<TITLE>10. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 So it bothered me when I begin to think what was this prophet speaking of? Now, we know David was a prophet. So I wondered, "What was he speaking of when he said, 'Thy lovingkindness is better than life.'" Then I found out that life has more than one meaning. Life has many meanings. It depends on which a way you look at it. And your life is what controls you. You have your living, your moving, your being is life. And it depends on what kind of life is within you, the way it will control you.
No wonder that people cannot believe, yet they claim to be religious, cannot believe Divine healing, cannot believe in miracles, cannot believe the Holy Spirit makes people to--to be filled with the power of the resurrection of Christ. The reason they cannot believe it, they have nothing inside of them to believe with, because your life is--your motion is controlled by the life that's in you.

L-24 Sometime ago, an outstanding thing come to my memory. In the years gone by, in the south lands, they used to sell slaves, the colored race of people, the negro that came from Africa, that the Hollanders brought over and sold for slaves. It was a pitiful thing. I'm certainly with Abraham Lincoln, that God never intended any man to be a slave. God made man; man made slaves. They're trying to make it tonight, not only over the colored race, but the races of the world, every man in every nation trying to take the rest of them in slavery. God made man free, a free creature under God, to worship Him.
Now, they used to take those poor people and auction them off and have markets. Sometime ago, down in Louisiana, I saw one of the original old bull pens they used to have. Where they would take those men and put them in there, and stand them on an auction block, and auction them off, and listen to their hearts, and look at their teeth, and take a buggy whip and run them down the street, whip them behind their heels, get them running real fast, and then come back and examine their heart.

L-25 And an old man standing there said to me, "Preacher, I was at your meeting the other night."
I said, "Thank you, I was just looking this over."
He said, "I remember when they used to do it." And he told me, he said, "You know what the highest selling slave was?"
I said, "What?"
He said, "A nice looking girl." Said, "A man slave would start a bid of five hundred dollars or three hundred dollars." But said, "A young colored girl, beautiful girl put up there, they'd start the bid at two thousand dollars." And he looked at me, and he said, "If there is a hell, their soul is there today."
I said, "Speaking of theirs, what about yours, dad? Where would yours go?" And a few days after that, a minister friend of mine baptized him in Christian baptism.


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