<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>62-0630E, The Meanest Man In Santa Maria, National Guard Armory, Santa Maria, CA, 96 min
L-1 Thank...?... Let us remain standing just a moment now for prayer. And I see many of you are bringing up handkerchiefs to be prayed over. Now, we--we believe in that. Some of the greatest things that we have to happen in these days is the international ministry of praying over handkerchiefs. Great things take place, and we're so happy for it. We're always glad to do anything that we can to help others. I want everyone to bow with me now, and we'll offer prayer.

L-2 Our heavenly Father, we are happy tonight to be alive, and to be here in the service of our God with this blessed assurance of knowing, that when this life is over here we enter into the great life beyond, where all of our expectations rest. And while we're in this journey, Lord, sickness, troubles, heartaches lays all along the road. And there's many are suffering with these things in this day that we're living in, in the shadows of the coming of the Lord. We know that the enemy is going about like a roaring lion, devouring what he can, for he knows his time is short.
And now, many people has brought up their handkerchiefs and laid here for their loved ones. No doubt, out across the desert there somewhere is an old blind daddy and mother, waiting tonight for a handkerchief to return. Maybe in the hospital is a loved one real sick, precious little baby at home. And You know every one of them, Lord. And I'm sure that You'll grant to them their request as I just lay my hands upon them, Lord, in the representative way of the Name of Jesus Christ.

L-3 And we believe that it was written in the Scripture that they taken from the body of Saint Paul handkerchiefs or aprons. And it was tokens of their faith in that apostle. He's come on long years ago and is immortal tonight. But the Spirit of God remains the same for those who believe the same. And I pray that You'll grant every request.
Give us a great service tonight, Lord. May Your Presence continue to be with us. Give to us the desires of our hearts, and we trust it'll be all in Your Divine will to do this. In Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen. May be seated.

L-4 Such a wonderful time of fellowship this morning in the--the breakfast, the ministerial breakfast. I got acquainted with many of the brethren that I never knew before, and come to find out, our chairman here was a Arkie.
And they told me if you take all the Arkies and Okies out of California, you haven't got nothing left but a desert, so that... So I kinda believe that... How many here's from Arkansas or Oklahoma one? I--I sure think that's right. Well, I think some of the truest old hearts that ever beats is under them old Arkansas shirts, and Okie's.
I kind of hold a little to Oklahoma. My mother used to live in Oklahoma, Tulsa, when she was a girl. And Arkansas was when I first got started in the meetings was down at Jonesboro, and Moark, and Texarkana, down to Robinson Memorial Auditorium at--at Little Rock, up to Hot Springs, and, oh, many of those places through there: Oklahoma City, Tulsa; and some of the finest people.

L-5 I remember when we went to Jonesboro. Was one of my first great meetings after leaving St. Louis, and the little Daugherty girl was healed, which stirred the whole St. Louis. There we had tens of thousands of people gathered.
Went to Arkansas, and was the first time on a broadcast, that I ever was on a broadcast. And the paper stated, I believe, there was twenty-eight thousand people attending the meeting. They were from all over the country. For forty miles around, you couldn't hardly get a place, but what had tents and everything setting, people with their children laying under old cotton trucks, and holding pieces of cloth over them while it was raining.


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