<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>53-0608E, At Thy Word, Roberts Park Amphitheater, Connersville, IN, 36 min
L-1 Good evening, Christian friends. It's a great privilege to be here again tonight to begin a new weeks of service... I guess the brother has told you that we get to keep the place for a week. And we're thankful for that. We want to thank the men here, the cooperating pastors and those who went forward to get--get it. We want to thank each one of you for giving us the invitation to stay. Above all things, of course, we thank God for the promise. We want to thank the mayor of this city, and the city officials, for letting us have this place. May the Lord grant His rich blessings on them also.
And we'll try by the help of God and the best that we know how to minister to the sick and the needy this week, the needy of salvation and for their bodies also, in the Name of our Lord, the best that we know how.

L-2 It's kind of a new task that we're trying now. I have for some time been trying my best to operate the meetings myself and--I mean without my manager and them. There's no one here but my little son and I, seventeen year old boy. So I have to do the preaching and so forth. And I--I've always thought that maybe the Lord would help me to do that some time, and I'm--I'm giving it a try. So you bear with me a little while.
And usually I stay home, don't eat, come into the meetings, fasting, praying, just lead me right to the platform and start right off from there, praying for the sick. 'Course, it makes a better meeting; I know that. Because you're already under anointing. But now, I like to come read a text, speak on the Word awhile, and then pray for the sick. So that's usually what the managers do.
Now, the Lord bless you. We thank you for your fine cooperation everywhere.

L-3 And now--and last night, or yesterday afternoon, rather, or it's last night it was, they taken in the meeting here, a love offering for me. I want to thank you. I'm not worthy that you should give it to me. I didn't think about it until last night when they brought the--to me and said, "Here's the love offering for you." Why, I was really happy for that.
And I will assure you this, Christian friend, that every cent of it that I know what to do with, I will give it to the glory of God. Anybody's welcome, just as welcome as they can be, to search through what I do with money. Every penny that I don't have to have for my family, and what I have to have for my expense and things, goes right straight to missionary work. And I take the Gospel to the other parts of the world myself, then I know then what it is.

L-4 I never took a offering in my life. I never was able to do it. I remember one time... Some of my folks are setting here from the church. And I remember here not long ago, I got a place where they... You ever have a place where you couldn't make ends meet? I--I preached there at my tabernacle for twelve years without one penny of money. I was a State Game Warden in this county here also, of State of Indiana, for a number of years. And I patrolled high lines, so forth, and worked, made my living. I didn't need to--to... I always thought, "If a fellow, why I was young and could work, why not work." And then I preached on the side.


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