<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>55-1001, Expectation, Shawano High School, Shawano, WI, 125 min
L-1 If--if the Lord had never honored another vision that I had, and never done nothing in the world, that's worth all of it. Every toil, and every good-bye to the family, and every heartache I've went through, and everything else, that's worth all of it right there. And they said there was a lady setting in a wheelchair last night, was called out of a wheelchair here. And they have it... Her talking about her on the phone--on the program this morning. And, I wonder if she's back in the building tonight? If the lady's here... Would you raise your hand, lady, if you're here. There she is, without the wheelchair. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." [Audience says, "Thanks be to God."--Ed.] God bless you, my dear sister, for obeying Jesus Christ. May His blessings always be with you is my prayer.
Now, I hope that someday I can see both of you women, talk with you and shake your hand. If I don't get to do it on this earth, I will in the one that's to come, when we set down by the evergreen tree; troubles are all over. My, won't it be wonderful?

L-2 Think of some night when life is finished; Jesus finally comes and we go to meet Him in the air, and that great table is set a hundred thousand miles long. And around there, the old veterans of the--the field, setting around, look across the table to each other, see there my brother and sister setting there. We're just a bound to shed a little tear once in a while, when I reach across the table and take one of them by the hand. The tears of joy rolling down our cheeks, and then the King in His beauty will come out, and walk down along the table, and wipe the tears away from our eyes. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Let that be our motives in having meetings and gathering together and talking about Him, let that be what we think of Him, to meet Him that night.
Look friends, don't look at things right here, look at the end. If I had to look at things right here in front of me, I'd be a discouraged person. But I never look here; I watch the end.

L-3 Not long ago, one of my managers, Mr. Baxter... Many of you know him, I suppose. He was quoting a little story that I always like. They was all riding bicycles; he was a Canadian. And they would ride bicycles, and they got pretty good, that they could ride without holding the handlebars. So the Schwinn, Schwinn (I think that is) Bicycle Company was going to give a prize to any boy in Vancouver that could ride a twelve inch plank a hundred yards without falling off.
Well, they all got up there to ride these bicycles. And they had a little sissy boy like, around there. And he's just kind of like what we'd call, we rough fellows, you know, call "mama's boy." And so, we knew he wouldn't ride it. So when they all got on, every one fell off but this little sissy boy. And he rode out to the end, got off, won the bicycle. So all the boys got around him and said, "How did you do it?"

L-4 He said, "Fellows, I tell you what you did." Said, "When you got on, and they give you a push, and you started off," said, "you was watching like this, trying to keep yourself on the board." Said, "That's what made you get wiggly, and nervous, and fall off." He said, "I never looked down there." said, "I watched the end and just kept my eyes on the end, and rode steady right to the end."
Keep your eyes on the end, Jesus coming, what will it be then? No matter what people say about you now, and how you're persecuted, for all that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, being made fun of, and mocked, and so forth. But watch what it will be at the end; that's what where it'll pay off. Just hold steady and keep your eye on the end; that'll be good for you.


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