<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>61-0124, Blind Bartimaeus, American Legion Hall, Beaumont, TX, 112 min
L-1 Thank you Brother...?... You may be seated. Sure glad to be back again tonight. I was just talking to the wife recently, and I told her, I said, "You should have been down, honey." She has to take care of the children, of course, and they're in school, the little fellows. And I told her; I said, "You get to meet some of the finest people in the world right here in Texas, Louisiana, and these southerners here." Wished I could go home with each one of you. I'm sure I would have some grits for breakfast, hominy grits. That's good; that's living. Black-eyed peas, and turnip greens, corn bread, nothing any better I know of... That's good.

L-2 The love of God does strange things for us, doesn't it? How it constrains our hearts, and binds us together like nothing else will do, the love of God.
Tomorrow night is our closing of this campaign, and I've got to meet many of the brethren, and seeing them, and I just... This is one campaign that I certainly hate to see close. It's just... They've been so nice. Everybody's so nice.
And my mother was from Paris, Texas. I guess I'm just a little bit of Texas. So--so I certainly think you got a wonderful country. And what makes any country is the people that's in it. Fine... Louisiana, and Georgia, and Alabama, and all these southern states, they talk about southern hospitality, that's true.

L-3 And tonight we are planning now... I asked Brother Moore to speak a little for me...?... so I won't have to preach. And just... Last night we had a little drama, a little story. Maybe we could have another one of those little ones tonight just before I pray for the sick.
And then tomorrow night, I trust maybe, if it'd be the will of the Lord, I'd like to speak to you again, maybe on a text, the sermon at the closing service. We sure appreciate all that you've done. You've been so--really so nice.

L-4 And I'm glad that the love of God makes us reach out, way out. We can see things that we never seen before. And sometimes meetings like this has a special influence upon the people to influence them to--to get the vision of what God means. I think it helps people. Now, tonight I... 'Fore we open the Scripture, I want to say that...
I want to wait till I start to pray for the sick before I pray over these little handkerchiefs, and aprons, and so forth, or whatever they might be. And now, if you miss putting one up here, I wish you'd send and get one anyhow. They're free. We charge for nothing. Even our books, somebody else prints them; and most that we buy at forty percent off, that we might bring them, and you don't...
'Course they don't make nothing on them books, because of the loss that we have on them, and the damage. And I've always told the boys, if somebody come by and they didn't have the money to get it and want it, give it to them. See? Just let them have it anyhow. But those books are printed, one of them by Julius Stadsklev (two or three of them), and by Brother Lindsay, and so forth. And we buy them with, I think, it's forty percent off. I think that's what it is. And however, the boys takes care of that.

L-5 We have no program of money. Money's not even in it at all. Minister called me the other day and said, "Now, what's your financial program? How much money do we have to have?"
I said, "Nothing."
And he said, "Well, what do you do for a living?"
I said, "Well, usually at the end of the service they give a love offering," I said, "if they... people feel like doing it. If they don't, why, that's perfectly all right too." And if they--they don't make the expenses, put that in on the expenses, and let's make it up. If they don't make that, then we'll send home and let my church stand for it. We want to always carry that name of never...


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