<TITLE>12. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Now, God knowed I didn't have the intelligence that Brother Roberts got to know how to put a program together, but look what that man has to have if he stays on television. Look what that man has to have if he stays on radio. Look at the obligation that man's got. And because that he has to have a lot of money, don't condemn the man for that. The bootleggers take it out yonder, and what they do with it, and other things take place, help the man. He's God's servant, and he's trying his best to spread the Gospel in a way that I couldn't do it. Each one has a ministry. See? Each one has his ministry.
I said, "And Bother Roberts and these other brethren would be glad to come, but they can't because..." But I said, "Myself? God knew that I didn't know much. So He just let me where I could be little and--and wouldn't have to have any money, and I can just go along. Then if He wants to send me away, He has to let somebody back me up and send me. So if He wants me to, I--I can go, because He will put it on somebody's heart to sponsor me for that one time. So that just settles it. You see?

L-38 So then, in here, when we hit the place, they said, "Drop your sponsorship."
And I said, "No. As a man of honor, I must keep my word."
"Well," they said, "you're going to do a lot of harm in India."
I said, "But look..."
Said, "Turn and go back." And they begin to tell me, oh, about how it would do hindrance and so forth.
But I said, "Look, wash women, washing over a washboard has sent me over here. Men who's worked in the factory with their dirty greasy hands has went down in their pockets and took a dollar out to send me over here. And fathers with little children, maybe, that needed shoes, took the dollar that would've bought the shoe for the baby and sent me over here." I said, "Gentlemen, I--I'm... In my Christian heart, I couldn't look them in the face again, to know that I had misused the money that was sent over here to come preach the Gospel to these people." I said, "You forgive me if in some of your politics and so forth, if I've got mixed up. That I didn't know. That was the manager. I had nothing to do with it. I just come." I said, "But I come to preach the Gospel and to help the needy." I said, "I have some money here in my pocket that I must give personally to the poor, 'cause people has give it to me to give to the poor personally, and I must do it."

L-39 I shall never forget it when I went out in the street, and got the dollars changed to rupees, and started into the street, why they almost had to get the police to get me. It was a... Oh, my. You'll never know what those things look like till you get there once and see the poor and the... But here's what does it. Here's the idea.
And ministers, listen to this. Let us draw just a picture. Here's the old man setting there with the little loin cloth on him, a little tub, a little puddle of water. He takes his water from there to--to drink, and his wife totes it to the house if she's going to wash the dishes, or whatmore, or cook. And he has a few stalks of food that he's growing. And we tell him that we are brothers. His skin is dark, and--and the white man comes over. And when we come over and get off of the boat in a great big golden stripped Cadillac and drive down the street, and the beggar brother lays on the street and asks for a coin... I seen it with my own eyes. The snoopyism of the American people turn their back.


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