<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Last night I was talking about medical science: chiropractic, osteopathic, and whatmore, surgery, and medical science, and all those things. If they didn't fight one another, if they all tried to work together, what a great help it would be. If a doctor seen that the chiropractor could help him, that they'd be buddies together, and the chiropractor could see it's past his setting a bone or whatever it is... And then the osteopathic find out that his muscular conditions couldn't be relieved, he'd have to have an operation, send him to the surgeon, wouldn't that be nice? That would be the way we should be. And now, that's for the medical association.
Now, the ministers, the Methodists, Baptists, and the Presbyterian, all of us, Pentecostal, and what we are, ought to be the same way. That's right.

L-6 When I was pastor at the Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville, well, and the Milltown Baptist Church and other places, I remember, I had my Tabernacle, which still stands at Jeffersonville... And now to show you, we got a Methodist preacher in there now, a preaching, taking my place.
But when I was pastoring up there, and I had a good friend that was born down the same part of Kentucky where I were born, and he had the Main Street Methodist Church in New Albany, just about five miles below us, which is a very lively little church. Why, we had the very best of fellowship. When he was having revival I closed up my church and went down there. He'd do the same thing for me.

L-7 Now, we kid one another a little bit, that's just in preachers, you know. Of course now, you laity don't know this. You see? But we'd kid one another. For instance he'd say to me sometimes--I'd come up, someone would come in, get saved, and I'd say, "Well, brother, what church did you ever belong to?"
"Well, my people were Methodist, Brother Branham, and I want you to sprinkle me (See?); I believe in sprinkling."
"Well," I said, "tell you brother, you know, you'd never make a good member here, though you're a brother; but I've got a good friend down in New Albany by the name of Johnson; and he's a Methodist and he sprinkles. So I tell you what: Let me take you down there and talk over with it with Brother Johnson, because he's a fine man. He's every whit of a Christian, a fine lively church, just Holy Spirit filled, and real good people." I'd say, "I'll take you down there and talk to him. Now, it's pretty dry; there's not much water down there, but he will treat you right."

L-8 Well, he get a member that would said, "Now, Brother Johnson, I--I believe in being baptized by immersing. I--I'd like to be baptized."
He'd say, "Well, I tell you: I--I don't baptize, but Billy, up there Jeffersonville, at the Tabernacle, he's a Baptist, and I--I... He's a fine fellow; you'll make him a good member. But I tell you: He's a Baptist; he will hold you under till every bubble quits coming up."
And so, he will... Now, we'd go on to each other like that. But we were--had fellowship one with another. Not one flaw with Brother Johnson, wonderful man, although we might disagree in theology and speaking, but we--on the same principle we believe the Lord Jesus Christ died to save sinners. That's it. And I believe all of us believe that. And our other little petty things, we should forget them and just go right on serving the Lord. And if I couldn't agree with anyone, that don't mean he still isn't my brother. And--and that's just fine, I want the other man to think the same about me, because it...


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