<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>57-0519E, Love, Saskatoon Arena, Saskatoon, SK, 126 min
L-1 Send him greeting for me, will you? We close tomorrow night and I've have got to drive a hundred miles then into another city, and--and I won't be able to go get to Moosejaw to see him. But if you know where the church is, greet him, if some of you here from Moosejaw.
How many times have we passed through this city, and I'd see him weep. Setting down there in that big hotel up by the river, down there with him, he laid his big head over on my shoulder and cried and said, "Billy, how many times I've seen--just see myself as a little red-headed boy up and down these streets, packing newspapers." Ern went through a lot of things, and he is a fine Christian gentleman.

L-2 If anybody knows my old friend Brother Dawson, down around Moosejaw there, greet him for me, too. I was in hopes he'd get to the meeting, but I suppose he didn't. I'd like to see him.
My son was just telling me, that they taken up a love offering for me awhile ago. Well, they didn't really have to do that. But I know some of you put a little portions of your living. I appreciate it. And brother, sister, to the best of my knowledge, I'll spend every penny of it that I can to the glory of God.
Now, I'm--I send out thousands of handkerchiefs a week around the world. I got a office with three or four people working in it, constantly, the stenographer and things, how they are paid pretty good. I've got a wife and three children. I--I--I'm preaching all the time, so I--that is the way I have to live, by that. And I certainly will promise you, that it won't be spent for tobaccos, and whiskey, and riotous living. It'll be to the best of my knowledge to the glory of God, for I know it's part of your living.

L-3 I'm sorry; I never taken an offering in my life. I preached in the Baptist church for twelve years and never took one offering. One night I run short, as all people do. Many of you knows when you get to that place, you can't make--make ends meet. Now, don't you? Be honest, sure, you're just like I am. We're just all poor folks, as we say down in the south.
I just couldn't make the ends meet. I said to my wife, "I'm going over and take up an offering."
She said, "I'm going to go over and watch you do it."
We didn't even have a collection plate. Now, not that the people wouldn't do it, oh, them dear people would give anything that--all they had for--to me. But I--I wouldn't do it. I could work. And I was a game warden, and I--I worked and never made... I was on the warden force for seven years and never made one arrest. I believed I could talk to them, make a better conservationist out of them, than I could fine them and make them pay for it, then they'd try to get even with me.

L-4 They never fired me; I just hadn't--the--missed meetings, this evangelistic is the reason I quit. And very nice to me. If I could catch a fellow, I'd set down and talk to him like a brother. I'd say, "Promise me that you'd never do that again." He promised, and keep his word, too, whole lot better than it would to make him pay a fine.
Then, I said, "Wife, I'm going over to take a offering."
She said, "I want to watch you."
So I said, "Folks, tonight I have a--a little need. I--I need just a little money, just about five dollars. I owe a little bills, and I can't make them meet. I'm going to pass a hat and some of you, then give a nickel or two," I said, "and it'll--it'll help me make it. I know you won't mind." I said, "Uncle Jim, would you go get my hat?"
And he said, "Yes, Billy."


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