<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 So I said, "Friends, I hate to say this tonight," but I said, "I kinda got in a little tight place. I wonder if it'd be not out of line, I'd like to take an offering, a little offering for myself to meet a little debt that I owe, and if you all would be so kind." I said, "Will some of the deacons get a hat a hanging on the rack?"
So one of the deacons went over to get a hat. There was a very dear bunch of people there. And an old sister used to pray for me so much. She'd set down there and just have her head down, praying all the time I was preaching. And I seen her reach down beneath her little apron, an old fashion mother, and pulled out a little pocketbook, had one with snaps on the top of it. And it was during the time of the depression. It was a very hard.
And so she begin to reach down in there for those little nickels. Honest, I--I couldn't do it. I--I just; I just couldn't do it. And I said, "Oh, I was just teasing you. I--I didn't mean that." So and the old deacon had my hat and he looked at me. And I said, "Oh, hang my hat up, Uncle Jim. I was just teasing you."

L-6 And there was an old brother used to come see me that had long beard. His name was John Ryan. Now, I know Brother Leo remembers him, and Gene, and Brother Hutchinson. Anybody ever know John Ryan? He's in Glory tonight. And he a very dear friend. I seen a brother here, keeps coming to the meeting, he reminds me so with his long beard. And Brother Ryan, he rode an old bicycle. Yeah, here the brother sets right here. And so the...
He had rode a bicycle down there, and he gave it to me. And it was a--wasn't very good shape. So I went and got me a can of paint at the ten cent store, and painted it up, and sold it for five dollars and got... I didn't have to take offering after all. So I... It--it come out all right.

L-7 Now, friends, to this, it's a portion of your living, and I know that. And I know what it means. And I'll assure you the best of my knowledge it'll go for the Kingdom of God's sake. See? That's right. And I trust that God will repay you for your faithfulness in many, many different ways. And may the barrel at your house never be empty or the cruse run dry, is my prayer. God bless you.
And now, tonight closing night, we don't have too much time, I know. And I'm say that about every night, and then keep you a long time, and you've beared with me. But I... We got to leave about three o'clock in the morning, and I got to drive to Indiana tomorrow. And we pray that the roads won't be slick. So we then...

L-8 Our next meeting is Parkersburg, West Virginia, beginning Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the coming week. And that's at the, I believe, Faith Temple or something. The pastor is Clara, like your pastor Ruple--Ruple. And I'm sorry. And then following that, we're at Cleveland, Tennessee, Church of God at the Pentecostal people.
And then after that is over right over here in Lima, Ohio, with the Baptist people at Lima, Ohio.
[A brother says, "It's 1005 Broadway. Parkersburg, West Virginia. The pastor's name is Reverend Clare Ruble."--Ed.]
And it's a revival center, just, I think they have a theatre building that seats about fifteen hundred. And that, we're going to be at that place there.
Now, at Park... At over here in Lima, Ohio, that begins on the twenty-third of January running through to the twenty-ninth, I believe it is, of January. And that's the First Baptist church, and the Baptist around the country sponsoring that meeting. It'll be at the Memorial Hall in Lima, Ohio.


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