<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>65-0125, This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 23 min
L-1       Thank you, Brother Demos, Brother Carl. Shakarian, or, Demos Shakarian and Brother Carl Williams, and delegates, all. I just think that brother, the plow man here, just expressed what I wanted to, tonight, that he just taken my speech right from me. Because, I have enjoyed this, I believe, this convention, more than any convention I've ever been in. I've never seen, in any convention, more harmony and such real fellowship and brotherly love. Another thing that I have done, I have met many new delegates of Heaven, new brethren that I've had the privilege to shake hands with and talk to.

L-2   Just a few nights ago, I was listening to the Baptist brother sitting over there. I can't think of his name. [Brother Shakarian says, "Irvin."--Ed.] Irvin. And he brought a card to me from... I believe it's his aunt, that's sitting here tonight. She has held that prayer card for some twenty years.

L-3 She was brought into the meeting, dying with a disease, that maybe the doctor could explain what it is. It's something like leprosy, but it isn't leprosy. You just... There's an operation, they could cut some kind of a cord up here, or something, but she would be just like a plant, she would have to sit there. And while she was sitting there, perhaps her card not called or nothing, didn't get in the prayer line, the Holy Spirit directed me to her. And she is back there tonight, is well, and we're very thankful for that. The...

L-4   [Brother Shakarian says, "Brother, I think--I think Howard Irvin was over there speaking to you, but I think the aunt is here. Maybe we can have her stand up."--Ed.] Would you stand up, the--the aunt of... ["There she is. Wave your hand. Wave your hand." Congregation applauds.]

L-5 God bless you, my sister, for your gallant faith in the Son of God. May He keep you well until the time He calls you Home, when this mortal will take on immortality. I'm so thankful for that, to think she held that card for all these years now, and then was brought here to me and showed me tonight. You know, I was saying, it's like bread upon the water, it returns to you, when you try to do something for somebody else.

L-6   Now, I have also had the privilege of meeting many of these fine ministers, and I certainly appreciate their fine fellowship, this cooperation. Brother Carl announced me to be back next year, if the Lord is willing, and we are here on earth. And, well, I hope to meet every one of you here next year again, and each one bring another delegate with him and with she.

L-7 Now there is just one thing that I would like to say a little something about, maybe for just a moment.

L-8 Because, Doctor Reed is to speak next, and I've come all the way up here tonight, I've got two hundred and fifty miles that I... to make this trip, to hear Doctor Reed. And just something happened a while ago that I would... But--but, Doctor Reed, I'd drive a thousand miles to hear him. But something has... Since I have been here, I would drive a thousand miles just to hear what I heard a little while ago, such a wonderful thing, something that flesh and blood cannot reveal. Takes the Holy Spirit to do it. And to see someone who encouraged my life in such a way, and I certainly will be very grateful all the rest of my life.

L-9 What I wanted to say, was--was, if I ever have to have an operation, call on a medical doctor, you--you come to me, Doctor Reed, right away. I--I can trust the man to operate, if I have to have one, hands that believes in God, that--that would be the one I'd want working on me. And so we... I trust I'll never have to have it. But if I do, I would want he, or a man like him, to do the work, if he couldn't be there.


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