<TITLE>10. Par 99-107</TITLE>L-99 And I was coming down out of... I forget the... It was Rhodesia, but I don't know the name of the town. Billy, can you remember it? Salisbury, that's right, New Salisbury. He's my memory. New Salisbury, Rhodesia... And we was coming down out of Rhodesia, and I seen American passport when we was boarding plane, a boy and three girls. And I said--walked up to them and I said, "Hello there." I said, "I see you have American passport."
He said, "You speak English."
I said, "Yes," I said, "I--I am an American."
He said, "Well, that's fine."
I said, "Are you traveling."
He said, "No, we are missionaries. "
I said, "Oh, how nice." I said, "Sure glad to get to meet you." And I said, "Where you from? What church, or are you with an organization, or just free?"
He said, "No, we're Methodists. We're from Wilmore, Kentucky."
I said, "It's in my backyard almost at home." I said...
He said, "You wouldn't happen to be that Brother Branham up here?"
I said, "Yes, sir. That's right." And that--that cured him right there (You see?); he wouldn't say no more. And I--I seen the attitude he taken, looked over at them girls; they looked at one another like that. I said, "Just a moment, son." He wasn't nothing but a boy. And I said... And the girls. And I said, "I'd like to speak with you all just a minute on the principles as Christians, we all are, and we're here for the same great cause. I want to ask you three girls and you young man, can you in the Name of the Lord Jesus... You said you'd been here two years. Can put your finger on one soul that you have won to the Lord: one soul?" They could not do it: not one soul.
I said, "I don't want to hurt your feelings, not at all." And I said, "I appreciate what you're doing; but you girls ought to be home helping your mammy with the dishes. That's exactly right. You ain't got no business over here. That's exactly."

L-106 And nobody's got a business going to the fields unless they have received the Holy Ghost and preaching the power of demonstrations, 'cause it's the only thing that'll--that'll move those people. And look what uprisings you got now and everything; it's because that the true Gospel hasn't been preached to them. Been given to them in word form, well, and see what that is? That's the continuation of the--the escaped one of the Luther age, where it give the world the free press (That's right.)--or the free Bible.

L-107 Now, now, the age, the great age... Now, let's begin now. I believe we're on the... That was the salute, the 7th verse. Through...
... unto the... Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the keys of David, he that open, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man open;
Quite a statement, isn't it? I--I'm going to come back to that just in a minute, 'cause it--it applies farther in the Scripture here.
I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou has a little strength, and has kept my word, and has not denied my name.
Now, now, watch the--the time coming now, after the great missionary move that swept across the nations of brotherly love, to take what they had. Nothing against it, of literature and whatevermore, into the different parts of the world. Now, the church denomination had gone back to education, works again (See?), gone back.
After the great denomination had been set up, Jesus set an open door. After the Wesleyan age had come in, and the Methodist church had been established in the earth, taken roots, growing, making a great church which it is today, one of the greatest among the Protestant churches, and that time, the thing that took place then was Jesus set an open door for the church before they entered into the Laodicean age.


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