<TITLE>24. Par 77-80</TITLE>L-77 I said, "Today I was astonished in your temple, when you told me how great your gods was and how fictitious mine was. How that the man never died, He got on a horse and rode up to heaven." I said, "But he died, and yet He rose again." I said, "Here stands a man of the worship of the sun, who testifies of being blind for twenty years." And I said, "He is now here seeking his sight." I said, "Surely, the God Who made him, the Creator who made him," I said, "could give him back his sight."
I said, "Now, of course, you are--you--you Sikhs, and you Jains, and Mohammedans, and Buddhists, and so forth, you say that He's wrong." But I said, "What would you do? You'd say, 'Come over to me.' What would you do? You'd change his way of saying his prayer." I said, "What would you do? You would only change his philosophy." I said, "You--you would have him to worship something else, or do something, or change of his way of praying." I said, "We have the same thing in America," I said, "but that wouldn't help the man." I said, "You'd only proselyte him."

L-78 And I said, "If he come over here to change from a worshiper of the sun, which you say... He worships the creator--creation instead of the Creator. That's what he did, and through ignorance he did this. But what would you do if you made him a Jain? What would you do if you made him a Mohammedan?" I said, "Why, he would be no better off. He's still blind, and you would only change his--his---his philosophy, his way of praying, change his idea, change his denomination." I said, "We got the same thing in America. All the Baptists wants to convert every Methodist he can to the Baptist church. And every Methodist wants to covert the Baptists. And the--the Baptists to the Presbyterian, the Lutheran. The Pentecostal wants to take them all." And I said, "That's the way it goes. But I said, "What is it? It's purely psychology." It's right. But I said, "We have one God where you all have many." But I said, "That's the way it is in America. They're proselyting, and pulling, and fussing, and everything trying to get all to come this, all to come to this, a build a million more in forty-four and all these slogans and things like that." I said, "What is it? It's pure human psychology in building up of organizations."

L-79 And I said, "I challenge." Excuse my emotions. "I challenge the Buddha priest to come forth and give him sight. If you'll do it, he will be a Buddha from this on, and I will too." I said, "I challenge the Mohammedan priest to come forth and give him his sight. He will be a Mohammedan from now on, and I will, too."
Oh, brethren, our God lives. Here in America, you don't come face to face with these things. You have to get into them lands to really... There's where they're watching. See? There's where you've got the showdown. Oh, you can say, "I--I can prove... I belong to a big organization." That has nothing to do with it, brother. That's right.

L-80 I said, "I challenge any religion here to come and give him his sight, and he will join your religion and so will I." I said, "Surely, the Creator Who made him, if He'd seen that he's worshipped the creation instead of the Creator, surely He would bring him back to his right conditions, to bring him right, if He did this through the ignorance of his worship." And I said...
That was the quietest crowd I ever talked to. Thousands just as far as you could see laying there on each other, and piled together. It was quiet. Every man set on his pillow, of the great priests and them. No man made a move.
I said, "Then gentlemen, why don't you say something?" I said, "Today in the Jains temple, you told me how little Christianity was, and how it was in the minority." And it is. Mohammedans are greater and that more by third or fourth, taking Catholics and all of us together. You told how little we was. But now, how big are you?"


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