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Chapter 30, there's a verse on my mind,

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and if I don't get rid of it,

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I'll probably lose a night's sleep, and I

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don't want to do that.

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1 Samuel 30, please, and one verse only,

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and that is verse 6, 1 Samuel 30

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and 6.

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And David was greatly distressed, for the people

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spake of stoning him, because the soul of

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all the people was grieved.

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Every man for his sons and for his

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daughters, and David encouraged himself in the Lord

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his God.

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A little sentence that I'm impressed with, and

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that I'm going to get rid of just

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now, is the end of the verse, and

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David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

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You remember that, and David encouraged himself in

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the Lord his God.

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The first speaker tonight, let it on up,

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that I taught.

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The second person, let it on up, that

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I taught.

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I put them both together, and both of

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them put together led me to the verse

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I read with you 1 Samuel 30, what

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the first brother said was, give them plenty

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of the book of God, I say amen

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to that.

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There's no substitute for it, Sunday school teacher.

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And I tried the job for 20 years,

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and the first class I took, I had

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to get the children to find a place

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for me.

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I'm not going to dig in on that.

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I want you to encourage yourself in the

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Lord your God.

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And you'll come to a place where nobody

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else can encourage you, only the Lord.

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But they'll have to keep in good terms

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with them.

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Our first brother said quite a lot of

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good things, and the one I taught was,

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give them plenty of the Bible.

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There's no substitute for that, brethren.

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You say we know that, yes.

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The people that Peter wrote to knew quite

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a lot of things.

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But he didn't write to tell them anything

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new.

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He wrote but a script of pure minds

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by way of remembrance.

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Let me do the same with you tonight.

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Give them plenty of the Bible.

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It's settled in heaven, it will never pass

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away.

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Heaven and earth will pass away.

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But my word shall not pass away.

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And the word of the Lord endures forever.

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Give them plenty of the Bible.

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But don't you think, please, for a moment

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that you can run the country on Saturday

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night and make a sign of a fool

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yourself and get help from God.

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You can't do it.

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You may lose illustrations, we don't find fault

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with that everywhere.

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A good illustration of good faith.

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But you can't live what way you like

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during the week.

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Run the country on Sunday.

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Or spend a couple of hours at the

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TV and get God to help you on

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Sunday.

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You can't do it.

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The other remark that seconds Peter made was

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visit the houses.

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I'm a firm believer in that.

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Always was.

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And I hope always will be.

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A little word of advice, if you please,

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about visiting houses.

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If you were too proud to visit joshy

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little houses in Buck Street, you were too

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proud to be a teacher.

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And if I were the superintendent, I wouldn't

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give you a class.

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God can get nowhere with proud people.

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Only take the pride out of them.

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Visit the houses.

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Whether they're sick or not.

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Whether they're absent or not.

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Don't wait for the lack of that.

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Get in your class.

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You were their teacher.

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And God will hold you responsible.

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It's just as strong to take a Thunder

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School class.

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As it takes to stand and preach the

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gospel.

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And I hope with all of you it's

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obnoxious to listen to a lot of jokes

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and things on the platform.

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It's a gospel meeting that I have a

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Thunder School class.

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I know you can use simpler language.

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I know that alright.

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I know you can use illustration, good and

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simple.

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But always keep this one thing before you.

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It's that child's soul that I'm after.

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And if you get this in your mind,

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that it's the child's soul I'm after.

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And if it's not that, you should be

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a teacher.

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If you haven't got the salvation of the

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children before you, you shouldn't be a teacher.

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It's the first qualification to make an unsuccessful

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teacher.

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You want to see the children fail for

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eternity.

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And at our last Bureau meeting, I'm after

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everybody sat down.

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I want to repeat it in different language.

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In these days, when there's so much damning,

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ridiculous infidelity taught in the day schools, and

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the elementary schools, and the high schools of

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Australia put plenty of the Bible into the

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word Jesus said.

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I hope you think I'm not erratic.

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I'm talking about what I know.

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And I'm prepared to say that any place,

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any time, to anybody.

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And the only thing that will counteract the

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heresy that will heal on Sunday and the

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rubbish that will heal during the weekdays such

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as evolution, which is a fraud and a

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farce and an insult to the monkey.

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I mean that, brother.

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I mean that.

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The only thing to counteract is a good

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old book of God.

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Give them plenty of it.

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Look at the holes.

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Did you do that?

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I sure did.

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I'm going to get.

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And when you get to a little hole

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in a little back street, don't put your

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head in the air like as if you

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fell down from Jupiter.

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Get into the hole.

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Don't pronounce what I pray.

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I'm speaking to sisters as well as brothers.

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And I'm as fond of assembly principles as

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any man on the platform and a bit

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more than some of them.

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Even if there are men present, it's not

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assembly meeting.

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It's only an evening.

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And God won't listen to your preaching.

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And God won't listen to your preaching.

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They'll be bound to listen to you.

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I dig it down to pray alongside of

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them.

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Call me a friend.

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Oh, it's a dirty house.

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You're stuffed full of pride.

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That's your problem.

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And there's no remedy for it.

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The doctor can do nothing about it.

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But I tell you what.

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If you get this to be told you,

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which I hope you do, that I'm speaking

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to children now that there'll soon be men

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and women of colour and they'll go out

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into the world to be an influence for

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good or evil, to win them for Christ

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or to damn them.

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And I'll keep the soul of salvation before

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me.

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I'll be thick at them and I'll pray

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with them when they get there.

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They'll be around the circumstances.

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They'll be around a few jobs, nothing about

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it.

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They'll be around a few cats, nothing about

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it.

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Leave your pride at home if you have

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any.

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They'll be around the dust of the floor,

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get down.

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And not to take pride of heaven or

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hell for the people in the home and

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for the children you speak to.

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I built a house for an old woman.

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Don't want anybody smiling, please.

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I built a house for an old woman.

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It was a little country house.

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I got this old woman to come to

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the meeting every night on a contract.

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She never missed a night for six weeks.

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I called to pray with her before I

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left the country and I got down to

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pray.

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Don't want you to laugh, please.

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If I'm preaching what I don't practice I'm

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a hypocrite.

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Don't listen to me.

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But I challenge you on that.

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I got down to pray and the first

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thing I felt was my toes sticking to

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the floor.

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Well, after me.

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I felt God was going to help me

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to preach to pray and the next thing

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I felt was a cat on the back

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of my neck.

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And the third thing I felt was a

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little chicken on the heel of my boot.

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Ah, good brethren in spite of all that

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the blessed God send me a little help

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to pray and I can pray when I

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can't preach.

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Make your children the subject of your prayer.

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Not only a little while on Sunday, but

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do the apostasy.

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Don't have to be a buffoon.

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Down to the jaw.

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I pray for your children every day you

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live at least once and ask God to

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give you real help and a real love

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to see these children saved look at their

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houses specially and not very far from where

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I was sitting there was a sister visited

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a scholar, yes in a little back street

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the mother was a Roman Catholic the father

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was a Roman Protestant and one's worse than

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the other and this teacher insisted on the

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little girl coming to school.

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She did come.

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She prayed.

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You can't pray there's something between your soul

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and God.

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Don't tell them they were backward because you

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don't believe that.

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If you've got a soul a lot of

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other souls do not mind your backwardness.

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That's not the name for it.

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And some special meeting come along and this

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girl teacher went back to get this woman

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who used to be a Roman Catholic and

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she said no and she went back again

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and she prayed and she prayed with her

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and she got her and she got saved

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and she got her pride and she abolished

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it.

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You see visiting the homes of the children

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opens the door for you to get into

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the homes to invite them to the gospel

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meetings when they come along.

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Are you doing anything of it?

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Are you doing anything of it?

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Is your Sunday school teaching only a pledge

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and a superintendent?

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Are you doing anything of it?

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Listen Mark this to Mark well.

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Take a note of it.

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The north of Ireland will never know what's

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been accomplished by the Sunday school as I've

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met in every country I've been to overseers,

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preachers, missionaries that used to be in the

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Sunday school in Belfast and elsewhere.

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You go in for the soul salvation you

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preach with them about that you speak to

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them about that you be honest with them,

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be kind to them to be sure don't

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give them a lot of stuff that will

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do them no good.

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No inventions no new things no new things.

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A glorious gospel of the blessed God first

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to Mary 11 the deliverer of God and

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the salvation Romans 1 16 is all we

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needed in the north of Ireland this last

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90 years 40 years that I've been at

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it and it's all we need still.

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I'm going to give you time to think

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that over do new things please no matter

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who suggests them and it's the superintendents business

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for to see that the classes are getting

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taught the blessed good of God and that

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the teachers not do nothing we can have

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the teacher of mood either to remove a

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class or out of the school altogether some

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of these teachers are short I'll grant you

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that but let us face up to fact

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you have to double the classes to be

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sure you have to give one teacher two

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sometimes three classes never mind that but to

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have that and one real teacher then somebody's

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only playing at the job the rest of

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the business is done for eternity I don't

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suppose anybody ever made a worse shape of

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teaching at Thunder School than I did in

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the year 1906 I was forced to it

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more or less because the July holidays came

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round and the superintendent said to me Frank

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I don't get off to take a class

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that I thought I could take no class

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I'm not long saved and I couldn't find

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a place he said Frank I want you

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to take a class I said I can't

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do it he said I've doubled up five

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classes already I've taken two classes myself and

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there's one left he said I want you

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to take a class there it is, over

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there are a lot of little boys from

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8 to 10 all Christian children I see

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one of them in the meeting tonight in

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front of me it's a good thing to

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be able to stand over what you say

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especially on a platform and especially with brothers

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95 the younger must obey the older and

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I went and sat down and these little

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boys they wanted to hear my twang but

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I was just over from England after 12

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years in there I went there and I

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was 8 and I left when I was

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20 and I couldn't do anything I only

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speak English, well in the Lord's name will

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you use your own language and not try

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to be somebody else man it's obnoxious so

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I sat down among these little boys they

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knew that I spoke English because they heard

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me tell an hour's tale and 10 of

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them got their heads right round me and

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I got my head round them and I

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said Lord help me what will I say

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I didn't know and they were all wishing

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to hear what I would say and I

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was wishing for them to get something to

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say and I think maybe Ailish would help

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me, I don't know and I said and

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I began to speak I said we've just

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sung wonderful things in the Bible I see

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and I said no we have been singing

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wonderful things in the Bible I see although

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I say we have been singing wonderful things

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in the Bible I see I know God

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will forgive me but I couldn't help it

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I couldn't speak any other way now that

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got their attention and I said if we've

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been singing the hymn of truth every one

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of you will tell me some wonderful thing

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you've seen in the Bible so this little

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boy started off he took 2 or 3

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minutes of the woman at the well and

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said aye that's good I never asked her

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that in my life forgive her but I'm

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just telling you what happened and I'm doing

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this to encourage young teachers can't teach them

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in the English dictionary anybody can say it

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and I said now it's your turn and

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this little boy he started to tell me

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about a woman and the Lord Jesus at

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the well I said that's quite good my

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boy though I never heard tell of it

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before and then I said it's your turn

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now and he told me 2 or 3

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minutes about a blind man that the Lord

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Jesus healed I don't know what but the

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whole ten of them took 2 or 3

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minutes each and I give them all credit

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for doing well and they didn't know whether

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they were doing well or not but you

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know whenever they got round and all told

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of the little story the bell rang it's

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5 minutes to 4 and like the apostle

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Paul I thank God and took courage and

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I'm going on to say love your scholars

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visit your scholars pray with your scholars pray

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with them in the home pray with them

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harder pray with them harder now start well

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what is that?

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that's the blessed book of God there's no

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substitute for it take heart dear brethren and

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sisters in Christ it's the only thing God

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has promised to bless he has always blessed

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it and he will bless it in the

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future and avoid new things no matter who

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introduces them in the Sunday school there's no

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substitute for the blessed book of God Psalm

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30 and for Psalm 30 and I finish

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David encouraged himself in the law of his

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God you get plenty of discouragement so did

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I you get discouraged by the teachers and

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you get discouraged maybe by the superintendent he

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doesn't understand you you get discouraged by the

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scholars and a whole lot of other things

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you maybe get discouraged in the home and

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when you get there remember it's the Lord

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his God and when they were going to

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stone David after all his kindness to them

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was over the stone David David encouraged himself

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in the law of his God many a

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time I done the same when I was

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teaching class for 20 years I loved that

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I would have stayed there only I had

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to clean out the Sunday school and go

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to preach the gospel because I got, I

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wouldn't join the union and I had to

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leave my job and consequently I had to

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go to preach God bless you brethren and

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sisters in Christ God bless you teachers, but

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listen it's not a play job, get down

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to the praying and whatever difficulty may arise,

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take it to your God and Father and

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encourage yourself in the Lord his God, especially

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give them the Bible as the first preacher

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said, especially visit them as the second and

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certainly keep the soul's salvation before you I

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saw don't forget that good big topical line,

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I saw five of my scholars saved and

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one in the assembly which I belong to

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and the whole five of them belong to

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the same family, one of them is a

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missionary in India another is the wife of

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a preacher and I think the other three

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has gone home to heaven David encouraged himself

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in the Lord his God you do the

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same and God bless you and may you

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have the immeasurable joy of seeing your children

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getting saved for eternity and growing up to

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be men and women for God, for our

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all Jesus Christ