<TITLE>13. Par -</TITLE>L-760-74 Now, here's what I'm doing. I have never felt that I should live in Indiana. I'm a--I'm a rambler. I don't... I'll go one place and I think, "I'll go over here and I'll settle down here. This is it." I can't do it. When I go somewhere else I think, "I'll go over here." When I do it... My wife calls me (what's that song they sing about?) "Restless Winds." You've heard it, I guess. Most all of you hear them sing... Well, that's what she calls me, "Restless Winds." About the time I get here, I think, "Boy, I just got to get home. I got to see the wife and kids. I just got to go to church once more and preach." When I get here and come down and preach once, kiss my wife and hug all the kids, get out in the yard to cut the grass, and a airplane goes over. I stop and wipe the sweat off my face and I want to go with him. Somewhere else I got to go. Well, I think I got to go down there, and I--I go down there and I preach there awhile and look around... There goes another one over; I gotta go with him. See, there's no settling down place for me. I just can't do it. I'm restless, shifting, place to place, something, I can't help it. It's something in me, and I know that I must do it.

L-760-75 Now, at the church as in its present state, I'd feel horrible to walk away from here. And think of all you men setting here that I believe I will spend an eternity with over in glory land. We got fine men, fine material, solid, sound people. Just recently, there was a revival broke out in the church here amongst the people. The Spirit come among them and begin to give gifts. I watched it to see if it'd go off into fanaticism. Every time they'd start moving that way, the Spirit check it and bring it back here. I thought, "Praise the Lord." See? You just hold your place there; that's fine. See?
Now, what my thoughts is, is this. Is... If it could be possible that when I start going somewhere, I don't know where I'm going. But I can't set still; I ain't going to stay here. I just can't do it. I got to move somewhere. And I'll probably won't stay there but a few days and be moving somewhere else. I gotta go somewhere; I don't know where I'm going. Neither did Abraham know where he was going. He just crossed the river and started off. That's all.

L-761-77 I feel that what we ought to do here in this present time... I believe that we need a church. I think--I think the house of God... You say, "Well, what, putting all that money in it if the Lord is going to come?" Well, what good is it going to do to keep the money if the Lord comes? See? And if the people done--designated the money for the church, it's our duty (with a hundred percent vote here that I took that night) to build a church; so build it. I'd say build it. Yes, sir.
I've never expressed this before, but I want to do it before you men. Didn't want the women here, 'cause one leans this way and that way. Now, I'm trying to tell you the reason I want to do it. I think if the Lord's coming next week, let's start the church this week. Certainly, let's show Him. Let's stand at our post of duty. Yes, sir.

L-761-79 And then if we a--when the church is built up, why? Say if He's--what if He is ten years from now? What if He is twenty years? Or what if He is a hundred years? Whatever it is, when He comes, that matters not. We know He'll be coming for us before that time, because we can't live it out--a hundred years more. He'll be coming for us, but we've got to leave partings behind us. And I thought this, why not then let the church board here (speaking to them now) build that church? Put it up here, make it nice, and a nice place where the people can come.
I'd suggest Brother Neville be the pastor of the church, as long as the church suggests him being pastor; that's the vote of the church. As long as he holds the post of duty, and stays with the faith, and wants to come, feels the leading of the Lord, then the leading of the Lord for him to stay if the congregation votes the same.


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