<TITLE>23. Par 83-85</TITLE>L-83 It was in a church house. And I stops and goes in. Come to find out, it was a convention where there was a group of the Pentecostal people was holding a convention over there. And they had to hold it in the north because of the--the--the race conditions they couldn't hold it, and it was an international convention. They was holding it in a big tabernacle at Mishawaka.
So I--I never seen the Pentecost before, so I thought, "Well, believe I will go and see what it looks like. So I walked in, and there they was all clapping their hands [Brother Branham claps his hands--Ed.] like that, and a screaming and a singing. I thought, "What manners, tsk, tsk, tsk, never seen anything like that in my life. What are they all talking about?"
And here was a colored man up there, and he was singing, and he was singing,
I know it was the Blood,
And all the congregation saying:
I know it was the Blood.
And here he'd run down through there and grab somebody up and hug them like that. White, colored and all, saying,
I know it was the Blood for me.
One day when I was lost,
He died upon the cross.
I know it was the Blood for me,
Running up-and-down the aisles. And I thought, "I never seen anything like that in my life." And how... I said... And somebody would jump up and scream and speak in tongues, and I thought, "Say, what is this anyhow?"
And then a preacher got up there, and he got to preaching about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And it looked like... And his finger was about that long, and he pointed me out right back in the back. He was talking to me. And I thought, "Say, how's that guy know anything about me?" See? And oh, there was hundreds and oh, it was thous--two or three thousand, I guess in the--all together, in the meeting.

L-84 And some group from up here at Chicago, colored group, they come up, called Locust Grove, or Piney Wood, or something like that, a quartet that... I never heard such singing in my life. Why, I thought, "There's one thing you have to say about them people; they're are not ashamed of their religion. That's one thing sure. They're--they're not ashamed of it."
So I thought, "You know, I believe I will come back tonight. And I went out and counted my money. I had just enough to get enough gasoline to come back, and twenty cents left. Well, I knowed how much gasoline it'd take, and I couldn't get a tourist court. So I thought, "I will sleep out there in a cornfield." So I went down and got me twenty cents worth of stale rolls. And I thought, "I can live on them for a couple days, but I want to find out what this is all about." So I went down and got my rolls and put them in the back of my car, and...?... went over.

L-85 Then that night, He said, "I want all ministers," the--the spokesman said, "I want all ministers to come at the platform." There was just about, I guess about a two or three hundred of them at the platform. They were all white, colored, and all setting on the platform. He said, "Now, we haven't got time for you to preach, we just want you to come right down the row, and say who you are, where you are from." When it come my place, I said, "Evangelist, William Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana," set down. Next, next, next, on like that.
Come to find out, I was the youngest man was there, twenty-three years old then. I was the youngest man at the--at the platform. I didn't know it at that time. The next morning...
Well, then we went on that night. And I want to tell you what happened that night. I set and heard all them ministers preaching that day about, oh, the Deity of Christ, and the great messages about His walk on life, and His sacrifice, and so forth, and all the different things.


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