<TITLE>04. Par 22-28</TITLE>L-22   Finally, a fine company of England, they come down, and they took the--the contract after he had tested all the ground. He said he would take the contract and build the bridge. Why? Remember, his reputation now, as a world-wide bridge builder, rested upon what his work would be in that bridge. No matter what he had done in the past, this job that he said he could do, would reflect really what he was. They say that he tested every bolt, and every--every piece of metal that went in the bridge; the dirt, and so forth, beneath, and the pressure of the water upon the dirt. And then all the other builders stood around, and said, "It--it won't stand. It's--it's got to go down." But on the day of the dedication, the man rode, himself, in head of the parade, because that he knowed his work was thoroughly tested, and it would stand.

L-23   I think that's a great thing that we could look at in Christian life. There had to be a bridge to span the way for the human race to leave this world some day, and there was no one could do it; an Angel, Archangel, Seraphim, a Cherubim, nothing could do it. God Himself came down, in the form of a Man, and bridged the way and made the way, and crossed the bridge, first, from the grave to Glory. And it sure showed the reflection. Every--every nerve in His body, every thought in His mind, every power that was in Him, was tested by the enemy. But He stood the test, even to death itself, when He conquered it.

L-24   This young boy, Uzziah, that we're speaking of this morning, he was Isaiah's hero. Isaiah, the young prophet in the days of Uzziah, was watching this young fellow, because Uzziah was a great man. He come from a--a fine background. His father and mother, both, were strictly staunch believers in God. And they had raised their boy to serve and to honor God.

L-25 One of the great lackings of our day today, in America and the rest of the world, is godly parent, to set an influence upon their children. The parents of this day got away from the principles of the Scripture. They went more to the fashions of the world. And the churches did the same thing. In doing that, we let it loose, and brought the world into the church. And that's the reason we have this great day of... if I say it respectfully here before these young people. The reason we got so many hoods, and so forth, as they call it, and--and bad characters, too much of it is because of the home life that they were influenced by, in their earlier days. I'm still a believer, that, "Bring up a child in the way that it should go, and when it gets old it will not depart from it."

L-26   Now, Uzziah was a boy had been brought up in such a parenthood till it influenced him.

L-27 Look at one of our greatest Americans that I can think of, was Abraham Lincoln. He was certainly deserves all the credit that's given him, and more. He had a bad start; born in a poor home, had no way of making an education, wrote in the sands. We understand that the only two books that he ever owned in his life, until he was about twenty-one years old, was the Bible, and Pilgrim's Progress or it might have been Foxe's Book of Martyrs, it was one of those books. But, you see, what that man read, it influenced his life.

L-28   And that's the same thing it is today. Our markets are--are loaded with vulgar and--and filth, to poison the minds of our young children, and then we lay the fault onto them. When, I think, many times it belongs in to us, us Christian people who will not stand up for the thing that's right, and have those things lawed off of our shelves, and so forth. And then in our homes, also, that we let loose and permit all these vulgarities and things to come into our home, to influence the children.


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