<TITLE>02. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 And such a thing happened at Chicago the last time, and I'd like to read that letter if he does come in. I never got to see him. He didn't know I was coming this morning over here, and want--want the letter. But I just thought of it when I thought of so much sickness. And here's the way it is. It's a certified letter that I was reading in the paper (I never was told), that where the papers was criticizing Oral Roberts for praying for a woman who had diabetes and died. And I, not out... As an American, I--I like to listen to the laws and--and the man who's in authority, but I think that's not just. Wonder if they'd be willing to put in the paper all that Oral Roberts had prayed for and got healed, that the doctors turned down. I wonder--just swap it right around once. See? They wouldn't do that. And then I think maybe that the devil has just muddled them up so, that, and God permitting it, that the day of the judgment they'll have to answer for that. But I know of thousands of people that Oral Roberts has prayed for, that's been dying, and they're well.

L-10 So you see, they--they're unfair about it. They'll deliver their side, the critical side, but won't deliver the other side. Now, the paper is supposed to keep the public up to date on events that happen. Then I think if human beings are concerned with one another, if somebody gets healed, really healed, every paper in the United States ought to pack the article of it. But you can't hire them to do it. No, you take something like that there, they'll snicker and laugh at it and turn it back; but now if there's anything to criticize... It just goes to show that this nation is ready for judgment. That's right. And there's got to be judgment, and there's no way to escape it, and they're only heaping fire upon their heads, and so forth, and such a--a disunified to the principles. A paper, its principles is to--to inform the public of anything good or bad that's happening. But they're away from their principles. And when they're kee--away from their principles, then they--they will not serve their purpose well.

L-11 And that's the same way it is with the church. When the church is away from its principles, it can never serve the saints well. We've got to stay together, got to be unified. We got to be one heart and one accord. Or we'll never serve God or the people unless we're one heart and one accord, to stand by the principles of the Bible and the things that God has said that's right. We must always stand by them.

L-12 Billy stuck into the room at Chicago, he... Someone come to him, a woman with her husband with cancer on the lungs, dying, and his wife was a polio victim in a wheelchair, and her trying to take care of a man that couldn't hardly stand up with cancer on his lung. And Billy said to him; he said, "I--I'm sorry, sir." Said, "I'd gladly give you a prayer card." And he said, "But I--I haven't got another one left."
And he said, "Well, all right, sonny." He said, "That's all right." Said, "We tried to get here, but it was so unhandy for us."
Billy said, "Tell you what you do." Said, "I'm going to get Dad and I'm going to bring him in, and I take him out." And said, "When I do, as soon as you hear his message," said, "then you get your hu--or your wife and you, and get into a little room there where I pass through, and I'll have him pray for you."
"Oh," he said, "that's loyal, son. That's good enough." See? There's an--there's an attitude. See? "Good enough. That's fine." See?


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