<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>51-0722E, The Second Miracle, Civic Auditorium, Toledo, OH, 49 min
L-1 Feel real good to hear something like that of all of you, for the letter that our brother has read, and for the attitude of our ministering brethren here with us, and for the audience around, and your applauding, makes us feel double welcome to come back again. And if the good Lord is willing, and as soon as we get the opportunity, we'll return to this city to stay longer, until the thing is over. Until God tells us it's enough, time to go home. At that... [Audience claps--Ed.] Thank you kindly.
I trust that the meeting has been as much blessing to you as it has to--to us. I say this, where I don't have to say it, but I say it because it's the truth. I've had larger crowds of course, and bigger places, and we've had larger crowds here if we'd had the place to take care of them. But I never met, or was in a nicer meeting, and meet--met nicer people anywhere in the world, than I have in this place. That's right. And with the... [Audience claps--Ed.] thank you.

L-2 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] of my heart. And I trust that--that the meeting will never die, that it'll live right on in each church and among the people until Jesus comes. That's our purpose of being here to bring these meetings. And everybody's been so kind, and you've been so nice to set in this hot building, and it very hot like this, and--and just stand along the sides, and drooping around the doors, and come in early; and oh, that's so nice of you. And we appreciate it.
We appreciate this brother, I can't think of his name half the time, here, Brother Banner, and all the cooperating ministers. We just thank God for you brethren. And you've been so good to us. We just trust that God will just pour out His blessings everywhere upon all of you...?...

L-3 And to all you people there, they just tell me they taken up a love offering for me, a few moments ago. I appreciate that. I don't deserve it; that's true. I--I don't deserve it. But Brother Baxter said all the debts were paid and everything. And then when they do that, then they get a love offering. And we appreciate it. And I--and to the best of my knowledge, and all that I know, every penny of it I shall spend for the glory of God, the best that I know how. There won't be one foolish thing that that money will go for. Because at that day we want to be found a good and true faithful steward of His welfare.
And some of you paid, maybe a portion of your living; I--I wish you wouldn't do that. Just someone, when they're taking up a love offering, throw in a nickel or something, that I--I could, you know, just something. I have, got some children, you know how it is. But I wish I didn't have to do that, but, to take one, but I do once in a while, because I just, you can't make ends meet. But we thank you for it. And God bless you, everyone.

L-4 Now I trust that... I remember in a meeting I used to tell of a little story, being that my old brother's setting here, I want to shake his hand before I start into the ministry, or ministering to... of the Word.
One time I was going to take up an offering in my church. I told my wife, I said, "We just got to have..." I never took an offering myself in my life. And I said, "We got to have just a little money." I said, "I'll tell you, I'll take up..." We owed a debt and just had to pay it. And so that was my former wife, it was... I was... She died years and years ago, about fourteen years ago. And I was single for about five or six years. My little boy started in school, and I remarried again. God gave me back a perfect image of the little girl that He just taken from me. And so I'm so happy about that.


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