<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0107, The Queen Of Sheba, Lane Tech High School, Chicago, IL, 84 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Joseph. Let's remain standing just a moment now for prayer.
Lord, we want to thank You for Your goodness, and for sparing our lives, and for the privilege that we have of coming to Thee on this cold winter night, knowing that we are just the dust of the earth, but inside us is a spirit that lives forever.
And we pray, Lord, that tonight that You will forgive us of our shortcomings and let us prepare our hearts to meet Thee in that day. These little brittle threads that we're walking on called, "the threads of life," we don't know just what time they may break and plunge us into an eternity. But as David of old said, "I'll fear no evil for Thou art with me," if we go through the valley of the shadow of death, You're sure to meet us.
Keep us in perfect peace, Lord, as our hearts are stayed on You. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Get glory out of the service, and bless these good people who has gathered here tonight on this cold night, defying the weather just to come to hear the Word of God. I know You'll send them away with a good full meal of Thy goodness, for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen. Be seated.

L-2 So very happy to be in tonight. And Billy come back just a few moments ago and said, "Daddy, there won't be a hundred people there on a night like this." Now, we Southerners kinda have a little, you know, kind of a thin blood, maybe. And it's... This is cold weather to us.

L-3 Coming on the elevator awhile ago the colored girl said; she said, "Why, Reverend," she said, "this is just fine weather." Now, I like it; I really do. I think that this is very good weather when it's dry and cold. Any weather is all right as long as the Lord is there.
I wish to hurry right in now and read the Word to you, and then immediately speak, and we'll pray for the sick. And tonight we expect God to do the exceedingly abundantly for us tonight. I... You know, some of the greatest meetings I've ever been in has been where just a little group was gathered together. See, you've got all kind of confined down to just a small group, sometimes like a house prayer meeting.

L-4 I was just telling Brother Sothmann today. I said, I was coming up to Houston, his home town, if the Lord willing, between the meetings to go fishing with him. And I said, "I'd like to visit the little church out there."
And he said, "Well, it's just a little small group."
I said, "Bring them over to your house, and let's get into the room, and shut the doors, and stay there all night and the next day just talking about the Lord." That's the way I like it just--just where we can get together now. Christ comes in big crowds, or little crowds, or He--He will walk alone with you. Just anywhere you want to meet Him and your heart's right, He will meet with you.

L-5 I just want to take a little short subject tonight, the Lord willing, and I don't know... You know, evangelists sometimes when they're busy through the day with interviews and people coming, going, sometimes you don't even get a chance to look at the Bible. And I just picked up a little piece of paper awhile ago that I had wrote something on, that I had talked on before, somewhere, I don't know. But I thought I would use it for a text tonight. Maybe it hasn't been in Chicago.
And now, the tape boys are here, my boys, Brother Leo Mercier and Gene. And now, they have the tapes here for sale. And as I was saying the other night, we don't sell them on Sunday. And through the week is when you have to buy them. And I'm sure, these boys... I've knowed them for years. They were some of my, kind of a converts when they... These two young man, one being formerly out of a Catholic home and the other... I don't know just where Brother Gene come from, what his people were, perhaps Methodists or something. And they come down to the meeting just to get a general conception of it. And the Lord spoke to them.


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