<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 And she told me about how she'd lived, and I said to her, I said, "You don't want to do that, do you?"
She said, "No, sir, I don't. Something drives me to do it."
I said, "It may seem old fashion, but that's the devil."
And she said, "I've always believed it." And God delivered the woman. She's married and got children tonight. And she was a drunkard, alcoholic, prostitute, oh, you never... such a horrible life. But it just... They don't want to do it but something drives them to do it. They don't want to do it.
I've went down on the Bowery and picked up those drunks, and say, "Well, what's your name?"
"Will you buy me a drink?"
"No, I won't buy you a drink. I'm a minister."
And say, "Stand up and look this way and you can see the bank that I was president of." See? That's lots the truth. See? But they--they don't want to do it; something drives them to do it.

L-24 I've got a friend setting in here somewhere, perhaps tonight. She always comes; and all of you, nearly, are acquainted with Rosella Griffin. She was one of the biggest alcoholics Chicago had. Skid row had nothing on Rosella. And she came to the Hammond meeting, and there the Holy Spirit called her out and told her all about it. And she was delivered from that alcoholism, and now she works the jails and things with other alcoholics. Rosella, where are you at, sis? Are you in the building tonight? Yes, here she is, right here, and a saint of God. Lovely person who gave her life and surrendered herself to Christ, and now...
When I seen her come on the platform (excuse me, Sister Rosella) she was a batty-eyed, wretched-looking witch...?... Oh, you never seen such a looking person. And I want you... I don't say this to flatter her, but Rosella tonight is a lovely, beautiful, young woman. She's fifteen years, looks fifteen, twenty years younger than what she really is. And she--she's a lovely person, and--and never took a drink of alcohol. When hospital after hospital, and doctor after doctor, Alcoholics Anonymous of Chicago, all of them give her up as a hopeless case, and there she sets tonight, after years and years.
Amazing grace,
How sweet the sound,
That saves a wretch like me.
That's it.

L-25 Alcoholics, you see what God can do? Cancer cases, see what God can do? Short legs, cripples, see what God can do? He's God. He's right on time.
Now, we find out that this man got in the wrong company. And sinner, you hear those people shouting; you seen that woman run down through there and started this way without that great big tumor, so full of glory she couldn't even stand--could--couldn't even say nothing and started speaking in tongues? Why, she was so filled up with the power of God that had took that tumor out of here that she couldn't speak her own language. She was just praising God. See? You wonder what makes them do that. Well, you just get the same thing then, and watch what it does to you. See? It'll be the same thing. So He's right on schedule, "for the promise is unto your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
You say, "My pastor, my church, don't believe that." Well, you're--you got in the wrong company. You got in the wrong company. You see? That's what Jehoshaphat did. He got in the wrong company. He got a lot of glitter, and Ahab showed him all the glittery things of the...


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