<TITLE>15. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 I remember the first time I ever seen Pentecostal people. It was up at a tabernacle, Brother Ryle, up here in Indiana. I... Michigan, that's where... Dowagiac, close to Dowagiac. Oh, I forget the name of the place now. Oh, my. It was up in Indiana, there right on the Michigan border, and... Mishawaka, Indiana. That's right, Mishawaka.
And I went in there. And they had about sixty preachers on the platform that night. He said, "All preachers come up." So I went up there. I was a Baptist. And so, I set down. And so, they'd heard some of them preachers, them young fellows that day, all preaching how Jesus was, and what a wonderful Saviour He was, and so forth.

L-54 And that night for the main message, they brought an old colored man out there, and the poor old fellow, almost had to lead him out. He had a great big old, blue-looking cutaway, Prince Albert coat, with one of these here collars on it, old preacher's coat, you know. He come out there, just a little rim of white hair. Here he come out to the pulpit like that. And I thought, "Well, why don't they put some of these young theologians out there, bring a message?"
The old fellow come out there, you know, and got around at the pulpit, like this, and he said, "I's wants to take my text tonight," said, "from over in Job." I believe it's 7, 7:37, or something like that. Said, "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world (where they're fastened to), when the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy?"
I thought, "Why did they put that old man out there to preach for?" And all them fellows had been preaching what Jesus done down here. He started back yonder before eternity begin; brought Him all the way across the skies, and had Him coming down the horizontal rainbow in the second coming.
About that time the Holy Spirit struck him. He hollered "Whoopee" jumped up, and went dancing around like that (there was twice as much room as there is here), walked off the platform, said, "Not enough room up here for me to preach." Walked off the platform...
I said, "Boy, that's what I want. If it'll make an old man act like that, what would it do to a young man...?..." That's right.

L-55 "As an eagle renews his youth." Yes, sir. The revival takes and shakes all the old funny feelings away from you, fly out into an atmosphere yonder. Likened His heritage to an eagle, because the eagle renews his youth.
Now, makes him shout. You watch the church. It'll be setting, all dry. First thing you know, the Holy Spirit strikes them, their youth... Why, the old people is just up on their feet, jumping and shouting and praising God, renews their youth again. That's right. Do anything a young person can do, just jump, and holler, and scream, and shout. He renews his youth. That's right. I believe in that, don't you?

L-56 There was a farmer up there in Indiana. One of them was a... He was a good farmer. His barns wasn't very good: oh, cracks in the barns, and everything. And there was another farmer down there, but he had plenty of money, so he built the finest of barn that you could ever see. (This is good for the preachers.) So I say, he built the finest barn that you ever seen. He had tractors and everything. But that guy was too lazy to farm.
So each one of them... And the other farmer, the farmer that had the bad barn (the little mission somewhere), he had a--he was a real farmer, up and at it. So he raised plenty of good alfalfa hay, and everything that year, and put it up.
And the next... In the barn that year (both barns) was borned a calf. And the next spring the warm winds begin to blow. They let... The--the--the rich farmer down there let his little calf out, poor little fellow--so thin, he come staggering out, the winds almost blowing him sideways, couldn't hardly get along. He hadn't had nothing to eat: had some old weeds up in there, you know, old denominational weeds. "We are so-and-so. We are the big-shots." That'd never fatten a soul, no, no.


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