<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And about one hour before he went to be with the Lord Jesus, before He came in and got him, he was--been laying on the bed sleeping. And he woke up, looked in the room. And his wife came in, and his son, and many of the loved ones. And he looked around the room, and raised up and shook hands for over an hour with friends of his that had been gone on for thirty or forty years. Shook hands, said, "Why, I remember you. You came to Christ in my meeting at Joliet. I remember you; you was at Montreal, when you..." And called them by name, someone who had been dead for years and gone on. The saints don't die; they just go to be with the Lord; that's all.
And then finally, after meeting his mother and father and all, come back and laid down on a little cot there, folded his arms, closed his eyes, went to meet the Lord. Such a gallant man. I'm sure that if we could ever have the privilege of visiting that great Land before the coming of the Lord, that we'll see Brother Bosworth there with his friends, happy, enjoying Eternal Life to its sublime.

L-6 Now, we come to this city with--on the invitation of our precious brethren here--the different denominations and different phases of the Christian faith. And we come to join forces with them for the benefit of this community, for this city, and for the round about regions; that it'll make it a--a harder place to do wrong after this meeting, a easier place to do right after this meeting; come to make life a little sweeter for you, see that if we can pray a prayer of faith, that God will heal the sick in the community along with our brethren; to make a call to the sinners, maybe the last call that they'll ever receive, that they'll enter into that blessed land where only the redeemed can go.
And that's what we're here for purposely. Our main purpose is to see you be prepared for that. Next is to pray for the sick and see that they get well, praying to the Lord. And then another thing, is to... Those who have strayed away from church, to go back to your church and take up your fellowship again among the believers. And then also, we would like to get those who've backslid and gone away, back into the precious fellowship of the church again with the people.

L-7 Now, we'll try not to keep you long each night. Tonight being just my first time here, perhaps... Maybe not five or six people here that I ever seen in my life or ever seen me. But I am... You know, the first night it's usually kindy hard.
You say, "You know, I don't like the way that preacher wears his tie." Well, my wife doesn't either. So I--I don't... You know, and something and other... I used to say, "The way he combs his hair." But that's out of the question now.
And so we... Just something you have to meet, and meet the person. And then after a night or two, you get acquainted. Then the Holy Spirit moves in and begins to bless us, and all the little (you know, as I call it), the little frictions and the little bugs combed out. And then we... We're ready then to go into the worship. And we got ten days, the Lord willing, for this. We pray that it will be a great thing.

L-8 Now, it's--it's not my meeting; it's our meeting. We are together. And every little effort that we can put forth, even to speak to somebody to come; send and get some poor sick person and bring them in to be prayed for; get some poor strayed sinner, that they might come in to be saved; get some unbeliever to come in, set back and watch the meetings--maybe he might change his attitude. Just--just remember, many great infidels has been converted just listening at the Gospel. How can you be converted unless you hear the Gospel? 'Cause "faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God".
And now, we're going to open this precious Word and read just a verse out of it, or two, for a little text--to find a context. Then I believe that Billy was supposed to give out some prayer cards tonight. I... Did he do it? Raise up your hands if there's anybody got... He did it. All right.


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