Episode 259: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 225

Episode Summary:

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. (Psalm 69:8-9)

46 And it hadn’t been but a little while when I got some more orders and come up. And I had a place up there where somebody went up and pushed the wires on a meter and just running it without that, and somebody in there ironing. Why if they’d cut a wire across and twenty-three hundred come through there, it’d kill a woman dead with an iron in her hand. So I had to go up and cut them nips off so they couldn’t put it in straight like that. So I just cutting it off like that, come down, and Doctor Brown was coming down the street. He said, “Hello, Billy.”

And I said, “Hello there, Doctor Brown.” My, he’s a mighty fine man, Methodist preacher.

And he said, “How you doing this morning?”

I said, “Fine, fine.”

He said, “You Baptists are really having a time up there, aren’t you?”

I said, “Oh, yes, sir. We just having…”

He said, “How you get that there crowd you have up there every Sunday night, Billy?”

I said, “I give them pills.”

He said, “What kind of pills?”

I said, “Gos-pills.” See?…?…

And so, “Oh,” he said, “you haven’t lost any of your southern idea.”

I said, “Nope, nope, that’s right.”

47 He said, “You know what, Billy?” He said, “The other day… I’ve got five hundred members to that church down there,” and he said, “I sent out five hundred cards to get those people to pledge that they would come six months out of the year to Sunday school. Within the year they’d register six times in—in—they’d register six months in the year, they’d come.” And said, “You know how many answered?”

I said, “Don’t have any idea, Brother Brown.” Now, he was a nice man, yes, sir, I believe a real true man. And I said… I don’t believe he had the Holy Ghost, no, sir, I don’t. But I mean: I believe what he—what he preached he believed and he was true far as he went. Like the colored man eating watermelon, he said—eat a slice of it, and said, “What about that, Mose?”

He said, “That was good, but they’s some mo’ of it.” And that’s just about the way it is. You see? So that part was all right far as he went, but he didn’t go too far.

So then I said, “How many answered, Brother Brown?”

He said, “Two answered last Sunday.” He said, “What do you think about that?”

I said, “Well, that’s pretty bad, Brother Brown.”

48 I said, “You know what, Brother Brown; I want to tell you a little something happened a while ago.” I said, “I was down in New Albany,” I was in Jeffersonville then. I said, “I was down in New Albany,” (just three miles below), and I said, “I was cutting off the service down there for a person that didn’t pay their bill. I went up and knocked on the door,” and I told him about the girl. And I said, “That girl, she was so carried away, she went across the floor, after speaking to me, and that music had such an effect on her till she went across the floor going ‘Tootlely, tootlely, tootlely,’ and—and throwed a kiss to that Clayton McMichen, ever what his name was on that Greenbrier Patch, or ever what he was going to be out there.” I said, “Do you think that somebody will have to sign a card to get her to go there Saturday night?”

He said, “Well, no.”

I said, “She’d pawn what—them few clothes she had on; she’d get there.” That’s right. “Why?” I said, “Because in her was a dance spirit.” And I said, “Now, Brother Brown, you excuse my ignorance, and don’t think that I’m trying to tell you something, but I want to tell you something right now.” See? I said, “The… If them people loved God like that woman loved dancing, they’d be at the church; you wouldn’t have to sign any card to get them there.” And that’s where it is, brother. The church has lost its zeal, its love for the Gospel, for the power, for the Holy Ghost. It’s lost it. “Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? then why is the daughter of my people not recovered?”

61-0218 – “Balm In Gilead”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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