<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 Well, about a year after that I was back there for the Christian Business Men in a meeting. And another precious brother, Dr. Aegery of the Bethany College wrote me a letter, and said he'd like to have me over there. I was afraid to go, 'cause I knowed those intellectual giants. I had my little grammar school education could not stand with theirs. And he invited me, and I said to Brother Moore, "If you'll go with me now and gets me past my education, I'll bump you on the knee with mine and you take over from there." And so, he agreed to go.
So we set at the table. They set us a nice table down in the gymnasium room. Lovely little Lutheran women served our fine dinner, very fine. And when... Dr. Aegery set next to me, and he said, "Now, Mr. Branham..." When we got through, he said, "I want to say this one thing. I apologize," what the man said. Said, "Now, but I..."
I said, "That was forgiven at the beginning."
And he said, "We are hungry here at Bethany." Said, "We are... there's a great..." The students, if they can't pay their way, they've got hundreds of acres of corn and stuff they raise, and work their way through college: very fine school. And he said, "We are hungry. We're studying about God." And said, "We found in there a couple of years ago about the Holy Ghost and how It worked."

L-15 And said, "We went to the Pentecostals that claimed to have It." And said, "We seen them kick over the chairs, and knock out the windows, and so forth." He said, "What have they got?"
I said, "The Holy Ghost."
And he said, "That?"
I said, "Sure. They got so much steam they have to blow it out the whistle. They won't put it to action, let it go to working." I said, "That's all. There's so much steam blow--builds up, they have to get it some way." And I said, "They just... If you'd put that same power, that same thing in action, in faith, with God's Word, and go to moving it (See?), instead of just blowing it out. See? It's the Holy Spirit builds it up in there."
And he said, "Well, then what do you think we Lutherans has got?"
I said, "The Holy Spirit." And then he stopped and looked at me. I thought, "Lord, if You ever helped me, You do it now, 'cause I sure got myself..."
He said, "Well..."

L-16 I thought, "If You'll just help me, Lord..." He's always did it, amongst witch doctors and devils, and around the world in tight places.
And he said... I said, "Well, listen, sir."
He said, "We went to--flew over to Los Angeles to a man that wrote a book on all the gifts." And said, "When we got there, he said, 'I don't--I ain't got any of them.' Said, 'I--I just wrote about them.'"
He said, "Well, we could do the same thing here, 'cause... He took it right out of Scripture. We want to see it. That night when we come down there and seeing that, we'd done made up our mind it was wrong. And that's the reason we called you a polished-up soothsayer."
I said, "Well, I forgive you for that as I said." But I said...


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