<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>58-0625, A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, Southern Pines High School, Southern Pines, NC, 114 min
L-1 Thank you, thank you very much. [Brother Branham responds a brother's comments--Ed.] Thank you...?... Thank you very much. That is awful sweet of all of you. Coming to you, as I've said this morning, tired and wore out, I hardly haven't had a day off since Christmas. And then, I leave for home at three o'clock in the morning, get home and unload my car, about two hours, and take right back to Philadelphia again, to begin there Sunday. So it's just constantly on the move.
Now, I know your... you got... I see you got fans, if you just got the electricity to operate it. So it's very hot, and I'll just be as brief as I can on the message and start right into praying for the sick.

L-2 There is no way for me to express how I appreciate this visit here to Southern Pines, and our--our cooperation with Brother Thomas, and they--all the other cooperating ministers of all the different denominations, and to you people. I certainly appreciate this. It's been four days that quickly went. You got a lovely country, a lovely people. A people is what makes the--what the country is. I don't care how hot it would get or what, if you got nice people there, it's a nice country. That's what makes it. And it's people that I'm expecting to spend an eternity with.
I've been invited out to your homes; I wished I could come. I know each one of you has got the best cook there is in the country, and I'd sure like to come out, and--and have dinner with you, and would enjoy setting down, and talking to you for several hours. I can't do that, just on these little stays like this.

L-3 And then, many people think that I'm an isolationist. I'm not an isolationist, no, but I can't be a servant of Christ and a servant of man at the same time. So I have to keep myself away in prayer, and meditation, in order to be my best at the pulpit.
And I'm ashamed that I had to come all worn out. As I told you the other day, I've lost twenty pounds of weight since Christmas, there's my coat. See? And I'm--I'm really can tell it. And not so much physically tired, as it is mentally tired. Just been healing services, most of the time. I cut off two nights of it here, so that we could get a little--just a little bit of rest to make on.
And the other one is the Christian Businessmen's Convention, now, Sunday afternoon is in Philadelphia, at some big tabernacle, seats several thousand people, I'm to have the service there Sunday afternoon. And Monday night at the convention hall, I open the Christian Businessmen's Convention, for the worldwide convention. Pray for me. I really need your prayers, that God will use me and help me to be His servant and your brother in the Word.

L-4 Now, Billy said awhile ago, I believe, that when we was coming in, that they taken a love offering for me. That wasn't exactly necessary. I'm--I'm sorry even to have to accept it, but I never asked them to do that. I never come for that purpose. I'm a poor man; I need money to live on, and operate, and my operations are small. I've kept my meetings real humble.
I was on the field before Brother Roberts. Brother Roberts has come to my meeting. I was in Kansas City, Kansas, and he was in Kansas City, Missouri, in a little ragged tent over there, and just a little handful of people. He come and set on the sideline one night. And I met him back in the hall; we got our pictures together. He said, "Do you think God could hear my prayer for the sick?"
I said, "He'd hear anybody's prayer, Mr. Roberts, that'll be sincere."


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