<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 I have a little something on my mind. Maybe it wouldn't take but a few moments to give a testimony of what I think one of the best doctors in our country. Well, this chum of mine, by the name of Dr. Sam Adair... You ever around Jeffersonville, look him up, write him a letter, find out what he thinks about this. He's a specialists, and one of the best doctors that I know of in the nation. Not because he's a chum of mine, but he's absolutely... When it comes to a doctor, I just got plenty confidence in him as a doctor.
And here some time ago when this first happened, he called me and said, "Billy, look," said, "you know I love you like my brother." Said, "I believe I've never seen anybody any sincerer," said... He's got it fixed if he dies before I do, I'll have to preach his funeral. So he said, "I want the last word said over me by somebody with sincerity." Said, "I may not be saved, but I--I--I want sincerity for the last words over me."

L-26 And I said, "Thank you, doc." And I--I... "If I ever have to have a doctor to set my arm or whatmore, you'll be the guy if I'm around you." Because he's deeply and sincere in his work.
And he came up to my house, a great crowd of people in there, and in and out, so my wife come, she said, "Dr. Adair is out there at the door."
So I said, "Well, put him over in the den room, so I can get to him."
Said, "He wants to see you privately." Said, "He closed up the office." And his office is just lined and packed all the time. He runs...
So I went in to where he was in a--after a bit, and I said, "What's the matter, doctor?"
He was setting with his head down. And he said, "Billy, I--I come to you, buddy, for some help." Said, "I've got to have help from Almighty God." And he said, "I come to you to--to ask you to help me."
I said, "What is it, Dr. Adair?"
He said, "Well, Billy," said, "do you think that this city needs a clinic?"
I said, "Every city needs a clinic, doctor."
And he said, "Do you think that I'd be worthy to have that clinic?"
I said, "If there's anybody, I think you'd be."

L-27 And what I like about him, if he examines you, he don't know what's the matter with you, he's man enough to tell you he don't know and go to somebody who does know, not instead of feeding you full of medicines and everything like that, and just guessing at it. I like that. That's the main thing right here, in any case, you've got to find the cause before you can find the cure, always.
So Dr. Adair, he said, "Well, I'll tell you, what..."
Now, as far as I know, he's got people right down in here, so they may be setting right here. You may write and tell Sam. If you do, call him up, and I'll pay for the phone call, if you want to. See, he's just a wonderful friend of mine. And I--so he lives just across from me.

L-28 And so he... We were setting there and he said, "Here's what it is." He said, "I--I want to buy the old high school grounds down there to put up a clinic." He said, "You know my patients are poor people, Billy," said, "they come from out on Irish Hill out there," and said, "they come in here, they haven't got no money," said, "they need an operation," said, "I--I operate on them anyhow, do all my surgery and stuff. If they got money to pay it, okay. If they haven't, okay." That's him. See? He said, "That's the way I serve the Lord."
I said, "Well, Sam, that won't save you, but that's good." See? I said, "You've got to be borned again, boy." I said, "That's all there is to it."
He said, "Well, God would never give me a birth, a little wicked fellow like me."


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