<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 Now, pray for me, where I go I'm figuring now a worldwide tour, every major city in the world if I can and to get native workers to follow up. And now, that's coming this next June. My next close meeting here that I know of, I'm... From here I go to Salmon, Idaho. But the next close meeting will be in Lima, Ohio, and that's January the 10th to the 15th with the Baptist people. And then we're going on to the east from there and then back to the west coast. No, I beg your pardon. On January, after that we're going back to the west coast and then make ready for overseas.
Now, pray for me, and if I don't get to see you all in Chicago until I go overseas or something along, remember, when the winds are blowing hard, the devil is tempting every way, witch doctors are standing up to make a challenge, can I depend on you to be praying for me? Good, good. And some glorious day, if we never meet this side of heaven again, I hope that in that great glorious jubilee day when the saints of God crown Him the King of king and the Lord of lords and the Angels stand around the earth with bowed heads while we sing the redemption songs, I hope to meet you there all clothed in His righteousness and going into the great world that's coming on, where there'll be no more sickness, no more prayer for the sick; all these things will fade away. Until then, may God keep you healthy and happy and serving Him.

L-10 In the book of Saint Matthew, just by the way of speaking for a little while. And I kinda feel drawed on that edge; I know these other brethren are here. But in the Book of Saint Matthew the 12th chapter and beginning--I mean the 22nd chapter and beginning with the 12th verse, 12th, 13th and 14th verses. I wish to read a portion of Scripture for a little text, or to see if God will give us the context from it.
 And he said unto him, Friend, how comest thou... hither... having no wedding garment? And he was speechless.
 Then said the king unto his servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
 For many are called, but few are chosen.

L-11 And may the Lord add His blessings to His Word. Now, we have a--a great subject here under consideration, which is a parable that the Lord taught in the Bible. And I never could... As a boy preacher, I used try to wonder what these parables meant. And I never could understand it just right until once I visit the eastern countries. The Bible is a eastern Book, and we trying to understand it by a western understanding. When you go east it becomes a different Book to you, because it's wrote in the light of eastern knowledge.
And the eastern people received the Holy Spirit first. And civilization always travels with the sun, and so has the Gospel traveled with the sun. But civilization, to my opinion, came by the Gospel. You take any country that doesn't respect God, the... Oh, my, there's not much civilization to it. And so civilization... Christianity is the grass roots of civilization. And that's a remark that Mr. Nixon said one morning at a breakfast we were at up there at Washington, DC for the Christian Business Men.


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