<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 And I thought of Caleb, when he took the sword and said, "Joshua put this sword in my hand when I was forty; today I'm eighty, and I'm just as good a man today as I was then." So he proved that he was, too.
So I said, "Brother Bosworth, if you promise me..." There was a lot of reporters waiting downstairs--had been for a couple of days--to see what answer we would give. I said, "If you promise me you won't argue..."
Said, "I promise." Well, he run down to tell the--the--the reporters. Well, you know how a newspaper could play it up, great big headlines, "The Ecclesiastical Fur Will Fly." So we had to go over the coliseum to get the people. And that proved to me, that one day when persecution sets in, the church of the living God will be one.
Special trains, planes roared all day long, bringing in people. What was it? When it crossed the nation, people come all the way from Canada, flying down there. What was it? They didn't care whether they were Assemblies of God, or Foursquare, what was it? A cause that they had stood for was in question, and they were coming to defend the cause. And there they come till they packed that Sam Houston Coliseum out.

L-10 Well, I told them, I wouldn't go down, because I don't like arguing. The Scripture to me wasn't--wasn't to be argued; it's to be lived. So however, that night when they packed in, I said, "I'm not going down." So as it got later in the evening, well, I just couldn't keep away, so I said to my wife, "Let's go down." So she and I, and the little girl, and my brother... Two police helped us in, and I went up in balcony thirty, way up. And then while I was setting up there, with my overcoat all pulled up, so wouldn't be recognized, 'cause we were having a wonderful meeting.
Mr. Bosworth got up... Now, the moderators and so forth, and he said... Well... Cy Ramsar (Many of you know Cy Ramsar, Paul Rader's singer.), he was singing that night, and he made a little statement; he said, "I was reading in the paper where, they said, 'That Mr. Branham ought to be put out of this city, as a religious heresy.'" He said, "If you people would spend more time putting bootleggers out of your city, instead of godly people that come in here to hold a revival, this city would be better off," and the whole crowd went into a roar. So I knew Mr. Best was lost, right then.

L-11 So then, when the--the discussion started, Mr. Bosworth wanted... They'd have Mr. Bosworth speak first, then Mr. Best, and then they'd have a puddle at the end," the moderator said, Then we... I--I listened, and Brother Bosworth said, "I will ask one question, and if Mr. Best..." Now, he had thirty minutes to express hisself, said, "I'll ask one question to Mr. Best." And he said, "First." Here's what he sa... said, "I've got six hundred Scriptures out of the New Testament wrote out here, if Mr. Best will take any one of these six hundred Scriptures, and prove by the Scripture that it's wrong, that Christ's present attitude towards the sick is just the same today as it was then; if he will disprove it by the Scriptures, I'll just set down."
And Mr. Best wouldn't take it; he said, "I'll take care of that when I get up there."
Well, he said then to the moderators again, "Can I have another word with Mr. Best?"
They said, "You may."
He said, "Mr. Best, I'll ask you one question, and you answer me, "yes" or "no," just say the word, "yes" or "no," either one of them, and I'll set down and you can have the rest of it." That's getting it pretty close, you know. Oh, some people think this is a bunch of fanaticism, but it's the solid truth of God's gospel. Certainly.


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