<TITLE>03. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 When I was a little boy up here on the Utica Pike, they had an old... There was a fellow named Elmer Frank used to live over here. He's kind of an attorney at law. He married a young lady up there on the road that my father worked for her--for her father; her name was Lusher. And they... And he had a--some kind of a automobile that had a crank, you get out on the side of and cranked it like this, and it only had one gear. And you had a big rubber thing for a horn; you'd blow it like that. And they said that thing would go the terrific speed of nineteen miles an hour. Now, papa went down and got some sand down in the wagon, and--and to bring it up there and put in sacks so he could hold it down, to see if it'd actually go nineteen miles an hour. (See?) But you ought to seen the roads; it would only go about ten this a-way, and nine up-and-down this way. So you get it together, you got nineteen miles an hour.

L-15 I remember all of us kids, mom would wash us all up, about five of us then; we'd hang on that fence to hear it. We'd hear it coming miles away, way down here, a roar, roar, roar, roar. Everybody'd stop and get their horses, and get out of their buggy and hold them like this, you know. That thing coming up the road, my, it was a terrific thing. And--and I just think, that was back; I was about seven years old. See? How... That was about 1914, and just think of how that things has changed since then. And see, and it's just been the last forty years or something. And look, he had six thousand years to do all that with right here, because the Bible said that he'd do it that way, "The last days they'd run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."

L-16 Did you ever think of Nahum, when he--he saw Outer Drive in Chicago, four thousand years ago? He did. He said, "They would jostle through the broad ways." Now, the... I've been in the old countries where they had the--their streets like in Oslo and different places; there hardly is room to walk; it's just big enough for a--a chariot to go through in their cities. But probably the distance would be about from here to that wall, is all the wider their streets was, just wide enough for a chariot to go through the street. Well, see, Nahum said, "They were broad ways." And said, "They would run like lightning," these carriages. "And they would seem like torches," that's the lights on them. And said, "They'd jostle one against another," the wrecks. That prophet raised up above the time, and looked way in there for four thousand years, and saw that coming. Think of that: inspiration.

L-17 But we're at the end time, friends. It's just... And so is the Scripture, being that all these things is happening, all the Scripture's laying right in here in this end time right here. And I thought this morning, if God would help us, we'd tie these--some of these things in, as many as we could. And then tonight that great last age of the Laodicean church, how it received its message, and then goes on off, and ignores its message, right straight into a lukewarm condition that God spues from His mouth. See? In other words, it makes Him sick at His stomach even to think of it. "I'll spue thee from My mouth," He said.


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