<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>62-0627, We Would See Jesus, National Guard Armory, Santa Maria, CA, 103 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Borders. You may be seated. Certainly deem this a great privilege to be here tonight. And I don't know whether I can pronounce the name right: Santa Maria? I guess--guess that's the way you pronounce it. And it's my first opportunity to be here in this lovely city, and enjoying the atmosphere of good fellowship and fine weather.
We come through Phoenix the other day when it was around about a hundred and eleven. When we got up here, why, I was about ready to hunt my overcoat up. Is that... This is the climate the year 'round, about like this? Somebody said it was this way practically all the time. Haven't got a empty house around here, have you, that you'd like to rent out for a while? This is just a real, fine place to live, at this kind of weather here. I...

L-2 Someone was telling me in the restaurant today, said, "Why, our hottest time of the year is around December." Said they was barbecuing something out in the backyard for Christmas. Now, if you was from my country and you'd barbecued in the backyard, you would have an overcoat on, and earmuffs, and set down on a chunk of ice somewhere to--to barbecue.
It's fine that God has so fixed this earth that we can all be happy, if we would just try to be that way: live happily, and--and be thankful to Him for what we have. I'm quite sure that one of the great faults with us, that we're not grateful enough for what we have. He has been so good to us to give us so many good things, and--and we--we just don't seem to appreciate it as much as we should.

L-3 I've had the opportunity to travel quite a bit around the world several times, and--and seeing the other nations and the people and how they--how they have to live and everything. There's an old saying, "It's great to be an American." Well, that's just a little more than a saying. That's a truth. That's really a fact; it is, to--when we can get plenty to eat, and--and at peace, and our little troubles are minor. And we're almost living in a millennium. If it--we'd just get sin out of the way I believe it would be a millennium then.
But we are happy, though, to have this nation. We don't know how much longer we'll be able to have it this a way, but we trust that it'll be until the Lord Jesus comes. This is our last great hold of civilization, that we believe. And see other nations, how they've raised and fell, and we see ours going the same route, so we--we're sad about that. But yet, we know that that only speaks that we have a city, and a nation, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that will never perish.

L-4 Not long ago I went to a tree where I used to go when I was a little boy, and it was such a beautiful big tree. It--it was what we call in the east there, middle east, a beech tree. And they're a long life tree, and very pretty when they stand out, where they're not smothered in with other trees and shaped up. And I thought, "That tree will be standing for several generations." But you know, it's just a snag now, and I remember being [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] when I was seven or eight years old. There used to be a spring below it. I used to go to drink out of that spring. The spring's even dried up. The tree's gone.

L-5 I remember the old house we used to live in. It was a log house. We had a little... Mama had a piece of looking glass, a mirror that she'd tacked up on a tree out there where we had a little wash bench. And we'd come in out of the field and wash, and had an old meal sack that mama had fixed for a towel. I don't know whether you people ever had to live like that or not. But we Kentuckians had a pretty hard time.
So and I remember she used to pull the strings out of the bottom of it and make little fringes like to hang down. And that rough towel... And when us kids would get a bath with that (whew!) and have to be rubbed, it'd just take the hide off almost.


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