<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 I met them coming into the meeting there, packing mud idols, sprinkled with blood. Coming down the street, the Mayor of Durban, Sidney Smith was bringing out where we... The streets and hills and things was so packed with people. And he said... I said, "Look at those fellows with them idols. And what's that tag they got hanging around their neck?"
"That's Christians."
I said, "With an idol?"
He said, "Yeah, they pack idols too."
And I said, "Well, that's strange." I said, "Could you speak his language, that fellow standing there?"
Said, "Yes, he's a Zulu."
And I went over to him, and I asked him; he couldn't speak English, of course. I said, "Are you a Christian?"
"Yep." He's a Christian.
And I said, "Well, what you packing that idol for?"

L-10 "Oh," he said his--his--his daddy packed it. And now, he said one day the lion got after his daddy, and he set the--the little idol down, and built up a fire, and said the little enchantment that the witch doctor told him, and the lion run away. Said, "Well, if Amoyah failed (that's god, the unseen. The word means 'the wind,' the 'Amoyah.' We..." they say, "We pray to the unseen force like the wind). If he fails, this won't fail."
Now, you know that's not Christianity, not at all. Well, I said, "Being a hunter myself, the lion... The prayer that you said never run the lion away; that never scared the lion. The fire you built up run the lion away. See, it got scared of the fire."

L-11 But that afternoon when they seen the Lord Jesus Christ in His power of His resurrection, when there come a man across the platform... The first one on the platform at Durban, was a--a little--a Mohammedan woman. She had a red dot between her eyes. There's perhaps missionaries setting here now that knows what that means. They'd been to the temple; they'd been blessed by the priest, a rejection of Jesus Christ, and accepting the Mohammedan.
When she stood on the platform... We had about fifteen interpreters. And so the different, fifteen languages... Just as far as you could see for city blocks was people, just everywhere. And then, they were laying there naked, and all kinds of conditions, different tribes. They had them fenced off so the tribes wouldn't war at one another.

L-12 And the missionaries and so forth that brought them in from way out in the jungles, they said they come in for two weeks. "Thought you'd stay a long time, or be there for a long time." We was only there for three days. And then...
And that afternoon, the first woman come across the platform. I said, "Of course you know I couldn't heal you." The interpreter... But I said, "You couldn't hide your life." I said, "Then why, as you as a Mohammedan, why have you come to me as a Christian?"
She said to (through the interpreter, of course) "I believe..." She believed that I could help her.
I said, "But why--why don't you go to your priest at the temple?" No, she wanted me to help her. I said, "Well, I'm a Christian. I believe in Jesus Christ."
She believed Jesus Christ too, but not to be the Son of God. She just... The Mohammedans, that's Ishmael's children (See?), they believe in God. But they don't believe Jesus to be the Son of God. They say Mohammed was the prophet of God. They ring this great big gong every morning. The priest comes out and he hollers, "There's one true and living God and Mohammed is His prophet."
We believe there's one true and living God and Christ is His Son. See? So then, we...


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