<TITLE>14. Par 131-141</TITLE>L-131   Or, say for instance, the late Adolf Hitler, when he was Fuhrer of Germany. What if he would have went down to a soldier's house? And that bunch of little Nazi soldiers all camped around, and, the first thing you know, why, somebody knocked at the door. And the little soldier said, "Ah, I feel bad this morning! Wife, tell them to go away."

L-132 And she slipped over to the door, and pulled the curtain back. She said, "Husband! Husband, jump up, quick!"
"What's the matter? Who is standing there?"
"Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany!" Oh, my!

L-133 That little soldier jumped out, got his clothes on, quick, and stood at attention. Walked up there at the door, unlocked the door, and opened up the door, and said, "Heil Hitler!" See, he was a great man, his days in Germany. "What is it could I do?"

L-134 If he had said, "Go jump off the cliff out there," he would a-done it. Why? There is no more, there is not a greater important man in Germany, in the days of the Nazis, than Adolf Hitler was. He was a great man. And he... And, what honor, when he only visits generals and great men, but here he is at a little footman's door! Oh, it would certainly been a great honor to him.

L-135   Well, now, what of Flagstaff? We'll bring it closer to home. What if this afternoon, that--that our President, Mr. Johnson, L. B. Johnson, what if he would get off of a plane, out here somewhere? And now we are all just in one class of people. We're all poor. Maybe one has a little better job, maybe a little better house, but, after all, we're just human. But what if he come down to your house down here, maybe the humblest of us, and he knocked at the door; and you went to the door, and there stood President L. B. Johnson? Why, it would be a great honor. You might differ with him, in politics. But you would be an honored man, to have the President of the United States stand at your door. Who are you or who am I? And there stands Lyndon Johnson at your door! Though you might be a Socialist or Republican, or differ with him a million miles, but yet it would be an honor.

L-136   And you know what? Because that you were granted this honor, why, the television would throw it on the screen tonight. Sure. The mid newspapers tomorrow would have headlines in it, in here in the Flagstaff paper, that, "John Doe. The President of the United States flew into Flagstaff yesterday, uncalled for, and just went down, without even invitation, and knocked" at your door. Humble! That President would have a name of being a humble man, as great as he is, to come to mine or your door; we're nobody, then come down and talked to us.

L-137 Why, you'd walk down the street, and say, "Yes, I'm the fellow. The President visited me."

L-138 "Stand still, let me get your--get your profile. Look straight at me. Now how do you look when you walk away?" You would be an important person. Sure.

L-139   What if the queen of England would come, though you're not under her dominion? But it'd be an honor for some of you women to entertain the queen of England, though you're not under her domain. But, yet she is a great person, she is the greatest queen in the world, at this time. Certainly, she is, that's political speaking. But if she asked you for some little trinket on your wall, that you valued ever so high, you would give it to her. It would be an honor for you to do it. Sure, she is the queen of England.

L-140 And you would be honored, by the President. And everybody would talk about the humility of the queen of England, flying over to see a certain woman in Flagstaff, a little nobody. And the papers would pack it, and the news would flash it.

L-141   But, you know, the most important Person of all time, Jesus Christ, knocks at our door. And He is turned away, more than all the kings and potentates there ever was. That's right. And you might accept Him and go out and say something about it, the outside world would laugh in your face. No news is going to...


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