<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 Here not long ago up in Kentucky, a little old Methodist church up there that really had the Spirit... And a young couple got married out of that church, and they took their letter down into Louisville. And they were having them put in a great, big city church where they was just as (oh, I don't know), so starchy and ritual.
And one day that little, Kentucky mammy come down to--to visit her--her boy and--and her daughter-in-law. And, of course, they just went to church now and then. They stayed home and looked at television like the rest of them does, and stay away from prayer meeting, just a normal, nominal Christian, like too much of our America is today. That's Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal and all too. It's true. It's exactly right. We stay home to watch this, or do that, or take a little ride; it's too hot to go to church, or something like that. I don't feel just good. You're going to feel worse than that some of these days when you're condemned at the judgment bar. That's right.

L-35 And there... This little old mammy, you know, she--she wanted to go to church. She said, "Well, honey, where do you go to church at?"
Well, they said, "Mother, we go down to the great Trinity Methodist Church down here at the corner."
"Oh," she said, "I just got to go to church in the morning." She said, "It's the Sabbath and I must go."
And then, when Sunday morning came, they taken little mama down there, and her little dress all up over her neck this way, and the long sleeves. And when she walked in, the ushers dropped back as if to say, "Well, what did, where'd this fall out from? What antique shop did you bring this from?" And she walked in there; her little hair combed on the back of her head and her little face just as slick as a peeled onion. And she walks down through there and sets down.

L-36 The minister got up with his flock-tailed coat on, you know, and his round-to-round collar. And--and he got up there and he said, "Now," he said, "my beloved congregation, we shall now enter into worship."
And the little lady said, "Well, glory." Everybody looked around, stretched their neck like a bunch of Canadian ganders, and looked around to see what had taken place. They wondered what happened.
And the minister said... [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] He said, "I shall try it again." And he said, "Well, now," he said, "now, ladies and gentlemen, today we believe that Jesus Christ is the great Oneness in our midst."
She said, "Well, glory to God. Amen." And the boy set there with his head down, the girl with her head down. They didn't know what had happened.
And he said... The usher come around and he said, "Madam, you're interrupting the minister. He just can't preach."

L-37 There's quite a difference between him and I. If they're not hollering "Amen," I can't preach. That's the only thing I know. I don't know where I'm standing. I believe I like to hear... "Amen," means "So be it." The Word's taking hold and going into the heart. And, you know, I just wonder... She might not have... Her name might not have been so great in this earth that it was on "Who's Who?," but, I'd imagine it's written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I'd rather have mine there than on all the "Who's Who?" there is in the world. Right. Yes. I'd rather have it on the Lamb's Book of Life. Yes. That's the place to get it.


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