<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 I happen to come in to hear Brother Baxter when he was taking my love offering. I'm sorry we even have to do that. I--I get a love offering each week. And Brother Baxter does the same. It's just... Then the expense of the meeting is taken care of, and then after we get that, if everything's paid off, then we each get a love offering.
I can assure you, friends, that my gratitude from the depths of my soul, I appreciate it. I'll do all that I can to be as reverent to spend it to the glory of God the best that I know how.
If I should get my initial debt paid up now with my two love offerings of this meeting, I go to a conference which is... The people are taking up missionary offerings and things in the conference, and it doesn't... They can't... Just maybe they pay my expenses or something. I go to Kansas City next, then to Los Angeles.

L-6 And we're just afraid to make a move anywhere, 'cause I--I know that overseas is coming up, and I--I must go. So I'm just afraid to make any too much of a itinerary, 'cause He might call me at any time, just go at any time. I've got my shots and everything I have to have and ready to go when the Lord will call for me to go.
That's the way I want to be ready to go to heaven too: everything all ready just when He calls.
And I appreciate this very much. God bless you in everything, if it's enough and more to pay my initial expenses, then I--I'll put it into foreign missions.

L-7 And if you would only know of missionaries that are in this meeting this afternoon, and lots of times when I went over there... Many of you know the story, how God told me to go a place, and I let a bunch of preachers talk me out of it. And I went somewhere else, because they wanted me to go, and I certainly paid for it. He told me I would.
And so, but I got sick, parasites, even the doctor said, "There's not even a chance for me to live."
I had ten hours to live, and the Lord Jesus came to me in a vision and said, "It's over."
I went right back to same doctor, two--about eight hours later and I said, "Doctor, give me an examination for parasites."
Said, "Well, Rev. you got parasites." Said, "Why, I give you everything and here's the re... remark." He said, "I give you everything and throwed the box at you," and said, "and still you got parasites."
I said, "But I haven't got them now."
He said, "Oh, you got them."
I said, "Would you examine me?"
He said, "There's no need."

L-8 I said, "Would you do it just upon... I'll pay you for it. Just want to show you what our Lord can do."
He said, "You got parasites, reverend."
I said, "Take the examination." When he did, he couldn't... Perfectly negative.
He said, "Well, what happened?"
I said, "The Lord Jesus Christ in Whom I trust in, He is the One Who did it. He taken them from me."
He said, "Rev., now where are you going now?"
I said, "I'm going back overseas."
He said, "Back in that same place again?"
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-9 He said, "Do you mean to tell me, when you come pretty near leaving your wife and babies and what all the things, the planes wrecked and so forth and coming over and fifty-two was killed ahead of you and like that?"
I said, "It doesn't make any difference. There's Something down in here calling that tells me I must go back, regardless if it's life or death; I must mind God."
And friends, that's--that's right. When I think today, when I look around on the streets of Chicago and other cities and see the--the children and things and look in the restaurants and seeing the big fine meals being set and things like that...
I appreciate a land like this, but down yonder in Africa somewhere's a little black boy never even knowed what a piece of candy was, never knowed what a stitch of clothes was, never knowed what a bath was, never knowed what a decent drink of water was.


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