<TITLE>06. Par 55-66</TITLE>L-55 He said, "Pentecostals!" Said, "Billy, if you'd ever see that," said, "they was rolling on the floor like that and jumping up-and-down." And said, "They said that they had to jabber off in some kind of unknown tongues or they--they wasn't saved."
And I said, "Where's that at?"

L-56 "Oh," said, "a little old tent meeting out there, the other side of Louisville." Said, "Colored people, of course."
And I said, "Uh-huh."
And he said, "There's a lot of white people there."
I said, "Did they do that, too?"
Said, "Yes, yes! They did it, too."

L-57 I said, "That's funny, the people get mixed up in stuff like that." I said, "Well, I guess we just have to have those things." On a Sunday morning, I'll never forget it. He was eating a piece of dry orange peeling for indigestion he had, and I can just see it as well as it was yesterday. And I thought, "Jabbering, jumping up-and-down, what kind of religions will they get next?" And so I--I went on.

L-58   Later from that, I met an old man that's here in the church maybe now, or he was here over to the church, by the name of John Ryan. And I met him at a place... The old fellow with long beard and hair, and he may be here. I thought he was from Benton Harbor up here, at the House of David.

L-59 And they had a place in Louisville. I was trying to find them people, and they called it the School of the Prophets. So I thought I'd go over and see what that was. Well, I didn't see nobody rolling on the floor, but they had some strange doctrines. And there's where I met this old man, he invited me to come up to his place.

L-60 I went up for a vacation. And I was there one day, and I went back to his house and he had done gone, and he had gone somewhere down in Indianapolis. Said, "The Lord called him," his wife.
I said, "You mean you let that man run off like that?"

L-61 She said, "Oh, he's God's servant!" Poor old thing died a few weeks ago, I hear. And she was devoted to him. My, that's the kind of wife to have! That's right. Right or wrong, he's right anyhow! I said... Well, I knowed they...

L-62   Now he... Brother Ryan, are you here? He isn't here. He was the other day, wasn't he, boys?

L-63 Well, they just live with what they can get a hold of, and he didn't have nothing to eat in the house. That's right. And I had caught some fish out to a pond, or a lake, in Michigan, and I come back down--and I come back down to the place. And they didn't even have lard in the house, or grease, to cook the fish with. And I said, "He left you without anything in the house?"
Said, "Oh, but he's God's servant, Brother Bill!" Said, "He..."

L-64 And I thought, "Well, bless your old heart. Brother, I'll stand right by you." That's right. "You think that much of your husband, I'm ready to join up and stand by you for that." That's right. We need more women like that today, and more men thinking of their wife like that. That's right. It'd be a better America if husbands and wives would join together like that. Right or wrong, stay with them. Wouldn't be so many divorces.

L-65   So we--we went to... Then I went on. And on my road home, it was a strange thing, I come down through Mishawaka. And I seen little--little old cars now, sitting on the street, called... big signs on them said, "Jesus Only." I thought, "What does... 'Jesus Only,' that must be religious." And I went over here and here's bicycles had it on it, "Jesus Only." Cadillacs, Model-T Fords, everything, "Jesus Only" on it. I thought, "Well, wonder what that is?"

L-66 So I followed it around; come to find out, it was a religious meeting, fifteen hundred to two thousand people there. And I heard all that there screaming and jumping up-and-down, and going on. I thought, "Say, here's where I'll see what holy-rollers is."


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