<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>55-0609, A Greater Witness Than John, Porter Stadium, Macon, GA, 56 min
L-1 Thank you very much. Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight and to enjoy this wonderful message (as much as I heard of it), of Brother Thoms. And I know he's a servant of the Lord God, because he has proved it ever since I have knew him. And so we're very happy for this message, and I hope that it's went straight home to every heart.
And now, Brother Thoms, also, he is a--a missionary to the natives in Africa. And I think they're making arrangements to give him an offerings of a (at least, I asked for it) for his native mission over there. After being there, myself, why... Of course, knowing just what it really means to be a missionary, I think the type of--of mission that Brother Thoms has, is really the correct type.

L-2 See, the first thing, the native is just a little suspicious of the white man when he comes, to begin with. But Brother Thoms has the idea that the Lord gave years ago. One time, was reading a little book from a mission field, and there was a picture of an old colored man, a little white rim of hair. He said, "White man, white man, where was your father?" Said, "I'm old and dull at mind; I'm just learning of Jesus. If I would've knowed Him, I would've took Him to my people." That struck me. "If I would've known Him, when I was young, I would've took Him to my people." Now, that was right. See, the first thing, the white man can't even go where the natives can go. He can't live on the same things. And I thought, "Get the natives saved, and let the native do the missionary work, hisself." That's what Brother Thoms does.

L-3 And at Johannesburg, the day when we had thirty-thousand converts that afternoon, after seeing... Wish we had time to tell you the story of it. When the man, healed, walked like a dog and led by a chain... And when the Lord Jesus began to reveal things in the audience, everyone... Doctor F. F. Bosworth (many of you know him), he estimated twenty-five thousand healings at one time. Twenty-five thousand got healed at one prayer when they seen it. And thirty-thousand got saved at the same time. And he... I said, "Now, don't wait until some missionary comes from America." I have all respect for them, but the thing of it is, friend, David Livingstons isn't no more. There's got to be somebody get out there.
And what they, as far as theology, why, they believe on their idols, and so forth, and just--just merely a change of thought. But when they see God moving in His power, that's what changes the native. And I said, "Don't wait for your education. Go on out and tell your native friends that Jesus died for them."


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