<TITLE>08. Par 70-83</TITLE>L-70   All these lodges get us all mixed up. You cannot join church. There is no such a thing. You can join the lodge. You can join the Methodist lodge, the Baptist lodge, the Presbyterian lodge, or the Pentecostal lodge. But you can't join the Church. You've got to be born. That's the reason, got so much blowup. See? The pressure builds, and there you go. Say, "Well, I belong to this." But that doesn't mean...

L-71 You've got to come up from the ground, up, to stand the pressure of this day. When God puts His big charge of the Holy Spirit in there, you better know what you're doing. You better be ready for it.

L-72 Now, if you--if you kind of rebore out something, say, "I tarried all night for a gift," you better be careful. It might explode, see, and it'd backfire.

L-73   Coming to a hospital, thought, I was coming down one night, and--and there was sent me... It was Brother Neville, the pastor's call, and I--I--I took it, 'cause I was coming from Louisville. And it said the lady was very serious. And I went out to the hospital there at Jeffersonville, and there was a lady there. And I... They told me, "Go to room 322. The lady was there."

L-74 I walked in. I said, "Is there a 'four' bed, ward?" I said, "Is there a lady, So-and-so, here?
"No, sir. She isn't here."
I said, "I probably made a mistake. Excuse me."

L-75 And I walked back out. And the nurse was coming down the hall, and she was kind of in a hurry. I said, "Lady, could you tell me if a certain lady is up here on this ward, or where she's at?"

L-76 She said, "I have no time for to do things like that. And can't you see I'm in a hurry?"
I said, "Pardon me."

L-77   I walked up to the desk, and--and the lady was setting there at the desk, a nurse. And I said... She was writing out something. I kept waiting. She looked up at me; just kept on writing. Well, I waited around a few minutes. I said, "Good evening." She never said a thing. And I thought, "Well?" I said, "Could you tell me where a certain lady is? It... I'm a minister. I been sent here to a certain place, to room 322, they told me."
And she said, "Well, then go to room 322."
And I said, "Lady, I have been to room three-..."
She said, "Why ask me, then? Go to the desk downstairs."
I said, "Well, thank you."

L-78 I started downstairs, and I got down there. And I asked the nurse on the floor. She knowed nothing about it.

L-79 Here come a little doctor, down through the floor, with his stereoscopes in his hand, whirling them around and around, like this. Little... I never seen such a fat man! He was--he was... Honestly, I believe he was broader than he was long. He was walking... or, "he was high, rather." So he was walking down, whirling these stereoscopes in his hands. And I said, "Excuse me, doctor. Could you tell me where..."
He said, "Yes, yes, it's on back, that way," he said.
"Thank you, sir."

L-80 I went on down the other way. I thought, "Well, now, what am I going to do?"

L-81 And he went down, set down behind the desk. And I didn't see anybody else. I thought I might as well walk up and ask him again. I said, "Pardon me, sir." He just kept looking at something else, you know. And I said, "Did the... I am wanting to know where the room..."
Said, "It's back that way."
I said, "Room 222, I can't find which way to go."
He said, "Just go this way, and that way. You'll find it."

L-82   What is it? Pressure, see, pressure built up. He might have come from surgery. He might have thought that he had... that I oughtn't to be asking him that. It was out of the visiting hours, truly. Then he thought, "Just some preacher. Let him go." See?

L-83 The world is just built upon pressure. It's going to blow up, one of these days. The world, built full of pressure, and the doctors don't know what to do about it. The psychiatrists has got psychiatrists doctoring them. That's right. They don't have the answer, but God does. God has the answer to all of this.


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