<TITLE>08. Par 27-29</TITLE>L-27 When I was a little boy, I had some experience with something like that: a fire. I suppose you people here from Ohio knows what a turtle is. My brother and I found one out behind the farm. And oh, how he swings his legs, you know, and his head sticking up. He was an odd looking creature. And as soon as we got up to him, he pulled legs, head, and all, back in this hull, just closed up. Puts me in a mind of a whole lot of so-called Christians. As soon as you mention Divine healing or the Holy Ghost, "Oh, no, we don't believe in that": Just close up like an old turtle. That's right.
Well, we wanted to see him move. And I want to see the church move too. But he couldn't move till he got his legs working. And the church won't move till the whole body goes to work: all you Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and Pentecostals.

L-28 I said, "Just a minute, brother. I'll make him move." I went and got me a switch, and I really poured it on him. It didn't do no good. You can't beat it into them. The more you whip, he just closed the tighter. I thought for a little while. I thought, "How can we make him move?" I took him down to a little branch. I said, "If he don't move, I'll drowned him." And I got him in both hands and stuck him under the water. Just a few bubbles come up and that was all. Oh, I know you've had all kinds of baptisms: sprinklings and pouring, made denominations out of it. But what happens? They go down a dry sinner and come up a wet one. That's all. It doesn't do any good. You can't beat it into them or baptize it into them.
You know what I did? I got me some sticks and a little piece of paper. I made a fire and set the old boy on it. He moved then. And if there's anything will move the church of God is the baptism of the Holy Ghost a falling again; not some way to baptize, or some way to say they--this, that, and the other, some new theology; but to just let the Holy Ghost fall on the church again, the Fire. The trouble of it is, you took the Fire off the altar and put it in the stove. It needs on the altar and in every heart again: old fashion Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost is awakening powers of God.

L-29 I was over one time at a railroad yard. And they'd just made one of these new Zephyr engines and train. And I had the privilege of going through the train. Oh, it looked so pretty: it had all of its aluminum works in it. I went into the dining room, and oh, it looked so pretty. I went into the pullman and to all the cars, and the seats were so plush and looked so pretty.
Just about like the churches is today: great big spires standing high; Dr. Ph. D, double LD. SSD. or some kind, standing behind the pulpit with a fine robe on, with curly hair, can bow and say "aaaaamen" the prettiest. Brother, I'm so sick and tired of this Hollywood evangelism, I don't know what to do. Women walking down the--up and down the platform, piano players...


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