<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 It's too bad to think, traveling around over the world and seeing the conditions of things... And tomorrow maybe, at the afternoon and evening meeting, I wish to speak on "The Signs Of The Time," the Lord willing. And I trust that God will help us and be able to reveal to you so closely that you'll... we... that you'll be sure to see that we're living in the shadows of the coming of the Lord Jesus. And all the things that He predicted in the Bible is right now fulfilled, and at any time the Lord Jesus could come without breaking one Scripture but fulfilling It. I believe it's in a... even later than we think.

L-10 Here some time ago up in Sweden, I was up there right after the war... Or I beg your pardon, it was Finland. And they'd had an awful time there, the--the Germans and Russians and two wars right together, and how that they'd had an awful time up there and they... The battlefields was used for battle grounds, and they didn't get a chance to get their crops in. Now, they almost exist on wheat and barley, and it was getting along in the late fall, and they was... The women was out there. They could--didn't have tractors; they were very poor. And the men and women would hook themselves into harness and was pulling the harrows, like something on order of a little harrow hook, something looks like a little disc, little wheels a rolling, just enough to kick the ground up. They didn't have time to plow it, because the fall snow comes, and then there's no more--see the ground no more till spring.

L-11 And they were just scratching the ground any way, scratching, hurrying. When nighttime come, no, no stop. Plow all night long. And even little children, like these little boys setting here in front, run along in front their mother packing a lantern, and maybe a little girl at the other end of the row out there somewhere watching the baby. And her mother in a harness a pulling the harrows, scratching the ground, little boy running in front packing a lantern at nighttime: day and night, scratching the ground just enough to get the seed in. For if they didn't get the seed in before the snow fell, there'd be no crop the next year, and it'd be starve--starvation. They'd die.
And I looked at that and wondered, and looked, I thought, "O God, what a revelation it ought to be to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ." We got to scratch the ground everywhere. Maybe we haven't got time for full time revivals around the country. Scratch the ground somewhere and get the Word in, because the night cometh when no man can work. If we don't get the seed in now, there'll be no crop for tomorrow. Upon this thought then, let's bow our heads and pray.

L-12 Our kind heavenly Father, we are grateful for this grand glorious privilege that we have tonight to assemble together again, another night this side of when time will merge with eternity.
We thank Thee for the opportunity that we have of preaching the Gospel in a free nation where the doors are still open, and for a people who love to hear the Gospel well enough to come out on a bad rainy, snowy, night. Slick on the roads and so forth, but they come to hear the Gospel, never has lost its power and never will. The greatest attraction the world has ever had when Christ be lifted up to a fallen world... We thank Thee for these things Father.


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