<TITLE>14. Par 118-126</TITLE>L-118 But a man that lives like that has no peace. There is no peace to a troubled heart. To a sinful heart, there cannot be peace. If a man longs to drink, and he calls that life, he thinks he is having a big time, it shows his emptiness. Take a man, make a million dollars, he wants two. Take a man that goes to a party and drinks one drink tonight, he wants another. Take a man, lives untrue to his wife once, he'll live it again; vice versa. See, it's something, and he never's satisfied. He might have a million dollars in his hands or ten million in his hand; he lays down at night with a drunken stew on him; he wakes up the next morning, haunted, nightmares, troubled mind. And you call that peace? That's no peace.
But a man might not even have a pillow to press his head to; he might not even own a decent pair of shoes, or able to have a decent meal in his house; but if God reigns in his heart, he goes to bed happy and wakes up happy. It's a lasting peace. It's something that God does.

L-120 This fellow had forgot that teaching. He went to gambling. It come Christmas time. He thought of his buddy, so he wrote him a letter. One of them's name was Jim, the rich man. And John was the poor one. And he wrote him a letter, and he said, "John, I wish you'd come up to see me through the holidays. I'd like to meet you, talk with you again. I haven't seen you for many years."
And wrote him back, and said, "I'd like to come, Jim. But I can't come; I haven't got the money to come."
A check come in the mail in a few days, said, "Come on. I want you to come anyhow." So John got ready, country boy, put on a good clean pair of overalls, and his kady hat, and his little coat of a different color, and boarded the train.

L-123 And when he got there, there was a chauffeur setting there to meet him with a big limousine. He didn't know how to act. He got in this limousine, holding his hat in his hand, looking around, drove up to a great palace in Chicago. Got out and went up to the door, and rung the bell. And out come a butler, said, "Your card, please, sir." He didn't know what he was talking to. He handed him his hat. He was... He didn't know nothing about no reception card. He didn't have much of this world's goods. He said, "I want your card."
He said, "I don't know what you're talking about, sir." Said, "Jim sent for me to come; that's all I know."

L-126 So he went back and told his partner, who hadn't got out of bed yet. He said, "There is a funny-looking man standing at the door." He's dressed... I never seen a man dressed like him. And he said Jim sent him."
He said, "Tell him to come on in."
And he slipped on his bathrobe, went down the hall and met this old country friend of his, and shook his hand. Said, "John, you don't know how glad I am to see you."
And the old country fellow standing, looking around in the room, said, "Jim, you sure have got plenty."
He said, "I want to show you around." He took him upstairs, and out on the sun porch, opened up the window.
Said, "Where is Martha?"
"Oh," said, "she hasn't come in yet; she was out last night."
Said, "How--how you all getting along?"
Said, "Oh, not much. John, how are you and Katie getting along?"
Said, "Just fine."
Said, "Oh, is she home?"
Said, "Yes, we got seven kids." Said, "You all got any children?"
Said, "No, Martha wouldn't have any." Said, "She thought we'd better not have any children; it interferes with the social life. You know," raised back the curtains, he said, "looky here." Said, "You see that bank over yonder?"
He said, "Yes."
Said, "I'm the president in that bank." Said, "You see that railroad company?"
"Yes."
Said, "I've got a million dollars worth of shares in that."


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