<TITLE>15. Par 108-114</TITLE>L-108   I had a little something to happen in Mexico, not long ago. General Valdena, elected of God, the Light shined across his path once, in one of the meetings. That great Catholic warrior, one of the highest generals in Mexico, come humbly to the altar and received the baptism the Holy Ghost. He went back down into Mexico. He kept crying for me, come down there. Finally, I decided to go down. The Lord led me; had a vision. Told my wife. Went down there.
And when he did, him being one their chief generals, four-star general, he went to the headquarters, to the government. And, they, they're hard against Protestants down there, you know. So they know this going to be a terrific meeting, so he went down there and got a militia guard. And when they did, they get the big arena. And they was going to bring me in like that. The government was bringing me in.
So, when they did, the--the bishop, one of the great bishops of the Catholic church, went up to him, to the governor, and said, "Sir, I understand that you're bringing in a non-Catholic."
Said, "Yes. What about it?"
"Why," he said, "you can't have a man like that in here. This government has never knowed of doing a thing like that."

L-109   "But," said, "we've done it now." He said, "Why," said, "the man is a reputable man. I understand that thousands of people comes out to hear him. General Valdena, he's my bosom friend." He said... And had the... The president himself is Protestant, you know, Methodist. So he said--he said, "The man is a reputable man, as far as I know." Said, "General Valdena here, he is converted under this man." Said, "Why, he is, as far as I know, a reputable person." Said, "Thousands of people, they claim, will come hear him."
And this bishop said, "What kind of a people is it, sir? Just the ignorant. That's the ones that goes, hear a person like that."

L-110 The president said, "Sir, you've had them for five hundred years, why are they ignorant?" That was enough. That settled it. Oh, my! That dehorned them. Yes, sir. Yeah.

L-111   Then when that little baby was raised from the dead, I sent a runner behind the man. The lady was saying, in Spanish, "The baby died, this morning at nine o'clock." And it was pouring down, rain. Having about ten thousand converts to Christ, each night.
The night before, an old blind man had received his sight on the platform. Oh, three or four times size this tabernacle, and about that high, of old shawls and hats laying. And I just...

L-112 They let me down on ropes, in the ring, to get me in. I just walked out there and started preaching, by faith.
Billy come, said, "Daddy, you going to have to do something, that woman." Said, "I got three hundred ushers standing there. They can't stop a little bitty woman, weigh a hundred pounds, nearly." And pretty, little lady about so high, about, oh, maybe her first baby. I'd say she's twenty-three or twenty-five years old.

L-113   And she was standing there, and her hair hanging down, and holding a little baby. And she would make a lunge for that line. The men would push her back. She'd climb up over the top of them, that baby on her hip, any way, go between their legs, or anything. They'd get her up there, and have to kick her off the platform.

L-114 And they didn't have no prayer card to give her. He said, "If I let her come in there, daddy, with that dead baby, with no prayer card, and..." Said, "Them others standing there, has been standing here two or three days, in that rain and sun. And let her get ahead of them," said, "it'll cause a--a fuss down there."


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