<TITLE>02. Par 13-19</TITLE>L-13 Tried to have a--all of us have a prayer line down there, but we just couldn't do it; one minister at one place, and one another in the prayer line, but, my, it just wouldn't work that way, and just Brother Jaggers had to go ahead.
And, say, another thing I want to announce. Brother Jaggers stood and took the stand like we did at Calgary. He... The Missionary Baptists and the Free Will Baptists, and all (You know, Texas is full of Baptists.), they stood for him, but the fundamental Baptists rose up against the--the program. And, oh, how they wrote him up in the paper and everything. Well, he, they wrote him Bible questions, so he answered back. And they got a... After they had no proof, then some bunch of political stand, why, they wouldn't put it in the paper. So Brother Jaggers, we called a meeting there, and seventy-five cooperating ministers of the city came in together; we took a photostatic copy of it, and said, "Is this freedom of speech? Is this freedom of press?" Like that, and sent it out. And the paper lost ten thousand subscribers the next morning.
And they come, crying, on their knees, said, "We'll publish in the paper, just freely, you don't have to pay us a penny."

L-16 Oh, brother, listen, you church. One time we lived down by the railroad track; we don't no more. We live on Hallelujah Avenue now. Yes, sir. We rank into the millions. We used to be, there was only a few hundred of us, but we go into the millions, millions now. And united together, we're the most powerful church in numbers there is in the United States (That's right.), oh, I guess, in the world. Last year, alone, we had a million five hundred thousand conversions. Think of that: a million five hundred thousand conversions in full Gospel people, that is, with the general order last year. Oh, we're coming up now.

L-17 And these little papers and things they said, they wouldn't talk about the Catholic people, they were afraid of them. See, they were afraid to do it. But we're numbering right on up there now. We got a right. Let's claim our God-given right. That's right. So we're going forward this year, and with God to be our Help and our Shield, to call the--try our best to have a revival, Now I...
[Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Oh, up here? You all will have to tell me when to stop. Up there, right up there. All right. I can walk out this way and look back.

L-19 And so good, how many feels good for Christmas? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Oh, my, my. This is a time of rejoicing, a time of when all of us can come together and worship Christ.
And I--I don't, haven't got a message, not a thing. I just opened up the Bible here when you was talking there. I turned over here; I said, "Where's the birth of Christ?" Nearly everybody is talking about that now, and so I'll just have to read a little while, and then find something, and just keep staggering along till the Spirit of the Lord picks up something.
Now, to start, let's begin at Luke, the 1st chapter of Luke. That's the beginning of the--the birth of Christ. And we'll read some in here, and just teach some on the Word if we can. We don't know what the Lord will do for us, but we just trust that He'll give us a great blessing.


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