<TITLE>03. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 Now, I was speaking to a very scholarly man from Canada, and as we know the Canadians are, if you know them. If--if you've ever had personal acquaintance with them, they are scholars, very deep, most of them. And they do not have the troubles up there that we have here.
And in that I found that this man, yet not much older than I, he's probably fifty... And he was completely grayed, and his mustache was gray, and yet not over fifty years old. And I said to him, "My brother," when he came to the--the room where I was staying, the pastor of a--a church. I said... looked at him... And just a few years ago in Saskatoon when we had a great meeting together at the big arena, when I first started into the--the evangelistic meetings, he was black-headed; his mustache was black; and he was--had two young daughters; and they are married now and got children. And so I said in my heart, "Oh, what has happened?"

L-8 He said, "Brother Branham, about two years ago, I thought maybe the Lord had called me to the United States for--for work." He said, "I went to the west coast and got connected with a certain broadcast that goes national." And he said, "When I seen the dishonesty of the way they misused the finance that was sent in," he said, "I just, as a Christian, couldn't stay there any longer. I left, and I got hooked up with another." And said, "It was out of the frying pan into the fire." And he said, "Then I just kept and found out so many things," and said, "to find the weakness of the American pulpit..."
And I said, "Brother, that is true. We have no middle class here to speak of. We--we either have the real cold, and formal, and indifferent, or the extreme fanatic. And we don't have the middle ground." And I said, "It's--it's too bad."

L-9 And he said, "Then I come here." And he said, "Brother Branham, as soon as I got here and my first message, I found out it was beating the piano, and turning over the chairs, and..." He said, "Then I begin to wonder." And he said, "Then through it all, I tried to preach the Gospel, just in the Word." And when it did, he said, "I... there was something another that after while the Lord let me break through to the anointing, and brought the... The Holy Spirit came into our midst with a love, and a peace of God begin to flow over the building." And said, "Then I said now the Holy Spirit is here, and we will now worship the Lord and concentrate our lives unto God." And said, "Some young boy with not enough wisdom to hardly get in the door, runs up to the pulpit."
He said, "Amen, preacher; that's right. Look, oil's been dripping out of my hands all morning. Hallelujah. Let people come up here, and I'll give this anointed oil for healing."
He said, "Brother Branham," I said, "sonny, find you a seat and set down." And said, "You know what happened, the presiding elders said to me, 'you find you a seat and set down.'"

L-10 He said, "How will we ever... How can you, or preachers who try to hold that position between the two fanatics, balance the load?"
I said, "Just the grace of God." Oh, what a place.
And the man threw his hands in his face, and wept till the wife and I standing there, and the tears dropping off on his trouser leg. He said, "Brother Branham, I'm heading for Saskatoon to get out of this nest of evil spirits."
And I said, "That is true. The American, social intellectual group has become so against the other group. And the other group has run forth into fantastics, until the true Gospel is hard to find a place of approach and to get a preeminence."


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