<TITLE>03. Par 9-14</TITLE>L-9 We hear so much lately about conferences. There's been so many of them, and there's so many conferences being held across the nation, around the world. I was at Visalia, Illinois, a few weeks ago--or Visalia, California--a few weeks ago, and we had the armory building, something about like this or a little larger.

L-10 And the first afternoon there was so many people piled into it. Before it got dark they had turned away around... many hundreds. And the next night there was nearly two thousand, so we couldn't stay there any longer. We went up to the fair grounds of the neighboring city. By three o'clock that afternoon there was so many in there, they had to close the gates and not let them in after three o'clock in the afternoon. So, just piling in.

L-11 And they're planning now on making a great building at another neighboring city for a great gathering--a municipal auditorium. And I forget how many million dollars it cost, way up I'd say, maybe, twenty-five, thirty million dollars. And they said, or announced it on the radio and in the papers, that within two years' time they would more than pay for the building by just conferences. And being that they was going to have this great place, that many great clubs, and so forth, that holds their conferences, and lodges and things, were... would already trying to book it up for years ahead, bringing the money to the city of the people that comes into the city for these conferences and, and meetings and so forth.

L-12 We find out there's a lot of getting together in these last days, more than there used to be. And I think it's time that God's people begin to get together more. "Come, let us reason together," saith God. See, I think it's time that the churches got together, our little differences got tore down, and our... we got together with... being one. Jesus prayed that we might be one. "this will all men know that you're My disciples, when you have love, one for the other." And it's time, I think, in this time that we should be assembling ourselves together and becoming more one, for we are not divided. We have different ideas, just like our thumb prints are not alike, and, and our appetites, perhaps, would not be the same; but yet, in principle we are human beings. And that's the was it is in Christianity. Our differences of our organizations; yet one. We are one because we're children of God, born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

L-13 And that's why we're here tonight, is in a conference. This is conferences where we get together. We've had them in the nation, national. Here in the last world war, many of you people my age and quite a bit younger, can remember the second world war, when they had the conferences.
We wonder what conferences are... what are they for, anyhow? It's for them to take the most intelligent of the group and to come together and try to work out some strategy to do something. They're usually held... In a time of crisis is when they call conferences together, in a time of crisis. Be a wonderful time to have one in the universal church of the living God, wouldn't it, on account of the crisis that we're facing: communism and all the things, the isms of the world. The church is cooling off. And it's time for us to come together and reason, get together on these things.

L-14 Now, they called one of the conferences of the world conferences, the Big Four. Many of you remember that, when the Big Four powers met together. Our own beloved Dwight Eisenhower, our president, and then also Churchill, and the other big powers of the world called the Big Four Conference. There was a crisis on. The nations were... This--a--the--a peace-loving nations was in a time of crisis, when Hitler and the Nazis and... were all just about to smother out the--the world. And the peace-loving, God-fearing people, and our great heritage, was at stake. Therefore they come together for a conference.


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