<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>59-0610, As I Thought On My Way, Philadelphia Church, Chicago, IL, 57 min
L-1 Thank you very much, my brethren, and it's certainly nice to be here. Thank you. Thank you so kindly. I appreciate that, makes me feel good when you feel welcome. There's nothing more sweeter than to--to come into a place where you feel welcome and just at home. And I was thinking, just when I was standing there of the kindness of--of the people, the kindness of God and the people.
Just a few moments ago I heard that message go forth and the Holy Spirit speak back that--to listen to the message. And then I--then hear these brethren get up and say those things, it just makes me feel good.

L-2 Then today I happened to pick up some of the advertisements. As Brother Joseph told you last night, I just kind of run in this time. I was scheduled for overseas at this very time, but was turned down on account of some investigation from tax that I'm going through at this time at my church. And the foundation of the church, how we have to have a governmental numbers and so forth, that we didn't know, because the Tabernacle is a interdenominational tabernacle. We didn't know you had to go through all that rigmarole; we thought that you were just a church and had deacons and pastors and so forth. But the government changes. They changed in forty-nine, I think it was. Well, I was out on the field preaching then. I didn't know their changes and what the congress did.

L-3 As I said last night, we're talking about Sputniks and moons, but we can't even take care of what we got down here, let alone go to somewhere else, or I can't anyhow. From the looks of things we're not doing too good a job at it, but--as a nation, or a people.

L-4 But then, another great thing come, as I noticed that on the advertisement. I said to Joseph just a few moments ago, "Brother Joseph, I made a terrible mistake last evening. I don't like to have a meeting without having a healing service at least one time during the convention." And I--we placed it for Friday night. And then I picked up the advertisement, and Brother Grant, my gracious and precious brother and friend, was to have a service that night for seeking of the Holy Spirit. And my, I--I wouldn't want to take it from that. And Joseph said that Brother Grant had suggested that, and moved right in sweetly to give it away for a night to pray for the sick.

L-5 I don't know whether Brother Grant's even here; I haven't seen him yet. But the Lord God bless our brother for his gallant soul and the way he so graciously given that time.
I told him we could change it and have it on a Thursday night just the same as Friday. And let's go right ahead because I think it's more essential that the soul gets saved, than all the healing that would be done. That's right. The soul is--is the main thing, because you can be healed of your sicknesses, that's true, and your afflictions cured. I know that. But when that soul is healed, it's eternal. But when the healing of the body, you may get sick again. But the soul is the main thing.

L-6 For did you ever try to put a valuation on what Eternal Life is? What--what could you give for it. If I could be turned back to a boy of nineteen, twenty years old, and would have all the world, and live five hundred years without sickness or old age, I--or either live another one--or ten more years, and have all kinds of troubles, and beg for my food, and be persecuted and martyred at the end, but have Eternal Life, I'd take that. When five the hundred years was up, it would be--all be over. But it'll never end with Eternal Life. I'll live in the Presence of Christ forever. We just don't know what's wrapped in that treasure that God has given us.


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