<TITLE>03. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 And you know, there was an old man used to follow meeting. Many of you might've seen him, a few of you maybe. He had a long beard. His name was Ryan, John Ryan. How many of you knowed John Ryan? Well, my...?... "Partings leave behind us..." And he, the old man... I used to get on him about wearing his beard. He was a movie star, if you all didn't know that. He was once a movie star. He wrote the famous garland in the Ringling, Barnam, and Bailey Circus. And was a Catholic and was converted into the Christian religion and the--the apostolic faith. And he's gone to glory now, at eighty-something years old.
And he rode an old bicycle down and gave it to me from Dowagiac, Michigan. Oh, it was in bad shape. But I went down, and took ten cents, and bought me a can of paint, and painted it all up, and sold it; got enough money to pay the bill off, and I didn't have to take the offering after all. So I--I never take an offering.

L-8 I wish that this didn't have to be done, but I know that that's a portion of your living. I know that you're poor people like I am, and perhaps, maybe, that might have to feed the baby... shoes... and--and--And I realize that. But friends, to the best of my knowledge, I promise you, that it'll not go for foolishness, for the best of my knowledge to the Kingdom of God. And may God bring it back to you, multiply, heaped up, run down--shaken down a hundred-fold is my prayer.
Now, how many people is here from out of town, let's see your hand? Say, is there anybody here from Lima? Lima people raise your hands. Oh, there are a few here. I'm just such a...?... We're happy to be in Lima, aren't we outsiders? Amen. We think you're wonderful. We think you've got some fine ministers, and some fine makings, and just a lovely city. And we pray that God will bless you exceedingly abundantly.

L-9 And now, tonight I am very hoarse. Usually a minister would just as soon preach about once a day. Did you know that preaching is harder on you than most any kind of a manual labor that you could do? I've seen that estimated and broken down, and I believe that it is compared... I think that twenty minutes of preaching under inspiration takes more from your physical body than eight hours of a sledge hammer. See, see? That's how hard it is. That's inspirational preaching.
So we ask tonight we thank you, and if I've left anybody... Oh, the organist and pianist... There's just so many of you. And today I was just speaking to different ones in places.

L-10 And if I'm not mistaken, I believe I see a sweet, little old couple that usually calls me long distance when they're sick. And I don't think God's fail one time. And I don't know if it is, but isn't that the Rev. and Mrs. Kidd setting right there? Raise up your hand.
I want you all to see an old veteran and his wife, way in the seventies and eighties, still preaching the Gospel. Would you stand up just a minute? Brother and Sister Kidd. Let's say, "Praise the Lord for God's goodness to them. That's very much appropriate. God bless them. Way... God bless you, sister and brother. Way in the years of eighty and still preaching the Gospel, oh, isn't that wonderful? I pray that God will bless them exceedingly abundantly.
And now, they were probably out preaching before I was born. And you see how honored I feel of having them. You know, usually when you get a little old, the general public seems to pass you by. But Brother and Sister Kidd, they're one, and...?... like Paul and Silas. He will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. (See?)


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