<TITLE>08. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 This Indian said to Morse Reedhead, or to Perris Reedhead, he said, "Sir, you've had two thousand years to prove that Jesus raised from the dead." And he said, "Two-thirds of the world has never heard His Name."
And here we argue, "Why, we're Presbyterian. We're Baptist. We're Pentecostal. We're Nazarene." Standing here arguing and them little black boys in Africa dying to hear the story, once any kind. Oh, it burns your heart.
A man can never go to the mission fields and return, and be the same man. When I went there, thought, "Well, I'll just go over here, see some of the animals, but when I seen the souls of men... Little black boys just as dirty, had never had a bath in their life, grab up an old piece of the meat, maggots all in it, just eat it just the same. And men were in their naked...

L-25 I want to say this with respect to you women and you men. But when those heathens came into the meeting by the tens of thousands times thousands, just as naked as they come into this world, nothing but a little cloth hanging in front of them, about six or eight inches square. There those ignorant women, didn't know which is right and left, and mud in their hair, and bones in their ears, and when they seen the power of the resurrection of Jesus, when those women walked away from there, young girls and old women, no one told them to put on clothes. They folded their arms like this to get out of the presence of men. And how can we, starchy, stiff-neck Americans, call ourselves Christians, and every year we take off more clothes. When a heathen receives Christ, he dresses up and puts on clothes. What's happened?
Young ladies standing there, just in the bloom of life, naked, they didn't know it. That was no more shame to them than looking at your hand. Young sixteen, eighteen, twenty year old girls, mothers with their babies, nursing... And not twenty feet from where I was setting, a mother give birth to a baby while I was talking. Another lady just helped it; she just picked the baby up and started nursing the baby, went on listening to me preach. And those young ladies standing there, fully formed and developed women, and when the Holy Spirit came, no sooner than He struck them, they covered themselves with their arms. The Holy Spirit brings a realization of nakedness.

L-26 And then, you people call yourself, even Pentecost, and you women, you ought to know better than strip yourself in these bathing suits, and little old shorts out here in the backyard; you ought to be ashamed of yourself. That's exactly right.
Civilization; she's swinging backward. And brethren and sister, I don't say that to--to be crude or rude, rather, I say that because it's the gospel truth. People there that's willing, and then we put our efforts here in the states. On the platform, that afternoon at Durban, where I'm to return again in a few days, by vision, and when there's people there's no way of giving out prayer cards.
Billy lost his coat and shoes and everything trying to give prayer cards, him and a couple of men. I said, "Just take the missionaries and give about four or five out of each tribe. There was fifteen different languages. Now, you can imagine to try to preach, when I'd say, "Jesus Christ, the Son of God," this one would go, "cluck...?... [Brother Branham makes sounds of another language--Ed.], that meant Jesus Christ the Son of God. Another make some kind of a whistle sound like a bird, that meant Jesus Christ the Son of God. The next interpreter, he'd maybe, make some kind of a warble with his throat or his tongue.


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