<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>55-0301, Elijah, Shriner Temple, Phoenix, AZ, 114 min
L-1 Good evening, friends. It's a privilege to be in this Shriner Auditorium again just for the night of the eve of the closing of this marvelous campaign. I believe this campaign ranks next to the--the best that I have ever had and seen. The first time was when I was, of course, up here when we stayed so long. I don't believe we had any better meeting then than we've had this time. It's been a very fine meeting. And we're very thankful for it. And we pray that God will richly bless each of you.

L-2 Now, tomorrow night is our closing night, we got to hurry over to California to the Angelus Temple. And then, Saturday morning we got to be at the Christian Business Men's Full Gospel Fellowship, internationally, at a broadcast and a speaking. So then, we are at the Angelus Temple until Thursday of next week. And then, on Friday we begin at the Stock exhibit, where we was last year with the Full Gospel Business Men internationally. We have a lovely big place down there that seats, I think about eleven, twelve thousand, maybe a little more. And it's a very nice place plenty of room, acoustics are good, and it's really a nice place. And we are... You're cordially invited to come over any time and visit us, if you're in that part of the country. If you have some loved ones there, we'd be very, very happy for you to write to them and tell them if they're sick, come out, we'll do our best to minister to them in the Name of the Lord.

L-3 Today has been a little better day for me. I had a little more rest. Sunday was pretty hard. And today, or yesterday was, kind of felt the effects of it. You know, I'm not no little boy no more. After you pass twenty, of course, you know, I'm just a little past twenty, and so--so you really feel it after that.
Well, you know, Brother Bosworth here sometime ago... How many knows Fred Bosworth, Brother F. F. Bosworth? Nearly everyone knows him, I suppose: wonderful old veteran of the Gospel. And we were down in his country in Florida, and there was... We just had our dinner, and we walked out to the sea shore, and I was standing out there, forty years old, my shoulders drooped over. He was standing nearly eighty, and his shoulders back like that. I looked at him and I thought, "Oh, my."
I said, "Brother Bosworth," I said, "when was you your best?"
"Oh," he said, "right now." He said, "You just misunderstand Brother Branham." Said, "I'm just a kid living in an old house," he said.

L-4 So I thought, "God, help me to feel that way if I ever live to see that age. He keep his new--his youth renewed in his mind. When he gets up in the morning, he has to say, he will stand there and keep quoting Scriptures. He says, of course, his blood pressure goes low an old man like that.
But he just was a trip with me through Africa, come back, went back hisself, and just returned from Japan. He called me up about six months ago, and he said, "Billy," he said, "how'd you like to go to Japan with me?"
I said, "Well, when you going, next summer?"
He said, "Right now." No waiting for him; he took off to Japan. Come back, he was with me up to Dallas, or not Dallas, but Lubbock, a few weeks ago. Just in the best of health at nearly eighty years old... So if he can feel that way we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, oughtn't we? That's right. To see as--as we are, as young as we are, and then an old man eighty years old and still preaching the Gospel...
Well, I tell you; one of these days he will step his foot over on the other side. Things will be changed then. Think of it. While you're here tonight, a Christian and sinner also, alike, I want to give you something to be thinking of while I speak to you just a moment.


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