<TITLE>12. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 And He said, "The very idea of you standing up there." Said, "I drove fifteen miles through a blinding snowstorm to hear a man of God, and what did I find but a polished-up soothsayer."
And I said, "I forgive you for that, brother." And so then, I said, "You didn't know what you said." I said, "The people seen Jesus Christ do the same thing in His day as He does in my day, the same Jesus doing it, and they called Him Beelzebub."
I said, "Now, what if I was right? And Jesus said to speak one word against it will never be forgiven." I said, "What good has your fifty years done?" See, see? I said, "But I know you didn't mean that from your heart. I--I just don't think that a man could talk about Jesus for fifty years, and preach for Him, and be a dean of a college, could talk about Jesus like that. You just--you're just excited and don't understand it."

L-57 Later he wrote me a letter. He said, "I apologize for that, and I hear you're coming to Minneapolis again." It was Dr. Aegery, and he said, "I--I'll... I--I'd like for you to come to the college. I'd like to ask you some questions." (Have I got time to tell it?) And said... Have... and I said...
And Brother Jack Moore and some of us was up there; it was at the Business Men's convention. He said... I went out. And of course, my education's very limited, as you know, and I don't claim to be a preacher. So I set next to Brother Jack, and he's pretty smart, you know. And I thought if he said some words that I didn't know what he was saying, I'd punch him on the leg, and he'd take over from there. You see?

L-58 So they give us a nice dinner. They're Norwegian. And so they had a great big smorgasbord dinner, and set in the shape of the cross, and put me at the head of it here. The lovely little ladies served the table. And Dr. Aegery raised up after the--after dinner and he said, "Brother Branham, I know you've got to get back for service tonight," but said, "I want to ask you a question."
I said, "Dr. Aegery," I said, "I'd--I'll be glad to answer what I can. Maybe my education's so limited I--I just might not be able to do it."
He said, "Well, I'd like to say this to you." He said, "I apologize for what I said."
I said, "Oh, you was forgiven, brother. I wouldn't think of that."

L-59 And he said, "We are hungry here at Bethany." He said, "We--we want God." He said, "And we read about the Pentecostals." And he said, "I understood that you used to be a Baptist."
I said, "I am."
And he said... Well, he said, "I went to see them," and said, "there was a meeting." And said, "They was just kicking over the chairs, and knocking out the window lights, and--and so forth like that." Said, "What have they got?"
I said, "The Holy Ghost."
And he said, "The Holy Ghost do that?"
I said, "Brother. Here's what I find amongst the Pentecostal people. It's so much steam they blow it out the whistle, instead of putting it on the track and making the--making the...?... I said, "They... if they just knowed how to put it to work. They shout it all out (See?), scream it out."
You know what I mean. And that's true. I don't say it dishonorably; I say it with love and respect. The power that's in the church, if it only be put to work, and harnessed... Like the zig-zag lightning that writes the--the end time across the skies, harness that and see what it'll do. See? Edison said he could do it, and he did. See? It's harness this power that we got. See? We just scream it out, and blow it out. See?


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