<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Such a lovely little church. And I bring you greetings from all the household of God up in the middle east, where I'm from. And so, we know that you're doing real well out here. We hear from you. And glad to see Brother Norman setting over here tonight from Tucson.
And I have some people... I'm looking over this little bitty audience here and seeing people from up in Ohio, Brother and Sister Dauch setting here. And I believe here's the people from Iowa setting right back behind us here, and--and different ones. They just come from the east and west, don't they? everywhere, flowing in together. So we're happy to be here.
And now, we're looking forward for the nights that's scheduled for us to speak at the different churches. I think tomorrow night we're be up in Tempe, was it? Tempe. And then the next night, I think, at Brother Outlaws'; that's the--the--20th and Roosevelt Street; then different ones.

L-6 And the... if you brethren are here that I had to miss those two nights, I'm sorry about that. But the Lord will give us a little special blessing on those Sunday mornings that we're to make it up. So it's kind of a full schedule, but by God's grace we'll--we'll make it.
And then, expecting a great time in this convention coming, this, the Business Men's convention. So happy for the opportunity, maybe get to meet all of those brothers, and shake their hands and... It's--it's something to meet friends, and we--we... There's nothing like friends.

L-7 I'm going to quote something that I did to the pastor this afternoon. Oswald J. Smith (He's a great missionary-minded man.), he was speaking some time ago in Louisville, Kentucky, to a friend of mine, Dr. Wallace Cauble. And he said to Brother Cauble, he said, "Brother Cauble, I--I believe that when a man first gets married," he said, "and his wife is young and she's beautiful and everything," said, "You know, if she happens to go bad, and fly the coop, as we call it, run away, kick over the trace, or whatever you know, get out and do wrong," said, "if you have to leave her, or something," said, "it's bad. But it isn't..."
Said, "You can... You're young and you can look around, maybe, and find another one that will be right." said, "Then after you live with her long enough till the children comes on," said, "it's awful hard if she does it then, you know." Said, "You really begin to realize you need her." Said, "When you get to about fifty," said, "then you just can't hardly do without her." Said, "Then, when you get seventy, you sure can't do without her."

L-8 I happened to think, kinda put a little spiritual interpretation to that. When I was a young minister, every man that made a mistake, he was out of the picture. He couldn't even run in the race. That's all. If he wasn't a Baptist, he just was out of the picture; that's all. See? He just had to see the things I saw, or the man was altogether wrong.
And then after I got a little bit older, I begin to realize that, you know, the blanket kinda stretched a little. I seen where he had to--what he had to go through with--a lot of toils, a pastor of a church, and the heartaches that goes with it. I realized that this blanket spreads a little over him too, you know, to kind of keep him from getting cold. And now, as we come on down to about where I am now, I--I--I tell you; we need one another so bad, we just can't hardly do without one another. That's all there is to it.
And as we see the days getting evil, and things the way they are, why, I think it's good that we come together and fellowship together. And I just long to get with the brethren, and talk to them, and so forth--all the different churches and--and brotherhood. I love that. See? It's something about it that's real.


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