<TITLE>02. Par 4-8</TITLE>L-4 Now, thinking tonight in this little group, so I wouldn't keep you too long, being late to start with... And we appreciate the custodians who let us have the lights, and stays and waits with us. I met two of the gentlemen the first day in here, and I said, "What time should we close?"
He said, "That's up to you." Now, that's really nice. I appreciate that. We all appreciate that from them men. And I told them that usually we were out by nine-thirty each night when we have a long campaign like this.

L-5 And now, I want to speak to you a little from the Word. How many loves the Word? Oh, there's something about It that's real. I think the Word should be read in every service, because my word will fail; your word will fail; but God's Word can never fail, because it's the Word of God.
And I think tonight, just for a little text that I've used before in other places, I would like to call your attention to Matthew the 12th chapter, 42nd verse. And I got a little thought from this when I seen where Brother Paul Boyd had wrote a little article in a paper. He's a Mennonite brother. And I'd preached on this at another place and perhaps that's where Brother Boyd had picked it up. And I want to read for a moment, and I'll probably approach it from a different standpoint.

L-6 And now, from tomorrow on, every afternoon there will be services, instruction services, as our lovely brother, Doctor Vayle, will be explaining to us the Word of faith from the Bible each afternoon, beginning tomorrow, through the rest of the service.

L-7 I don't know whether Brother Vayle has announced it yet, of the going home of Brother Bosworth. How many ever knowed Brother F. F. Bosworth? He's happier tonight then he's ever been. He's in glory. The gallant soldier, one of the most outstanding Bible teachers on Divine healing I ever met in my life... I've read of many great men, and I've read their history. I've heard them that had little mark here, and a little black mark here, and a little mark against them over here; but never one voice did I ever hear, or anything, against F. F. Bosworth. He was a man that lived what the Bible teaches. He was the most honest and upright and unguiled person that I know of. He...
A few years ago, about three years ago, taking a tour, way down in South Africa with me, around eighty years old. Been on the battlefield since a little boy. He was preaching the Gospel before I was born. And down in them battlefields, among the natives a preaching the Gospel... When I met him a few weeks ago, when I went to see him just before his leaving here, when I walked into the building, this come on my heart, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." As those old trembling hands reached for me, he said, "Brother Branham, this is the happiest time of my life." Said, "I'm expecting any minute for Him to walk in the door and I'll go home with Him."

L-8 Before he left he saw a vision of heaven. And about two hours before his passing over, he went into, in a coma, raising up in his bed, shaking hands with someone, and greeting people that he had met and preached the Gospel to, had been gone for years. I think this of him.
Lives of great men all remind us,
And we can make our lives sublime,
With partings leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time.
I'm sure that he got to shake hands with Paul Rader, which was an associate to him. How many ever heard of Paul Rader? He wrote my theme song, "Only Believe." How little did he know, that that boy setting at his feet would take this song around the world. It's called me in, I don't know how many languages, hundreds of languages around the world, as a theme song.


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