<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 Standing in a conference or gathering of ministers of my own church, after coming back, some of the Doctors of Divinity said, "Brother Branham, we'd like for you to speak tonight." Oh, how it made me feel to get to stand and say, "Brethren," (The minister that ordained me was present.) I said, "What you said that I had a nightmare..." I said, "We sent missionaries to Africa the--for the past hundred years. And when I got over there, I found them packing mud idols, calling themselves Christians." But I said, "What you call fanaticism, what you call the devil's work, won more souls to Christ in five minutes, than all the missionaries we've sent in a hundred years, and the millions of dollars that we spent."
Brother, sister, the church ought to get in God's program, then the church will move all right. Just like suppers and dinners and so forth to appropriate money, that's not God's way of doing it. Pay your tithes; that's what God wants you to do. See? Just keep in God's program, and He'll bless the giver and so forth. He promised it.
So if we substitute something else, just like we've substituted theology today to take the place of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it'll never work. It can't. We've substituted multitudes instead of power. It'll never take the place of power. God is power. He's the Almighty God. The power of all powers is God.

L-8 This Baptist minister that I was speaking of, Mr. Hall, the Reverend William H. Hall, Milltown, Indiana, Pastor of the Milltown Baptist Church, he'd been a close friend of mine for years after he was converted in the meetings. Been a great believer in Divine healing. And while I was in California, where I was speaking last night at the healing of Congressman Upshaw and many; come home, my wife, which is present tonight, told me that I--Brother Hall was laying, dying with a cancer. Well, you'd imagine how that would make me feel to see that wonderful, gallant soldier of God was going to die. I said, "Well, Honey, who is his doctor?"
She said, "Mr. Dillman, I think." Well, Dr. Dillman is a bosom friend of mine. And I certainly like him real well. And so I thought I'd call up Dr. Dillman before coming--going down Mr. Hall's, but he wasn't in his office. So... He's from Corydon, Indiana.

L-9 So I went on down to see Mr. Hall. And there he laid: had lost about sixty or seventy pounds in the last four or five weeks of his suffering, and he was just as yellow as a pumpkin. And I asked what was his trouble; he said, "Brother Branham," said, "I got cancer." Said, "It's on the liver." Says, "I suppose I'm finished if God doesn't help me." Well it... I--I love the man, so I knelt down, had prayer with him. With all my heart I asked God to heal him, but I got up and went home. And the next morning I called up to see how he was getting along. He was getting worse all the time. So they said that, I forget the specialist's name, in New Albany, who had taken the x-rays at the--at the Saint Edward's Hospital in New Albany, Indiana. That... He was the one who'd taken the x-rays. So the next day I got ahold of Dr. Dillman, and I asked him about Mr. Hall. He said, "Well, Brother Branham..." (Dr. McCully's the man's name.) He said, "We taken him up there and taken x-rays." Says, "He's got cancer on his liver and there's nothing we can do about it. It's too far advanced to operate." And says, "There's nothing we can do about it now. The man is dying."
I said, "I hate to hear that, Dr. Dillman."
Said, "Yes, he was a fine man, Brother Branham."


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