<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 I remember one time that... You know how you get sometime, where you can't make ends meet? We all have those places. I remember, I said to my wife, "I'm going to take an offering tonight."
She said, "I want to see how you look when you do it."
So I said to one of the deacons... Now, not because that they wouldn't do anything for me, but I just, I could work, was young, didn't travel, so why just depend on the church. And it was bad times, and so I had the deacon to go get my hat. They didn't even have an offering plate. And he started. I said, "Now, I've just met one of these conditions where I just have to ask you, maybe, put in a nickel, or ten cents, something another to kinda help along, got a place I can't cross over hardly." And I said, "Would... If you'd be so kind to do that, I'd appreciate it." The deacon went to get the hat. There was a little old mother there that I always admired, a very godly little, woman, old fashion mother. And she had a little apron, like the women used to wear in old times, and she pulled out her little pocketbook, just about that long, and opened it up, begin to go in down there and getting those nickels.

L-5 I tell you, it seemed like I'd have been Judas Iscariot if I'd have took that. I--I couldn't do it to save me. I said, "I was just teasing you. I didn't mean that." And the deacon with the hat didn't know what to do.
And there was an old man used to my house by the name of John Ryan. He had long beard. He used to belong to the House of David, or looked like that, but I don't think he did. He had the long beard and hair, a very fine man. Not the John Rhyn that was healed, that they taken me up to the Jewish synagogue to question me on it. This was another John Ryan. And he rode an old bicycle down there to my place one time. And he just left it there and give it to me.
And I had a dime, so I went out to the ten cent store and got some paint and painted that old bicycle and sold it for five dollars, didn't have to take up the offering after all. So I never took an offering in my life.

L-6 So... But what you've done is appreciated. My expenses are great: expenses at home runs a hundred dollars a day, whether I'm preaching or not. And you can imagine, sending out thousands of ribbons, and things, across the world, everywhere, what it is. And I have a small office, just about four working. And we send out anointed cloths and answering the mail, and then, and to other places where it comes in through the Christian Business Men, and different ways. And then we have about ten different offices across the world. And they take it, and translate it, and break it down, and send it to us, and then we send them just masses of ribbons and things to send to the--the sick and afflicted. Used to, I sent handkerchiefs, but I--I don't have the capital to do that with. I operate small. So I get hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of yards of white ribbon, take it over when I go home, and go lay back in a place to myself and just pray, cut it off like that, and send it to the sick and the needy. And the Lord Jesus has blessed those efforts wonderfully.
And if any time you need one, just write me: Post office box 325, Jeffersonville, or just Jeffersonville, Indiana. It'll come to me.


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