<TITLE>05. Par -</TITLE>E-1k      Now, to speak in the afternoon like this... I--I am not a--a preacher. When I come behind Brother Baxter, and Starr, and Brother Boze, these other ministers setting here, who are men who are educated, and my little grammar school education don't go very far; I tell you.
At Fort Wayne meeting, I never will forget it. I was out there just a preaching away (You know?), and I come back behind the curtains after the service was go to rest up; I was too weak to walk back. And there was a fine scholar walked up to me, said, "Brother Branham", said, "your grammar's terrible."
I said, "Yes, sir. I know that." I said, "I just had a seventh grade education. My father had died and I had to take care of ten..."
"Oh, that's no excuse." He said, "My," said, "the mistakes that you made tonight." Said, "You should--you should know better grammar than that. The crowd that you're speaking for," said, "why, it's a disgrace."
I guess he was part of Mr. Webster you know, so I said, "Well, sir," I said, "I know that's right." I said, "But..."
He said, "Well, you could take a--a correspondence course."
I said, "Yes, sir. But you see other times," I said, "I was... I had to take care of a big family and everything, and now to make ends meet," and I said, "And now," I said, "the Lord's work is so--keeps me so busy," I said, "I don't have time to--to take it."
He said, "Oh, that's no excuse." He said, "I heard you tonight out there saying, 'All to you people that come by this polepit tonight, believing will get healed.'"
I said, "Yes, sir. What was wrong with that?" I don't know the difference.
And he said, "Why, you should not say, 'polepit'"; said, "you should say 'pulpit.'" He said, "Those people would appreciate you more if you said 'pulpit.'"
But he pinched me a little too hard. You know? So I put my hand over on his shoulder; I said, "Brother, I don't mean to hurt your feelings (See?), but them people out there don't care whether I say, 'polepit' or 'pulpit.' They want me to preach the Gospel and produce what I'm talking about. They see Jesus Christ; that's all they care about." That's right...?.... Well now, I... That's the reason I don't say I'm a minister or a preacher.

E-1m      When I was a little boy, my father was a--a rider, and he used to follow rodeos and so forth, and ride fancy riding. He was a good shot with pistols, and I used to see him take out a row of cans, just take those little bitty cans, like that, and throw them out, like that, and take two guns and just keep rolling that can. Why, I couldn't hit a lard can like that with a rifle, so it... See what a difference it was. And a rider, why, he could just... I've seen him ride till the blood would fly out of his nose and ears. And I thought, "Well, my, that's... He..."
When I got to be a good sized boy, I said, "I'm going to be like my dad." So, we had an old plow horse there. I just lived in Indiana most of life. We had an old plow horse there; it was about fourteen years old. And plow with the old thing all day and we had an old watering trough cut out of a--a log. Did you ever see one of them, when you cut the old log? Well, look at the country folks here, would you? My, that's fine. Well, I'll take off my--my coat and my tie now.


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