<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 And that man come on and he'd speak with tongues. I knowed he's a good man. I watched him. He's not ashamed. And every time when I get in... My boy come today; he give me a little tract. He said, "Down on the street corner stood this brother testifying, glorifying God. Four things that God wants you to know." And he passed by, and he didn't recognize my son, and he said, "Praise the Lord, brother." Said, "You ever been down to the Branham meetings?" Said, "The Lord is doing great things."
All of a sudden he saw him, and said he looked around, Billy said, "Don't you know me, brother?"
He said, "Praise the Lord." Said, "Yes, I know who you are."

L-13 There you are, every place, everywhere. And when just a lad, just had entered the ministry, was just a young boy in the way, this elderly gentleman set in my room one day, before my first wife had passed away, set in there. We didn't have nothing in the house, just an old folding bed. We give that to him. We moved off the other room, the little, old, iron bedstead that the children slept in. He stayed in our home. And one day while setting there, I couldn't understand him. I didn't know too much about the spiritual things, and I wondered about this other, and kept it in my heart, before it was confirmed.
And one day sitting there, he rose to his feet, and gave a message, like the man did awhile ago, in unknown tongues. I looked at him, and he stood back and gave the interpretation. And he said, "God speaks and said that you're just a boy now, you got a lot of youth about you, but someday God will use you." And that come to pass, that's right, just as a lad.

L-14 Brother Ryan, I'm speaking of you. Would you just stand up? God bless you. I was... One of the first men that I heard speaking in an unknown tongues. He's a converted catholic. He used to be an acrobat. And I watched him, and I seen, and I listened to him, and I watched his life. He was very humble, he lived down on the river for awhile, and he'd go out, and he... much in prayer and things. And he was one of the first to begin to move me in to listening to what this was. And after while, he has become... no matter, I've stood on the streets. One day I was up here in Erie, Pennsylvania, and they was having some kind of a show there that had beard on their face, and the old brother thought, "Now, here's my opportunity," because he wears a long beard, and a long hair, or hair to his shoulder.

L-15 When I first saw him, I thought he belonged to the House of David, but he didn't. No, he's--he's a Pentecostal brother. So I went out, and I was... Wife and I were walking down the street, and we seen him standing over on the side with that white beard a blowing, singing it:
Tis the old time religion, 
Tis the old time religion,
Like that, passing out tracts. And when he seen me, he tried to move back. He said... seen my wife along. I went over there and put my arms around him, out there. I said, "God bless you, Brother Ryan."
He said, "Brother Branham, I thought I embarrassed you," said, "I thought I'd get back."
I said, "Embarrass me? Brother, you're my brother." No embarrassing nothing. He's my brother. And we've learned to love Brother Ryan. And everywhere we'd go he hitch-hikes, brings his wife, and everything. And, oh, my, along in the streets he's testifying. And I hear people write in to me, businessmen, and everything else, where he's been, say, "A fellow named John Ryan, long beard, come in here, told about great things happening."


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