<TITLE>22. Par -</TITLE>L-32-6 That's our God, and the seed of the righteous is about run out. Talk to people about these things; talk to people about going back to the Bible way; talk to the people about miracles; talk to the people about that; their church don't believe it; so they're bastard children to God. The Bible said if we cannot bear persecutions, and trials, mockeries, and called holy-rollers and so forth like that, if you can't stand it, you're bastard children and not the children of God. The Bible said so.
Call me a holy-roller if you want to; call me anything you want to; as long as my heart's right with God, and my experience matches God's Bible, I'm moving right on in the same direction.

L-33-1 Yes, sir. That's what we believe. That's the church of the living God, which does not come by theology; it does not come by some man-made intellectual conception. It comes by absolutely the revealed truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
If I only had just a intellectual conception because the Baptist church or the Methodist church taught me that there's so and so things... When I hear this Bible, if the Bib--If I'd been baptized in the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost and read this Bible, and a preacher told me that there was no one in the Bible ever baptized but in the Name of Jesus Christ, and I read it and seen that was the truth, I'd hit the water just as fast as I could. Yes, sir.

L-33-3 If somebody told me that--that Jesus Christ was a great Healer, and my church told me, the days of miracles was past, and I had a need of healing, I'd run just as fast as I could to that altar to get healed. I sure would.
If I was a preacher and had a--a woman preacher in my pulpit, and I read in that Bible and seen that a woman wasn't supposed to preach, I'd take her out of there if it took the hide off my back.
Remember setting right back where Sister Wright's at one night that a woman was going to throw me out the door for doing something like that. Yes, sir. I said, "You're not coming in my church with your old..." When they used to wear or cut their dresses way down like this, and with that funny looking stuff and about half of their body exposed, I said, "If they ever come in my church, I'll sure put them out." And some little old snicklefritz down here (She died not--after that, and she called on me, dying. She was a Catholic girl.) walked up there and set down with that like that. I looked back and spied her setting up here (They was singing.), took off my coat, walked back there, put it up around her shoulders. I said, "Madam, if you're going to listen to me preach, would you please wear this coat while you're in the church of God."

L-33-6 She stomped out of there, spread them little lips up as she went out of the building; she said, "If he's got religion, I wouldn't let my cow have that kind of religion."
I said, "Don't worry, she won't have it."
When we had the tent, they called for me when she was dying. She had a heart attack, and she was dying. Her husband come. He said, "Come quickly," (And I was right in the meeting), a big tall boy, standing at the door waiting for me. I run his--got in my car and run up there. As I went up, I met that old nurse out there that lives down in Howard Park yet. She said, "Reverend, there is no need of coming." (That's been about twenty years ago, maybe a little better.) Said, "She's dead." Said, "She's been dead about three minutes." Said, "She screamed as hard as she could for you." Said, "I got a message for you."
I said, "What?"
Said, "Tell that preacher that I said that about, please forgive me."


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