<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>59-0613, Thirsting For Life, Beulah Temple, Chicago, IL, 64 min
L-1 Good evening, friends. This is certainly a--a privilege for me to be out here tonight to have this time of fellowship in this church. I did not know I was going to have this privilege till just a few days ago. And then, all the sudden it come along that I was to come over to this Beulah Tabernacle to speak. And looking at this tabernacle, I really like it. And the way it's built up, they a... We're fixing to build a tabernacle at Jeffersonville, and I may send some of them up here to kinda look this over. I like this for our own place down there, brother.
And then to see the nice building, and the... Met your pastor the first time, knowingly, just in the study a few moments ago there, the room's aside. Friendly, nice, hospitality, and come in and hear these old songs of Zion being sing... And found out they were Canadians. And of course, we just... like glove on a hand... I certainly do appreciate being over here tonight. And no wonder if a nice little church. A church is what's on the inside of it, really. That's what makes it up.

L-2 We pass down the streets many times, and we see a--a house. And sometimes we say, "Isn't that a lovely home." Now, it might look like a lovely house, but the home is a order of the house. You see the order that's in it, order of the family.
And that's were I think the house of God is. It isn't so much the beautiful temple, which we do appreciate, but it's the order that's on the inside of it. What kind of a order do they have? Are they really Christians, really worshipping the Lord, really love Him? Is it a house of correction, a Gospel being preached, and accompanied by the signs that Jesus gave us that would follow us? And I'm sure it's that way here at this Beulah Temple.

L-3 When I think of the name of Beulah, it just reminds me of when I was just a boy. I was with a girlfriend, and she take me up to the--to the Zion Baptist Church near Salem, Indiana. And the song they sang was "O Beulah Land, Sweet Beulah Land." As on the highest mount I... "Well, looks like finally I got to Beulah land, doesn't it." That was before I was saved. And I never will forgot that fine Spirit in that church. And I remember later on, that Zion was near Salem also, in the--in the Bible.
So to be here tonight with our lovely pastor, and Brother Grant, Canadian singers, Brother Boze, and many others, we just feel like we want a little time of fellowship around His Word.

L-4 I was trying to get Brother Grant to speak for me. When I come in, I was a little hoarse, and been speaking sometimes twice a day. And my meetings are just continually from place to place. And I just get tired. You know how it is, I'm sure. I was telling... The other night, I was saying to Brother Grant, "Many times, we want to go like a--a rocket, and then we fall like a rock." That's about the way we do it. So we have to slow up once in a while.
Now, at this time, I was supposed to be, this week in the Fiji Isles. And then the 15th I was to begin, or the middle of this month, in Sydney, Australia, New Zealand. But I had to set it back for a few days, and that gave me the opportunity to just come to Chicago to visit. The first time over on this... I suppose it's called the west side, isn't it. [Another brother says, "South."--Ed.] South side. I'm all turned around--the south side.


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