<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>60-0708, Sir, We Would See Jesus, City High School, Klamath Falls, OR, 105 min
L-1 Thank you very much, Brother Borders. You may be seated. [Someone asks Brother Branham a question--Ed.] If you please. I certainly deem this a great privilege of being here this evening to begin this campaign here in this lovely city. I'm supposed... I'm a little too close to that. Can you hear all right out there? I... Can you hear back in the back all right? That's fine.

L-2 We've been looking forward to coming here for some time. I can remember my early days of my ministry--how that I ministered here in Oregon, and the Lord did bless in such a wonderful way. There's no doubt but there's people here tonight who was in those campaigns back in 1948, '49, along in there, at Portland, and Ashland, and Salem (I believe), and... Oh, I don't know--several different cities, Eugene, Grant's Pass... We had great meetings; the Lord blessed wonderfully.
And I've always wanted to get back out here and catch some of these trout that you people are missing, but I just haven't had a chance yet. And looks like every time I come, I'm on a--a mission to preach. But maybe I can... No, I can't retire; ministers don't retire, do they, brethren? They just can't retire. So maybe someday, I'll just take off and go with some of my brethren here fishing. I noticed today coming down, everywhere we seen was fishing license, hunting license, and... That certainly looked good to a tired, wore out preacher.

L-3 And so, we are very glad to be here to start this ten day campaign here in your lovely city. And we're trusting that it'll be a great blessing to you and to me. We are here for no purpose but to bring our ministry to you to help further the cause that you're now contending for: and that is the faith once delivered to the saints. We are not here to bring anything different, but just to help our brethren, to pitch our ministry in with theirs, to--to move along towards the Kingdom of God.
We truly believe that the Lord Jesus will come someday in a physical body just like He was taken up. And it looks to me like that that time is certainly drawing nigh. When we see all kinds of signs appearing of His--His--of His coming, and the Scriptures being fulfilled, and we just wonder how much longer it will be until we'll see that blessed One that we've looked for so long.

L-4 If I'm not mistaken, the last time I was in Oregon (or one time) I was with Doctor F. F. Bosworth, great gallant soul. Died at eighty-four years old recently; never died--just went to sleep. I went to see him... And I heard he was dying, and I went to see him. And when I got there, the aged old prophet laying on his little bed... And he come in the door, and he raised those little bony arms out. We'd just come from Africa together on a great campaign. I took him in my arms, and I cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." Such a gallant old soldier for Christ.
And I said to him while I was there; I said, "Brother Bosworth, when was you the most happiest in all your Christian experience?"
He said, "Right now, Brother Branham."
And I said, "Do you realize that you are going?"
He said, "Sure."
And I said, "Why could you say that while you know that death is right on you now?"
He said, "Brother Branham, all that I have stood for and lived for for better than fifty years, I'm expecting Him to walk in that door at any minute to take me with Him."
I thought of the Psalm of Life:
 Lives of great men all remind us
 We can make our lives sublime,
 With, partings, leave behind us
 Footprints on the sands of time;
If that was a footprint to me, to know that after better than fifty-five years of ministry on the field, preaching many years before I was born--that still at the end of the road, Jesus meant more to him than any time in his life.


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