<TITLE>02. Par 7-14</TITLE>L-7 So we're trying to eliminate that now by building a bigger Tabernacle. And we'll have a nice place where the children, sometime that interrupt, like little children crying; well, we're going to have a room for that, so the mothers can go in, still see the service, and be broadcast right into the room, and have Sunday school rooms and everything just lined out the way it should be. And that, if the Lord willing, takes place, coming this coming week.

L-8 You all voted a hundred percent on it, so we've held right to that. See? The church is sovereign. What the church says, that's what... Trustees or nobody else... The trustees is just, each one, a vote. The pastor is just one vote. It's the church, that it's--it's the democracy of the church, the sovereignty of the church. The church in whole, speaks. That's all. And we like that, because we have no bishops, or hierarchies, or overseers, or so forth to tell us this, that, or the other. It's the Holy Spirit in the church, does the speaking; I like that rule, and it's very fine.

L-9 And I asked, "Did you all want to wait till we got enough to move the Tabernacle away and build a big church?" That was on the trustee board, and it could not be settled by the trustees. And then they asked me, as the general overseer, to come and ask the church. So I said, "Now, we have enough money to increase the size of the church and fix it all different, and everything, and what we had." I said, "Now, we can do that right away, or save our money till we get enough to put the complete church up, new, some place else."
And we took a vote on it in the church, and it was unanimously voted for to put the church up right now, and it's just build a bigger church right now. And we've stayed right with that.

L-11 And the board here in Jeffersonville turned us down, said we couldn't do it. And we went over that, and went to Indianapolis and got the State onto it. And then they sent back the word, that, "go ahead," we have the right of way to build it. So then the city has nothing to do with it now; it's the State has to do it. So then we have the permission, and the contractor has the--the permit in his hand right now, and I guess they're ready to start at any time.
This tomorrow night, if the--if the contractor says that he wants to start next week, then I'll just omit the meetings for the... until we come into The Seven Seals. And then if the contractor can't start next week, then the following Sunday, Saturday and Sunday, I'll have the meeting before leaving.
And then I was going to have it this Sunday, and then found out tonight being Communion night, so I omitted it this Sunday. Because such a crowd, you can't take Communion comfortably, and then when we have the bigger church we can.

L-14 Now, we got an oncoming President. The... Oh, you know what I mean, it was just delivered to the Hickerson family not long ago. And if the--our sister who's the pianist, if she'll come and give us a little chord on the piano, of "Bring Them In," if you will, or some little song of that type... This fine little gentlemen in the Hickerson family, that's been looked for for so long, has arrived, a very fine little fellow, and he sure is a jewel to the Hickersons. And they're all jewels to us; we love them and they're really our brother and sister. We're thankful to have this little one born into their family, which has absolutely revolutionized the family. And if they, father and mother will bring this little fellow now for dedication... Now, the Scripture says they brought unto Him children, infants, that He might lay His hand on them and bless them.


<A HREF="P3">Next Page</A>