<TITLE>08. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 Look. Let me tell you. Here sometime ago last year... I love hunting. I was up in the hills a little while to hunt, up in Canada. I was coming down... I'd gotten lost out there in the wilderness one night, and I was coming back along on my horse. And I was trying to find my way back, no roads, eleven hundred miles from a hardtop road, no path just follow game trails.
And I seen a sight that kinda reminded me of this Scripture, where it comes to me tonight. I come down through where there was an old burn over years ago. And this old burn over... There was a big bunch of old trees standing there, big old tall, stately pine trees, once was great trees who stood in their, kingly and priestly, steps or places. And the winds blew through them and they'd frolic with the wind.

L-29 But a burn over had come, and it burnt all the bark off of them, all the life out of them. And they were standing there, and the moon was shining. You talk about a spooky looking place. And the first thing you know, the wind began to blow. And the wind went O-o-o-o-o. And that wind coming down through them trees sounds so mournful. My. O-o-o-o-o... And I thought, "Oh, mercy."
And I stood there, and I thought, "Lord, why'd I get lost today, and why did You bring me into this woods?" And I thought, "Well, now let me study here just a minute. The moon's shining on them things, look like old tombstones." And I thought, "Yes, Lord. I understand."

L-30 That puts me in the mind a bunch of these old cold, formal churches, standing up that wants to be one great big church. But what the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. What the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten. What the Baptist left, the Presbyterian eaten, till they eat all the life out of the thing. And when God sends a big mighty rushing wind down, they just stand and go, "O-o-o-o. The days of miracles is past. No such a thing as Divine healing. There's no such a thing as the power of the God. O-o-o-o-o." All they can do is moan and groan and take it on. Oh. Why? They haven't got any life in them.
Oh, doubtless they can say, "We're trees." Yes, sir. But you once was, what are you now? You Methodists that don't believe in Divine healing...

L-31 When I stood under the shrine there where John Wesley preaching Divine healing, they turned the fox hound loose and run his congregation out. He pointed his finger in the face of the man. Said, "You'll... The sun will not set on your head three times till you call me to pray for you." He died that evening with cramps.
When Wesley was over here, he was riding his horse to visit a woman one day, and the horse fell and broke its leg. And Wesley got off the horse, pulled out the anointing oil, said, "Lord, You made this horse, the same You did me." Poured oil upon him, anointed him with oil, got on him and rode him away.

L-32 Why, Methodists, you was, but you're dead now. Wait, I'm going to get to you Pentecost just a minute too. All right. Right. What one left, the other one eaten. What this left, the other one eaten. What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. What the caterpillar left...
The first thing they begin to have this and they, "Well, we'll take that out." They went to the cemetery or seminary, all got a big education. They started teaching theology. And they have adopted theology today, to take the place of the Holy Ghost, and that's the reason two-thirds of the world knows nothing about Christ. Amen.
What we need today, brother, is the Holy Ghost back in the Church to lead the Church. Amen. Yes, sir.


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