<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0607, Putting On The Whole Armor Of God, Bible Tabernacle, Southern Pines, NC, 126 min
L-1 Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You may be seated, friends. Thank you, Brother Vayle. That's not worthy of a little introduction like that. But I sure appreciate them fine words. I'd have to live a big life to live to that. And so, I'm happy to be here tonight in Southern Pines, North Carolina. I always get that mixed up. If it's North Carolina...
[Someone mentions, "Aberdeen"--Ed.] What say? Aberdeen, Aberdeen. When I get that Southern Pines it seems to me like it ought to be in South Carolina. But it's Southern Pines in North Carolina. I get it all mixed up. I'm just glad to be here though, and to have this time of fellowship with my precious friends, Brother Parker, Brother Lee Vayle, oh, all of them, and all those that are sojourning here, waiting for the coming of the Lord. And I've...

L-2 I really didn't know Brother Parker as well as I wanted to. One day I was reading an article in a magazine, and I said, "Thomas Parker. I ought to know that name." And just a little while, oh, I'd say a day or so, Brother Lee Vayle come in, said, "Why, you know who that is. That's our friend up there." And so we tried to get him on the phone, and I wanted to thank him for a comment that he'd passed in the magazine. And so then, that's how we come to get connected for me to be here tonight to help him in this convention.

L-3 So glad to be here, Brother Thomas, and meet all these fine friends, and everybody again, and to have a time of fellowship. But you can imagine how I feel to stand here tonight to speak a Bible message, and men like that setting behind me.
Really, I feel something... Maybe I better do like Dwight Moody... They said he did when he was in England. He was speaking one night before the Cockneys, who really pronounce their words real right. And Mr. Moody didn't have education, so he tried to read a Scripture, and he mispronounced three or four words; and he went back and tried it again and mispronounced it worse than ever. So he just closed the Bible, and looked up towards heaven, and said, "God, help me." And he shook the country. So that's it--that's it. Just look to Him. That's what we have to do.

L-4 And the convention, I guess it's all been announced. It's going on up here at the Tabernacle, the Bible Tabernacle, I believe it's called. And I'm sure if you'll go up there, friends, you'll certainly hear something. I've read many articles, but Brother Thomas happens to be among one of the great writers, I think of the day, his hold on the Word of God. And then, I'm sure it'll do you good to go there.
I'm... May look a little butchered up tonight in the face, and my eyes. I guess you've already heard that I was shooting a rifle about four weeks ago, and... My recreation was always fishing, hunting, or--or something, and like that, the outdoors. I never did play golf, or ball, or horse racing, anything. I just love the outdoors. And I loved it so well...


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