<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>58-0207, Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, South Bend Gospel Tabernacle, South Bend, IN, 96 min
L-1 Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Blessed Father, we are indeed privileged tonight to be here in this great city of South Bend. And a greater privilege than that is to be assembled with these people tonight, the purchase of Thy Blood. And we would ask You to visit us with a great visitation of Thy Presence. And make us all God-conscious tonight, that You are ever near.
Bless the pastor of this church, and the workers, the co-workers, the visitors, and all that's assembled tonight. May the sick be healed, and may the--the backslider find his way back home again tonight. May the unsaved become saved. Get glory to Thyself. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.

L-2 About twenty-three years ago I was visiting in your--your neighboring city of Mishawaka for my first time to ever have any contact with Pentecostal people. And it was over at certain tabernacle, I was coming down from--from up at Dowagiac, Michigan, I think, which is near, with an old friend of mine where I'd been fishing. And I passed by and saw this great rally, and I stopped in.
And many of you's read my life stories, how that I was just a young Baptist minister at that time. And first time I'd ever been in a Pentecostal meeting to hear them clapping their hands and running all over the floor. And I thought, "Oh, my, what church manners." Come to find out, I was one of them and didn't know it. So I--I just fit there just like a glove to a hand.

L-3 And it was in that place there where the colored boy, when they was asking about me. I was the next to the youngest minister in the whole conference, just gathered with them a night, and the colored boy said... They kept asking where I was.
And I had a little T-shirt on, a little seersucker pair of trousers on. That was during the time of the depression you know, and no one knew me to be a minister, so I was just setting real quiet. And the colored boy said, "Do you know who he is?"
And I said, "Yes, sir."
And he said, "Well, go get him."
I said, "Look," I said, "I'm him, but don't--don't say that. See?."
He said, "Here he is, right here."
I never will forget my text. I preached on the subject, "And He Lifted Up His Eyes In Hell," the rich man. And I said, "The reason he cried, because there was, well there's no God there, so he cried." And I said, "There was no children there, so he cried. There was no preacher there, so he cried." Then I cried. So I just got all wound up in the Spirit, and that's when I found out that I was one of them.


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