<TITLE>01. Par 1-8</TITLE>64-0206B, Paradox, Salad Bowl Restaurant, Bakersfield, CA, 99 min
L-1      Thank you, my brothers and sisters. This I deem, indeed, a grand privilege to be here this morning, to speak to these servants of Christ, and my colleagues in the Gospel, fellow-workers. I'm not much to make speech; I have no ability to do that. And I would just like to get the man together; and sometimes, that way, especially those who have, what we would call in the world, kind of stuck out their necks, and to sponsor, you see, one of the meetings. And I would like to give the--the reason for the Hope that I'm contending for, and let you brethren see that it's--that it's not full of--of superstitions. It's--it's the Gospel.

L-2   Many years ago, when I made my first trip to Phoenix, Arizona, where...

L-3 I was just enjoying my breakfast, this morning, with my good friend, Carl Williams, over here in the corner. I guess you're all acquainted with Brother Carl Williams. Would you just stand up, Brother and Sister Williams. He's the--he's the president of the chapter of the Full Gospel Business Men at Phoenix, Arizona, rather, and Sister Williams, and so he has been proven to be a very precious friend to me.

L-4   Last week in the meeting, and, or week before last, in Phoenix, I was telling about when I made my first trip to Phoenix. I remembered, as a little boy, I watched and read everything that I could, because it was my idea, some day... My father was a rider, and I wanted to be a cowboy. I had read some Western magazines, and seen too many movies, as a little boy. And, so, I had seen my father ride, and I thought surely I could ride, too, and my ambition was to come West and--and be a rider.

L-5 And I had heard of the Superstitious Mountain. Course, the Lost Dutchman, which I believe is the Lost Dutchman mine, which I think is a legend.

L-6   And so many people now are, in our country there, it's becoming rodeo time, and everybody wearing blue jeans, the big hat. They're trying to live in a--a past age. They're living something that was done lived by. And I wonder why they do that. There is something in them to make them do that.

L-7 But, you see, I think that's what's the matter with our Christian economy, today. We're trying to live in an age gone by, what somebody else said in some other age. And that won't work for this age. But it's strange that they want some old-fashion idea, some barn dance, or some cowboy, something, or other like that. And that real thing in them, that makes them wants to go back there, is the Gospel. They want a new decorated Gospel, something to meet this day, here some fine fantastics, and fine culture and educations. But they don't want the old-fashion Gospel, where that real thing in them that makes them want to go back. That's where it should go, back to That. But instead of that, they go back to--to something else. Then when something is displayed from God, it's very astounding, unusual to them, and not according to their ethics, and--and they don't want to accept It.

L-8   No one would have any more respects for John Wesley, Sankey, Moody, Finney, or Finney, Knox, Calvin, any of those men, than any of us ministers who appreciate men of God, that would have for those man. But, you see, we're coming on up. We are not in that age. Each one of them served in a different age and in a different measure. We're serving God today in a different measure from what they were. If there is a tomorrow, there will be an age, there'll be a Gospel for that age, that will still advance until the whole thing is complete in God, and God becomes one with us.


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