<TITLE>02. Par -</TITLE>L-2-2 Oh isn't it wonderful to serve the Lord? I don't know what I would do if I wasn't a Christian. It's just so good to be a Christian; I just feel like just jumping up and down screaming to the top of my voice. To be a Christian, think of it: all anchored away in Christ.
I know I call this man's name wrong each time. It's either "S. T.," or "T. S.," (or something like that) Sumner--Brother Sumner. I want to thank him and his precious little wife. I think that she spent about, it looked like about six months on typing out this Seven Church Ages. And now, we got it back here typed out, ready for proofing, and going into book form: the Seven Church Ages. Sister Sumner, wherever you are, surely you'll let us pay you for that. That--that took a lot of work. Why, it's that thick. It would take me about six months to read through it, let alone have to take it off of tape, and then turn it around, and take the repeats out, and make it into a book. We'll get it ready and send it to press right away, for we think it's a thing that the people should have ahold of right now, and you can study it. And Billy was just showing me, when I come in back there a few minutes ago, that--that--that it was--it was ready now to go to the printer. So Sister, the Tabernacle will pay you for that. I don't expect you to do that for nothing. And--and--or either we... If we get the book and have to make a price on it, or something, we'll put a price where you get something whenever they sell it, whatever it is. You just talk to the Board, the Trustee Board, or some of them in there, and they'll take care of it for you. Lord bless you real good.

L-3-1 Little old Brother and Sister Kidd setting here, somewhat under a hundred (just a little bit). And I met her awhile ago, and she said, "Well, this will probably be the last time I get to see you, Brother Billy." She said, "I'm getting so old."
I said, "Oh, my. I don't want to hear you say that." You're just like a little old mother and dad. We love Brother and Sister Kidd, don't we? Everyone do. And it just--it does something to me when I see them walking to church, and a little old couple like that. And just think, they were preaching the Gospel before I was born, and I'm an old man. Yes, just think; they were preaching before I was born. And here I am now. I get to thinking, "I'm getting so old"; and just about thinking about ready to give up; I see Brother and Sister Kidd come in: "Glory to God, hallelujah."
I say, "No, I feel fine." Yes, sir, to see them, how they can--how they really inspire you. Then you realize that nearly my age again, and then still going on the field. Come down this morning and asked for books--if they could take books and sell them; wanted tapes so they could go out and win souls by playing these tapes--at nearly a hundred years old. Now, where's your two wings we was talking about last night? Yes, I begin to think about, "Where's mine?" when...?... Yes, sir. How old are you, Sister Kidd? Eighty-one. How old are you, Brother Kidd? Eighty-one and eighty-two years old, and still using their wings in action, still going.


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