<TITLE>14. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 Not long ago in Louisville, Kentucky, I was asked by a group of doctors and ministers to address a little party where there was a club met. And that day the doc--the doctor that ordained me into the Baptist church was setting there that told me I had a nightmare. The night when I told him the Angel of the Lord appeared to me and said what to do, he said, "Billy, that's the devil. Don't you listen to that."
I said, "Doctor Davis, He told me that I was to pray for kings and monarchs."
He said, "With your seventh grade education?"
I said, "I don't know about that, but He said it, and I believe it, and I'll stay with it."
Said, "Now, Billy, go over home. You need a rest."
I said, "I don't need no rest. I'm rested enough. I'm ready to go into the work."

L-53 That day standing there before that group of people, they said, "We're glad for Brother Branham," they said, "to give us a--a message today at our meeting."
I thought, "Here's my time, Lord. Thank You, Father for this." I said, "Gentlemen, I'm very happy to be here. And you wanted me to talk about my African campaign." I said, "I want to tell you what I found when I went over there, coming down through the streets of--of Durban with Sidney Smith, the mayor, riding me out where tens of thousands times thousands had gathered for a three or four day's meeting. The race tracks was packed over. The biggest crowd that Africa ever had in any kind of a meeting that's gathered together."

L-54 What was it, because I was there? No, sir. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me." The Gospel yet in its simplicity has the greatest drawing crowd--card the world has ever knowed. It was the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Amen. That's right.
I notice natives walking along, colored people as we call them here. They had little tags on them, packing idols in their arms. I said, "What's that tag for?"
Said, "That means they're a Christian."
I said, "A Christian, and packing an idol?"
Said, "Oh, yes."
Well, I said, "I don't get that, Mr. Smith."
He said, "I can speak Shangai. Let's ask this one here." I called one over. Said, "Just call him anything you want to."
And I spoke to him. I said, "What are you--are you a Christian?"
"Yep," he's Christian.
I said, "Well, what are you packing an idol for?" "Oh, it's god too."
"Oh," I said, "there's nothing in that idol."
He said, "Well, my father packed it." And said one day the lion got after him; he set it down, built up a little fire, and said the prayer of the witch doctor told him. The lion went away. So if Amoya or the... ('Amoya' means 'it's an unseen force like the wind.') If amoya, the unseen god fails, this one won't." Now, they call that Christianity. It's still a form of heathenism. Right.
And I said, "Look, sir, I'm a yahkta myself or a hunter." I said, "Listen, the prayer never scared the lion away; the fire scared the lion away." An animal is scared of fire. Oh, well, he'd pack it anyhow, sprinkle with blood.


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