<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>59-0614, Balm In Gilead, Lakeview High School, Chicago, IL, 98 min
L-1 Let us bow our heads for a word of prayer. O Lord, we are grateful to Thee tonight, for this, another grand privilege that we have to come in Thy Presence to offer to Thee our thanksgiving, and to sing the hymns of the church, and to worship Thee with all of our heart. And we would pray, Lord, that if there be anything against us on Thy books tonight, as we confess our wrongs, may the Blood of Thy Son Jesus cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And we would pray, Father, that You would heal the sick tonight that is here that's sick and needy. May You send Your Word, and make them to believe on Thee, and on Thy provision for their health.

L-2 We pray, Lord, that You'll bless the Philadelphian church that's sponsoring this meeting tonight. Bless its pastor, our Brother Meade. And we pray that You'll supply all that they have need of for this journey. May it grow in grace, and in power, and in membership. Bless other churches who are coming in with the fellowship of this meeting tonight. We would ask that You would bless all that's present.
And our beloved Brother Joseph, who leaves us now for the foreign fields, let the Angels of the Lord go with him and instruct him, and make his path clear before him, that he will not walk and stumble, but the hand of God will be with him to uphold him. Get glory unto Thyself, Lord. And finally at the end of the journey, and when time shall be no more and blend into eternity, may we meet at Thy throne as unbroken families, singing the redemption songs, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.

L-3 I am very grateful tonight for the privilege of being here in this meeting, for the farewell meeting for Brother Joseph.
As we have explained it this week that it was almost an accident that... Oh, I would not want to place it that way. I would say that it must have been the Divine leading of the Holy Spirit. I'm was supposed to be in the Fiji Isles this week. And next week, or tomorrow, I was to begin in Sydney, Australia. But somehow, I... Something happened that I had to postpone that a few weeks before going in.
Our loyal and beloved Brother Billy Graham has left now. And maybe it's for the best that they recuperate just a little bit from the great meeting that he had, and then it's time for the full Gospel to spread the country. And we pray that God will help that to be true. We are certainly soliciting the prayers of this Chicago people to be praying for me. I know that it will be a real rough job. But we do not want to shirk, no matter how rough it is; for we know the treatment that Billy got, and we know the treatment that Oral Roberts got, and I expect to go get my share. But I... If it's my lot...
 We cannot be carried home to heaven on a flowerdly beds of ease,
 While others fought to win the prize;
 And sailed through bloody seas.
You know the old hymn. And we love to take our part.

L-4 And so now, I pray, Joseph, God be with you. There was just one thing that I didn't just exactly approve of tonight. I just maybe got here at the wrong time. I come in, and I heard them say that they were taking an offering to give to me. That should be Joseph. You take it, brother. See?
I--I got to meet Brother Osborn's associate. And he just so wonderfully gave me an invitation of Brother Robert--or Brother Osborn called him this afternoon, or he talked to him, wanted me to come down visit him at his home.


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