<TITLE>17. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 But anyhow, there's a preacher by the name of Rowe at Mishawaka, had the tabernacle. Some of you might know him, a Reverend Rowe. Well, yes, there's people with their hands up knows Reverend Rowe. Well, it was at his tabernacle.
I was coming back, and I--I seen such a crowd of people and heard such a noise, and I thought, "Well, where in the world's all that noise coming from." And I went down there. It was religious people. And they was a screaming, and shouting, and jumping, and running, and carrying on. I thought, "What kind of a bunch of people is that?"
So I drove my old Ford over to one side. I only had about a dollar and a quarter, and to live on. And so... Enough gasoline to get back home, about two hundred and fifty miles.
And I walked over there and went in. And those people, I never seen such church manners in my life. Umm, my. They were dancing; they were running; they were screaming.

L-69 Why, I said, "What kind of a people is this?" I thought, "I'll just slip inside the door and watch what they're doing." Why, they're clapping their hands, and they're screaming, and some of them beating the tambourine, and some running up and down the boards, and some dancing and running around." I thought, "Well, what's wrong with those people?" Never seen anything like that. So I got inside the door.
Now, it never rubbed off, but it begin to get on me. I begin to looking around; I thought, "Well, you know what? They're awful happy, awful free. They're just a little bit more freer than I am." So I said, "Maybe the Lord's got something that I don't know nothing about." So I begin to look at them.
And somehow, I begin to get a love. I seen they loved one another. And those women would grab one another, hug one another, and kiss each other; and the men throwed their arms around one another, and hugged each other. Why, I never seen that before.
I said, "Say, this is--looks good to me. Believe I'll just stay. They said we're going to have services tonight."

L-70 So I had a dollar seventy-five cents. And I said, "No. I've got to spend at least one more dollar of that to go home on. Now, it'll leave me seventy-five cents. I can't rent a room." So I went down and got me a--about two dozen rolls. And I said, "I can live off these for a few days. I'm going to look around here and see what this is all about." So I went out in the--got me a place in a corn field located, where I could sleep that night.
I come back down to the service. And that night, he said, "I want all the preachers to come to the platform." And I guess there's three or four hundred preachers got on the platform.
They was having a conference. And they had to have it up there on account of the... Well, the southern states wouldn't let the colored and white together. So they was having it up there. And I noticed all them preachers.

L-71 And that night, they had their main speaker was an old colored man. They had to lead him out to the platform. Had on one of them little bitty--them cut away preacher coats, you know, the belt and collar. Just a little rim of white hair, and the poor old fellow come out there.
And all that ministers that day had been speaking about Christ, and how great He was and everything. I was listening to them.
Said, "All the preachers come to the platform." I went up and set down with them. "We only have time," they said, "just to have the preachers say who he is and where he's from."
I just raised up, and I said, "Billy Branham, Jeffersonville," set down. The rest of them along like that. Went on along down the line.


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