<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>53-1213E, Faith, Philadelphia Church, Chicago, IL, 84 min
L-1 Why, thank you, Brother Boze. Thank you, sir. Thank you, dear Christian friends, for that real welcome, and to our dear Brother Mattsson Boze for his fine introduction and for the love that so freely is shared between us. We have great fellowship, this little pastor and I, and all the people around here.
We are very happy indeed to get to come to Chicago. Always glad to come here. Always feel such a warm welcome. I believe it's the city just ready now for the outpouring of the Gospel and the power of God. And I don't know any better place for it to start than right in the Philadelphian Church.
I kinda refrain a little bit from making this statement that I'm going to make, but I have been just constantly coming to me and I know what the office is going to be this next week at home. As far as I know, this is my last meeting before going overseas, and I'm asking you now to pray for me as I go over into the--the dark lands of Africa, and India, and different places, to preach the Gospel, this same Gospel to those people over there who are needy.

L-2 I'll be... When the nights are dark and the storms are on and--and all kinds of witch doctors and everything's challenge you to every... I'll remember I got a faithful group in Chicago praying for me. I'll--I'll remember that. God bless you. And you'll have a part in the great resurrection when Jesus our Lord shall come. Then we'll be perfect in His image and we'll have no more sorrows, heartaches.
The first thing I want to say, my wife got on me today. She said, "Billy, last night you said to the people about finance." She said, "You take none." Said, "The way you said it, the people will be misinformed." I... And after she told me what I said, it would be.

L-3 I said, "I wasn't here for popularity. I wasn't a this and that." I said, "I was here by--by choice; the Lord had sent me." And I said, "It wasn't for finance, 'cause I take none." See? Now, that is what... I didn't mean it, just say I didn't take a finance, 'cause how could I live? See? I couldn't do it without accepting it. But I mean it's not for me to... I don't go to take finance. That isn't my purpose of coming, to do that. See? I don't mean it that...
At the end of the meeting they give me a love offering. And that love offering I pay my debts and what I have to have to eat and my family. And our clothes are mostly given to us. That's true. And we don't deserve that. And yet, what I... Just what little piece of what little I do have left over, if I have any... My expenses runs me around a hundred dollars a day. See?

L-4 I send out thousands of handkerchiefs per week. And that mailing and everything, they go to Sweden, Finland, all over the world. See? And so some of those packages that's sent off costs as much as two and a half a package or something to send overseas. And rushing...
See, we have somebody and--and to interpret letters and so forth and send them to Germany, to--to Ireland, to England, to--to Finland, and to, well, German... Africa and all over the world. They go everywhere, over in to Korea and down in Japan. And so you just have to pay for it.

L-5 And then all that I have left over in a--of--of every penny, who God is my solemn Judge, it goes straight to foreign missions. 'Cause someday I'm going to have to answer for what I've done here on earth. And I'm going to have to answer for my stewardship.
I've stood in the pulpit when I certainly so tired and weary that I've had to hold to the sides, and wonder if I was really in the pulpit, or where I was at. But my stewardship is to preach the Gospel, and to do these things. And I've done it whether I've felt like it or not, because I've got to answer someday for it.


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