<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>61-0412, A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, 114 min
L-1 Good evening, friends. It's great privilege to be back here in the auditorium again tonight, or the field house. And we are so happy to have this opportunity to speak with you again; but I hope not as long as I did last night.
My son was talking to some of the ministers and they said, "About how long does Brother Branham speak?"
He said, "Oh, not too long until he speaks on a subject of Abraham, sometime he just--just get lost."
And last night I was here about two hours and forty-five minutes. Someone said to me this morning, said, "What will Abraham be? It must be something."
You're such a nice people, and I like to speak to people that the Word responds to, see precious souls coming to the Lord. It makes it real nice. It's one of the greatest joys of my heart.

L-2 I remember one time when I was a young minister. I... There was another minister friend of mine, his sister; I taken her home after church one night, and we were going up the road. And she was kind of a formal Christian, as nominal, as I would say. And I believed that she believed in Christ, and so forth, but she hadn't went as deep as what I think a Christian should go to profess Christianity. And--and she said, "How about tomorrow night, going to the show?"
I said, "I don't go to shows."
And she said, "Well," said, "they got a skating rink down here, how about go skating?"
I said, "I don't go skating."
She asked me three to four different places, and I said, "I don't do that."
She said, "Well, as a young man here about twenty-two years old, where do you get any pleasure?"
I said, "In the house of the Lord." I said, "That..."

L-3 And a few nights after that I was in a church, and the young lady was setting back there. And--and so that night I made an altar call, and about twenty people came up around the altar, weeping, young folks. I motioned to her; I said, "I get more joy out of that than all the world could afford." And it's--it's such thing that you know you... You feel when you lay down at night you've done something, try to help somebody. That's what we're here for, to try to make life's burdens just a little lighter for you (See?), and--and to help those who doesn't know Christ to know Him.
Praying for the sick, I was coming up the steps, and I heard them mention about Friday night for the emergency cases. Well, that's true, when we get down and pray for all the emergencies. They set that night, of course, for that.

L-4 Now, Divine healing does not rest upon, remember, the laying on of hands; that's all right. Now, that's the American people. They have to have hands laid on them or they just don't believe it. That's all. You got to touch them some way and--or it doesn't--it doesn't work. And... But now, if you'll just bear with me just a moment.
Not to be different, but that is not the way God deals with Gentiles. That was a Jewish tradition. You remember, the Jew said to Jesus, "My daughter is variously vex--variously sick, and she's dying." Said, "Come, lay Your hand on her and she'll get all right": Jewish. But when the--went to the Roman's house, the Gentile, he said, "I'm not even worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the word." See? And Jesus turned around to the Jews and said, "I haven't seen such faith as that in Israel." See?


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