<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 My sponsors, how I appreciate them men. Only God alone knows how I appreciate them. Of course they understand that I know what they've gone through. I pray for them. And not only now, but I'll constantly pray for them. They've went through a great battle. Men that will do that to bring in something that they believe to be of God to encourage their people and church, I got respects for them. They belong to probably different organizations. Maybe some belong to the Assemblies of God, some the Church of God, and some the independents, and some, oh, one thing and another. But we are together. We are brothers.

L-6 I've got some children. When I go to get ice cream for them kids, I tell you; one says, "Bring me a vanilla."
Other one said, "Bring me a chocolate."
Other one said, "Bring me strawberry."
When I come back, I look like I got the rainbow, when I see all the different colors. But you know what? They're all my children. They're all eating ice cream. The taste doesn't matter. You know what I mean, don't you, brethren? The taste doesn't count. We're eating ice cream. We believe the same God, the same experience. And you know, after all, rainbow's a covenant. That's right.
So we have covenant in our hearts to be brethren, working together to the Kingdom of God, and to the glory of God. Long may you wave that banner of His glory, brethren. May God ever be with you. When the hours are dark and hard, I'll be praying for you, and you be praying for me: still seining, until we meet at the other side.

L-7 Our little chairman brother there, I thought... When I first heard his name, I said, "He must be Italian." Come to find out, he's a Russian. And when I was up in Finland and having a meeting, I was right on the Russian border. Now, listen, when people tell you... Not saying that about this precious brother here. You know what he is--he lives here with you. But everybody tells you, and we hear a lot of propaganda, that Russia's all communist, and you go in there...
Don't you believe that nonsense. There's millions of Christians in Russia. Why, you know what? Russia, there's only one percent of Russia in the whole that's communist. That's government statistics: one percent. What Russia needs is a revival. They need men of God to stand out with something real.

L-8 When that little boy was raised from the dead in Finland (which was told two years before here, he was going to raise from the dead), when that little boy was raised from the dead... And they was taking me into--to Helsinki, going down through there. And they had... I've always... Only auditorium I was ever in before, since then, that's got the alphabet, only they seated about, I think, twenty-five, thirty thousand. And they'd let one group come in, let me speak to them, then turn them all out, and bring another group, fresh group in.
When I was coming down the--the way, I noticed little Finnish soldiers. It was right after the war that they'd had with Russia, and they'd certainly got... A lot of their men was killed off. And them little boys, some of them so young they'd never shaved--slick-faced. Them great big old boots on, them big old knives hanging and--on their side, they come down the street; and they'd have me in between them.
When I passed down there, the communist soldiers (Now, I don't have to take anybody's word for this--I was there), the communist soldiers, when I passed by them, would stand there with that Russian salute, tears rolling down their cheeks. They said, "We'll receive a God like that, that can raise the dead." It went all through Russia.


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