<TITLE>23. Par 200-208</TITLE>L-200 Here some years ago, I used to have a big old tree up here I used to go to and set down. And I thought, "That tree. When I'm an old man, if I live, I'll come set under that tree." It's just a snag now. The place where I used to live, I'd see my daddy come out there, and his little, short arms. He was oh, a Kentuckian down there, and he logged and things; a little fellow, about a hundred and forty-five or fifty pounds, but stout. Oh, my. Mr. Coots, up here, told me he seen him load a nine-hundred-and-fifty-pound ash log by himself, but just a--a real strong man. I used to see him roll up his sleeves to wash, out there by an old piece of broken glass stuck on the apple tree.
And some of you Indiana people might not know how we used to have to live way back in there. And an old wash pan setting out there by the pitcher pump. And mom had an old sack there, a meal sack, made a towel out of it, kind of decorated it up, pulled some of the strings out and make little decorations at the end. Big old... She'd scrub me and then rub me with that towel, the hide would almost come off with that old rough meal sack. She was scrubbing me and rubbing me with that old towel.
Now, I'd see dad standing there, come in, you know, and roll up them little old sleeves, and he'd be washing. And, oh, my, see them muscles. I said, "You know, he'll live to be five hundred years old, he's so strong." But you know what? He died when he was fifty-two. Why? "Here we have no continuing city."

L-203 I stood yonder in Rome, where--where the great Caesars stood, that walked through the streets with their great mass, and--and the pomp and the glory, and all they had. And you know where to find their kingdom? It's twenty feet under the ground. Two thousand years has sunk it.
I stood in Cairo, Egypt, where the--the great Pharaoh's stood in one day, that persecuted the people of God, that run them out and made slaves out of them. Twenty or thirty feet below there, is the ruins of their place.
I stood yonder in London, England, where all the great arch hierarchies and things has stood, and all that. And find out, it's sunk beneath the ground. What is it? "Here we have no continuing city, but we're seeking one to come."

L-206 Why are these kingdoms? It's only to tell you, speaking of one that's eternal. Why is a tree beautiful? It's waiting, it's waiting for the full manifestations of the sons of God, when that tree shall live forever. There's a Kingdom that'll come. And the--the Bible said, "Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come." And there God has give us a Kingdom that cannot be moved.
Everything on earth is movable and shakable, it's falling. Everything is decaying. We're living in a dying world. Everything's dying, Trees are dying. Grass is dying. Flowers are dying. Cities are dying. The world's a-dying. You're dying. Everything's dying. I'm dying. Everything's dying. The--the certain rays of acids and stuff in the air, that--that chemicals in the air...

L-208 Just even you take this big bridge down here, when I saw it come twenty-two years before it was put up down there, saw the men lose their lives on it. When they put the bridge across there and spoke of it. My mother wanted to take me to the doctor, thought I was having nervous spasms. And I told her; I said, "I seen a bridge go across, and I counted them men." Twenty-two years after that, the bridge went across, and the same amount of men lost their lives. I think it was sixteen, exactly.
Now, I thought, when they put those big girders up there, "My, that bridge will last forever." Oh, they've painted it three or four times, and it's rusting down right now. What is it? The rays in the air burned it up.


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