<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 Such a short stay and such a grand bunch of people, that I kinda hate to leave, though tired. But I got to... Now, I know tonight they got a--a baptismal service, and so forth, here at the church. Brother Ned Iverson, my friend and brother, is going to take over the service now and carry on for a while. And I certainly would recommend him, recommend that you come, hear him.
And so then tonight after service... We got to let out early enough for that, and I have to go to my motel, and get ready, and leave hours before day in the morning; and drive seven hundred miles in order to get started the next morning at home: three or four o'clock at home, in order to be next week at the Cow Palace in Los Angeles.
Have to drive across with my family. Haven't got no more days, but just traveling one and two days between the meetings, until this coming September. And it's a pretty big order, so you pray for me.

L-6 And I'm not too big. If I was as big as your pastor, here, I believe I could just go day and night. I ain't telling you to run him day and night. But--but--but little Brother Ned said today, when I was talking with him, the pastor, said, "I wish I could transfer some of my strength to you." Well, that would be good, 'cause he's so big and strong. And I was always little.
When I used to work for the Public Service Company, I'd come up the steps, and--and the operator at the top switchboard, Mrs. Ehalt, she said, "Billy, I can always tell when you're coming." Says, "You're the smallest man that works for the Public Service Company and the most noisiest."
I said, "Well, Edith, I have to make a lot of noise to let people know I'm around...?..."

L-7 Now, I believe all the brethren has been introduced, I think, all the way along the line. And one little brother that I left off at the other meeting, and that's the little Methodist boy that was a dyed-in-the-wool Methodist out of the seminary. And--and got a brother that's a very prominent figure in Asbury, Wilmore, Kentucky. And this boy and his family has come out and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, preaching the Full Gospel. That's Brother Collins, Wilbur Collins. Where you at, Wilbur? Wilbur Collins, somewhere back in the back. Would you just like to give us a word from there, or come up here? I'd like somebody to see a Methodist that's got the Holy Ghost, besides Brother Neville over here. Come here, and just say a word for us.
And I guess, Brother Junior Jackson. You've been introduced, have you, Brother Jackson? Another Methodist, dyed-in-the-wool, and with the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

L-8 Brother Collins, I've knowed him for a number of years--sweet precious Christian, a real man of God. He and his wife and family is all under the order of--God's order of the Bible. Brother Collins.
[Brother Collins says a few words--Ed.]
Thank you, Brother Collins, the Lord bless you. That's very fine.
Now, the Methodist people here, we don't mean that you're not a Christian. See? But you know what the Pentecostal church is? The advanced Methodist church. See?

L-9 And Jack Shuler, many of you know him, is a fine Methodist. Jack told me... One time I come to Phoenix, and I was going to Madison Square Garden. He was out in the school auditorium. And I called him up, I said, "Jack, I didn't know you were here."
He said, "Brother Branham, I didn't know you were coming." And he said, "I'd have got out of the way."
I said, "I wouldn't have come if I knowed you were here." I said, "Well, Brother Jack," I said, "most of the people comes to my meetings are Pentecostals."
He said, "Well, you got my group."
I said, "Well, I thought you were Methodist."
He said, "Don't you know what a Methodist is?"
And I said, "No."
Said, "A--a Methodist--or a Pentecost is an orthodox Methodist."
And all of you know... Well, many of you know Jack, and old man Bob, and them. They were real Christian people.


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