<TITLE>24. Par 262-263</TITLE>L-262 Elijah, is when his church turned him out and left him for the modern world. I imagine Elijah had really combed them over the coals. Don't you imagine so? You know what Elijah was. I imagine in his early ministry, he stood up there and said, "Why, you women trying to be like the First Lady, Miss Jezebel. You modern women, being like the First Lady of the land, dressing like her, acting like her. You preachers..." Oh, my, how he combed them, and they all just kept falling away till there was nobody.

L-263 He had to get to the end of his road then. Nobody would cooperate with him no more. None of the churches would cooperate with him. All of his church left him, went back to the world (same as it is now... That's right.), went on back to the world. Just a very few was hanging on, one here and one there, coming from way across the country where you had to go to see him and so forth. He was in pretty bad shape; he come to the end of his knowledge and said, "Lord, I stood on Your Word; I told the truth. And all of them's gone away; there's nobody left here. I ain't got anybody--anybody to preach to." Amen. "Yes, I stood on Your Word, Lord, and now look where I'm at now, not none of them will receive me. I go into town, they say, 'Here comes that old crank. Yeah, yeah, here's that old crank coming to town; now he'll start carrying--carrying on about this here modern living and everything.'"
"Don't have him. Pastor, don't you cooperate with that guy. No, sir."
Pastor, "Now, that old fanatic's in town again. (See?) That Elijah out there, the old baldheaded fellow, don't you pay any attention to that old fellow. Look at him; he don't even dress like a clergyman with his priestly robes on like mine (his hat, you know; and stand up in front, and collar around, you know)." Said, "He don't..." Said, "He--he--they... He--he's a different sort. He--he's a odd-like guy."
And I imagine some of the great guys said, "You know what? He--he's a neurotic. Uh-huh, yes; he--he's a neurotic, living out there in the wilderness, staying out in the woods most of his time, coming in with a piece of sheepskin wrapped around him. Oh, my. And then condemning them women... Mm, mm, I never seen such a thing. Don't... Don't--don't--don't you have anything to do with him, at all. Don't cooperate."


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