<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 If you'd only followed me in the last eight years since I've been in Phoenix, the first time, and to see what I have seen, to see little hungry children on the streets, little colored boys in Africa, and little girls drink from a muddy stream, the only water they ever know, and then maybe get chomped up by the crocodile while they're drinking. Never knew what a bath was, never knew the Name of Jesus Christ, nothing else, never eat at a table in their life, find anything out on the field just full of--of maggots... They eat maggots and all. So they... That--that's all they know to eat.
I was talking to a doctor here, not long ago, two or three doctors standing in a sporting goods place, where a man who runs a Safari in Africa, was wanting to know if he'd pay my way if I'd go down with him in a hunting trip. They're going down on TWA. I said, "I--I'm not going down there to hunt. I'm going to hunt for souls for Jesus Christ."

L-6 And I was telling him about the native life. He said, "Well, Reverend Branham," he said, "you understand, those people are... That's not human."
I said, "I beg your pardon, doctor. They're just as much human as you are, or I am." That's right.
He said, "Oh, they couldn't be."
I said... What the question come up about. I said, "Has all of our hygiene helped us any? If one of us would eat something like that, we'd die before night. But he eat it, and it don't hurt him. You don't find half the sickness among them that we find among us. We get some kind of a medicine, and it might help something, and cause us to have something else." See?

L-7 I just wonder if it's helped us any. I believe we'd be pretty as well off, if we just went the way God told us to in the first place. See? Not condemning that, now, no, but watch, it shortens the days up.
Why, there was an old colored lady setting there, claimed she heard David Livingston preach. She'd have to be a hundred and thirty, thirty-five years old. See? And there... Think of that.
This doctor said, "They're not human."
I said, "They're just as much human as we are." I said, "Doctor, you have tried for the last six thousand years to get one mutter out of the closest animals to the human race, which is the chimpanzee." I said, "You've tried to get one mutter out of him, and you can't. He just absolutely can't think, and he... There's nothing about him; there's no soul in him."

L-8 But I said, "Give me a little bushman." That's the wildest tribe in Africa. "Bring me a little bushman. His great, great, great, great, great grandfather never even seen a white man or civilization. The little boy don't know which is right and left hand. He don't know which day of the week it is, nor nothing; only thing he knows is get what he can to eat. That's all he knows. Let me have him when he's six months old and come visit him when he's ten years old; he can read, write and anything else. He's a human, and Jesus Christ died for him."
And we're here on the churches in these big cities and things with great big fine churches and all this stuff, and about a little handful of people, and stewing around like that, and millions that has never heard of Jesus Christ. That's right. Oh, that's a pity. Somebody get the vision and go, that... Go to those. Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel."
Now, what they want to know over there is the Gospel, just not the Word, but the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit.


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