<TITLE>02. Par -</TITLE>E-1c      One time, through a mix up, I was just one night in a meeting. They turned in that I was there. I didn't turn it in, 'cause they taken up a love offering, and cost... They give me about five hundred dollars, and it cost exactly that for me to go down there and back--an airplane ticket, and I just never turned it in. It was over in Foursquare Church in Fresno, California. And you know what? Two years later, they called me in on the carpet about it, said, "Where was you at? Was you in Fresno?"
 I said, "Yes."
They said, "Did they give you a love offering?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "So what'd you do with it?"
I said, "I bought an airplane ticket."
Said, "You got the stub?"
I said, "Yes, Sir."
Said, "All right, then." They knowed where I was at because the man that had the meeting, turned it in that I was there that night, and the hall was rented. They taken up an offering that day, expense offering, and paid it in as my campaign. That's how they picked it up.
Every penny that I don't have to eat with (and I usually wear clothes that people give me), goes straight in to foreign missions.

E-1d      If I never see you again, I'll have to say that I've tried to be honest before people and before God. Meetings, I realize there's been so much pressure put on meetings for money. And that is something that ought not to be done.
I found three things that hurts ministers. First, is money, then popularity. When he begins to think he's something, then that's when he's on his road out. Then women. That's right. Money, women, and popularity. And I tell you, that's what wrecks a many a good preacher and puts him up on the shelf. Shun the appearance of those things. And by God's grace, to this day, if I was laying across the pulpit now, saying my last words, by God's grace, He's helped me do that. And I--if I stand at the judgment, I want to have a good clear conscience when I as--answer for my stewardship, that I've done the best that I know how before God.

E-1e      And every penny that you give in these meetings... We was averaged it the other night, some nights it would average around a cent and a half a person, sometimes it would--got up one night maybe, to two cents a person or better. But you remember, two cents a person and three thousand people make a hundred and something dollars (You see?), in an offering.
And every penny that we didn't use for expenses and so forth, went straight for overseas missions. And tonight, they took a love offering for me. And everything that I don't have to have for my... will go straight overseas for missions to carry out the Gospel: the general orders of Jesus Christ, preach the Gospel to all the world.

E-1f      And then I pray that at the great end of time, that every one of you will receive a hundredfold for everything that you've done in the meeting. God bless you every one.
I pray that someday, in God's great providence, I'll get to come back to Connersville again and be with you. If I have to hurry off overseas (Tomorrow night, I've got to be in Utica, Indiana, in a little Methodist tent meeting.), can I depend on you praying for me while I'm there? Will you pledge to do that? Thank you. And I'll promise you this: I'll remember Connersville and this meeting. God be with you is my prayer.

E-1g      That brother said he was from Germany. I'm fixing to go to Germany now, to Luxemburg and... Are you close from there, brother? What part of Germany are you from? Oh, is that near Luxemburg, I don't know too much. Oh, to the Russian border. Well, I'm--I hope I get up close to it. I've preached in four miles of it one time in Finland. It sure was pretty shaky, but the Lord raised that dead boy there (You know?), and they even know that behind the iron curtain.


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