<TITLE>25. Par 100-103</TITLE>L-100 And directly, I stopped my horse and tied it up. It was about nine o'clock at night. I looked around, and the moon shined on them old blistered trees, put me in the mind of tombstones somewhere in a graveyard. And the wind begin to come down out of the heavens, blowing and making a mournfulest sound, "Whoo."
I thought, "Oh, what a spooky place." I looked around like that. I thought, "Well, my. I don't... Well, looky there. Now, why did You stop me here for, Lord?" I looked all around.
I thought, "Well, that's right.
I remember Joel said, "What the caterpillar left, the locust eaten. What the locust eat, the palmerworm eaten, and what one left, the other eaten and on like that, till they eat it all down." He said, "Will this ever live again? Will this ever come to pass?"
I thought, "That's what Joel was speaking about," and I thought then...

L-101 I begin to notice and see. Then come the wind again and "Booo." I thought, "That's just the way our churches has got. Years ago the Methodists and Baptists having big old revivals, and healing campaigns. And you Methodists, don't tell me. I read your history. When the Methodists, when Wesley was over here, he couldn't get in places. He had to take places like this too in little schoolhouses where he could get, because the big starchy churches done fell away from God.
Wesley had a revival. And the people would fall out on the floor with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They'd pour water in their face, and fan them; they'd lay all night on the floor. Too bad you had the pitcher of water. You might've come through. See? And they poured the water in his face and shake him. "Oh, he's fainted. He's fainted." The Holy Ghost working on him, just wasn't the age yet to know these things. See? And there he was.

L-102 What a revival he had, and nobody can say they didn't have a revival. They did have a revival, and those big churches today stand and say, "I'm a church. Don't tell me. I'm recognized in United States government." Well, what have you got? You're dead, blistered. Just the signs of what you was, and every time God sends that Holy Ghost mighty rushing wind down through the church, saying... You going to saying, "Whoooo. The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as Divine healing. Whooooo, that's spiritualism. That's the devil. Whooooo, don't go near that old stuff. God don't heal the people no more. Days of miracles is past."
And the only thing the Holy Ghost does blowing through them, there's nothing in the world would make them moan and groan and carry on. Oh, brother, that sure went down, didn't it? I felt that go plumb to the core. That's where I wanted it to go. All right.

L-103 Now, but I wonder then what can you do? That's all it does. But now, I thought, "Lord, You said, 'I will restore, saith the Lord in Joel.' Then I happened to look back and coming up under them trees, come another bunch of trees, little, bitty old trees, coming up like this, little pine trees and all kinds. And when that wind got low enough down to catch them, brother, they wasn't standing stiff and starchy. They just give with the wind; that had life in them, just a thanking and rejoicing.
I said, "Hallelujah. I will restore saith the Lord. I'll raise up another church. If they get starchy and deny the power of God. I'll raise up something that will receive It." Hallelujah. Whew. Amen.
You might think I'm crazy. But if I am, just leave me alone. I'm happy this a way. I'm better off this a way than I was when I was with the world. So just let me alone. I'm all right. I never hurt nobody.


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