<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 Down through the centuries and time, there has been many great people knocked on other people's door. The main thing, if someone knocking at your door, is how important that person may be. It's based upon the importance of the answer at the door to your guests: How important is that guest that's knocking?
For instance, in the days of Caesar. What if Caesar would've went to one of the peasant's home? He was a great emperor we know. And if he'd went down to a peasant's home, where it was poor, and a little shack like built, and this great emperor would've knocked on the door. And the peasant would've come to the door, and looked, and seen it was Caesar. Why, he would've threw open the door immediately and have fell upon his face, and said, "O great honorable emperor, come into my humble home. If there is anything here that you desire, or anything that I could do, or could grant your wishes, just let me know. I am your servant. Just let me know."
Because it would've been an honor, that just to even knock at his door; to know that a peasant would have something about him that would attract the attention and call the emperor of the nation to his door...

L-18 Or say, what in the--few years ago when the fuehrer of Germany, A--Adolf Hitler, in the days of his reign in Germany... For instance, what if he would've went down to the door of one his foot soldiers, and would've knocked at the door. And this soldier would've come to the door. And Hitler was even feared among his people. And he'd have knocked at the door, and this little soldier would've gotten up and struggled across the floor, and opened... or looked out the window of the door, and seen Adolf Hitler standing there... Oh, I would imagine he could've almost swallowed his heart, and would've said back to his family something like this, "Straighten up all of you, right quick! Get everything set in order. You know who's knocking at our door? The fuehrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler, stands at our door. Our house is honored today, because the greatest man in Germany stands at our door."
He would've threw open the door, and being a soldier himself, would've come to attention, and with a salute... a German salute to this fuehrer, and said, "Enter into my homes. And if there's anything here that you desire, or anything, great one, that I can make you happy, just let me know. Anything you desire... You've honored my home."

L-19 Or, if our own dear beloved President Dwight Eisenhower, the president of this great United States, if he would come to the home of the best democrat in this country, it would be an honor to you, though you would disagree with him in politics. But it would be an honor to have President Dwight Eisenhower to call at your door. Just a common ordinary man like we are, and if our beloved president would knock at the door, why the--you'd want everybody to know it. You would talk about it the rest of your life, that Dwight Eisenhower knocked at my door. You'd almost want to build a shrine at your door, because the President of the United States come to your door.


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