<TITLE>02. Par 9-19</TITLE>L-9   Now, you know, when God came to the earth, when He was brooding over the earth at the beginning, and maybe the first thing did come up was a--a polliwog, as the scientists try to say. Next thing might have been something... I believe in true Christian evolution, but I don't believe it all come from a single cell. I believe it just... God made a polliwog, and then He made a fish, and then He made something else. And just... I believe in coming up, not by the same cell, but a different creature all the time.

L-10 And finally He kept on, coming higher specie, and after a while it reflected the One that was doing the brooding, which was God. Now, to prove that's right, when God was made flesh it was Jesus Christ, a man. See? So, not an Angel, a man. So it goes to show that it reflected Him.

L-11   And, oh, this old Bible is full of them gracious old nuggets. I just... I like to just prospect (don't you?) and just go in there and shake all the dust off of It, and look at It and see what It is. How the jewels, you people know here in Arizona, the great jewels come from the dust of the earth. That's where they come from. And God's jewels are brought up from the dust, too. And He... We're so happy that He gives us the privilege of going into His great refinery, and all the dross taken out.

L-12 You know how they used to? Course, you Arizona people know how they... before they had the smelter, how they used to refine gold. We're told that they took the gold and beat it. The old Indians used to do that, beat it. And just turn it over, and beat it and beat it, until they got all the dross beat out of it. And the way they knew that all of it was out (all the pyrite and stuff that's in it, all that), when they knowed how, the beater seen his reflection in it, he could see himself. Then he knew it was coming clear, when it reflect his own image.

L-13   And, you know, I think God wants to do His Church that way, just beat all the world out until the reflection of Jesus Christ lives in each one of us and we reflect His Life. Then we're ready then for His... He reflects Himself through us at that time, when we get... lay aside every weight and the sin that that does so easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that's set before us, looking to the Example, the Author and Finisher of our Faith, Jesus Christ. So happy for That!

L-14   Now, usually I say each night... I said to Brother Carl Williams, I said, "Brother Carl, them people don't want to hear me again, up and down through them valleys, keeping them till two or three hours at night."
He said, "Well, well, come on."

L-15 So I appreciate your patience in--in inviting me back again. And now each night...

L-16 I talked to my wife a while ago, down... She's at Tucson now, and I said, "How's the weather?"

L-17 She said, "Warming up." And she said, "Are you keeping on schedule?"
I said, "Just exactly, around ten or eleven each night."

L-18 I said to her, "I'm going to get some rest when I go out to Arizona this time on this little meeting. I'm going to those churches, those brethren. I'm not going to punish those people, I'm going to just go in there and I'm going to let the singing be done, the jubilee. I'm going to limit myself, put my notes down to about fifteen, twenty minutes, say 'Amen' and go home."
She said, "Are you on schedule?"

L-19 I said, "Yes, honey, I am; regular schedule, up to three hours." Very fine people; lot of patience.


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