<TITLE>20. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 Sorry to have kept you this long. I just get started, and I just don't know... You're such a lovely people. I say this one thing: you southern people, you really have something. I've been to your cities, around the little places, going into your merchants, going into the filling stations, shaking the hands of the people, I've never met a finer people. That's right. Wonderful, good old southern handshake, and a little, "You all come and see us." That's just as America as hickory smoked ham and sorghum molasses. That's--that's really what I love. Some of the best old hearts that ever beat's under an old blue shirt, out here in a cotton patch somewhere. You know that. Truly, God bless you, is my prayer.

L-58 Now, I never come here as a deceiver, I'd rather be home tonight. I'd rather be at my little old tabernacle, down there, speaking to them, or out somewhere on the bank, fishing. I'd rather be anywhere, than to be here and be a hypocrite or a deceiver. What good would it do all my efforts, and me standing here so tired, I can't hardly see? What good would it do me to stand here and then be a deceiver? "Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity, I didn't even know you," would be my lot. God knows. I don't come for money. It's not popularity; I shun that. What is it? Because that... God, I love Him. He gave me a message to bring to you, and I'm doing it in the best that I know how. You receive it; it's for you. Surely, honest heart, God would reveal that.

L-59 Now, it's almost impossible to get a prayer line up here, just to say... It wouldn't be right for me to say, "I'll take this bunch here in here; I'll take these first five rows." That wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be right to say I'll take them first rows on the front. That wouldn't be right, it'll leave these off. We have to give out prayer cards in order to keep the people lined up.
I guess there's seven hundred people here tonight, maybe, and then in seven hundred people, I'd say there's at least five hundred of them that want to be prayed for. You want to see it? Everyone in here that wants prayer from God, raise your hands. I'll show you. Everybody, be honest. There you are. I'd say six hundred and ninety-five wants to be prayed for. Now, I can't take all of them, and who's going to be first?

L-60 Now, used to, when we'd go to the meeting, we would... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Brother Boswell told me... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... one while we're there. Well, the ones that's in there the first day, he got there. If you wasn't there... If you come in the second day, emergency case or anything else, you didn't get it. You didn't have no card. That wasn't right.
So then we said, the next thing we would do, we would give out prayer cards every day--every day give out a new bunch of cards. The ones left from the day before, we'd cancel them off. Anybody that had a prayer card, just throw their old one down, take a new one. Be all right. And we would give them out like that.
Then it got so, that if you didn't... if they got past twenty or twenty-five, "I don't want that one." Throw it down. "It'll never be called, 'cause you don't call over twenty or twenty-five." Sometimes I don't get to two or three. But said, "It'll never be called. No."


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