<TITLE>28. Par -</TITLE>L-553-Q-115 115. Now, is it all right for a person to speak with tongues when praying for others about the altar without interpretation?
Let me see what I put down here; I have...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] If there is no interpreter, let them hold their peace. In I Corinthians the 1st chapter--the 14th chapter and the 28th verse. Who's got a Bible?
 [A brother reads the following Scripture: If there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church--Ed.]
All right. Now, if there be no interpreter any time in the church, anywhere in the church, keep silent if there's no interpreter. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-554-277 At the altar, the only thing, that someone... Many times you hear of people going to the altar. I heard a precious brother just recently at the altar, just go down and shake somebody on the back, and then speak in tongues themselves, speaking it like they're trying to show them what to do. See? That's kind of artificially bringing the Holy Spirit, trying to, to the people. Don't do that. See? The thing to do is just let that person alone. Let them raise up their hands until the Holy Spirit comes in. You see? See? So it--it's--it's a wrong... No, they should be keep silent in the church. You see?

L-554-278 [A brother asks, "Brother Branham?"--Ed.] Yes, brother. ["Say a person was in a service and--and at the close of the service, usually whenever a message will come through, the person that has the gift, they will be able to tell, or can they be able to tell the difference between the--the angel--the tongue of the angel or the message that comes through it?"--Ed.]
Now, let's see. Now... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... long as they come in and they write that thing out, lay it on my desk. See? And I'd read it right out like this. But when I walked in that room there, brother, that was all of it. See?

L-554-280 And before they come in here, they'd stand back here and everybody just as quiet as could be. And the sister'd be there, Sister Irene, there at the--at the altar, playing--or there, playing "Down at the Cross." We wouldn't... Ushers just walked back and forth. They see anybody talking, they'd say, "Sh, sh, sh." See? And if kids got... They'd set down real sweet and they'd say, "The house of the Lord, honey. You shouldn't. You should behave now in the house of the Lord."
And the man and the wife, and all of them, they let them hang their coats up and things like that. Somebody here at the door to see them just as soon as the door opened. The... And everything ready to go, you know, put the church right. Everybody get them a seat and see that they set down.

L-555-282 And I was in the room, praying, been in there probably since two or three o'clock that afternoon. Nobody bothered me. I went down there with my message.
And then just at the moment to start, the song leader started a song, "Let us turn to hymn number so-and-so," like, "Down at the Cross where my Saviour died," on like that, you know, and get that going like that. Then when they sing about two specials... We never put too much time in singing; it's the Word. If they have a hymn-singing, that's what they have these regular hymn-singings for. We're--we're... The Word's the main thing the people come there for; it's the house of correction.


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