<TITLE>04. Par 15-19</TITLE>L-15 Scenes change, and we notice people change. It's got so that people today are not friendly like they used to be. I don't know whether you notice it out here or not, but we sure notice it back in the south and east. People are changing year by year. They're too much of a hurry. They've just got to hurry up and get this done, and run down the road ninety miles an hour bumper-to-bumper, and stop in a beer joint and drink a couple of hours 'fore they go home. It's change. In a hurry, where they going?

L-16 You notice most of the women today has wash machines, and electric ironers, and push button dishwashers, and everything like that; and yet they got less time to pray than they ever had. You know, Susanna Wesley had seventeen children. And she--with them seventeen children, packing the water from a spring, and washing on her hands, and yet she could find two or three hours a day to pray with her children, with seventeen little fellows. And out of there come a John and a Charles.
That's what's the matter today, reason our schools are letting down, no ministers coming in, young men interested. We have... need some more praying fathers and mothers is what we need to make our schools fill up. Young men's hearts burning with zeal to take the Gospel is what we need. But things are changing.

L-17 We could go a little farther to people and bring it in the church. Church is changing. We find it that our churches are changing. We are really more or less (I'm talking universally now) that we are more--seem to be more interested in getting numbers than we are getting people saved. Just looks like that everybody wants to get the biggest number, or have the biggest church, or the biggest building, or make the biggest denomination or--or something, instead of thinking of the poor lost souls. That's too bad, but there's too many of us doing that.

L-18 I heard the noted evangelist, Brother Billy Graham, when he was at Louisville, Kentucky. I was invited with Dr. Mordecai Hamm, a personal friend of mine that Billy was saved under his preaching. And I was invited to set at the breakfast with them. And Mr. Graham, in his forceful speaking, said, "I go into a city, and I'll have--stay there six weeks." Said, "I'll have maybe twenty thousand people that'll make their--their confession." And said, "I'll get all their tickets, and so forth, and give them to the ministers." And said, "Then another year coming back," said, "I'll go around. And where I had twenty thousand converts when I was there that year, the next year I can't even find twenty." Said, "What's the matter?" and he...

L-19 I would differ just a little bit. Not to be different with that great evangelist, Mr. Graham, certainly not. But the way that he approached it by saying, "What's the matter?" and he pointed his finger out and said, "Too many lazy preachers," he said, "set around with your feet on the desk of a daytime, and night, and don't take these cards and follow up."
He said, "When Paul was here, he went into a city and had one convert; and come back the next year, he had thirty or forty by that one. He had great-great-great-great-grandchildren over it. You see?" And he said, "And I have thirty thousand, and come back or twenty thousand, and come back and can't find twenty."


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