<TITLE>08. Par 64-78</TITLE>L-64 The Lord was doing great things, great marvels and signs. And what did we find? Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, going out that day, I said, "What's that fellow, that little tag on his neck, around?" A colored man, as we would call it here, the Negro race... That's what I was there to preach to. And many of them wore no clothes at all, not a thing, men or women. So they... He had a idol in his arm; he had a little tag on his neck. I said, "What are they, them tags on their neck for?"
Said, "They're Christians."
I said, "Christian? With a idol in his hand?"
He said, "Well, now, Brother Branham, I... He's a Shangai," said, "I can speak his language." Said, "We'll just drive up there, and you talk to him, call him anything you want to. Just talk like you was going to ask him any questions; I'll ask him, then tell you back what he said."

L-68 So I said, "How do you do, Thomas?" And I called him Thomas, because I thought that was a good fitting name. And I said--I said, "How--how do you do, Thomas?" And he looked at me. And I said, "Are--are you a Christian?"
"Yes," he--he was a Christian.
And I said... Oh, of course, he didn't know me. He'd never--none of them had ever seen us yet. So I said, "What you doing with that idol?"
He, "Oh, his--his father packed it." See, it was--it was god. See?
And I said, "Did... Your father packed it," I said, "Well, that--that's no reason for you to pack it. You're a Christian, you oughtn't to pack it."
He said, "Well, one day the lion got after his father, and he built up a little fire and said the prayer the witch doctor told him over this idol, and the idol run the lion away." Animals kill a lot of them there. And he...

L-74 And I said, "Look, the--it--it wasn't the prayer that the witch doctor told you; it was the fire that run the lion away." I said, "The lion's afraid of fire." And I said, "As a Christian, Thomas, you shouldn't pack that. You should have nothing to do with it."
And he said, "Oh, well," he said, "if Amoyah..." That's the unseen force, "our God that we don't see." "Amoyah" means something, "a force like the wind." Said, "If--if Amoyah fails, this won't." So he'd pack them both, "If one don't work, the other one will." Now, that's the strength of Christianity. Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh, my.

L-76 But then that afternoon, when the Holy Spirit came down at the meeting in the racetrack and begin to reveal the secrets of the heart, after I took the Scripture...
About a hour, where it really taken me fifteen minutes, 'cause they had fifteen different interpreters for it to go through. So I--I'd speak like, "Jesus Christ the Son of God"; and this one say, "bah, bah, bah, bah, bah"; this one, "gloo, gloo, gloo, gloo"; and then, "um, um, um," like that; all meant "Jesus Christ the Son of God"; interpreters. I'd have to jot down what I said last; I wouldn't know where he was at, and then wait till they got through.

L-78 And then when it got back, I said, "Now, the missionary told you of a Jesus that come to save you." You see them looking at one another, you know, different tribes, and all the way up and down like that. I said, "The missionary told you that. But did that missionary... In reading this Book, did you see there where He was a great Healer and said that He would live down through the age in the people till He come again? 'Works that I do shall you also'? You that's ever accepted Christ as your Saviour, with those tags on, would you like to see Jesus come back up here today and walk down through the people and do the same thing He did when He was here on earth?
Oh, all of them, "Sure." They wanted to see that. You see? They wanted that.
I said, "Then if He will do it, use us here to do the same thing that He did when He was here on earth, would you believe His Word? "
"Oh, sure." You see, the Mohammedans setting out there...


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