<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 I love that. We meet together to discuss things. We hear so much about conferences lately. Everything you hear of recently has been a conference. They're holding con... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] U.N... Conferences all over the world.
What is a conference anyhow? What's it for? It's for when business or the heads of movements gets together and tries to solve out the best thing that they know to do.
When usually conference is called in the time of a crisis. In the time of a crisis they call out their very best--best intellects, the men who seems to know the best and they bring these men together, heads of nations, heads of organization, heads of business firms. When a crisis is on, they call these men together, and they set down and use the best that they have to get the thing reasoned out.

L-14 And then we find that we had one during the time of the Second World War. I believe they called it the--the Big Four Conference. Been a few years ago, some less than twenty, that they had the Big Four Conference. Many of you men and women here can remember that conference, when all the world was in a time of a crisis. The eastern and the western world was at ends with each other. Germany, and the Nazi nations, and so forth, they called all their--their best brains together, the celebrity of the nations, the best and set down.
I remember a friend, a preacher friend of mine, a Baptist brother, very fine man, Dr. Pettigrew, in Louisville, Kentucky. And he was listening for the returns of that conference, and he said that he was... Had his radio on listening from the place where the returns was coming in, what they were trying to decide. and I think that's what we all ought to do. I think when things are at the end, we should not only be listening, we should be praying, praying for the leaders of our nation, praying for men that's in power that God will rule.

L-15 I was in one of them the other day when I was noticed they was eleven of us setting at a table in a--a--a great federal court, and at the end of the table there was one empty seat. I was involved in this, and I know who was setting there the way it come out, my Lord. Oh, I'm so glad that prayer changes things.
Then when we were... Dr. Pettigrew said he was walking in the floor listening for the returns, and said someone knocked at the door, and it was one of these modern beatnik sort of a people with the overalls, and did the long hair, and down and up and you know, and I don't know. All them kind of foolish things and he said, "I want you to go with me downtown. I--I write literature," and he said, "poetry, and I... They won't--they won't buy my poetry," and said, "and--and you're a man of influence," and said, "you--you come help me and give me a recommendation."
And he said, "My good man, I'm listening to the return of the Conference of the Big Four. I want to know how it comes out."
And this beatnik said, "Oh, my poetry, my songs," (in the modern, rock-and-roller, boogly-woogly, ever what it was in them days, the young people were doing), "is more important than that." Not knowing if that didn't go right there would be no nation to have boogly-woogly any more, or--or ever what they call the stuff.

L-16 Now. Oh, we ought to be concerned about these things. There was another conference called the Geneva Conference, and when we had to get together again with the nations and try to solve out what's the best thing to do... And there's one just recently called the Paris Conference, and they usually select a place, a nice place where it's suitable.
Just recently I was in Geneva where they held that conference, and it seems to be a place where they can look out and see things that inspires them. It's strange when the--when the strain is on a person, he has to have something to inspire him. Poets climb up in the mountains to watch the sunrise. Many have them a shack out somewhere. Prophets live in the wilderness away from the people, somewhere to find something that inspires them.


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