<TITLE>05. Par 45-53</TITLE>L-45   We're grateful, thankful for this fine bunch of brothers, and for this fine bunch of people. And they... I think that everything come out all right. And we don't... We absolutely... One thing we will not permit is finance, any strain on finances. Brother told me out there, said they had it all but a hundred dollars. I give him a check. I said, "Forget it. See? I'll pay it, myself." So then--then we... Everything is fine and dandy. And we want...

L-46 If any of the staff of this Ramada Inn is here tonight, I want to thank them, for they donated this building to us. I do think... And I wasn't... I know... Only way I knew, is Brother Tony told me about it. I believe that it's... that if somebody was in this city, or looking for a motel, I could certainly advertise and tell them the Ramada is a place to go.

L-47   If people has that much consideration for the... for us, and our religion, and our Christ, I think we ought to have enough audacity to say something good about them, and tell everybody we can. That's right. May the Lord bless this institution. We've always went into their places wherever we go across the country. We've always had such courtesy. And the Business Men uses their halls, Phoenix and everywhere we can, to have meetings and conventions. And I say this, gentlemen, if you're here, Almighty God bless you richly. And at the end of the road, I pray that God will open His doors, and make you welcome into His great Kingdom at that time.

L-48   And then there's one more thing. I got a bunch of stuff with some notes wrote here, and some texts I want to use in a few minutes. But, another thing, that you people are very fortunate here in Tucson. Now, they always told me that Tucson was the closest place to hades there was, 'cause it's so hot. But, I'm telling you, I really enjoy this. Why, at my home if it'd be this hot, why, you--you couldn't stand here with a coat on, the air conditioner on. It'd be... You'd just be sweating. Well, I've never... I've worked pretty hard, and I never got up a sweat yet.

L-49 Well, I like this. What do you go back East for, in the--in the summertime? Here's a place to come. This is fine. It's a lot better than our swamp back there, anyhow. So, I like this. And I hope the good Lord lets me come back, move out here somewhere and stay. And I really like this place.

L-50 And one of the great things, the events, one of the great features of the place, course, is the people, what makes the place. I... Even in your stores, everything, and a tourist city, I have had some of the finest treatment, the nicest people, since I been in Tucson, that I'd ever want to meet.

L-51   And then when I come in, I tuned in on my radio, and I found a station here that constantly broadcasts nothing but Christian music. It's station KAIR. And I just learned today, that their headquarters is here at the Ramada. You know what I done; if some of the staff of KAIR is here. I bought a radio just to keep it turned on all the time, so that my children and my home could hear the right thing.

L-52 For, most all stations that you turn on, it's always some kind of this here boogly-woogly, or ever what that stuff is, and--and rock-and-roll, and all this other kind of nonsense they have today. And--and you don't hear the thing. And I think that you Christians, you ought to do everything you can to keep that station there. That's right. And turn it on in your home, where your children can hear the right thing.

L-53   Now, you'll hear all kinds, of course. It's an interdenomi-national affair, and any kind of preaching, or any. You might disagree with some of the brothers, with their program. My, if we all set down to eat tonight, and we all had pie, I might take cherry pie, and you take apple, but we're all eating pie. Don't you? That's right. So, just, they're brothers. And they have a right to express what they think.


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