<TITLE>15. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 It's possible you can be setting here (every one of us has got the same senses) and you can have such a headache that you can't hardly set still. And I wouldn't have no headache. How do I know about your headache?
It's something dealing individual with you. And how the Spirit of God can come down into a group of people and can baptize that person in such a way that the power of God carries them to where they don't even know where they're standing. And the next person sets around them, know nothing about it. That's right.

L-46 Doctor said, to me not long ago, said, "Billy, don't you think them people, them Pentecostal people is just excited?"
I said, "No, sir. I don't."
He said, "Well, what makes them... That's nervousness, because they scream and holler and go on."
I said, "Doctor, you mean to tell me that the nerves can be excited without something to excite them? Something has to excite them.
"So--so what's there?"
I said, "The unseen force of the Holy Ghost moving among us. It excites that borned again Spirit." Right. It brings an excitement to that spirit. The power of God foams down through. Faith cometh by hearing. The Holy Ghost takes the Word, spreads It out over the people to catch It, with a power--that regenerated borned again Life. Something has got to cry out. Right.

L-47 Joel seen the day coming when that would be changed. When they'd adopt... God help the day when they have come and dop--adopted theology in the stead of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. God help the day when you--when you took away tithings from the church, and--and boiled up some old tough rooster and sold it for fifty cents a plate, to get money to pay the preacher. It's a shame. You...
God help the day that when you've--when you substituted for the upper room, a supper room. God help the day. That's right. What we need today is a good old fashion Saint Paul's revival in the Bible Holy Ghost preached back in It's power and simplicity.

L-48 Not long ago, I was thinking. I was way up in Canada, and I was riding one night. I'd been way back, about forty or fifty miles. Thousand miles from a hardtop road, last fall. Was back there a hunting. And I was riding out through the moonlight, and I come to where there was a big old burn-over. And there was a great big bunch of great big tall stately pines. And the moon was shining on them. It looked like a graveyard, a spooky-looking place.
And there come a wind coming down. And the wind begin to hit them and they'd go, "Mooood," just a mournful sound.
I stood and looked at it a little bit. And I thought of this Scripture right here. Yes, sir. Those trees puts me in a mind of some of these great big fine spired churches standing up here, but just as dead as a doornail. Even the palmerworm's eat all the bark off of them and everything else. The fiery trials has blazed all the Spirit away from it. And there's nothing left but a big statue, just as dead as can be.
And when the rushing mighty wind comes from heaven, the only thing they can do is groan, and carry on, and say it ain't so (That's right.), hardly knowing anything. That's right. They say, "Days of miracles is past." Just every time God sends a revival, and signs and wonders begin to come up, and fall around the people, and things like that, they say, "Oh, the days of miracles is past."


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