<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 And as we dipped our paddles into the lake and started down, I believe every duck all up-and-down the Androscoggin River had come into Lake Umbagog getting ready for the flight. And all of the quacking, only as ducks can do, just carrying on... And Burt said, "What do you think they're talking about, Billy?"
I said, "They're having a little time of fellowship before the flight."
And then, as this Indian friend and--of mine and I, moved on down the river to our certain camp, and the moon begin to get pale, as we knew the storm was coming in, our paddles begin to make a little ruffle in the water then, as the waves begin to rise. I thought on this: 'Surely, sometime before we take the flight, we'll have a time of fellowship, when all churches can come together on one ground and all have a time of fellowship before we take the flight."

L-6 And years passed. I was the local Baptist pastor at that time at Jeffersonville. And--and as years passed on, I come into this great Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship.
Then I begin to notice that how that they would spend their money and go from place to place and meet across the nation, yes, and the world. And when they come together, they were no differences among them. They were not one, saying, "I belong to this certain assembly," and another, "a certain assembly." They all had things in common. So I thought that must've been what I was thinking of that night, of a fellowship, a getting together before the flight starts.

L-7 Now, I noticed them there, in this great Pentecostal move, there did not seem to be any condemnation among them. You meet them in the hotel room, they'll throw their arms around one another right in the face of the--of the celebrity or whatever it is, and hug each other, and praise the Lord, and cry a little while, and shout a little while, and just act like they do anywhere else. And I thought, "You know, that's real. That's--they's something about that." The women, likewise.
It just seemed to be a great fellowship. And I wondered, "Wonder what causes that, and why is it we all can't do that? Why is it all people, all human beings, can't feel that way? No condemnation, just as free as you can be..." I thought, "Well, why can't everyone be that way."
Now, I believe we can, but there is--and the reason that we do that first, is because that there's something in the human life that desires that, something that calls for it.


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