<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Now, then in this meeting, I noticed so many of them there that had little tags around their throat. They didn't wear any clothes, most of them. They were primitive natives. And so I said, "What's the tags around their throat for?"
He said, "Oh, that's marked. They're Christian."
I said, "And packing idols?"
"Oh, yes, they pack idols anyhow."
And now, that's the strength of so-called Christianity. And so I... What do they do? Some mother sends her child there to be a missionary, think he'd be a David Livingston. And what happens? He lives in the finest hotel, and a nice car, ride out to the compound, have a little dance out there when they bring them up out of the diamond mines, and pass them out some tracts. What do they know about that?

L-10 But David Livingston days are not now. They don't go back in the jungles. And that's the strength of missionaries in the foreign lands, trying to educate them, abc's. And what do you do? You make them a twofold child, more of hell than they was when they started. They get downtown, women have to pack guns in their pocketbooks, keep from being ravished. When he's out in the tribe, in his tribal condition, he's all right. Only thing he needs is Christ, because he's got... He's got tribal laws that'll outdo Christianity any way you take it.
For instance, in one tribe there if a young woman isn't married till she's a certain age. She--she has to--she has to take off tribal paint because she's been disgraced. And before she's married, she's tested for her virgincy. If she be found guilty, she has to tell the man that done it; they're both killed together. What if that happened in the United States; there'd be a lot of dying, wouldn't it, amongst called Christians? See, so they don't need morals. What they need is to know a Saviour.

L-11 So there they were pouring in there. And there's one guy there, and a little fellow, going along there with a idol in his hand. And I said... He said, "Would you like to talk to him?" Said, "He's--he's a Shangai. They have the Xhosas, and the Shangai, and the Basothu and the Zulu, and so many different of the tribes. And he said... He said, "He's a Shangai; I can speak his language." Said, "Call him anything you want to. I'll interpret for you."
And the mayor drove his car up. I said, "Hello, Thomas." I called him Thomas because being a Christian packing an idol. And I said, "Hello, Thomas." I said, "Are you a Christian?"
"Yeah," He believed in Amoyah. "Amoyah" is a word comes from "an unseen force" like the wind: Amoyah. He believed in Amoyah.
I said, "What do you pack the idol for then?"

L-12 Well, he had a good reason. His daddy packed it. One day a lion got after his daddy; he set the little idol down, made the fire, and said the prayer the witch doctor told him, and the lion got scared and ran away. I said, "I am a leo yakta." "Leo" the "lion"; "yakta" is "hunter." I said, "I hunt lions, and I know the nature of them. The prayer, nor the idol never scared the lion away, the fire did. The animal's scared of the fire." Oh, well, he would pack it anyhow. If--if the unseen One failed; this one wouldn't. So there is the strength of Christianity.


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