<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 I heard a minister here, not long ago, in the city, that made this remark; he said, "I told all my people on Easter morning, 'A merry Christmas,'" said, "I won't see them no more till Christmas or next Easter. 'A merry Christmas.'"
And as we stand here, watching these things unfold, and each of us mortals--and know that something has to happen, it just can't go on like this. Every person doesn't have time to stop five minutes. They're just on a push, and a run, and a hurry, and a jam through the street.
When the children was coming up the highway this afternoon, I was coming--or noon it was--I was coming from New Albany. And here come a lady down through the road, among those children in about... in a twenty mile zone, about sixty or seventy miles an hour, just hard as she could split. And where's she going? In a few minutes I said, "What do you think about that?" to the person that was with me. Here come two more cars racing, like hot-rodding, right up among those children. Through our lane there, where we live, at morning, it's like a race track. Have to hurry home to wash the dishes, or listen to Arthur Godfrey, or something. Where are you going? What's the matter? What's got the thing all upset, is because men and women have become lovers of this present world. The great thing ought to be, would be, come home to read the Bible and to--time to pray.

L-23 I think about John Wesley's mother, Susanna. She was a mother of seventeen children. And she had time to spend, I think it was either, two or three hours every day in prayer, and raise, and mother seventeen children--which brought forth one of the world's greatest preachers and one of the greatest song writers of the day, Charles and John--because she took time to serve God and not dally in the things of the world.
And when we seen our foundation of our nation, the foundation of our homes, the foundation of our church, sinking, then brethren, what can we do?
Then I want to say this: oh, if I had a voice that I could echo it to the world, we have a solid foundation left, and that's God's blessed, holy Word, the Bible. "For all heavens and earth will pass away, but God's Word shall never pass away. And upon this rock..." God said, "I'll build My church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it."

L-24 So what a blessed privilege it is to all of us to reach over and get God's good old Bible, and turn the pages back, and know that we're reading directly Truth, and to see that these times happened in days gone by, for it speaks of a historical God. And the only way that we're ever going to be--to cope with these ways or to--to fall in line, is to call up out of history that historical God. For through all days in the antediluvian destruction, before the coming of Christ, and at different events, He never fails when He called on. He's always right.

L-25 I'm thinking of the time now, that when a nation was in captivity. It was Israel. And they were down in Egypt and was made hard and rigor to serve the Egyptians. It seemed like that everybody had just grown cold. Did you know Israel was in Egypt twice as long as the United States has been a nation? We're not over about a hundred and fifty or seventy years old, something like that. And they were four hundred and twenty years in bondage--or down in Egypt.
But it come a time, when seemed like that all hopes was gone, but there was one man and woman who seemed to have faith in a historical God, that spoke to Abraham in the time of crisis, and they believed they could call on Him, and He'd answer. And that was Ham--Amram, and Jochebed, the wife of Ham--Amram--the mother and father of Moses.


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