<TITLE>17. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 How beautiful, how wonderful to rest upon His promise. Just trust Him. He gave the promise, "The things that I do, shall you also. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me; for I'll be with you, in you (all where you're gathered together) unto the end of the world." What a beautiful promise.
Here some time ago, there's a slave buyer come through the south when they had slavery, and there was... They were buying slaves like they do cars today. And many of the slaves had come away from their homes. They were beaten and everything. They didn't want to work. They knowed they'd never go back home. The Boers brought them from Africa and sold them here for slaves, and they were disheartened. Maybe mother and dad over there, and the children here, and separated here and there, never see one another again. They didn't work very good. They had to make them work with whips. But they come by and a man would kindy, in a commercial way, would come along and buy up a big bunch of slaves at a cheap price, take them over and sell them on another plantation, make some money on them--brokers.

L-59 So one day there was a broker come up to a certain plantation and... I don't know why I'm telling this. But anyhow when he come up to this plantation, he noticed all the slaves and them having to whip them. But one young man, oh, he was gallant, chin back--out and his shoulders back, just snappy. He'd go do anything they wanted him to do. So the broker said to the--to the plantation owner, "I'd like to buy that slave."
Said, "He's not for sale."
Said, "Why?" Said, "What makes him that way, so gallant?" Said, "I notice him, 'Yes, suh.' Right at the job any time, head up, gallant man." Said, "I'll give you a double price what I give for an ordinary slave."
Said, "You couldn't buy him for five prices." Said, "He's not for sale."
He said, "Well, why?" Said, "Is he the boss over the rest of them?"
He said, "No, sir."
Said, "Do you feed him any different than that?"
Said, "No, sir. They all eat out here in the galley together." Said, "They all eat the same, and they're all--they're just the same. He's just a slave."
He said, "What makes him so much different from the rest of them?"
He said, "Well, I didn't know that myself, till one day I found out that his father is the king of the tribe, and though he's away from home he keeps hisself up to keep the morale of the rest of them built up." Said, "He knows that he's a king's son."

L-60 Oh, brother. I don't care what some of this little overnight preaching does. Brother, stick your chin up; we're sons and daughters of God. We made be alienated here, but our Father is a King. Believe God. Don't matter what comes or goes, conduct yourself like sons and daughters of God. You women, wash the paint off your face. Let your hair grow out again. You men, throw that cigar out of your mouth, and go out here, and act like sons and daughters of God. Put all this here wishy-washy, dabbling around about the place and be--conduct yourself like sons and daughters of the King. Shall we pray.


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