<TITLE>20. Par 76-78</TITLE>L-76 "What are you trying to do, Brother Branham?" Shake a faith into a people that they'll realize. "Is there no balm in Gilead?"
Now, I want to ask you something. The reason they dodge the issue, is because they're afraid of the new birth. That's what it is. "Oh, we Americans are so stylish, you know. Oh, my, so much. We just got to put on the--what we call 'the dog' you know." Everybody's got to just be like the Joneses, but they got... I hope there is no Joneses here, if there is I don't mean it to them. But that's just an American expression like Doe, John Doe, I would say. They got to be like that. We--we got to be so classy. They're afraid of the new birth. Let me tell you, brother, they say, "Oh...

L-77 One time I was out there preaching, and there was a boy from a certain church that I used to belong to come up; he said, "Billy, you know what? I was enjoying your message so much until that woman got up back there and begin to screaming and crying then she got all them people started crying."
"Oh," I said, "that excite you?"
He said, "Why, I couldn't hear what you were saying." And said, "That... It was all right up to that time."
I said, "Oh, she was just rejoicing."
Said, "Oh, that just made chills run up my back."
And I said, "Brother, if you ever get to heaven, you'll freeze to death; let me tell you." I said, "Because even the Angels in heaven is screaming with wings over their face and over their feet, day and night, 'Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord. Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord.'" I said, "You're living in the quietest world you ever lived in. If you go to hell, there'll be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. If you go to heaven it will be, 'Glory, holy, holy, holy unto the Lord,' day and night. This is the quietest place you ever lived."
He happened to play on the Colgate's baseball team. And he said, "Well, I don't... They don't do that in my church."
And I said, "Now that's... But I hope you don't think yours is the pattern."
And so he said, "Well..." I said... He said, "Well, that don't look very much like a Christian to me when a minister's speaking to say a thing..."
I said, "You know what? That encourages me. Here them say, 'Amen,' means so be it." I said, "I used to have an old dog." And I said, "He'd take anything but a skunk." And I said, "I--I'd get him to tree under a brush pile, and the only thing I had to do was get him getting that skunk; I didn't want it myself, so..." And I... That's how I got my school clothes, was--was trapping and hunting. And I'd get this skunk under the brush pile, and old Fritz would stand there. The only thing I had to do to get him going there, raise up the pile, and he'd get back and look at me like that, saying, 'Master, you're not going to run me under there are you?"' I said, Go get him, boy. Sic 'im, sic 'im, sic 'im, boy. Go get him." He'd go get him. I said, "The devil is the biggest skunk I know of. When I hear people saying, 'That's right, Amen,' we got him treed then, brother; we'll get him pretty soon. Just--just let him go." Yes, yes, that's right. We got... Amen.

L-78 I said, "Look, I heard you the other night when Charles Nolan knocked that home run," I don't live very far from the park. I said, "not over about five blocks." I said, "I never heard such as noise in all of my life."
He said, "Oh, Billy, you ought to have been there." Said, "There was three men on base. And you know Charles? You went to school with him."
I said, "Sure."
Said, "He knocked a home run." And said, "Man, I am telling you, you ought to have seen them slide in."


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