<TITLE>03. Par 7-8</TITLE>L-7 And then the doctor... We was talking a little bit. Now, and a minister raised up, and he begin to say about the--his missions over there. And he was the one who said that I was going to turn out to be a holy-roller.
And I said, "Doctor, you know a few years ago, you told me the night that I saw that Angel up there, you asked me if I hadn't been eating some red pepper and had a nightmare." And I said, "If that's the attitude of the Baptist church, I'll give up my fellowship right now with it." See? I said, "Because God called and it will be so."
Said, "You with a grammar school education, is going to take the Gospel overseas, when thousands of missionaries has got diplomacy?"
And--and I said, "I don't care what they got, God's sending me."
And he said, "How you going to do it?"
I said, "That's up to God to do it; it isn't me. It's up to Him. I'm just telling you the truth."
And I said, "You remember that, sir?" I said, "I want you to know. I met our missionaries over there. I'll tell you the strength of it. Here come the natives in packing a mud idol under his arm with a tag on him, a Christian." I said, "What about that?"
Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, he said, "I can speak that one's language there." Said, "He's got a tag as a Christian, packing the mud idol, sprinkled in animal blood." Said, "Let's ask him." Said, "He's a Shungi. I can speak the Shungi language."
I said--said, "Call him anything you want to." I said, "Thomas (I thought that would be a good name.)..." I said, "Thomas, are you a Christian?"
"Oh, yeah, yep." Spoke in his language, interpreted... He's a Christian.
I said, "What are you packing that idol for?"
"Oh," he said, "If--if amoya ('Amoya' means 'a unseen force, like the wind')... If amoya fails, the unseen god, this one won't." That's a Christian, you know. "This one won't fail."
And I--and I said, "Well, how do you know that?"
He said, "Well..." His daddy packed this same idol. And one day the lion got after him. And he set down, built up a little fire, and said the prayer the witch doctor told him. The lion run away.
And I--I said, "I'm a lion hunter. And I know one thing that any animal's scared of fire. The prayer of the witch doctor didn't run it away; the fire run it away. It's afraid of the fire."
"Oh, well. He'd play safely first and pack that anyhow." See?

L-8 That's Christianity. Go out there, a lot of missionaries, when they bring them in, put them down in the diamond mine, seventeen hundred feet under the ground, to work their taxes out. They come back out, and they have to dance every once in a while. You know when they have a dance, missionaries go down and give out tracks to a man that don't know which is right and left hand.
Yep, I said, "What happened? What you call fanaticism, what you called a holy-roller, I seen thirty thousand of them break their idols on the ground and receive Jesus Christ, naked women cover their arms and walked away from the place." I said, "That's what they're looking to see." They don't care about some little pamphlet. Their god's got just as much power as any other one you talk about." See?
But when it comes to something they can see that'll dumbfound their gods, and stop their witch doctors, and paralyze them in their tracks, and see, then they believe that there is a God that can act. That's the Gospel that the heathen has to have; that's all. Our--our education and ethics will not work with the heathen. He's got to see something. He--he's got to know it's right.


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