The book of John, we're in the 13th
chapter, and I want to preach from the
12th verse, but I want to read from
7 to 12.
Maybe 7 to 13, or 7 to 12.
If you had known me, you should have
known my Father also.
And from his forth you know him, and
have seen him.
Philip says unto him, Lord, show us the
Father.
And it's the sight of us.
Jesus says unto him, Have I been so
long time with you?
And yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father.
How sayest thou then, show us the Father?
Believest thou not that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me?
The words that I speak unto you, I
speak not of myself, but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the work.
Believe me that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me, or else believe
me, for the very work's sake.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that
believeth on me, the works that I do,
shall he do also.
And greater works than these shall he do,
for I go unto my Father.
Now that 12th verse has always been a
difficult and controversial passage.
There are those who insist that by works
here, our Lord meant his miracles.
Now, there will always be that type of
mind among us that they make religion to
lie in miracles.
And I do not want to be possessed,
because God has good Christians of varying types
of minds.
And there are many fine Christians that if
they were to preach on this case, they
would say, Jesus raised the dead, we therefore
are promised that we should raise the dead.
He filled the waves, and we are promised
great works, so we should fill the waves,
and so on.
These friends make religion always to lie in
miracles.
If it isn't a bit unusual, it isn't
from God.
If it doesn't have about it something of
the eerie and uncanny, it can't be from
God.
But now, I see many of these friends
are good Christians.
But nevertheless, they share their beliefs with pagans.
Spirits and various kinds of strange feelings, practices.
Because they also make religion to consist in
wonders and miracles.
Now, there are those who are the type
of mind that can never believe that a
thing is from God, unless it is miraculous,
and they're always looking for wonders in the
unusual.
Now, if we make as a Christian faith
that we do the same kind of miracles
that Jesus did, and then not only that,
but raise us.
Why?
We're going to have to turn water into
wine, and we're going to have to raise
a little girl 12 years old from the
dead, and a young man who has died,
the son of the widow of Maine, and
we're going to have to heal a man
who is over 40 years old, a cripple
from youth, and we're going to have to
cast out not only one devil.
But we're going to have to cast out
a whole legion of devils, and have them
run down and go into a herd of
swine.
And then, in addition to that, we're going
to have to take away faith from everybody
that didn't do that, or something like that,
or greater than that.
And the scripture distinctly says, John did no
miracle.
And we do not read that Isaiah ever
did either, nor Daniel, as far as I
can recall, except where the Lord delivered him
from the lion's den, and that was the
deliverance of the Lord, and not Daniel's doing.
Then, in addition to all that, we're going
to have to go contrary to Paul's teaching.
Let me read what Paul said about this.
For there are diversities of gifts of the
same Spirit, and there are differences of administration
with the same Lord.
There are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
For the manifestation of the Spirit is given
to every man that suffereth withal.
For to one is given by the Spirit
the word of wisdom, to another, the word
of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another,
faith by the same Spirit, to another, the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit, to
another, the working of miracles, to another, prophecy,
to another, preserving the Spirit, to another, divers
kinds of coming, to another, the impregnation of
coming.
But all these worketh that one in the
self-same Spirit, providing to every man severally
as he will.
Now, there's only one way to interpret this
passage of Scripture, and that is that a
normal New Testament church could have all the
gifts of the Spirit present in it.
When you hear me say that, I may
lose some of you by saying that.
Because I heard a man say that anybody
that claims the gifts of the Spirit I
didn't hear him, but it was reported that
he said it in a place where I
was recently.
That anybody who claims to have the gifts
of the Spirit is either an ignoramus or
a liar.
Well, that was said in one of our
last conventions.
But it says here, to another, the gifts
of healing by the same Spirit.
And a man once clearly spoke of it
and said that the whole creature in doctrine
and practice and movement that believes in the
gifts of tongues is of the devil.
Now, I could not say either of those
things because Paul says here in the twelfth
chapter that there is a gift given to
the people of God and that they do
have these gifts.
It is said about Spurgeon that his prayers
raised up more sick people than any doctor
in all of London.
When he prayed for people, they got well.
You can't deny this, my brethren, by any
means.
But on the other hand, it also teaches
that not everybody has these.
That is, not everybody has all of them.
And it also teaches that a Christian could
have one, but not likely to have more.
Now, listen in the latter part of the
chapter, verse 27.
Now, ye are the body of Christ, and
members in particular.
And God hath set some in the church,
first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that
miracles, in gifts of healing, health, government, diversities,
and so on.
Are all apostles?
Now, that's a rhetorical question.
That is, it's a question that contains its
own answer.
I'll ask the question, and don't give me
a theology.
Give me what grammatically here, what the answer
is.
If you were reading this, you'd think about
politics or science or anything else.
Are all apostles?
What's the answer?
Are all prophets?
Are all teachers?
Are all workers of miracles?
Getting weaker, but they're still going on.
Have all the gifts of healing?
Do all speak with tongues?
Do all interpret?
That's what the Bible says.
Now, that's perfectly obvious.
Who thinks, first, that as long as the
Church of Christ is new, blessed, and healthy,
it will have its gifts present, but also,
it is not necessary for faith, or a
proof of faith, that we'll have any of
these gifts, because not all speak in tongues,
not all have the gifts of healing, not
all work miracles.
And yet Jesus said, he that believeth in
me, the works that I do, shall he
do also.
Everybody that believes in me.
If a man believes in me, there is
your believer.
If he is a believer, said Jesus, he'll
do the works that I do, and he
will do greater works than I do, because
I go unto my Father, this man who
believes.
Now, if he doesn't do the works that
I do, he's not a believer.
Is that fair?
If he believes, he'll do the works that
I do.
If he does not do the works that
I do, he's not a believer.
I ask you, is that a fair interpretation?
I think it is.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved.
He that believeth not shall be damned.
He that believeth in me, greater works than
these shall he do.
So you see, for us to say that
our Lord had in mind the raising of
the dead and the healing of the sick,
and when it says miracles here, it even
divides it away from healing.
It says miracles.
I don't know what kind of miracles there
would be there.
I only remember that when George Mueller, that
great praying man of Bristol, England, was traveling
one time either from east to west, coming
to this country, or going from here over,
I've forgotten which.
And on Sunday he had an engagement.
He was a priest at a certain place.
And he would have got down before, and
plenty of time, I imagine the day before,
or at least early that morning.
And he knew that he had plenty of
time to reach his engagement.
But a fog came up.
And that fog was so serious that they
turned off the engines and said we'll ride
her out, we'll just wait right here.
And they couldn't make one inch headway.
And George Mueller said, I've got to be
such and such a place, I've got to
be there, I have an engagement, I have
to pray.
And he went to the captain about it.
And the captain said, Mr. Mueller, we're sorry,
but we'll be in grave danger if we
move an inch here.
We've got to stay right here until this
fog lifts.
Well, said George Mueller, why not just let's
get down here in your office, captain, and
ask the Lord.
Well, the captain said, I'm a Christian, I
believe.
And, uh, let's pray.
So down they go.
George Mueller prayed.
And he said, and here was his prayer.
He said, Father, I have to preach in
such and such a town 1045 Sunday morning.
The captain here says that if the fog
doesn't lift, we will not get there in
time, and I'll miss my engagement.
Father, please raise the fog, amen.
The captain said, you want me to pray,
Mr. Mueller?
No, he said, I'll pray.
So they went up on deck.
And the captain said, through my utter and
unutterable assumption, a blue line is beginning to
form between the ocean and the fog.
And it got wider and wider and wider
and pretty soon away we went.
And I got there on time.
Now, I believe in that.
I believe a thing like that could happen
just as surely as I believe that God
raised Jesus Christ from the dead.
And, uh, I don't think it has to
happen very often.
I really don't.
But I think it could happen all right
because the God that made the ocean and
made the fog and made the wind and,
uh, that sent his only son to die,
he could do a thing like that.
Now, the trouble with it is that we
want those things to play with.
We want God to give us a gift
so that we can play with it and
have a book written about us.
If somebody says, you want me to go
on?
No, I want you to tell your story
about that man's boat.
Wouldn't that be something for me?
I'd get goose pimples if somebody started telling
how wonderful I was and how I could
pray and the Lord would lift the fog.
No, God is not going to do that
for you in order that you may be
a big shot and run around and have
a tract written about you.
The Lord is not going to do it.
He did it for that simple-hearted German
brother because he was so childlike, he believed
God, and it never occurred to him there
was anything inconsistent about it.
He just wanted to preach that morning in
that church, and he said, this peep-sucker
can't preach, Father.
Do something about it.
So the fog began to lift.
Well, what are those words?
He says, notice, Believe it thou that I
am in the Father, and the Father in
me.
The words that I speak unto you I
speak not of myself, but the Father, that
dwelleth in me, we do the work.
Words and the work were made synonymous here.
There lived in the South, down just outside
of Asheville, North Carolina, where my friends and
I actually come from, and also they're there.
There lived a man by the name of
Licius Bunyan Compton, a mountaineer.
And I remember hearing him there many years
ago, before he fell on evil times, although
he's in heaven now without any doubt in
the world about it.
But this man said that this passage bothered
him.
Now, he believed in divine healing and prayed
for people that were sick, and he believed,
oh, we've got to do anything, just anything
at all.
But he got to reading this passage.
Greater works than these shall it do.
So he said he decided to go to
God about it and have it out.
Now, he said, I've fooled around long enough,
and I don't know what this means.
So he said, I'm going to go to
God and I'm going to ask.
Now, I've done that a few times with
passages of Scripture, and I can tell you
what they are.
Nobody, I never found it anywhere in any
commentary, but I know what that was because
God told me.
And it didn't, it didn't, there was no
disharmony between that and any other passage of
Scripture.
Well, he went to the Lord and said,
now, Father, I want to know what Jesus,
my son, meant when he said, greater works
than these shall ye do because I go
unto the Father.
And he said, the Lord said to him,
well, now, Locust, I don't know whether he
called him Locust, but that wasn't his name.
He said, what did my son, what was
the main work that my son did?
He came down into a sinful world, himself
God, and he showed forth the Father to
mankind.
And he was a living showcase showing forth
the Father to all men.
And said, he that has seen me has
seen the Father.
Believest thou not that I am in the
Father and the Father in me?
In the words that I speak unto you
I speak not of myself, but the Father
doeth the work.
All right, he said, then the works that
Jesus did, namely, were not his miracles, they
were part of it, but the work he
did was to demonstrate the everlasting Father to
man.
Now, he said, Father, it says, greater works
than these shall ye do.
He said, the voice within his heart went
on, saying, all right, my son came down
born of a virgin, pure without sin, holy,
harmless, and undefiled, and it was relatively symptomatic
for him to walk among men, God Immanuel,
God with us, demonstrating deity to men.
But he said, boy, here you are, born
in the mountains, filled with sin, and born
in iniquity, and conceived in wickedness, and brought
forth in sin.
And here you are, all your life, sinning
against me, and sinning against God, until your
whole nature became twisted and crooked.
And then I come to you, and you
believe in me.
And when you believe in me, you begin
to do the same thing my spotless Son
did.
You begin to demonstrate deity to men.
And people that see you, see me, and
see you, and see me walking among men.
In your meekness and purity and faith and
righteousness, you show what God is like, and
said, don't you think that's greater works, even,
than my son, who had no sin to
overcome, no iniquity to trample under his feet,
no inborn propensity for evil, but was holy
and harmless and undefiled.
Well, that satisfied the brother.
But he said, I am still not satisfied
twice, until, like Paul, I check this with
learned men.
So he said he went to Bible teachers
wherever he ran into them, all over the
United States, including Dr. Torrey and many other
of the great current Bible teachers.
And he told them his story.
And he said, now what I want to
know is, does this harmonize with the rest
of the scripture, or am I out on
a limb?
Did I have a sage idea there, or
was that God?
What do you think of it?
Does that sound scriptural to you?
And he said, of all the great Bible
teachers, not one of them but smiled and
said, Brother, that's God.
That's what it means.
Now, I believe that if there were greater
faith among us, there would be greater miracles
among us.
But I also believe that the greatest wonder
on earth is a God-like man.
The greatest wonder on earth is a God
-like man.
There's no question about that in the wide
world.
When Moses turned the serpent, you know, the
serpent was there, and he picked up a
stick and he became a serpent, and then
reversed itself.
Why, the magicians of Egypt did that.
But there was one thing they couldn't possibly
top it.
And that was when he went into the
mountains.
And there in awful fear and full of
happy trembling, he waited on his God for
long days.
And when he came back down, there was
a glow on his face so bright that
the children of Israel said, Please cover your
face.
We can't stand to look upon God.
And there wasn't a magician in all of
Egypt that could imitate that.
There wasn't a magician in all of that
area anywhere in Arabia that could imitate that.
There never was anybody that could imitate that.
So showing forth God, being God-like, is
the greatest wonder, the greatest marvel, the greatest
miracle that can ever be known on earth.
Now, I want to tell you something tonight.
I'm terribly sleepy.
Maybe that's why I'm dull tonight.
But I didn't get much on the train
last night, and just now I'm finding it
out.
I didn't know it until now.
The age is catching up with me.
But you know something?
I want to talk a little about the
work of God among us.
In our eagerness to see God do more
things, we often refuse to see what God
is already doing.
And so we're guilty of gross ingratitude.
I recommend, ladies and gentlemen, that we do
something about our ingratitude.
Because the work of God is among us.
To take a sinner and make a Christian
out of him, to take a bad man
and make a good man out of him,
to take a person that is evil and
make them righteous, that, I say, is a
greater wonder than turning water into wine or
raising the gyrusses up.
And we have this work of God among
us here.
Somebody will want to stampede you and fill
your mind with doubt and say, Now, if
you, if you don't, if Brother Tozer can't
cast out a devil or raise up a
leper or steal the waves or change the
weather overnight, he's not the man he claims
he is.
And if this church doesn't see that kind
of thing all the time, it's not the
church they say they are.
All right, now I want to tell you
something, Brother.
What have we got among us?
You listen.
We've got some ex-liars among us.
Don't get mad at anybody.
I'm not saying that it's you.
But we've got some ex-liars among us.
For a man to be born with a
lying tongue and then one day when he's
20 years old or 25 years old or
30 or 35 or 40 or whatever he
is, come to the Lord Jesus Christ and
Christ stretches out his hand and touches that
man's tongue and that tongue instantaneously becomes truthful.
And in exchange for being a lying tongue
to a truthful tongue, you tell me that
if that man had a cancer and the
Lord healed his cancer, it would be any
more of a miracle?
I tell you it's a greater miracle when
God can touch a lying tongue and make
it a truthful tongue than it is for
God to take a leper and change that
leper into a clean man.
Now, if there's anybody here that wants to
jive about any of our people being ex
-liars, I used to lie myself when it
was convenient, you know, when I was a
young fellow.
But the Lord helped me so that I
tell the truth.
Now, I get accused of lying, but I
don't.
And remember one thing.
If anybody, I don't suppose anybody here tonight
would scoff at this and say, what a
congregation that fella has.
What a fine bunch of tramps they are.
He admits that they're ex-liars, some of
them.
Well, the trouble with a scoffer is he's
not an ex-liar.
That's the problem.
That's the difficulty.
He isn't an ex.
He hasn't got any ex before him.
And he'd still do it if it came
necessary.
Now, he wouldn't practice it just as an
ordinary run of the mind achievement.
But if he needed to lie, he'll tell
it.
And then he'll laugh and scorn it because
I have the courage and the honesty to
get up to him and say, well, some
of us used to tell lies, but thank
God we've been converted and washed and made
clean and the blood has never lost its
power and we've gone out of the lying
business and we won't tell lies anymore.
Up at Buell Beach last week, a little
old lady came up and she had a
son.
And he was a missionary in the Dutch
East Indies.
And when the Japanese took over there, this
young man had made converts, many converts.
And he had a little church formed there
of Dayaks, headhunters, and poison barrel users and
blasphemous, obscene, vile people that had been converted.
And he had a church there.
And he was sort of a head over
that whole outfit, you know.
And the Japanese were on the way and
they knew they were coming.
The grapevine and the drum and so on
kept telling them.
And the Japanese were coming.
Now, these Christians, these Dayak Christians came to
this bus.
And they said, Listen, teacher.
Now, we'll take you up country and we'll
hide you where not all the Japanese in
Japan could find you.
We know how to do it.
We'll fix you so you'll be just as
safe as possible as it can be.
Nobody will ever find you.
And if they come and ask if there's
a white man up here, we'll tell them
no.
The missionary said, Is that what I came
to teach you?
Did not I come to teach you to
be Christians, to tell truth, to keep your
tongue clean and never tell lies?
And would I save my hide at the
expense of your lying?
You baptized Christians.
You won't be born again.
Out of your love for me, you lied
to the Japanese soldiers.
Oh, no, no.
He said, To save you from telling lies,
I'll go down and give myself up.
Well, he promptly went down and met the
Japanese soldiers and he said, I'm a white
man you're looking for.
And they started on him and the little
lady told me about her boy.
She can't get over it because she still
talks about him.
She said, I learned from the soldiers what
they did to John.
I tried to get away because I didn't
want to open the wounds again.
But we're old friends.
I've known the lady and her family for
a long time.
And she said, I found out what they
did to him.
She said, They said to him, Now, you're
a spy, aren't you?
He said, No.
Now, don't lie.
You're a spy.
No, he said, I'm not an American spy.
I'm an American missionary.
I'm a Christian.
I'm here preaching to people oughtn't to lie.
I'm here teaching Jesus Christ.
Well, they said, We know you're a spy.
No, he said, I'm not a spy.
They said, All right, all right, if you're
not a spy, sing to us.
Do something.
He got his hymn book out and sang
two songs to us.
And then I heard a Japanese soldier pick
up his musket and ran with a bayonet
to his chest.
And John Wilkinson went down to martyr and
buried him with his body.
Greater works than these are you doing.
And I stand here before you this night
to say that I believe that was a
greater miracle than when Jesus healed at the
well or at the pool of Bethlehem.
To have a young man who no doubt
when he was a younger fellow and when
he was a boy he was alive.
But David said, all men are alive.
But he when the ships were down would
rather die with a bayonet to his chest
than to lie as I let these people
lie.
All right, we have a moment here tonight
to make quickly.
Again, I'm not going to identify him.
But there was a day when you were
on one end of the neck of that
bottle and the bottle was on the other
end of the neck and you liked to
take it down.
But the Lord God Almighty converted your soul
and you hate the smell of this stuff
now.
And you haven't drunk for a long, long
time.
Somebody says, and they wandered in here off
the street and he says, I've always suspected
that Alliance Church as being an aggregation of
more or less trash.
Now, the pastor himself says they have ex
-stipplers among them.
Yes, we do have ex-stipplers.
But in case you wanted to get funny
about it, let me tell you a little
story.
There was a great man by the name
of Abraham Lincoln one time and he had
a famous debate, or a series of debates
with a famous judge by the name of
Douglas.
And Douglas, of course, was sharp.
Now, I don't think he was because Lincoln
won the debate but don't think that he
was up against ordinary sandlot competition.
He had major league competition all right to
win.
But, one night they were lamb-hooing each
other unmercifully and, of course, no hoes were
barred.
So, one night in their debate one would
talk and then the other would talk and
the way they do in these debates.
So, Douglas got up and he began.
He said, now, ladies and gentlemen, he said,
this man was a Samaritan who pulled me
here in this debate.
I were the opponent.
He said, I'll tell you something about him
you probably don't know.
He said, here he is a lawyer now
and he's got some fame but he said,
I knew him when he was younger.
He said, I knew him when he used
to run a little store up in the
mountains and he said, he sold liquor in
that store and he said, I actually used
to go in and stand on this side
of the counter and my worthy opponent, Abraham
Lincoln, sold me liquor over the counter.
That wasn't a place to ask.
Now, Lincoln got up, came out there looking
like a praying mantis with all legs and
arms, took his place and said, ladies and
gentlemen, Doug Douglas says, that I used to
have a store that used to sell liquor
and I stood on one side of the
counter and he stood on the other.
He said, here's one thing he didn't tell
you.
I long ago have given up my side
of the counter but he still sticks faithfully
to his.
And I got that more often.
Yes, sir.
And so that was a home run.
Now, I'm telling you here tonight, we may
have here tonight some men who used to
drink but drink no more but don't you
say anything to me because I'll suspect that
you're still sticking to your side of the
counter and there are lots of good people
that were drinkers that drink no more and
we may have some probably do some ex
-deceivers who used to have to deceive and
walk down the dark sides of the street
but now they live pure transparent lives because,
you see, they've got nothing to hide anymore.
They're Christians now and you can follow them
all day long and they won't have to
hide anything.
The day of their deceiving is over with.
Now, if anybody wants to turn up his
nose and say there's a bunch of deceivers
down there, I'd say we're average by nature.
But by grace we've gone out of the
deceiving business.
We're not deceiving anybody anymore.
We're Christians.
And I'll tell you one other little thing.
What God has cleansed, that's all not thou
unclean.
God made his heaven and God made his
fountain and God sent his son and God
called the unclean a deceiver too.
And if I as a deceiver go to
my savior and I'm cleansed from deceitfulness so
that I can now walk upright and men
can follow me all day long and know
that I'm living right.
Brother Water, who are you to criticize if
God almighty wants to wash a black thing
clean?
Who are you to condemn it?
Well, there's some ex-blasphemers around too.
Men who formerly used evil and obscene language.
I grew up in the country of Pennsylvania
on a farm and men were known there
by their ability to swear.
And there are two things that men did
there.
That's how they got their faith.
They swore and fought.
The man who could fight and was quickest
on his feet and could knock another man
down quickest.
He was the big man.
Even my father believed until he was converted
man that that was proof of manhood.
The ability to bounce a fist off a
fellow's feet and walk away rubbing his hands
and saying, thank God that's over.
And the other fellow crawled away with a
brush and went off home to lick his
wounds.
Men's ability to swear.
Men swore at their horses till they wondered
how they kept from burning their hide up.
And I grew up with that kind of
thing.
It was the only kind of emphasis people
knew out there.
I could still use it fluently if I
didn't have better language and didn't know a
better language.
Emphasis falls.
You know, when a man really swears, he
can speak very, very picturesquely.
And there are lots of picturesque fellows walking
around that will be converted tonight and they'll
never swear anymore.
Never anymore.
And we've got a lot of them here
tonight.
One time they used to take the name
of the Lord in vain, but the only
time they take the name of the Lord
now is when they sing, pray, or try
to win somebody to the Lord.
They're free now.
Their hearts are right.
And for a man who was a blasphemer
to become a tender worshiper of God is
a great work, a greater work than any
of these soldiers do.
Now, another thing we've got.
Maybe I'll get chased out of town for
this, but I'm not identifying anybody.
We've got some ex- covetous people, some
people who used to be as tight as
the skin on an orange.
But now you give it to generously your
wife, raise her face and spend your last
days in the poorhouse.
What changed that man?
What changed the fellow into a generous giver?
The want to give and give and keep
on giving?
They said about Billy Sunday, a lot of
people complained about Billy Sunday taking offerings.
They said he got rich.
And his wife swears that if she hadn't
have kept her hand on some of the
money, Billy never would have kept enough to
get him out of town.
He'd given everything away to her right and
left.
He'd overcoat anything he had.
God has done that for him.
He didn't used to be like that.
And so it is.
We have people here that are so generous
that one time in their lives they were
not.
That's a great work.
We have ex- egotists.
There are some egotists probably present too, but
there are some ex- egotists who now
take the humble and the lowly place.
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tongue, honest and truthful, is a greater work.
See, friends, if you don't watch out, they'll
get you on the hip, and you'll overlook
the thing God has done for you while
you're screaming for God to do something dramatic.
There were ten men once who were healed
of leprosy, and nine of them took it
for granted and went away.
We've never heard that again.
But the other man came back and bowed
and worshiped the Lord Jesus and thanked him
for his deliverance.
And Jesus said, Did not I heal ten
men of leprosy?
Where are the other nine?
I think there was sadness and hurt in
his heart when he said that, because these
other nine took for granted what God had
done for them.
I think one of the difficulties, right in
this Alliance Church, we've put our sins so
far behind us, we've forgotten we ever had
any.
I want to remind you tonight that it
wasn't too many years ago, Stuart Convert, where
too many years have not gone by since
the day you came to his feet and
God did a great work in you, and
you've been going forth doing a great work,
showing forth the beauty of Jesus Christ to
men.
Our American mania is upon us.
It's a mania for bigness.
We ought to thank God and get rid
of this mania for size and bigness, we
ought to thank God.
Of course we want to grow naturally, always
do, but we never ought to be guilty
of ingratitude.
If we don't have a choir as great
as Chris Johnson's St. Louis, we have the
consequences of that.