<TITLE>05. Par 20-24</TITLE>L-20 Like Paul Rader said, when he was dying... Los Angeles. As we call death... He called his brother, Luke. He said, "Think of it, Luke. We've been a long time together, but," said, "in five minutes from now, I'll be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." Squeezed his brother's hand and went to meet Him. Oh, that makes me think of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life:"
 Lives of great men all remind us
 And we can make our lives sublime.
 With partings, leave behind us,
 Footprints on the sands of time.
 How that encourages the Christian.

L-21 I had a book; I suppose I've got it somewhere at home, of great men's last words before they left the world, both sinner and saint. I got Dwight Moody's and many the other great saints that left the world.
Moody, when death struck him, he said, "And you call this death?" He said, "This is my coronation day."
And queens... One queen of England, very wicked, said that she would give her kingdom for fifteen more minutes of life.
See, in the end of the road tells. And that's where we are, at the end of the road.

L-22 There's no certainty in national security any more, because you can't dig far enough under the earth to keep them from blowing you out. You can't--there's nothing to do. We're just at the end of the road. And we take then and some of the other things there's no certainty.
I was hearing on the newscast coming up here, that there's more jobless people now than there was during the time of--of President Hoover's depression time, more jobless people than there was during his administration and during the time of 1930, along in there. Many of us of that age, remembers it, when we'd eat little bit--bit of potatoes with little jackets on them and eat jacket and all, because just got them once in a while and have them breakfast, dinner, and supper--how hard it was. And now, because they can say that, there's almost a third more people in the United States than there was then.

L-23 And the other day, coming in Richmond, Louisville, and many places... You know, I think it's some of our leadership that brings this on, seeing on the street corner, women policemen. What business has a woman got, being a policeman, wrestling with drunks and things out there? That ought to be a man's job. And if they put some of these women back in the kitchen where they belong, men would have more jobs, there'd be more of them. But they... It's just that hour though. Jobless... No time. There's nothing left, hardly to--but the coming of the Lord to rectify all things. Jobs...
Home life is uncertain. We've never had a time when we had so many divorces in peace time, as we got now. Our home life is broke up. And years ago it used to be that--that mother and dad was home at night, if it wasn't for church times or something. And they never let their children roam the streets and run around all night long. And now days it seems to be kind of a popular opinion.

L-24 Oh, how you just go to the modern home today. Look what it is. Papa, he has to hurry down to the pool room. The boys are playing pool or they're bowling or something, him and ma. Sister's at the canteen, somewhere, or out some rock-and-roll party. Junior's got the hot rod, out seeing how many he can run down. And that's about home life.
And the Bible? Oh, it's a great Book, but It's put in a drawer somewhere until pastor comes in or somebody. And we just don't have the home life we used to have. It's a... Home life is so uncertain.


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