<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 What do you think would happen tonight in Wall Street... There is places in the world that I've preached that's so primitive until they hunt on the seashores for little mussel shells, little curlers in them. And that's what they use for money. And then I preached in places to where they taken the teeth out of animals, and would bring them and exchange them, and they are currency.
What do you think tonight that Wall Street would think if these men would come to their markets, and place mussel shells, and stinking teeth out of animals, and want to exchange them for our gold bonds. Why, they'd say, "Get those stinking things and get out of here."
That's what our money and our greatness is before God. We can't buy it. God's so good till He gives it to us without money or without price, and we turn it down. It doesn't even sound sane, does it.

L-13 I was speaking to my wife a few days ago after I had celebrated my fiftieth birthday. And I said to her, "Honey, I'm getting old. And this Bible, I must place back into the hands of my boy someday." And I was speaking to her about how when we were young. And I said, "Here, we been married all these years, and it seems like it was just yesterday." And I said, "Life has passed so quick, but honey, listen to this." I said, "If God would come to this room and would say, 'I'm going to give you a choice: to live another fifty years, and you're going to go through poverty, and sickness, and troubles, and be rejected, and despised, and have a terrible time... You're going to have to beg every meal that you eat in the next fifty years, but at the end of that fifty years, you'll have Eternal Life. But I'm going to give you the whole world and all the money, and turn you back to eighteen years old and make you king over all the world for a million years. But at the end of the million years, then, that's all.'"
I'd say, "Lord, let me beg or anything; just give me Eternal Life." For there'll be a time when there would be no more of me. But as long as there is a God in heaven, if I got Eternal Life, I will always live with Him. When the aeons of times has passed, we live on, because we are part of God, sons and daughters of Him.

L-14 And it's a shame that we have to be pressed into places to make us accept it. What an enemy we have. Yes, an arch-enemy. And it's good to turn to the Lord before these troubles strike.
Now, most of the time it is, that it's troubles that makes the people come to the Lord. But we should come before they strike.

L-15 Now, for instance like in the days of the--of any Christian that we want to place before us.
I was thinking of a story. Sometime ago, up into the north woods, there was a--a colored boy. He was about twenty-five years old, and he's just a--kind of a floater, we called them. And he was a gentleman, but not a--a fugitive or a renegade. But he was a... He was a gentleman, but just a guy that likes to float around, no place to go, and nothing to do. That's a horrible way to take life. I gave a man his dinner sometime ago. Was a bum...
And I said, "When did you start this?"
Said, "About twenty years ago."
I said, "Where are you going?"
He said, "Nowhere."
I said, "Then where did you come from?"
He said, "Oh, nowhere."
I said, "How long do you expect to keep this up?"
"Oh," he said, "I don't know."
No--No ambitions. Why, the Christian ought to be the most ambitious person in the world. Bring this glorious Gospel of Eternal Life to a dying and perishing world. We should be up and at it.


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