<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>54-0720A, The Maniac Of Gadara, Lane Tech High School, Chicago, IL, 77 min
L-1 [Brother Boze speaks--Ed.]...?... Thank you. You can be seated if you will, friends. That's... Very happy to be here this afternoon to see the faces of God's children looking at me here, and to have the privilege of speaking to you again this afternoon. This is my second afternoon service that I've ever had in all the days of--of my ministry. Usually the manager and some of them have the afternoon services.
And I didn't really know I was coming to this one till just awhile ago when Brother Joseph called me. The... Mr. Moore told me, said, "Say, you know you got to preach this afternoon?"
I said, "Why, I didn't know that--just who that they'd given out."

L-2 He said, "You're given out for this afternoon, so you better get over there." So away we had to come. So I'm--I'm very happy to be here at any time that I can do something for the Lord. And I've had a little rest, so a afternoon doesn't hurt me to come out and speak.
I'm not much of a speaker, so I feel kinda a little backward of trying to do it, or trying to take one of the speakers place. But I've always called myself the spare tire. You know, when you got a flat, then you use a spare. But we haven't got no flat now. See, we--we--we got's plenty of ministers here, but I'm--they just put the spare on today, maybe again to have it.

L-3 Is that about right, Brother Ryan? I just thought it was. And so we're all one happy big group of God's children, together working. I see they got the books here and the--the picture of the Angel of the Lord. I... Folks, I am not a book salesman or a picture salesman. I don't do that. These books, we try to get them out, just as...
Well, I have never knowed of ever making a penny on the books. knowingly. Because if poor fellow come up, and he hasn't got no money, he gets a book anyhow. And he gives so many of them away. And then there's so much... You have to sell them at a close margin, and you lose a whole lot of them.

L-4 And some of them gets those, what silver fish in them and when they're setting around. Our country down there is kind of... Not this time of year, not this time anyhow, damp, but it could stand a little of that. But it's usually... We lose so many of them, till in the average you don't make on books. You can't even break even on them.
But if it wasn't for the Message that was in them, I wouldn't even have them. And we didn't sell them Sunday because I refrain from that, of selling on the Lord's Day. And I've always done that. Not as I don't say it's all right. Brother Bosworth used to get at me all the time, said, "You're selling something that might bring Eternal Life to people."

L-5 Well, I--I, that... Brother Bosworth is perhaps right. See? But it's not a superstition, but I have got by so far without it; so I don't think I have to, so I just let it go. Now, this little picture, I guess they have told you the--the write-up on it. It's in this book here, a photostatic copy of it.
And then the picture of this same Angel is in this book also. But it wasn't so authentic. It's just a newspaper reporter shot the picture of it here. If you'll notice, there's a man just about with his head down like he was blinded, like that. I was standing speaking that night, Camden, Arkansas.
A congregation just about the size of this auditorium, maybe about three thousand, something. And it was a basketball floor, like. And I think they had two or three balconies or something, or... I forget; it's been several years ago, about seven years or eight years ago when this happened.


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