<TITLE>22. Par 70-72</TITLE>L-70 Now, notice, and Doctor Aegery when I talked to him I said--wrote this letter. I said, "Sure, I've been in Africa and seen them get healed by a mud idol." I said, "I've been over at Alsace Lorraine in France, and see them people go up there to that woman, some dead woman, and see them get healed. Why? Because they believe they're approaching God through that idol. See? And God has placed Divine healing on the basis of your faith." That's the reason He didn't separate these turtledoves and things. See? "It's upon your faith, if you believe it. And them people think they're approaching God. These Americans think they are approaching God through a Divine healer. The African think he's approaching it through his witch doctor. That witch up there behind your house, and them people think they are approaching God. And God recognizes their faith. That's all." But I said, "They'll answer for it the day of judgment, for such as that." But I said, "What alarmed me as a Lutheran Dean to base his theology upon a experience in the stead of the Word of God."...?... Thought I'd let him know we wasn't dummies anyhow. See? How would he base his experience upon the Wo... How would he base his teaching upon an experience some woman done something or another, instead of what God said. God said Satan can't heal, and that settles it for me. That's right.

L-71 You know what? He asked me out. He said, "Brother Branham..." Now, we went out there, and we had just about as many as here, for dinner, all the student body was in. He said, "Now, Brother Branham," he said, "I--I want to ask you something." Said, "I didn't mean what I said." But said, "We're hungering and thirsting here for God."
I said, "That's good; that's fine, Doctor."
And he said, "Here's what we want." And if you all want to write him about it, just write to Doctor Aegery at the--at the... I was trying to think of that... Minne--Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bethany College. And so he... And just write and ask him. And he said, "Well, we're thirsting for God here." Said, "We want God." And he said, "We read about the Pentecostals," and he said, "what do you think about them? Now, you was a Baptist."
I said, "Yes, sir, I was." I said, "I'm a Pentecostal Baptist now." And he said... I said, "I'm a Baptist that's got the Pentecostal experience. See," I said, "Pentecost, Doctor, is not an organization. You can't organize Pentecost; it's an experience (See?) for Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, and everybody; it's an experience. It's not just down to... The Assemblies isn't the only ones got the Holy Ghost. The Oneness isn't the only one that's got the Holy Ghost, the Four Square. It's whosoever will, let him come. That's it." He liked that. And I said, "That's the way it is."

L-72 And he said, "Well, I want to ask you something." Said, "I've seen them kick over the chairs, and knock out the window lights, and fall on the floor."
I said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "What is that?"
I said, "The Holy Ghost."
He said, "The Holy Ghost?"
I said, "Yeah, they're blowing their steam all out the whistle instead of putting it together and making the wheels roll. See, the--they just don't know how to..." See, if you'd ever get them to stop down to a place and put some of that--some of that power in the steam in the valves to make it push the cart and have signs, wonders, and miracles, and great fire on soul like that, moving on, it'd do something." See? I said, "But they blow it all out the whistle, and that just all there is to it." I said, "It's good enough that they got--show they got steam anyhow."


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