<TITLE>15. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 Speaking at a Kiwanis here recently, when Dr. Davis, the one that ordained me and laid hands on me at the Missionary Baptist Church, as a little preacher... And the night that I saw the vision of the Lord when He told me about the Message, and I went and told Dr. Davis, he said, "Preach the Gospel around the world with a grammar school education. I suppose you believe that, Billy."
I said, "With all of my heart, Dr. Davis."
He said, "You... Billy, you--you need a rest, son." Said, "Maybe you better go home and rest."
I said, "Dr. Davis, I don't appreciate that." I said, "I've been a loyal member of the Baptist church," but I said, "I'm a loyaler to my Lord Jesus." I said, "I shall give up my fellowship then. Now, you'll always be my brethren, but I won't attend another fellowship meeting if that's the attitude the Baptist church takes of an Angel of God that compares with the Gospel. And Paul said if one comes teaching anything else, let him be accursed. But this Angel declares the true Gospel on the Word. And Dr. Davis, I want you to defy it somewhere with the Word." He couldn't do it.
He said, "Billy, did you eat something for supper that night? Did you have a nightmare?"
I said, "All right, Dr. Davis."

L-47 But not long ago, setting at a Kiwanis meeting where I was speaking, there where doctors and so forth was setting, Dr. Davis was present. And how he told me, said, "You'll go to be a holy-roller the first thing you know, Billy."
When I had the privilege of standing there, I said, "Dr. Davis, greeting you, but what you call fanaticism, our Baptist church has spent millions of dollars in sending missionaries into Africa. Where did I find them? Out at the compound. That's right. Out there where there's a--a few of the people gathered in from the tribesmen, and has come in, and have done something that they would not be associated with their tribes.
They have a stricter religion than our-- than what we practice Christianity. If they do anything, if a girl's found immoral or something or other, she can't no longer stay in the tribe. No, sir. She takes off tribal paint, and she goes into the city; she has to make her way the best she can.

L-48 And one of the tribes, if she's found guilty, she has to tell who done it, and they're both killed together. They have a stricter than what we do, and them heathens. And to see them walking with their little...
I said when I went into Africa, our... Many of them, find them with in our Baptist people, with a little idol under their arm. Said, Well, if Amoya..." "Amoya" means "an unseen force like the wind." "If He fails, this won't. Papa packed it, and he set it down, build up a little fire, and the lion went away when he said the prayer."
I said, "The lion never run because of the prayer. The lion run because of the fire." I said, "I'm a hunter. I know that animals are scared of fire. It never had nothing to do with it."
And so he said, "Oh, he'd take it anyhow."
But that afternoon when they seen the God of the Bible, brethren, come down into action, thirty thousand raw heathens broke their idols on the ground and received the Lord Jesus Christ. See? That's the idea, not passing tracts, but preach the Gospel, demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit. And you men have it in your reach. It's in you.


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