<TITLE>10. Par 29-29</TITLE>L-29 A few weeks ago, or it's, say, a few months ago, rather, when I come back from Africa, I had ameba. And they was going to put me in a pest house when I come over, because they said I had ameba. You know the story of it. There's a doctor taken me in, and said, "I want you to drink some..." It was Barium Meal, what it was."
And oh, he was out of sorts that morning; I thought, "God, what did You sent me in here for?"
And he was drinking that Barium Meal.
Said, "Catch your breath."
And I said, "Yes."
And he pushed in like this, and he pushed around, like he was pretty near putting his hands through me. And he said--he said, "Lay down on the table." He said, "They tell me you're a missionary?"
I said, "Well," I said, "I'm an evangelistic missionary now."
He said, "Well," said, "the doctor's told me that you was a preacher."
And I said, "That's right."
"Do you know, I studied that stuff once."
And I said, "You did?" I said, "What went wrong?"
He said, "I found out it wasn't right."
I said, "You did?" I said, "Well, I've been twenty-three years, and I--I never found that out yet." I said, "I just found out it's better to me all the time."
"Well," he said, "here's what it is reverend." he said, "You know," he says, "I--I studied four years at Presbyterian seminary." And he said, "I got a hold of some books." He said, "you know, all the Mohammedans, they've got virgins births, and they got all kind of resurrections." He said, "I come to find out the whole thing was nonsense. You can't make it out."
And I said, "Doctor, you're trying to compare the ridiculous with the sublime." I said, "There's not no comparison at all. They claim they have, but they have no witness of it."
He said, "Neither have we."
I said, "Oh, yes we do."
He said, "There cannot be one thing produced to prove that there is a supernatural Being."
I said, Will you accept it, if it'll be proved to you?"
And he said, "Well, how could you prove it?"
I said, "I can prove it, scientifically, that there is a supernatural Being." That's right.
And he said, "I don't believe." He said, "I studied it," said, "all these different things."
I thought, "Lord, give me wisdom, 'cause I'm speaking to a smart man and me a hillbilly." So I knowed that I had to have God's help, so...
He said, "Well," said, "I just don't believe there's such a thing."
I said, "Well, I want to ask you something, doctor?" And I--I begin to talk to him; I said, "The thing of it is, you try to figure everything out." I said, "I appreciate science." I said, "You looked right up through my stomach, awhile ago, with the light that's in my body. The little cord of a thing you put in up there, and my light meter just showed through there, and you went all through my stomach to tell me that I didn't have any symptoms of these things or any them parasites any more." I said, "Well, I appreciate that, and that's good." But I said, "Here's what it is. Science doesn't know God." I said, "You climb up this tree so far... And the tree of knowledge only goes so far, and then it's all the higher you can get." I said, "Climb up on the tree of knowledge just as far as you can, and step off on the tree of faith and go on believing on up like that."
He said, "Well, I wish I could do that."
I said, "You can, if you'll believe."
And he said, "Well..."
I said, "Did you ever read of the Lord Jesus in the Bible, of how that the things that He did, and so forth?"
He said, "Oh, yes."
And about that time, the Lord gave me a vision of something that he did. I said, "What about?"
He said, "How did you know that?"
There you are. Isn't it strange, that people, the very things that will bring joy and perfect satisfaction to the unbeliever's heart, they want to class it something else?


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