<TITLE>03. Par 8-9</TITLE>L-8 Then two--about two weeks from then, I was playing marbles with my brother, and Something come upon me, and I looked down at the river. And I saw a great bridge span the river, and I watched sixteen men drop off of it and lose their lives. When It left me, I ran in to my mother and I told her. "Oh," she said, "honey, you was dreaming." But I wasn't. But she wrote it down. And twenty-two years from that day, the Municipal Bridge spanned the river at the same place, and sixteen men lost their life on it.
It just kept coming all the time, like that. Later, I become converted. What all that He had did--all the--the Holy Spirit has done would make many, many books. So I'll just have to touch the spots now, that you'd under--so that you'll understand.
Then when I was converted, I joined the Baptist church, started preaching the Gospel, right away. The Lord blessed greatly, and I had my first revival, a two weeks revival, five hundred came to the Lord. I taken them down at the river to baptize them. And while they was around ten thousand on the bank, watching... It was real dry, no rain for two or three weeks. People were praying for rain. And when I was baptizing the seventeenth convert, I heard a Voice, said, "Look up." It scared me. I was just a young boy.
The girl that I later married, was taking pictures on the bank. I heard It again; said, "Look up." And I was afraid to look up. Everyone on the bank was wondering what I was hesitating about. All--many peoples up and down the banks of the river... Newspaper photographers... And then It said again, "Look up." And I looked up, and as I looked up, here come that Light coming down. People begin fainting, falling, and a Voice came that shook all around the place there, said, "As John, the Baptist, was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, the message that is given you will be a forerunning of the second coming of Christ." Not that I would be a forerunner, but the message was the forerunning. I know no more than anyone else. It's the Christ we're speaking of. Then I--them visions started coming to me more than ever.

L-9 Now, that newspaper went on to Associated Press. It went all the way into Canada, and all through... We have the clippings of it yet. Said, "A mystic Light appears over a local Baptist minister while..."
And then, when those visions begin to come, I guess I've seen tens of thousands. But not one time has it ever been wrong. It's always right. You could go to my country, or write to the city where I live, among the--the--the officers or mayor of the city, to the ministerial association, never one time has it the vision ever been wrong, just perfect each time. But I was afraid to tell the people.
Now, here's something I want to ask first: How many in here is spirit filled people? Raise up your hand. I can tell you so that you'll understand, surely, the strange thing about it, that when I would come near... Or--or I'll take one night when I was going through a carnival ground, you know, a show. There was a young lady by a tent, a fortune-teller. And my mother had always told me that fortune-tellers, spiritualists, was of the devil. And she's right.
And this little fortune-teller, a young lady, seventeen or eighteen years old. She said, "Say, you, come here." And I walked over to her. She said, "Did you know you were borned under a sign?"
It scared me. I said, "I want nothing to do with that." and walked away.


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