<TITLE>25. Par 162-169</TITLE>L-162   And all these years I've tried to serve Him with a true heart, and I won't go out there being a hypocrite. I got to feel that, that it isn't Ricky and Ricketta, and it isn't this bunch. It's God's children that's in bondage, and I must go to them. Until I can feel that way, I'll just have to loaf around, preach some conventions and things, but wait.

L-163   I got a little song. I can't sing. I would just like to quote it to you. Brethren, I just kind of mapped out. I ain't got it filled out yet. It ain't wrote right. I don't know whether I can even read it or not. It's in the tune of the Battle Hymn Of The Republic, "Glory, glory, hallelujah!" You've heard it. "Glory, glory, hallelujah!" How many? Of course, we've all heard that.
The circuit-rider preacher went riding through the land,
With a rifle on his shoulder and a Bible in his hand;
He told the prairie people of a blessed promised Land,
As he went riding, singing along.
Leaning, leaning,
Leaning on the everlasting arm;
Leaning, leaning,
Leaning on the everlasting arm.
He preached the coming judgment of fire and brimstone;
And a glorious, endless Heaven of the justified alone.
As he rode across the mountains you could hear him sing this song,
As he went riding on.
There is power, power, wonder-working power,
In the Blood of the Lamb;
There is power, power, oh, wonder-working power,
In the precious Blood of the Lamb.

L-164   The old circuit preacher. You remember him. See?
Now his rifle's old and rusty, and it's hanging on the wall;
His Bible is very worn and dusty, and the... seldom touched at all; (That's right.)
But the Message that It brings us will meet us on that Day,
For God's Truth's still marching on.
All:
Glory! glory, hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah!
His Truth is marching on.

L-165   I'm going to learn that. I stood this morning when I was writing that down, put my hand on my old rifle hanging on the wall. I thought, "It won't be long."
His rifle is old and rusting, as it's hanging on the wall, (That's right.)
And the Bible is worn and dusty, and is seldom touched at all;
But his Message from this Bible... at the Judgment one day;
And His Truth keeps marching on.

L-166 God's Truth in this Bible! Yeah. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-167   The old circuit preacher with his rifle across his back, his Bible in his hand, rode across the prairie, and up over the mountains, and down through the ditches and everywhere, preaching of a coming Millennium, of a coming fiery Judgment for the unjust, and preaching a Kingdom of God for the just. It's true. The old Winchester is a rusting away. And the Bible, they--they got some sex book instead of It. But God's Truth still marches on. He makes Himself just as real today, and proves it, as He ever was. "God's Truth keeps marching on!"
Glory! glory, hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah!
Glory! glory hallelujah!
His Truth is marching on.

L-168   Why? Somebody will take It. For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let's sing it again. Now we're mixed up here, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, everything else. While we sing that last chorus, let's shake hands with somebody around you, and then we'll be dismissed.

L-169 And now, remember, you that have to go to your own church, go tonight. Greet your pastor for me. And--and then pray for me, each one of you. And then again I want you to remember, if you have no place to go... [Brother Branham says to Brother Neville, "And if you'd have anything."--Ed.] After Brother Neville's message tonight, after he has his message, then I want to make a tape called The Red Flashing Light Of His Coming, see, tonight. The Lord bless you now. And next week, I'll, next Sunday, the Lord willing, I may be down again to make another tape, 'cause I'll have to be in Arkansas this next week.


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