<TITLE>19. Par 79-82</TITLE>L-79 Here not long ago there was a young boy went off to a cemetery, or a seminary: about the same. So went off to get him... Always a seminary minister... I have nothing against it. I had some of it myself, but always reminds me of an incubator chicken, hatched out mechanically. "Chirp, chirp, chirp," and ain't got no mammy to go to. All we learn is theology. What we need is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It's a shame that we've adopted theology to take the place of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
I may be deafening you, but I'm getting a blessing myself. All right. If I'm the only one, I'm swelling out. Notice. Oh, my. I would like to see this whole Palm Beach this afternoon with your hands up to God, praising God in an old fashion meeting. I tell you the power of God will sweep this place. This place would be so dry, if they'd nicker in the next few days, a bootlegger would have to prime himself a half hour to get enough moisture to spit. Amen. That's right. What we need today is an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting. That'll solve the problem. Amen. Don't say it for a joke. I don't believe in joking in the pulpit, but it's the truth. Amen. Yes, sir.

L-80 Fundamental, sure, he's just as fundamental right as the next man was. He was just as fundamental right, but now watch. Balak, the king, said, "Now, look over here." And he showed the utmost parts of Israel.
I wonder if we haven't kind of looked at these people who preach Divine healing, believe in the blessings of God the utmost parts. I believe he had and said, "This man run away with this man's wife." I wonder if we Baptists and Methodists haven't done the same thing and just kept it squashed down. Don't tell me. I've been with you. That's right. I know it to be the truth. Yes, sir. Sure. Let me tell you, brother, sin is sin, let it be where it may be.

L-81 Like this little, old mother sent her boy away to the seminary to become a preacher. Oh, my. It's all right. I believe it's a good thing. Sure it is, as long as it's a good spiritual college, send him away. But when you take him to these old, cold, formal morgues... You know what a morgue is. Where somebody's dead and they take him down and pump something in him, keep him dead. That's just about the way it is: Take all the God out of him, and learn him theology, and send him back him home worse than he was when he become. So that's right.
Here come this little old... One of these little seminary... And the little mother got sick. She taken pneumonia and thought she was going to die. They sent for her boy to come home. If she wasn't better in the next twenty-four hours, they had to come home. Well, then when... The first thing you know she quit writing. A few weeks after that, the boy took a vacation and come home. She wrote, and told him she was all right. He said, "Mother, I want to ask you something, mother dear." Said, "Why... how'd you get well so quick?" Said, "What did the doctor give you?"

L-82 She said, "Oh, honey, I got something to tell you, that you don't know about." She said, "You know this little old mission downtown here where that bunch of, you call, fanatics worship?"
"Yeah. Uh-huh."
Said, "You know, that--that woman heard that I was sick, and she come up here. And the doctor done told me wasn't nothing he could do, both lungs was congested. You just have to suffer it out and he--they didn't expect me to live overnight. And she heard about it, and she come up here and said, 'Why don't you let our pastor come, pray for you.' Said, 'He believes in Divine healing.' Said, 'Don't you...'"
"'Oh,' she said, 'I don't know nothing about it. Let my pastor come talk to you.'"


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