Following [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] that was a woman, female trouble, wouldn’t leave her in the meeting. I don’t know why. Richard T. Reed, Reverend Richard T. Reed, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the one who baptized them into the church, the next morning; you might ask him. You have to be careful. God entrusts you with something; then you can’t use it just for—for your own good. You’re to use it for the glory of God. Is that right? How many believes Moses was a prophet? He was, and God loved him. And when he went down there to the rock, God said, “You go down there and speak to the rock, and it’ll bring forth its water.” But Moses in his anger (he was high tempered), he went down there; instead of speaking to the rock, he smote the rock, and smote it twice. That broke the whole picture of God’s program. The rock was Christ; you believe that, don’t you, ministers? He was only smitten once, and we speak to Him now. Is that right? And Moses smote the Christ the second time. But that broke the whole picture of God’s great program here, bursted it to pieces right there, Christ being smitten twice, when He’s only smitten once. But God was under obligation, He’d give that prophet the power to do so. But God dealt with Moses later about that. Is that right?

The Angel of God, 1951-07-20, Toledo, OH, §27