<TITLE>08. Par 81-90</TITLE>L-81 And so I got to preaching up there, and I took a text, I never will forget it, "The rich man lifted up his eyes in hell, and then he cried." I, a lot of times, preach little three things like that, "Come, see a man," "Believest thou this?" or "Then he cried." And I kept saying, "There's no flowers, and then he cried. There's no prayer meetings, then he cried. There's no children, then he cried. No songs, and then he cried." Then I cried.

L-82   So after it was all over, why, my, they just... all of them around me, wanting me come hold a meeting for them. And I thought, "Say, maybe I'm a holy roller!" See? So I thought, "Maybe..." See, they was such fine people.

L-83 And I walked up out there. A man with a pair of cowboy boots on, and big cowboy hat, I said, "Who are you?"
He said, "I'm Elder So-and-so from Texas."
I thought, "Well, that looked..."

L-84 Another fellow walked up with these little bitty knicker-bocker pants on, you know, they used to play golf with, and one of them little bitty jersey sweaters. He said, "I'm Rev. So-and-so from Florida. Would you come hold..."

L-85 I thought, "I'm right at home, boy, these here seersucker trousers and tee shirt. That's just fine."

L-86   So, you've heard my life story on those things, so I'll stop here and tell you something that I've never told before. First thing, I want to ask you... I was going to bypass that. I've never said it before in public, in my life. If you promise me that you love me and will try to love me as much after I say this as I do before I say it, raise up your hand. All right. That's your promise, I'm going to hold you to it.

L-87 Sitting in the meeting that night, when they would sing their songs they'd clap their hands. And they'd sing, "I..." That little song, "I know it was the Blood. I know it was the Blood." And they would run up and down the aisles, and everything, and just shouting and praising the Lord. I thought, "That sounds awful good to me." I begin...

L-88   And they was referring all the time to Acts, Acts 2:4, Acts 2:38, Acts 10:49, all that. I thought, "Say, that's Scripture! I just never seen It like that before." But, oh, my heart was burning, thought, "This is wonderful!" I thought they was a bunch of holy rollers when I first met them, and I thought, "Oh, my! Now they're a bunch of angels." See, I changed my mind right quick.

L-89 So the next morning when the Lord had give me this great opportunity to hold these meetings, I thought, "Oh, my, I'll get with this bunch of people! That must be the kind of what they used to call 'the shouting Methodist.' Just went a little farther," I thought. "Maybe that's what it is." So I thought, "Well, I'm... I sure like that. Oh, there's something about them I like, they're humble and sweet."

L-90   So one thing I couldn't understand was that speaking in tongues, that got me. And I... There was one man, say, sitting here and one over here, and they were the leaders of the group. This one would raise up and speak in tongues, this would interpret it and would tell things about the meeting and so forth. I thought, "My, whew, I got to read that!" So then they'd vice versa, fall on this and then back on that one; and each one would speak in tongues, interpret. The rest of the church would speak, but it didn't seem like the interpretation come like these two men. Now, I seen they sit close together, I thought, "Oh, my, them must be Angels!" So while sitting back there...


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