<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Billy said last night to me when I left; he said, "Daddy, do you think you could ever make it sometime you'd get out at nine o'clock? "
I said, "I hope so, sometime." But I... You're such a nice people to talk to. And you... There's no place to stop.
And he said, "Well, the first thing, you talked about thirty minutes before you ever started on your sermon."
I said, "Now, Billy, I'm going to--I ain't going to do that tonight. I'm going--I'm going to start right straight into the sermon right quick, so I can let the people out."

L-5 We got a--still a full week. And then, we've got to go from here then up into Visalia, and right straight from there to Ohio, back in the snow, and down in Virginia where I think they got seventeen inches of snow in there now. Then, back over in Illinois, Bloomington, up Chicago. And then all the way up in northern British Columbia, where it's really snowing. And then, I hope that, if the Lord willing, sometime this summer, to--to get overseas again, because there's where my heart lays. That is true. You would, too.
You think, "Well, you don't love us." Yes, I love you. But you're already anchored in Christ, and those people over there, just so hungering and thirsting. And now, if I was working for you, and I could pick... I was picking berries. On one side of the road over here, I could pick fifty gallon a day. On this side of the road, I could pick two quarts a day. Now, which field should I work in? Certainly. You know what I mean.

L-6 But one thing about having meetings here. The American people has the money, and they're the ones that have to sponsor. Those people can't even eat over there but what... And it's just so terrible. You'd never realize what it is. Won't strike your heart until you stand in the street sometime, preaching, and seeing a little mother with her little baby, and his belly swelled up that high, dying from hunger, and trying to hand you the baby. She knows she's going to die too, starving. Well, what if you take that one? Here's one over here, and one here, and one here, and one just everywhere. See? And it's a pitiful thing.
Then you come back, and think that we rake in the garbage can enough to feed those people. And there's just something... The economics of the world is not balanced right somewhere. It's just not right. And we can't do nothing about it. You can see it, but (See?), I'm just one American. And that's--and just one Christian. And we could come back and tell the stories.
And it's truth that many missionaries tonight are eating one or two meals a week, and without shoes on their feet, just an old pair of ragged trousers or something wrapped around them, going into the jungles preaching the Gospel, this Gospel that we're preaching right here. It just isn't right, it just doesn't seem right, although they don't complain. They go right ahead doing it anyhow. Just almost breaks your heart to see. I say, "That fellow there..."
"He's a missionary."
When we Was in Durban, South Africa, that's where I had, I guess, the largest altar call the Lord ever gave me. We registered thirty thousand converts at one altar call. Just think of that. Thirty thousand blanket natives received Christ as personal Saviour when they seen taking place, just like you seen here last night. They're hungering and thirsting. And when they see something's got a reality to it... But see, we here in America, we just have all kinds of evangelists. If one don't please us, we just drop him off, get another one. And you know, we just have such a variety. And the--and the first thing you know, why, it all becomes so common to us till we just forget about it. Those people are really craving God.


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