<TITLE>02. Par 9-17</TITLE>L-9   Now, to Brother Tony, the--the president of the chapter here, and I'm happy to be here with him in fellowship tonight, with Brother Carl Williams and other chapter executives or representatives, and with all you visitors with us. We're happy to be here.

L-10 One time I was speaking, I believe was at Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Robinson Memorial Auditorium. And there had been a man healed, had been several years on crutches, setting on the street, selling pencils. And he could, oh, just twist. His limbs was paralyzed. And get around... People felt awfully sorry for him. One night he come into the meeting. And he got a prayer card, and got into the line and was healed.

L-11   And the next day he had his crutches on his back, walking up-and-down the street, testifying. And I was trying to speak. And--and after while he raised up, and he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "I'm kind of at wit's ends." He said, "When I heard you speaking," he said, "I thought you were a Nazarene." That's what he was. And he said, "And then I seen so many Pentecostals around," he said, "somebody said you were Pentecostal. And then I heard you say that you were a Baptist, or was ordained in the Baptist church." Said, "I get it all mixed up. What are you?"

L-12 I said, "Oh, that's easy. I'm a Pentecostal Nazarene Baptist." So, that's together.

L-13   When I come among the Pentecostal people, a few years ago, which the Lord sent me over, when He ordained that I should pray for his sick children. And the own denominational church that I was with at that time didn't believe much on praying for the sick, or Divine healing. It was foreign to them. They told me I had become a holy-roller. And well, maybe I have become a holy-roller. I don't know. But I'm awful happy, whatever I am. And someone said I had lost my mind. I said, "Then just leave me alone, because I'm more happier this way than I was the other way." So I--I just feel good this way. And I... It's been joy unspeakable.

L-14 But when I come among the Pentecostal people, I--I thought there were only one group of them. And then, come to find out, there's just about as many groups cut away, in them, as there was in the Baptist church that I came from. Then I wouldn't take sides with any groups. I tried to stand between all of them and say, "We are brothers." See? And that's been my attitude ever since: to see the great church of the living God united together in faith and prayer and effort.

L-15   And then when the Full Gospel Business Men set up their organism, because they're not an organization. They're an organism. And that took in all groups. And it gave me a place, and they took me under their wing. And I'm very grateful for the opportunity to speak for the Christian Business Men, because there I can express my belief among all the groups at the same time. And it's been a great thing to me. And I belong to one organization, that's the Full Gospel Business Men.

L-16 And to do that, there is now in Africa, where we are planning, going right away, down in South Africa, where the Lord gave us one of the greatest meetings that I suppose He ever did give us, was down in South Africa, where we saw thirty thousand blanket natives receive Christ as Saviour in one afternoon service. They registered thirty thousand.

L-17 The next morning, while Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, called me on the phone, which was at the meeting. We had somewhat around two hundred thousand at the stadium, or the--or the racetrack. And he said, "Go to your window and look out the window." And there came seven van loads. And them great English trucks was practically, almost across this room, full of crutches and wheelchairs, and--and things that the people had laid on, the day before. And they were walking behind the trucks, singing, with their hands in the air, the song that you sang a few moments ago, "Only believe, all things are possible."


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