<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 I want to thank each and every one of you for your kindness and cooperation. There was one thing they did, that I did not agree with, but that was last night taking an offering for me. And they taken up a hundred and some dollars, seventeen--hundred and seventeen dollars or something, brought it to me. I don't know how to give it back to you. See? I--I never come for that purpose. I never took a offering in my life. Money is not the subject; it's your soul. It's the good that we can do.
I've been in the ministry thirty years. I'm an old man. And I--I have never yet taken up my first offering. And if I would've took offerings, I would've, or taken the people's money... I perhaps, had one time give me one and a half million dollars at one time from the Mission Bell Winery of the Mr. Arkelian, the owner, his wife being healed of cancer. I refused to even look at the check or the money draft. What would I want with a million and a half dollars? There's only one thing I could do with it: Give it away. And if I take it; it's taxable; the government takes the biggest part of it before I could give it away.

L-5 So, see, if we don't want the money; we just want you to believe God. Believe the Bible and live right. 'Cause all that we have on this earth, we're going to lay down and leave it one of these days. It's just those things that's eternal that counts. So...
But being that it was given, the hundred and something, seventeen dollars something, the brethren told me, thank you, my precious friends. I will take that right straight to the mission field to feed some hungry children. See them laying on the street with their little bellies swelled up from starvation... Do everything I can to make it count.
And at that day, when the rewards are given out, you'll see where it went. God ever bless you. That's a portion of your living that we share with others.

L-6 I want to thank the ministers. I suppose this is their line, wherever they are, for their fine cooperation in this little, three days, just almost unnoticed. I've got three, four, five more of them, just little spots before going over the seas for a worldwide trip: Africa, and Asia, and Europe, and around the world. Thank you, my brethren, for your fine cooperation.
If we ever get to come back, we'll come first and consult all of you brethren, and find when you haven't got any meetings going on, and maybe come and pitch a tent outside the city or something like that, so we can stay a long time, and all of us together, working together, for one great cause: The Lord Jesus.
That's the only way that we can ever... We go into cities; it must be a--a cooperation with all churches, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene. You can surely get together for a revival for the saving of souls. And I believe we can if we just pray and ask the Lord.

L-7 Then I want to thank the court for this place. We--we were just going to drop by and went out in the country here. And some precious brother that let us have his church, the people were standing in the cold. And then they changed it right quickly, and brought it here. And tonight, I noticed cars all up and down the street here with people in them, standing out back in the back, down in the halls, couldn't get in. And so we are thankful to the court for their fine cooperation.
Someone said today (I am just quoting someone else) that the judge came and said, "Well, you need some more room or you might need my office. Here's the key."
I just hung my coat in Judge's office. God bless that man. I pray that his court of justice grow. And he will be served so well that in the day that when he has to stand before the Judge of the earth and the trials of his court be brought before him, that the Master, the great Judge, will say, "It was well done, my good and faithful servant."


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