<TITLE>03. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 I was in a Lutheran college, Bethany, where I'd been called on the carpet, oh, my, just digging me up. He's the one that called me "a polished-up soothsayer." And then the Lord kinda got after him about it a little bit, you know, and so he called me up to apologize. We went down into a basement where they set a nice big dinner. And he said to me; he said, "Brother Branham, I just want to ask you some questions. First, I'm sorry I said what I said in that letter."
I said, "That's all right. Never even thought no more about it."
He said, "I want you to tell me, what in the world... Are we Lutherans in the race?"
I said, "Sure."
He said, "What--what--what have we got?"
I said, "You got the Spirit of God." And then, I said, "You know..." They... For the students who couldn't pay their way through, so they had about a thousand acres there of corn. So they just worked their way through. So they... He said...
I said, "A man one time planted a corn crop. And he went out, and the next morning there was two little leaves sticking up. He said, 'Praise the Lord for my crop of corn.'"
I said, "Now, Brother Aegery, did he have a crop of corn?"
He said, "Well, not yet."
I said, "Potentially he did, then."
He said, "Yes."
I said, "That was you Lutherans." And I said, "By and by, them two little blades growed up, and after while it made a tassel. That was the Methodist. They looked back down, said, 'No more use for you. You're just a leaf; I'm a tassel.'"

L-11 "Then after while some of the pollen fell off of there down back into the leaf again, and it brought forth a ear of corn, like the original grain that went in the ground." I said, "That was the Pentecostal." I said, "But see, it's got the original grain." I said, "We got a lot of fungus on the ear, but yet there's some grains there too, you know." I said. But they... I said... And I said, "Now, the Pentecostal church is the advanced Lutherans." He saw it.
He said, "Well, Brother Branham, we--we read of it," and said, "we went down." And said, "We seen the Pentecostal jump, and shake, and kick over the chairs." Said, "What--what's they got?"
I said, "The Holy Ghost."
He said, "Well, what makes them do like that?"
I said, "They have to let off the steam. See?" And--and I said...
And he said, "Do you believe in that?"
I said, "Sure. But, you see, the thing of it is, the Pentecostal church, in... Well, the only fault I find with it is they let it out the whistle, instead of putting it on the wheel and making it roll. When somebody says something against you, let that grace of God stand there to love them anyhow. That's what... let that steam work there (See?), and--and going out in the street, and bringing others in, and so forth. Let that--let the steam work right there."
I like to hear it blow too, you know. But wait till you get to the crossing, then we can blow steam. Let's make it roll, we're running down the track real fast, so the...

L-12 I've been graciously invited back by your pastor, and maybe, the Lord willing this fall when I come back, I can come up a few more nights this fall.
And Brother Bigby... I asked him to get that article again that he wrote. Why, I've had everything said about me, you know. I've been called everything from an incarnate Son of God to the lowest of the devils. And... But I think his expression was just... He expressed it from his heart. It wasn't flattery; it was just what he thought, and I--I'd certainly appreciate that. I just... I ...?... about the best article I ever had of myself. And I had several of them there, but... Each one come in, and, "Can I take this, Brother Branham?" And the first thing you know, I'm out of them. See?


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