<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 I wish I could say I'd come to you any time. I would like to say that, but I can't. There's too many. Just this little meeting here, which is just a little small group of people, now think the world over: millions. See, I couldn't justly say that. But I'll do this, friend. I'll do everything I can. If you--if you want me to pray over a handkerchief like this here, send it to you; if you don't need it now, and you want it anyhow, you send, get it. There's no charges on nothing. We don't charge for anything. There's no charges for services, even to our books. Them's not my books. They belong to different people that wrote those books. I buy them at forty percent less. I give my book agents and them the say so at the door: if a man, woman, boy, or girl comes in, wants one of them books, and hasn't got the money to pay for it, give it to him anyhow. And we always lose on the books. There's no way of making even ends break. And the pictures of the Angel of the Lord, that doesn't belong to me, that belongs to the Douglas Studios, and it's copyrighted and could not be reproduced, 'cause you'd be breaking the rights to the copyright.
So they--they're not ours. And we just bring them along, because we think it would help somebody. And buying them books at forty percent less, and maybe lose ten or fifteen percent, 'fore you get it to you; then you got to pay for these boys to sell these. The church gives them so much a week. And by the way, it isn't mine; it's the Tabernacle takes care of that.

L-5 And everything that we do is free of charge. Now, I'm not trying to get your address. I don't... As I say, I've got... Well, my secretary, he does my work. I don't know whether... Are you here, Jim, today? I don't know whether he got over or not. His father-in-law's here, I think, and his mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sothmann. They're here; his wife is--answers the phone; Brother Jim does the typing.
Brother Leo Mercier does the field work. He was here just a moment of ago, his associate here. They... These boys work for the Branham Tabernacle, which I'm associated with, which is a independent sovereign church, chartered at Jeffersonville in Clark County. And it's a nonprofit foundation, and the money that comes into the church and so forth, is--goes into the foreign fields to sponsor poor people who doesn't have the money to send for me to come over there, but yet they need me real bad. And I take that money, as soon as they get enough built up and go over to the foreign fields to preach to those this same Gospel that you have a privilege of seeing. And therefore, I know as a steward of His money, I'm going to have to answer for it at the day of the judgment. And I take it myself as long as I'm young enough to go, and can go, I want to go and be sure that I preach and bring them the message that you donated for them to hear. The credit will all be yours at that day. I'm just His servant to pack the message.

L-6 I suppose, as the boys, one said awhile ago, they taken love offering for me. That wasn't necessary. I didn't come for that. I've been preaching thirty-one years. I pastored a Baptist Tabernacle for seventeen years. Go look at the books, I never... Ask anybody across the nation anywhere; I never took a offering in all my life. I never in all my life.
One time while pastoring the Tabernacle, we as poor people, we run a little short in money. We all know what that is, don't you? We just had some debts we had to meet, wife and I. Billy was quite small then. And I--I said, "You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take up an offering tonight." That was the closest that I ever come doing it.
And an old brother that's in glory today, Brother Wisehart... We didn't have an offering plate, used to put it in the--in the papers in the city: "The church which has no offering plate."


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