<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 But in the midst of all of this, I felt that I wanted to come to Canada, up here to Saskatoon. It's been a long time since I've been here. And I know there's people here who's probably in my meeting when I was here the first time. We was over to the Apostolic church and then come down here. And the little arena was packed out with the people. And I can see, of course, a falling away. Now, we expect that. It's got to be that way. But I'm grateful for you that are going on.
Now, the reason we said it, and many of you are wondering why we don't take up offerings. It was asked me by a party today, "Why no offerings?" Well, my dear friend, that's the thing that is out of the picture to us. We never come to get money from you; we come to help you. And the money that you have, you--you need it for your own church. And it was by the grace... Now, I mustn't say who it is, because they might not want me to; but two men setting present now paid every penny of it (That's right.), just so for their people. They're both Canadians from right here. And they paid the... And they said that it could be paid like that and the only offering is to be took up...

L-5 Now, I am a poor man; you know that. And I keep poor because of one thing. Here the other day I was in a little church and held a meeting that only had--would seat about sixty people, I guess: sixty people. And my good Canadian brother that was a pastor here of yours for a long time, was in trouble. And I canceled off a--a party or place I was going to get to that man to help him. That was Brother R. E. S. Toms, exactly, a Canadian brother. I've always had a deep respect for the Canadian people, because you're conservative. That's true.
Down in the south you can go to preaching and the people are shouting and crying; you know what the south is. But the northern people, the Canadian people are conservative. Exactly right. But they get the message just the same. It doesn't go how much we act; it's how much takes a hold inside is what counts.

L-6 And in these... I was at a meeting just recently, and it's a small place that only seated about fifteen hundred people, and I happened to be brought into a back room, and a minister was on the platform, and he said, "Well, there's one thing I like about Brother Branham." He said, "We asked Brother Roberts if he would come. He said, 'You're too small.'" Said, "We've asked Brother A. A. Allen if he would come, said, 'You're too small.'" But said, "When we asked Brother Branham," said, "he said, 'I'll come.' Well," said, "we were not too small."
And when I walked to the platform, I thought, "That don't sound just right." So I said to the audience, "Now, do not look down on Brother Roberts or Brother Allen because he said you were too small, because Brother Roberts will have to have at least about six or seven thousand dollars a day. He's got to have it. He's got a worldwide radio program. He's got a nationwide television. He's got about five hundred in a office. He owns buildings that's--that's whole city blocks for parking lots, and his lowest paid man is around two hundred a--a week, and that ought to... two or three thousand a week... How can the man make it?"


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