<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>54-0221, At Thy Word, Lord, East Alton -Wood River Community High School, Wood River, IL, 63 min
L-1 ... to be here this afternoon, to greet you all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His great love and mercy to us. We're very... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] be a blessing to every one of you, is my sincere prayer.
Now, I want to say that this has been one of the nicest little meetings I ever had in my life. That's right. And I am so thrilled to get to be here, and trust that by God's grace and mercy, I get to be back again to be with you all sometime. And I have never in my life worked with any nicer group of people, in serving our Lord Jesus Christ, preaching the Gospel, believing for the things that He promised to give us. And it's been wonderful. Your faith should come abroad to all nations with such wonderful faith. And I am believing that you're just starting, maybe, here perhaps, a great revival, a great meeting.
This should never die, and--and you're just... With all the--the unity among the you people, you should never let this drop. You should just keep going, just keep on moving on. Don't get tired. If you feel a little slack, just keep moving anyhow. Just go right on anyhow. Believe it; just keep moving right along, believing God. And now, and I'm sure God will bless you.

L-2 Now, I want to say to the--to the ever who let us have the building here, this school, we certainly are very thankful that they, for the privilege that we have serving God here in this school. May it produce many, many students that'll do great things for the education and the benefit of the nation and the Kingdom of God. I trust that it will.
And you young folks here, we're glad you won your ball game the other night. So we're very happy for that.
And so we are... I'm grateful for this bunch of custodians. My son was just telling me, I don't get a chance to meet them, he says one of the nicest bunch of men, the custodians here in the--in the building. And for these ushers, my boy said, "Daddy, that's one of the nicest bunch of brethren that you've ever met." Said, "You..." And I'm so happy for that. And for all you people, every one of you, your faith, you've lend your faith in the time. Not one time have I had interruptions anywhere, just a solid bank of faith everywhere. See? That very seldom happens like that. Usually you could feel, maybe from here, come a lot of criticism, or hear of something like that, or somebody indifferent. But it hasn't been so here, it's just been one lovely unity of faith. And I'm... I just kinda hate to leave this afternoon; I really do. Right when we begin to see the nice... everybody ready and the Spirit of God moving among them then have to leave. That's the trouble with having itinerary.

L-3 Last but not least, it's for this wonderful bunch of ministers here. I tell you, they're really to be praised among you people to have good pastors like that. This little Brother Brewer here, the chairman of this committee, he has labored faithfully and hard. And that little fellow has been on my coat for the last two or three years. I just... There's no need of saying no, because if I said, "No," one time, he was there the next time, to see if I'd say, "yes."
I don't mean it quite this way, but there was an unjust judge one time, you know. He said, "Well..." it wasn't that way just to get rid of him, because that he was such a fine little brother, and always patient, no matter if you had to say, "No."
"That's--that's all right." Just little bunch of nerves like, you know, he'd be right back the next meeting, "Well, what about it now, Brother Branham?" See? And he went on down to, all around over the country, plumb down in to Florida, following along to hear the meetings. So God bless Brother Brewer. And these ministers, I never got the opportunity to shake their hand till just now. I just walked down the line shaking hands with a bunch of men who stood behind me like that. I feel guilty; I really do.


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