<TITLE>09. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 I got a little Georgian over here. I want him to talk for you one of these nights. You talk about having the gift of interpretation. He--you'll--you Yankees up here will really have to have it to hear when these Georgia people talk. They come up to a filling station, asked for a motel, and they wanted to know if they... They said he wanted some old tires, So... Georgia. So, however...
And we went out, started out to this great place where we were going. And as we got out there... Going out, we seen these natives in the city (blanket natives, now), and they had a little tag around their neck. And I said to Sidney Smith, I said, "Mayor, what is those tags?"
He said, "Oh, they are Christians."
I said, "Well, what are they packing an idol for?"
He said, "Ask them." He said, "That man," said "he's a Shangai. I can speak his language. Drive up, call him anything you want to." So I... We drove up beside of him, and I called him Thomas, because I thought that'd be a good name for him, supposed to be a Christian, packing an idol.
And I said, "Thomas."
"Yes."
"Are you a Christian?"
"Yes, yes, yes," he's a Christian.
I said, "What are you packing the idol for?"

L-27 Oh, his father packed it. See? That was a good reason. One day the lion got after his father, so he--he set the little idol down, and--and built a fire, and said a prayer the witch doctor told him. The Lion runaway. So it was god.
"Oh," I said, "I'm a yahkta." "Yahkta" means "hunter." "Leo--le-ah--leo. leo" means "lion." "Leo, yahkta," I said, "the fire scared the lion away, not the witch doctor's prayer."
"Oh, well, if Amoya, ('Amoya' means 'the wind,' unseen force like God, that you don't see, you know, like the Holy Spirit), if he fails, this one wouldn't." So he just packed it for safety first. That's the strength of Christianity.
Sidney Smith said, "See?" Said, "You see why it's hard to get in here as a missionary?"
I said, "Yes, sir." We went on to the meeting.

L-28 So that afternoon, way across the track... I had taken... I had to have fifteen different interpreters. See? You'd speak one word, then... Say, "Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to the earth to save sinners." Well, I'd go get a drink of water, and set down, talk to somebody, time it come through all them interpreters. You have to write down what you said to know where to come back. So I'd give them a simple little message of the Bible, what Jesus was.
And I said, "Each of you missionaries go get three people out of some tribes out there and bring them up." There was about ten thousand Mohammedans there too, which were Indians. And now, not out American Indians, but the Indian from India. So I said... They're very, very hard.
I seen one missionary there said, "Oh, Brother Branham, I've been here twenty years. I've got one precious jewel." See, the--the--the Mohammedans came from the old race of the Medes o Persians, and they do not change or alter their laws, you know.


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