<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Just a note from my secretary, just a moment; you see I have to push it away from me, I'm... All right. Yes, it's someone to see me after the meeting, some ministers that's come in, Martin brothers. All right, brother, we'll see just immediately after the service in the deacon's room.
Now, I love the Word, because the Word is the truth of God. And I was talking yesterday to my--our Brother Cox and Sister Cox. And I think that brother... Yeah, he's present this morning, and I don't know whether Sister Cox is or not. But we were discussing some things of Christian life, as Christians usually do when they come together. And in the discussion came up on the speaking of against other fellow citizens of the Kingdom, how that we hear broadcasts sometime that just cuts the other fellow to pieces, and calls their names, and--and tells them they are not Christians, and so forth, which is just children; that's all. They are just children, and we should be grownups. That's right. And so, a grownups don't talk like that, we...

L-5 But we were talking and--Brother Cox and I. And I said, "Well, I have determined in my heart to preach against sin, just sin, and I just lay it out, and wherever it--it belongs, God can place it in its right place."
The little boy, one time down South, who was a--a saying that the... He was a kneeling in a row where he had been plowing, and as a--a clergyman passed by and heard the little fellow repeating the alphabet, A, B, C, D, so forth. And he was on his knees, so the clergyman was very much disturbed. So he heard the little boy repeat the alphabet and then say, "Amen."
And as he got up, why, the clergyman spoke to him and said, "Sonny, I am a--the servant of the Lord, and I heard you praying. But you were only saying the alphabet. And I--I don't understand why that you were just saying the alphabet."

L-6 He said, "Sir, I--I can't pray." He said, "I--I have never prayed, but I had a praying mother and father, which is done gone on to heaven." And said, "Mother, I--she died when I was such a little boy, but I remember hearing her, when she was in trouble, she went to the Lord and she prayed. And she died when I was so young; she couldn't teach me to pray, and I have been given into the hands of an unkind person who beats me and mistreats me. And I--I was--thought maybe after I had learned my abc's, if I could take all the--the words and say all the letters, maybe He could put it together and understand what I meant."
That's the prayer of sincerity. Certainly He could put them together. It's not how we pray in our lips; it's the motive of our heart is what God hears. He sometimes don't hear our lips; He hears our intention what--the motive of our heart.
So in doing so yesterday, I was very stricken on this time, and being that it's in the tabernacle, I might express some things that I was thinking that it might be a help or a benefit. And if I would ever say anything that would be unkind, I--I certainly wouldn't won't want to mean it that way, if it was contrary to somebody's beliefs, but I would only express it as a--as a love, and would want maybe to try to straighten it up. Like people who doesn't believe in Divine healing, and so forth, and you didn't believe in it, why, I... And me saying I do believe in it, it would--it would not be that I were trying to fuss at you, but I was trying to express it to--to those who do believe in it. If you understand just what I mean...
Now, praying that God will understand, I know He does. He understands; we know that.


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