<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>62-0513E, Letting Off The Pressure, Gospel Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 73 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Ruddell. I am so happy to know I got a son in the Gospel. Yeah? Well, fine; that's good. Yes, I certainly appreciate Brother Ruddell. And I--I believe Paul once had a son called Timothy. He called him his son in the Gospel.
And if I'm not sure, is this Flossy Ford, used to be? My goodness. Flossy, I... Been a long time. Yes, it has. I remember when I was a boy; her brother Lloyd and I used to run around together. And she used to bake big cakes, you know, and we'd come in up there and eat till we was just about sick. You know.

L-3 I remember one time they ask me come up, Lloyd did, and we... Flossy had baked... She was just a kid then. She baked a big cake, and--and we just eat till we couldn't eat. And I thought, "Now, I'm going to stay all night with Lloyd. Kinda got to getting dark, you know, and I--I made out I just had to go home then. So I--I took off and run down the road and scared to death trying to go home.
And now, I remember her father. Is your mother's still living, I suppose? Well, that's fine. And been a lot of water went down that river since them days. Yes. Here we are now both middle-aged people, grandparents, and... Well, but there's a land where we'll never grow old. See? I'm so glad to know, Flossy, that you're looking for that land and assurance of finding it.
And Jim, how is Jim, is he... Yes, I remember that. Jim, that's her husband, and I remember him well. And I knowed a few of the children; we kinda... By that time I'd got on the field when they were married and their children growing up. And we kinda got away, you know, from one another.
I see Brother Lloyd once in a while, holler at him down on the street. They cooked me a many a meal, and I've--like a real brother and sister.

L-7 Now, I'm so glad to see that Brother Ruddell's first push was here in this place to convert--starting out converting a roadhouse into the house of the Lord. That's very fine.
And of course, you know, if sometimes if you can foresee anything, you know... And--and then that makes it better. So we could foresee there was something in this boy. And he was bashful; his dad and I there used to work together years ago. And I knowed his daddy was a up-and-at-it and a go-getter, so why shouldn't that be in the boy? I knowed he had a darling mother. So he was--he was sired right, so there had to be something good behind him. You see? And that longing in his heart to serve the Lord... When the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to that call. And I'm so glad to see Brother Ruddell going on.

L-9 This wonderful bunch of people up here... And it's a grand privilege to me tonight to come up here and to speak to this bunch of saints that are sojourning here. We are not... This is not our abiding place, you know. We're pilgrims. We're--we are--we're not at home.
And I remember, Sister Ruddell, how you'd come with him and set there. And he'd hold his head down. And you had a lot of confidence. They sure did; she believed he'd--he'd preach the Gospel. And so with a good wife like that, and a father and mother and all praying for him, something had to happen, Brother Ruddell. So here it is. And I pray, Brother Ruddell, that this will just be a--a standing place for you, where you can spring to the highest of heights for the glory of the Gospel.

L-11 I know that Brother and Sister Ruddell, Max there, would be real happy about it tonight. How I'd like to see Billy Paul stand in the pulpit. And I hope to live someday to see Joseph standing in the pulpit. And that's mighty fine.
Our toil's and troubles then that we have raising young children through the teenage and things, that makes us feel fine then. Look back and see the gray in your daddy's hair and things, you remember, some of your--some of your wrong doings put them there. And that--that's right.


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