<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And now, to ourselves... That's what I'd do with all my... all the money that I get a hold of outside of what I have to eat and maybe sometime I see little something that must be done, some poor woman without coal or something. I--I don't take that out of missionary. I take that out of my own, 'cause that's God's money, missionary is, and them things. I think that tithings, and such as that, we should be very strict of what we do with that, 'cause that's--that's God's money.
And as soon as we get enough together to go overseas, then away we go. Used to be back when they was lots of money, well, we would go in a--in a city, we'd take offerings maybe for two nights. Be there maybe seven or eight nights, two nights we had enough to pay all the expense, so we didn't take any more offerings, and so we just let it go. And then maybe on the last night we'd have a--a love offering, and then if we happened to have some surplus left over, we would give it to different organizations such as charities and things like that.

L-6 We wouldn't get out of the town till they'd be calling us "holy-rollers" and "Divine healers." And I give it to a certain organization a group of money one time, just turned it over to them, hundreds and hundreds of dollars that was taken up in a great meeting I was in, and here there was a representative coming down the street driving a Cadillac car a diamond stud ring on, probably cost maybe a thousand dollars or more, smoking a great, big cigar like that getting about five hundred dollars a week for distributing the money. That's not right. No, sir.
These people... And I thought, "God..." Then I'd... You... It's just strange we--we Christian people are not organized like we ought to be. I mean in a brotherhood.

L-7 I walked into a restaurant here in your city the other night and got the worst bawling out I ever got in my life, because the people of this church was coming eating in that restaurant. That's right. Yes, sir. Guy said, "We don't want them in here."
I said, "Well, sir. I..."
He said, "What--what kind of a group are you, anyhow?"
And I said, "Well, we're Christians."
He said, "You never even told me nothing about you coming. How do I know you were coming around here?" Said, "Looked like you ought to have some system to that."
I said, "Well, we're not going around over town telling restaurants what to do." I said, "The people just come in, sir, and they--they--they want to eat."
He said, "Well," he didn't care for them coming in there at all.
I said, "Well, of course, I--I said, "I... Must have plenty of business."

L-8 Well, it's just too bad. Well, we just have to put up with... Our day's coming. That's right. Our day... This--this is the day of man. The day of the Lord will come. That's right. That's when...
I stood one time to watch the late President Roosevelt when he came into a little city of ours, in New Albany, Indiana. I was working out there on high lines as a lineman.
I came down, and I thought... Well, they told us we could go down and hear him. He was going to make just a little whistle stop like when he came through the city. And oh, how everybody gathered out. Well, time us workmen got there, well, I had to get on top of a shed way back up here to even see the man walk out.


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