<TITLE>03. Par 21-31</TITLE>L-21 We're thankful for our trustees. We're thankful for our deacons. We're thankful for our congregation. And we're thankful for our pastor. We're thankful for every gift that He's given into the church. And we pray that He'll give these men understanding, that they'll never get off on the wrong side but stay right straight in the middle of the road with it, never be exalted or anything; whenever you do, you're finished right there. You see? Just stay humble with it.
And see, now, then people coming in sick and afflicted, to be prayed for while I'm resting now for maybe a year or two, then God has provided a way to take care of it while I am resting awhile. See? Oh, isn't that grateful? It ought... Shouldn't we be grateful for that? God never leaves Hisself without a witness, and so we're so happy for that.

L-23 Now, this next week, the Lord willing, I aim to take my little girls that's just got out of school on their little school vacation, so I pray that you'll pray for us. My oldest daughter, in high school, she wants to see where Paul Revere made his midnight ride, where he left the church there. And we was... It's right up here in New England and we want to go up and see that. 
Then I've always wanted to see Old Ironsides. How many ever heard of the Old Ironsides poetry? It's my favorite of all that I know, outside of Christian, that's my best. I just... I start to read it, and I choke up, and set down, walk around, go back. How could you sink it after... It's just like taking a horse and killing him after he's made a living for you and your family. I just--I just can't see that. "So I think sink her..." No, don't do that. When the British cannonballs hit against it and bounced off its old oak sides, I--I couldn't see you take it out and sink her.
Give her to the gods of the storm,
The lightning and the gale! (I really like that.)

L-25 And then we want to come down and... Mr. Kennedy hasn't invited us, but we do want to see his White House while we're there. They... I've been in it several times, but the kiddies wants to see it. Then we be back home, the Lord willing. So you pray for us.
And we're praying for all of our loved ones here who are on vacation, many of them taking their trips to different places. And some of them are gone this morning, down in Kentucky, and Tennessee, and different places. So we pray for them.

L-27 Now, there was something else I was going to make an announcement about. Oh, yes, the baptismal service is immediately after this service. And then--then I believe there's a dedication of babies, the brother was telling me about it, a dedication of babies. And so many things that we have to... What say? [Someone asks Brother Branham about the evening service--Ed.] Well, I don't feel to taking both services. You see, I take one, and Brother Neville takes the other. And I can't... It isn't... When there's two of us here, why work one of us down? Isn't that right, Brother Neville? That--that's exactly right.
And then, Doc told me to tell you all to remember them--your pledges on the Tabernacle, that--that the--the church that they're figuring on building as soon as they can get enough appropriated together for the church.
And so I--I had... Seemed to me like there was something, must have been when you told me about that, the babies dedication. That's what it was. And we'll have that immediately after the finish with this service now.
Now, is this to be prayed over, cloths, I suppose? All right, sir. We will do that together, and then...

L-31 Now, before we approach the Word... How many enjoys the Word? Oh, my, living on the mountain... You notice, you--you could see from last Sunday what it means to do it God's way. See? When I seen that was a spirit that had got among those precious brethren, there's no way for a natural man to take that away. So the only thing we had to do was dedicate it, or turn it over to the Lord, and a few hours it was all finished.


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