<TITLE>02. Par 12-24</TITLE>L-12 So I just turned and started out, and they followed me. I said, "In... It's in the Name of the Lord, she'll get up." And so they started screaming.

L-13 Here come Doctor Palouveas, and was going to run me out of the house. And he just... I said... He said, "The very idea!" And I said... "Well, building those people under false hope! The woman is dying."

L-14   I said, "According to all your statistics, it is. But according to the Word of the Lord, no." See? I said, "She is going to live."

L-15 "Nonsense," he said, "you should leave this place, get out of here."

L-16 And Brother Shakarian stepped up, said, "Wait just a minute." See? Said, "We had you down here also, too, for our doctor, and we appreciate you." Said, "But we also called Brother Branham. Your hopes, you give us none. He does, see."

L-17 And I said, "Tell you what I'll do. If she isn't up and out again, within three days, I'll put a sign on my back, 'false prophet,' and we'll go right here in Los Angeles, and you get in your car, go down the street, blowing the horn, pointing to me, see. And then if she is up, let me put a sign on your back, 'quack doctor,' and get in your car and blow, see." [Congregation laughs--Ed.] He wouldn't do it. Later on, he was baptized in an irrigation ditch, and was serving the Lord. Since then, he's been taken Home to Glory.

L-18   And so I got acquainted with the Shakarians. Later I was part of helping them organize their first chapter. And across the nation, around the world, I've helped them in their chapters. They're a very fine group of man.

L-19 I think that you--you are missing something by not having your fellowship strengthened here, because it is fellowship. "We should assemble ourselves together," the Bible tells us that, "as we see the end approaching; not forsaking to assembling ourselves together." It'll--it'll not only do that, it'll strengthen you. And, you, your strength will strengthen the church. And it's all... The Full Gospel Business Men is not an organization to set aside, and say, "This is our group." It's for all believers, to come together. And it's just a unit of the church, see, the church itself, the spiritual believers. And I think it--it's a great thing if you--if you would do it. It's kind of little, maybe it don't...

L-20   I hope it don't sound sacrilegious. But someone said to me not long ago, at a meeting, he said, a man said, "Say, you're a preacher."

L-21 I said, "Well, I kind of halfway guess it's all right." I--I'm kind of afraid what I say about preachers, around Full Gospel people.

L-22 You know, my--my father was a--a--a rider. He'd break horses. When I was a little boy, I thought, you know, I was going to be a rider, too. You know how little boys want to be like their dad, and I was going to be a rider also. So I'd get dad out to the back of the place, you know, when plowing, and I'd take my old plow horse out and take him down to the old watering trough, you know, it's hewed out of a log.

L-23 How many ever seen that, an old... Well, what part of Kentucky are you from? Oh! How many ever slept on a straw tick? Well, I just might as well take off my coat and my tie, I'm really at home here. Well, that's--that's--that's my environment.

L-24   So I used to go down there. And dad had a saddle, you know. And so I'd see him way back at the back of the place, and I'd get the old plow horse. And get all my brothers, and set them around on the fence, you know, and I was the oldest of nine. Go get me a big handful of cockleburs and put it up under the saddle, and pull up the cinch, and climb up on him. My! Poor old fellow so tired he couldn't even raise his feet off the ground, and he just bawled and carried on, cockleburs sticking him, you know, and pulling that cinch down on him. So I'd take off my hat, and I was just a... I was really a cowboy. I had read too many magazines, is all. So I let my brothers believe that I was a real cowboy, you see, so I thought I was.


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