<TITLE>20. Par 85-88</TITLE>L-85 And the mother... The girl, being a little smart aleck, what she learned in school, she was ashamed of her mother. And when she got off the platform, her mother said, "Darling, I'm so glad to see you." She turned her back and walked away because her little friend had--had done that. It happened to be, the conductor knowed the story; he said, "Come here, girl," he grabbed her by the shoulder, said, "ain't you ashamed of yourself, denying your own mother."
She said, "I don't know her." Calls her little...
She said, "Martha, is this your mama?"
Said, "No, I don't even know her."

L-86 Conductor said, "Be ashamed of you." Said, "Look here, girl, I want to tell you something." And the crowd begin to listen. Said, "When... You're a beautiful woman today; that's right," Said, "you are." But said, "Your mother was a lot more beautiful woman than you were, or ever will be." And said, "One day when she was out in the back yard hanging up the clothes..." Said, "I lived on the same block." And said, "The house caught fire; you was a little baby upstairs in your crib. And when the fire engine came, the mother seen it stop in front of her house where the neighbors had called, away she went, but the stairs was just about ready to fall in." She said, "That mother, not thinking for her, jumped through those blazes and the fireman grabbing after her. She went through the blazes anyhow. And she run in there and grabbed you on the--off the bed. Jerked the clothes she had on her body and rolled them around your face and things. And she braved that fire blaze right out back out too." Said, "It burned her and scorched her; it...?... her down. And today because you're pretty, she was made ugly. And you mean to tell me, you'd deny that woman that saved your life and your beauty, that you're ashamed about now because of your mother, that you'd do that?"

L-87 When that story was told to me, I thought, "O God, how could I, though the old rugged cross so despised by the world, I see that Christ became sin that I by His righteousness might become a part of Him." How much do I care they call me a holy-roller. How much do I care they call me a divine healer. Whatever they want to, He came down and was made ugly and sinful, that by that...?... I might have a home in heaven and a right to be the son of the living God, and to believe on Him. How it is, He became me that I by His grace, might become Him. He taken my place as a sinner, as me as a sinner might take His place as righteousness. How could we deny Him? Sure.

L-88 Create around you love... Who could deny this great love? Listen just a moment what a great love is. Love will conquer, where hate and malice, and creed, debate, and fuss will drive  away. Love will conquer. I'll tell you something now. It's just on my heart, the inside life, just a minute or two, and then we're going to--we're going to start the prayer line. We got just about maybe six or eight minutes. Look just a minute.
Here a few days ago I was showing someone, the house had been full all the day, people everywhere. The babies couldn't even eat, nothing. Finally when the house got emptied up, and somebody come in and just had the people to go, coming from, not one place, all over the world. Signs on the gate everywhere else, "Don't come in," they come anyhow. You can't blame them; they're human beings wanting help. If I'm not there, but just a few hours at a time; my family's a strange to me almost.


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