<TITLE>02. Par 6-8</TITLE>L-6 How many knows Brother Vivert? Well, that's fine. I never even knew he was my own cousin till here not long ago. He's my father's sister's child. So I--I didn't know it. I just knowed his name was Vivert, and he was a preacher down there, but... Why, he said, "Don't you know me, Billy?" He said, "You know, your--your father and my mother is brothers and sisters."
That's a Branham for you. See? And so she married a Vivert and that's how it--it was, that he being a Vivert and me a Branham. So we were... And he's a fine boy though, very fine, and a close friend to Brother--Brother Rogers here.
And talking to him from my room tonight, he said, "Have Brother Vivert come up and sing." So just I said, "You might as well put your coat on, Brother Vivert." And he said, "Brother Branham, I got a man's prayer meeting. I got to attend." And so he asked to be excused for that. That he'd go back to the prayer meeting tonight. And so he was very happy to know how Brother Rogers was going on for the Lord. Say, that's a baptistery over there, isn't it brother? [Brother says, "Yes, sir."--Ed.]

L-7 Here some time ago, a Methodist minister, setting looking at me laughing now... I was in a Methodist church and so the fellow, a Methodist pastor there in Hyde Park, or--or the, I call the name: Park Methodist Church in Jeffersonville. I was over to visit him, was going to preach for him one night. He said, "You know I was over to Billy's Tabernacle." And said, "I took some people that wanted to be immersed." And said, "We went into that--that..." Said, "What is you call it?"
I said, "That's too much of a word for a Methodist to say; a baptistery." He had a little bitty pool of water about this big, setting there, you know, that I could have drink dry nearly, if I was thirsty, setting there for the baptist... I said that baptistery is too much of a word for a Methodist to say. He just laughed, said, "I think we ought to have one of them in here."
I said, "Now, you're getting right." So looks like you've already gotten right, Brother Rogers. That's very good.

L-8 I tell you, the fellowship we have, the brother, a Main Street Methodist Church down in New Albany and so... He and I were raised up here in Kentucky just across the hollow from each other. And he... When I was pastoring the church, why, up at Jeffersonville, and I get someone come in, and a convert, I'd say... He'd say to me, "Now, Brother Branham, I want you to sprinkle me, because I tell you why," he said, "all my people were Methodist," and said, "I want to be sprinkled."
I said, "Now, Brother, you'll never make me a good member." See? I said, "But I got old Brother Lum down here, is one of the finest men you ever met." And I said, "I'll just take you down to him and--and he can sprinkle you." And I said, "He's a good man." I said, "It's awful dry down there, but a good church."
So when he'd get a convert, he said, "Well, now, Brother Lum, I want you to baptize me 'cause my people were Baptist." He'd say, "You know," said, "you'll never make me a good member." But said, "My Brother Billy up there at Jeffersonville," said--said, "you better go up to him." Said, "I'll tell you," said, "he's a water dog." Said, "He will drown you," said, "he will hold you till the last bubble comes up."
So that's--that's the way we got along. And if the--if all churches could get along like that, wouldn't it be... We'd begin the millennium just about this time, wouldn't we? When everybody can have fellowship one with another, while the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Isn't that wonderful? And that's the way it will be.


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