<TITLE>32. Par -</TITLE>L-53-4 God planted this Tree to bear spiritual fruit, and man has always tried to make it a artificial form, having a form of godliness, the largest buildings in the city (sure); millions of dollars. My goodness, and people preaching Jesus is coming, and spend six and eight million dollars on a building somewhere. And missionaries, I know missionaries on the field that's preaching the Gospel without a pair of shoes on, eating two meals a week.
Can you see why, brother we... What's the matter with people? I don't actually believe they believe He's coming. Your--your--your words speak... Well, your--your life speaks louder than your words; you... See? He's... Them little missionaries over there, come up in my meeting, like that, no shoes on, a little pair of pants on, tied around him like that; living out there with fleas, and ameba, and bugs, and all kinds of sickness, and everything else out there; little old hands eat up, and eat up with ameba and everything else, standing there, say, "Are you Brother Branham?"

L-53-6 I said, "Yes."
Said, "Oh, bless you. I'll always pray for you."
I thought, "Oh, God, let that man pray for me; yes, that's the guy. That's the one."
"I--I--I read your articles, Brother Branham. You're sure telling the Truth. We're right with you."
Oh, brother, that's--that's the boy; that's him. Poor little guy...
Hear somebody say, "You know who that is?"
"Oh, why," said, "he don't belong to our organization."
I said, "Who is he?"
"Why, he ain't with us."
"Well, who is he?"
"Oh, he's a--he's a independent."
"Oh, he is? Uh-huh. Well, what does he do?"
"Oh, he's got a little work out there. He--he won't join in with us."
"Well, I want to know about him."

L-54-1 You know, when I was a little boy, hunting apples in the apple orchard, I always found the tree had all the clubs under it, you know. Got clubbed right good and hard; there's where the good apples was.
They say, "Well, he's just a holy-roller."
You know, he always put the scarecrow where the good tree's at. The devil does the same thing to scare you off of It. Don't you worry, go right on in behind that scarecrow.

L-54-3 I was watching a groundhog one day eating butter beans I was planting. Every time I'd plant a row of butter beans, that little guy'd come out and eat them up. I thought, "I'll scare the life out of him." So I got me a paper sack, and (I'm really an artist; you ought to see me.) I drawed what I thought was a scary picture. (Oh, it was scary too, if I drawed it.) And I put it on a sack, and put me some butter beans in it, and hung it on a stick; and when the wind would blow, it'd shake like that.
Out of the hole come the little groundhog, you know, and he run down through there eating butter beans; and he run right up against this sack. He backed off and looked at it, looked over like that; and he went [Brother Branham make descriptive sound--Ed.], jumped at it; and well, the sack stood still. He looked at it again, you know, looked it all over again. He looked back and seen them butter beans went on down the row; and they were good, you know, so he looked at that scarecrow in his way. So he walked up and kept getting a little closer, like that, trying to scare it, and it wouldn't move. Don't matter; it's dead; that's all them scarecrows are. So he just--so he just...


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