<TITLE>41. Par -</TITLE>L-62-4 Busty Rodgers, when they called me down here at the hospital not long ago. I was out there that day after I'd preached out at Milltown where little Georgie Carter was healed. All of you remember it. There was Brother Smith, a Methodist preacher said, "If anybody's ever baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, get out from under my tent." like that, up there at Totten's Ford holding that meeting up there. And oh, condemn me for everything you can think of. I never said a word, went right on. I had a commission. The Lord showed me a vision there was a lamb down there hooked somewhere in the wilderness. You all remember the vision, all of you. I guess you do; do you remember it?

L-63-1 All right, then I was going down through the wilderness there hunting for it. I went to Totten's Ford. Brother Wright there knows that we went over, didn't know what to do. I'd bought a little soap box for a dime. I was going to go out there, stand there, and preach on the step. He said he was going up to the top of the hill to do some trading. I went with him. There's a big old Baptist church setting up there empty. The Lord said to me, "Stop there."
I said, "Let me out right here, Brother Wright." I stopped. He went on up and come back. I went there, and he couldn't open the door. I said, "Lord, if You're in this, and You want me to go in the church, open the door for me."
I set down there and was thinking. I heard somebody coming, walked up, and he said, "How do you do." I said... He said, "You want in the church?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "I got the key here." Started a meeting. The first week, hardly nothing. The first night I had a congregation: Brother Wright and his family. First thing you know, at the end of the week they couldn't even stand them in their yard hardly. Still that lamb hadn't come up. Brother Hall got saved during that time, the pastor there now, all of them. But I couldn't find where this lamb was. After while, out of the Church of Christ, down below the hill, there that little girl nine years and eight months hadn't moved, laying there, there she was. You all know the story.

L-63-5 Yes, sir, that afternoon when Busty Rodgers, great big, husky veteran standing there, I walked out there, and there stood Brother Smith's congregation to laugh at me, make fun of me for baptizing in the Name of Jesus. I walked out in those muddy waters of Totten's Ford where they had a... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... creek there and just roaring as hard as it could. Couple of deacons walked out with me. I said, "I stand here this afternoon in representation of God's holy Scripture." I said, "I read in the Bible here where Peter said, 'Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.'" I turned around, handed the book to one of the deacons, walked out there, and said, "Whosoever will that repents of his sins is a subject to come." Walked out there in the water, and I said, "Seems to me that angels are setting in every limb and are watching."

L-64-1 Oh, my, about the time I baptized about two or three, his whole congregation, them women with fine silk dresses on, hitting that water, screaming to the top of their voice. I baptized his entire congregation in the Name of Jesus Christ. You know it. I got the picture of it.
There it was. What was it? Adding to your virtue. See? Let it alone. God knows how to do it. God knows how to bring these things to pass. Let them say what they want to. Don't make any difference. Just keep on going.
Busty Rodgers, standing there, when he seen that, he said, "Then I believed it with all my heart" and out into the water he came with his good clothes on and was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.


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