<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 When he got a convert, he said, "Brother Johnson, I want you to baptize me. My people were Baptists."
He said, "Look. You'd never make me a good member." But said, "I got a good friend, Billy, up there at the Baptist Tabernacle up at Jeffersonville." Said, "If you go up there," said, "he's a fine boy." But said, "He will drown you. He will hold you under till the last bubble comes up."
So that's the kind of fellowship the Methodists and Baptists headed for--as Brother Johnson and I's church. And we all ought to feel that way, absolutely, Christians and brothers. And we love that with all of our heart and fellowship with each other.
Now, remember the services everywhere. And if I'm not mistaken, isn't this kind of a--a German settlement through here? It looks to me like it's... look either Swede or German, I see big sturdy healthy looking people. That looks pretty good.
And I was passing through here the other night, and the custodian said he was from Finland and his people was from Finland. I spoke a few words of Finnish to him. And I said, "Kiitos" and "Jumalan rauhaa." And he looked at me. "Kiitos" is "thank you," and "Jumalan rauhaa" is "God's peace be upon you."
And so I think I'd speak a few words in German, and they'd be a whole lot of people understand me.

L-12 Say, in Germany by the way, we had one of the most lovely meetings, if it is a Germ--set--settlement here, German people.
And you know, as an American... And I think, God by one Spirit has made us all one people. And everywhere you go, I... everywhere around the world, I found out, wherever they're Christians they're all the same. There's no difference in them everywhere.
And being we've had so much war in Germany and so forth, when I got over there my first time, I thought, "My, I bet we have a lot of trouble over here." But some of the nicest people I ever met, sure was. They treated me like I was a brother.
And in there we had a hundred thousand converts. I was at Hamburg and--and Karlsruhe, there's where I had my big meeting, at Karlsruhe, and then I went on down into Lausanne, and then on over into Zurich, Switzerland. 'Course, the Swiss is just a German. I said the German, his intelligence is master, we know that. He's a great intelligence. Some of our greatest science comes from Germany.
And I said, "But the trouble of Germany, they get the wrong--wrong--wrong leadership, and they're trying to make a gun or a bomb that'll--that'll destroy the rest of the world, and they'll be masters of it. And the Swiss," I said, "Well, he's the same intelligence, but he went down there and got in peace and made a watch and sold it to his neighbor," just kinda peaceful. So that's about the way it goes.
But let Christ come to them, and they're all the same. That's right. And I certainly appreciate...

L-13 So, I remember one night, first they's a communistic element in Germany now, which you all know. And we were pretty close to the communist zone, the Russian control. And then when I first started the meeting it attracted the attention there of many many thousands the first night. And so then the--oh, the--the Dutch Reform Church or the state church, rather, which was really by Zwingli and--and not Luther. And--and we'd disagreed quite a bit upon the doctrine of the--the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ.
Now, they don't believe in that in Switzerland. The Swiss church don't believe it. I got their own books right in English. And they say Zwingli said that Jesus was the Son of Joseph, called the Son of God. But if you--if you'd take that, that knocks every principle of Christianity out. He was a virgin born Son of God. Joseph had nothing to do with it. He was just the--the tutor to raise him, the father, foster father.


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