<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>65-1126, Works Is Faith Expressed, Life Tabernacle, Shreveport, LA, 125 min
L-1       Thank you. It's good to be here, tonight, again. I didn't know how they ever found out I was going to pray for the sick. Everybody come in to be prayed for. You know, I believe if you follow the leading of the Spirit, it's all right. That's the best, that's a Message that never fails.

L-2 Now, I was setting in the room today, after... a certain minister that's just so dear to my heart (three of them), three of my real good friends, they told me they was coming to go to lunch with me. And I thought, "Well, that was just fine," you know.

L-3   So I--I just eat a little bit of breakfast 'cause I was sure they was going to pay for it, you see, and I... have a good full dinner. So 12:00 come, and 1:00 come, and 2:00 come, nobody there yet. So there was... the police was chasing a criminal, down there in the yard, and so I went down to see that episode. I couldn't find Brother Jack at all. So, I come to find out, the hotel man had give him the wrong number; and he was ringing the wrong door, all the time, where I--I wasn't at. I'll let him pay for me, one again, though, sometime. Him and Brother Tracy, I was sure glad to see them and Brother Brown tonight. That just seems like we ought to go back in Arizona again.

L-4   I can remember coming across the desert the other day. I told my wife, back there, I said, "Here's where Brother Jack set in the back of his little Chevrolet." Brother Brown and him argued all about the--the original creation, whether it was done in six days or whether it was done in six million. That was a good one.

L-5 They get so arguing, they get out and get a handful of rocks, and one get behind one pole, and one another, and throw rocks at one another just as hard as they could. They couldn't settle it that way, say, "I can out run you." Down the road they'd go; Brother Jack, a little short fellow, just as hard as he could twist; and Brother Young with them long legs, you know. I never laughed so much in my life!

L-6 Then, Brother Jack got back in the car and pulled off his shoes. Brother Sharritt had give us a big sack of oranges, and he half cleaned them up before we got to Shreveport.

L-7   You know, them's golden days, though. Yes, sir, they're golden days. I know it sounds joking, funny, but it's the truth. But we... there's something about that, as you get older and begins to linger on your mind. You think of those days that you wished you could live again, that's right, our younger days. And as we get old, they all become pictures. I'm so glad it was pure and holy, and brotherly fellowship, in love. Knowing that we're going to a land where we'll never get old, where... that great Land, yonder, where we'll never, never grow old or never die.

L-8   One of our precious brothers, so dear to us all, he just crossed over in that Land. And everytime I come to this platform, I--I guess I'll think of Brother Lyle. I looked over last night and seen little Judy setting over there, and my heart was just pounding, I was thinking of how she felt. And I know when dad died how... But we only have to go through those schools of sufferings to know how the other fellow feels.

L-9   I believe I'm looking at an old minister friend setting here. I just can't call him. Is that right? You used to pray for the sick here, all the time, years ago? Gerholtzer, that--that German name, I--I never could get it picked up just right. Brother Tracy had met him out there. And I knowed him about ten years, and I said, "You haven't aged six months in that ten years." We are living in a world that must cease someday.


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