<TITLE>02. Par 8-13</TITLE>L-8 On some of the interviews today, I, one, I met a missionary from Formosa, a gallant woman, seventy-three years old, and would pass for about forty-five. And she is still a Miss, and must've been a beautiful young girl. And she said she was raised up in a Christian home where "yes" meant yes, and "no" meant no. And she come up under that strict teaching. And she said, "Brother Branham, at the age of about, oh," said, "about eight years old, I thought that I gave my life to the Lord Jesus." She said, "About twelve years old, I was enticed by a certain denominational minister, that I must get the second blessing," and said, "and was awfully deceived in it." But she said, "About seventeen years old, I really received the Holy Ghost." And--and she's back here now try to wake up some of these sleeping Baptist churches. She said if--if there was anything that she seen was dead, she's a Baptist herself, she said, "are these dead Baptist churches back here." She called them morgues.
I said, "Well, I guess when you're on the battlefront..." I think now she's... Just think, me, fifty-two, she was out as a missionary before I was born. And then I think I was getting too old to get on the field. And I think, "My, forgive me, Lord."

L-10 And she, fine, just as bright and brilliant as she could be. And then telling me experiences along the road, and how that the Gospel was needed in Formosa, and in China, and Japan, and so forth. So they sent her back from the field, said, "You can't go in the fields after you're past seventy, you know." So they sent her back. But she's not going to be still; she's going to all these Baptist conventions. And she said, "Billy Graham," said, "the way he was carrying the Baptist message, was an indebtiment to the Baptist church." Said, "He don't take them far enough to get the Holy Ghost," she said. Oh, sister, you stay right with that. That's all right. She said, those Chinese back there, said she wouldn't let them just go along and say, "We believe Jesus Christ." Said, "That was all right," but said she made them stay there till something happened, and then they become real Christians.
I said, "That's the way it goes, sister. Just tell them... Let them stay till something happens."

L-12 What if the apostles would have said, now, after nine days, "We believe that we got It (See?); let's just accept It by faith and go ahead with our work." See, it never would've worked out. They waited there until they knew that something happened. See? And that's what's the trouble of us is today; we don't stay long enough. Well, that's the reason afterwards we can just live any kind of a life, do anything, don't bother us, because we don't stay there long enough. Today we're in; tomorrow we're out, and this way and that way. If we stay long enough till you get in and close the door behind you, you're going to stay there then. You're sealed until the day of your redemption. I'm so glad of that.

L-13 And we had a great time, as I said, at Phoenix and through the valley and the--many of the Christians there, many of them holding on with dear life.
I went up on South Mountain, wife back there and I, one day when the friends... My brother Doc kept the two girls, and--and Brother and Sister Wood kept the boy, and me and my wife had a second honeymoon. And she said, "Bill, you know, this one was more of a honeymoon than the first one." She said, "The first time we went on a honeymoon, the only thing I done was set in a camp and wait for you to come in from hunting," she said.
I kinda used a little a-strategy, you know. I thought, "Well, now, I haven't got much money saved up in a baking powder can, enough to go on a hunting trip, and yet I was going to get married that fall. So I thought, "Just make it all together," you know. And--and while I was going on a hunting trip, it'd be the honeymoon, you know, and so we consolidate. But this time we paid up for it and really went out, and to--by--had a great time.


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