<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>53-0509, The Pillar Of Fire, Bible Hour Tabernacle, Jonesboro, AR, 98 min
L-1 Stand by your church. And so then--then Monday night be back with us again. Bring your pastors along and tell them to come down. We're going to teach a little bit out of the Book of Genesis or Exodus, one, the Lord willing for a couple of nights.
Then Wednesday night we have a healing service again and then on Thursday night we begin at, down in Shreveport, Louisiana. And Sunday night we be at the, as far as I know now, at the Municipal Auditorium there at Shreveport. Then we go from there home, then up into Indiana to where we got a meeting there where forty-three Full Gospel churches in the district are sponsoring the meeting. And as far as I know, the next meeting then will be Johannesburg, South Africa. So I'm depending on you praying for me.

L-2 Many times, friends, when the storms is going hard and trials besetting on every hand, I would think back about Arkansas and down in here, and the Christians who raised their hand on that night when you sing that song to me when I was leaving, pledging that you'd pray for me while I was gone. I--I was believing you were praying. God never failed to answer your prayers, for He stood with me when the heat was on, the battles are going hard, all kinds of things we had to combat.
Maybe you wouldn't understand just exactly. There's no need of trying to explain these things. They're inexplainable. God Himself is the only One Who knows. You might think that life is just a flower bed of ease. But if you only knew the battle and the trials and the things that accompanies this, you'd wonder.

L-3 You know most all prophets, poets are considered neurotics. You knew that. I believe it was Stephen Foster, brother, was considered one of the best... Well, he gave America some of it's best folk songs. How many ever heard Stephen Foster's songs? Sure many of you: The Old Folks at Home," "Swanee River," and "Old Kentucky Home."
Not long ago I was standing at the old Kentucky home. It's just a little piece from where I live now. And I was looking at his picture there, of how the seraphims was supposed to of touched him to give him inspiration. I thought, "Mr. Foster, you had it in the head, not in the heart." When he would... He would go out; he'd catch inspiration to write a song. And after he got through writing a song, he'd get on a drunk. And finally when he left the inspiration of writing a song, he called a servant and got a razor and committed suicide: Stephen Foster.

L-4 Not long ago I was standing by William Cowper's grave in London, England, considered a neurotic. He wrote that famous song that I've used all my life nearly in Communion song:
 There is a fountain filled with blood,
 Drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
 When sinners plunged beneath the flood,
 Lose all their guilty stains.
And after he wrote that song, he went up into an inspiration, as always do, and when he come out of that inspiration, he tried to Seine river to drowned himself, commit suicide. He was considered a little bit off, a little upset.
This famous song that they just sung: "O love of God, how rich and pure." You know where the last verse of that was found? Tacked on a wall of an insane institution. Did you know that? That's right. It was tacked on an insane institution, in the walls. People don't realize what it means.


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