<TITLE>03. Par 23-28</TITLE>L-23 I noticed, coming up, the last couple days, coming from the hospital, there's a tent erected down here on the--on the Pennsylvania Railroad lot. It's just between, I believe, between 9th and 10th Street, down here off of Spring, coming up, there's a said, "Sign gift ministry." I don't know the brother. I don't know as I ever met him. But he's a brother, and he's here in the city holding a meeting. And I know what it means to go into a city, and perhaps a city of this size, and with no--somebody holding back. I do not know him. And he's never asked me to say this. But I--I believe it would be real nice if all you people, wanting somewhere to go, if you'd go down and hear our brother preach the Gospel. He's got to be one of Christ's children, or he wouldn't be out putting up his tent in this cool September weather, trying to do something for our Lord. So this week, visit our brother down there and listen to him preach.
And now, I think that was all the announcements, that which I had to speak about.

L-25 But I certainly want to say this one thing. I appreciate your all's stand. Weather like this, and times like this, and you come to the little old church and hang here. What would I do without you? What could we do without each other? This is the hour to stick together.
Oh, they'll come from the East and West,
They'll come from the lands afar.
I wanted Meda and Mabel to sing that for me this morning. But, of course, they couldn't do it in this hour. That was the song they sang to me when I started off on my evangelistic tours about fifteen years ago. You've heard the song.
To feast with our King, to dine as His guest;
How blessed these pilgrims are!
Beholding His hallowed face
Aglow with love Divine;
Blest partakers of His grace,
As gems in His crown to shine.

L-27 Now, this morning I had to hurry right out. And now, mother had rallied. She'd just about suffocated. She wasn't breathing hardly any more when they called me. But somehow she rallied up again and begin to breathe again. She doesn't know. But He kept her alive while I was preaching, kept her awhile. And I'm trusting He'll do it now while I'm here tonight. Now, thank you very kindly for your prayers.

L-28 And now, let us just bow our heads just a moment as we pray. While we have our heads bowed, I want to ask you a real solemn question. And I hope that you do not get offended at me asking this; but knowing, as I do know now, I mean this to the young and old. You young girls, you have to come someday where mother's laying tonight, you young men, all of us know that we have to come to that place. And if you're not positive sure that you are ready to meet God, would you just raise up your hands, while nobody's looking, to God and say, "God, remember me." God bless you. God bless you, everywhere. "Remember me, O God; I've got to come down there where maybe I'll be unconscious too. But I want to be sure before I go, and while I'm in my right mind, that my soul is destined to God. 'And I shall walk through the valley of the shadow of death; I'll fear no evil, for Thou art with me.'"


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