<TITLE>02. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 And I was told today that a very precious friend of mine that was with me in the mission fields, Brother and Sister Andrew from way into deep China was in the meeting last night. What a wonderful time we had together over in the--Jamaica this last year. We had a great time; I was up to their home. And my, if--I wonder if Brother and Sister Andrew is present tonight here in the--in the meeting? This building's not built just right, so... Yeah, setting way back in the back. I wonder if you can just do as much as stand up to your feet, Brother and Sister Andrew, just a moment. The Lord bless you. We are so glad to see you, Brother and Sister Andrew. I invited them to come by last year when I was over there.

L-10 Now, not saying it in their Presence (I was going to say more, but I won't say it now.), but they are what I call real missionaries. If they get in tomorrow night, have them to speak here just before we come in. I want you to hear what really a mission fields mean, when they was back to far in the interior till they didn't even have nothing to... Well, they're... I think it was years and years and years they was back there, and they never even had as much as seen an automobile, or a train, or anything else for years and years. And how sister would make their bread out of... How she'd beat it up. And... Now, that's real missionary. Brother Andrew had a needle and thread, and he was the doctor; he sewed them all up when they got ripped up. And I think when the child's--children come along, Sister Andrew was probably midwife and Brother Andrew the doctor. They just depended on them.

L-11 And then when the missions from England, the Pentecostal Missions of England said they were too old to go back in the field (I'll just tell you how much missionary they are.), they wasn't going to take no easy chair and set down; they went right back on their own, back out into Jamaica and out there missionary now. Brother Fred Sothmann and I here had the privilege of going to their home and visiting with them, and what a lovely time they showed us; as--as sweet as Christians could be. And I tell you; I don't say this to... I'd rather give a little of rosebud now than a wreath after they're gone. I tell you; they're really Christians.
And I told my wife that Sister Andrew was one of the sweetest, nicest Christian women a person could ever meet. She's just... Her character is molded into Christ too; and Brother Andrew too. So I'm sure if you all seen them who just stood up; I wanted all this church to shake their hands and to hear them before they get away.

L-12 Now, tomorrow, the Lord willing, why, we're... Tomorrow night we're starting on this second church age. Tonight we're starting on the first church age. I'm sure the Lord has a blessing in store for us.
And remember, as I've said before, sometimes on these things we might disagree upon them as far as--as the theology is concerned. And most of my dates I take from the authentic historians, which really not interested in any side; they just wrote down facts, whatever it was, what the churches did. And I... Of course, the Divine part of the interpretation, I try to place it upon there myself, the best that I know how. And sometimes if I speak a little harsh or rash, or like that, I don't mean it in that way. Everybody knows that, that knows me, that I don't mean to do that. I just want... But in order to make a point stick, you... Just like driving a nail in a board, if you just tack it on there, it won't hold. You've got to drive it down and clinch it to make it hold. And that's what I'm trying to do.
So it--it isn't that I would try to disagree, 'cause I speak for all denominations and so forth, so it doesn't... That...


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