the mold, he knows exactly what it takes to go in that cupola, what it takes to go into that--that metal, to make that bell ring that tone.
God is our great Cupola. God is the... He is the great Refiner's Furnace, that where He has to put these things upon us, and trials, and persecutions and things, to mold it together, to make our testimony ring for a certain time, and a certain note that He wants rang out in a certain day."63-1216 Bro. Branham

Here is what the Farm Bell sounds like: