<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 So then... And tonight I will try to make our little talks a little more shorter, you know, so I can just... And Brother Borders speaks a little bit before I do, and--and come in. I'll try to make my speech... As they're little talks, just juvenile to you brethren. And--and if you would think it that, 'course anything I could say would probably be juvenile to you. But you all are teachers, and I'm not a teacher. And I'm... But my purpose is to try to help the Kingdom of God, try to strengthen your churches, and strengthen brotherhood among men, as we're waiting for the coming of the Lord. And I'm sure you'll understand that.
And now, this here, Los Angeles, as I've noticed this morning... And met my... some of my friends here: Brother Sothmann there from Jeffersonville, and originally a Canadian; and Brother Tom is also a Canadian, that's sojourning with us in Jeffersonville at this time; and--and Brother Welch Evans there from Tifton, Georgia, also a sojourner with us, driving fifteen hundred miles every Sunday to--for to hear me preach the Gospel. Now, and there's Brother Norman and Sister Norman, and Sister Evans, and Brother Willie. I can't never think... Little group setting in a little huddle there that's come out here with us, and to pray with us, and to strengthen as we go on in for the service. Glad to have them with us in the meetings.

L-9 Now, in setting this meeting up, I--I looked, and we had a book of meetings--just people. And the difficult that we're having now between the denominational brethren, and many of them, they... the denominational brethren as you all are... Yet, I'd like to, over this pulpit this morning, express my view. See? You know yourselves, brethren, among your people you can say something this way, and one will take it this way and start leaning it this way. And he will tell it to the next one, and the next one to the next one. The first thing you know, it's altogether out of cater. And one will lean it this way, and take it the other way. You know that.
And I'm sure that you brethren understand that that's the way a lot of things are said about me, that it's just taken by some and misunderstood, and just led off. It's not the meaning at all.

L-10 As far as being against the denomination, certainly not. My brethren are there. It's just like, there's too many people today depending on the denomination. Now, we got a brother setting here from the United Brethren church, and different places. It's... Them denominations are all right, as long as you stretch the cover a little bit further over, and can open up the gate, and drink at the third well (you know what mean) that Jacob dug, and--and can have a fellowship.
But when you come, just as long as you belong to the denomination that's all you have to do; no, there's a lot more than that to it, brethren. And that's where the whole world has always... and you... We have setting here with us this morning a fine historian, and we know that churches as soon as they draw that line, denomination, "We are it," right there God leaves them, and they die and never revive again. See? There's no history of where ever a church ever fell, and ever rose again. It doesn't. And because...


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