<TITLE>04. Par 28-35</TITLE>L-28 We went from there to Puerto Rico. There we were met with great high triumph, and thousands times thousands packed the track, until it was estimated some forty thousand precious souls came to the Lord Jesus. And at the going, I hope I... I'd say this to my own church, but I couldn't do it out in the public, around where home folks are not, because it might be looked at wrong. But I have the judge's name here on a piece of paper, who gave the talk when we was leaving, right here, him and his staff.

L-29 And I... He--he said, "We have been honored in the island to have different ministers." He said, "When Mr. Billy Graham has just left the island recently," and said, "we had a--a glorious meeting," he said, "but Billy Graham just brought us the same Gospel that we've always heard." He said, "Then we were honored to have Mr. Roberts on the island." He said, "And Mr. Roberts gave us a great three-day meeting." But said, "The expenses was so high in the hotel," said, "left thirty-five thousand dollars for three nights for the hotel expense." He said, "Then Mr. Osborn was here, which was a great servant of Christ." But said, "When Mr. Osborn left, there was a letdown. It looked like everything was gone."
But said, "We noticed in this meeting that there really wasn't hardly anybody on the platform for Brother Branham to pray for." But said, "After the services was over, we'd pick up truck loads of old chairs, and clubs, and everything, out into the audience." He said, "It wasn't a man this time; God came to us," he said.

L-31 I said, "Don't expect my prayers, but your prayers out there; lay your hands on each other." And they'd bring maybe a dozen or two at the platform, and when the discernment would come down, the people would just scream. We stayed in a fourth-class hotel and paid all of our own expenses and ways, ourself.
You helped do that yourself with your tithings that you send me. That's what did it. And I want you to know, that out of all of that, you have a part of it. And in the great glorious day to come, God will reward you that. See, you didn't have...
If the person itself goes and performs something, then, you see, when that person leaves, they think, "A big letdown, God left us." God don't leave you. He's with you always. See, it's you just as much into it as any--as anybody. God may use a person for a certain ministry, but that don't mean that that person has an option on God. It's your own faith in God.

L-34 And they'd go out there in little old wheel buggies, that they'd take like baby-buggy wheels, and--and make a board, and lay the people on it and wheel them in. And after the service was over, all the racetrack would clear up, they'd just go along with wagons and scoop up little old carts and big old chairs, and clubs, and cots, and beds, and just where they just walked away and left them, because that the Presence of the Lord was there. That's what we want to see. Man's out of the picture then; God is moving.

L-35 Coming back, just to help now this morning, I'm going to speak in a few minutes. And I asked the boys not to release the tape. Three days I've tried hard to think, "What will I speak on?" And this morning before I left, I felt a real stern warning in my heart to the church. And I told them, "Take the tape, but don't release them for sale."
But before we do this, I'd like to give you just a little testimony, that it might do you good. It did me good. We went on a three-day's fishing trip, Leo, and Gene, and myself, and my son Billy Paul and his wife, down to a friend that comes here at the Tabernacle from down in Georgia. And they taken us back in some swamp; I don't know just where it was now, near Okeechobee or something like that; I don't know the name them Seminole Indians gave it. But however, we were many miles back.


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