1 00:00:01,029 --> 00:00:02,690 Thank you very much. 2 00:00:03,750 --> 00:00:06,530 Now, tonight, in the will of the Lord, 3 00:00:06,590 --> 00:00:09,230 we'll be speaking on the baptism of the 4 00:00:09,230 --> 00:00:13,050 Holy Spirit, but it's suggested in the mornings 5 00:00:13,050 --> 00:00:15,790 we have something a little more informal, and 6 00:00:15,790 --> 00:00:19,670 I just thought I would give a testimony. 7 00:00:20,010 --> 00:00:23,670 Sometimes many of you don't know anything about 8 00:00:23,670 --> 00:00:24,970 us, and we're strangers. 9 00:00:25,170 --> 00:00:28,990 Sometimes it helps you when someone tells you 10 00:00:28,990 --> 00:00:30,790 how they get saved, and other things how 11 00:00:30,790 --> 00:00:32,810 the Lord led us into pioneer work, and 12 00:00:32,810 --> 00:00:33,350 so on. 13 00:00:34,030 --> 00:00:35,730 So, first, I want you to turn to 14 00:00:35,730 --> 00:00:37,890 the Mark's Gospel, Chapter 5. 15 00:00:38,930 --> 00:00:40,530 Mark's Gospel, Chapter 5. 16 00:00:42,750 --> 00:00:44,610 My microphone's over there, like that. 17 00:00:45,590 --> 00:00:46,630 Can you hear me all right? 18 00:00:48,090 --> 00:00:48,730 Is it up? 19 00:00:49,530 --> 00:00:50,050 Is that better? 20 00:00:51,890 --> 00:00:53,230 I've been waving my hands. 21 00:00:53,310 --> 00:00:55,070 I might knock things around here. 22 00:00:57,950 --> 00:01:00,310 When I talk, my wife keeps a little 23 00:01:00,310 --> 00:01:01,590 safe distance from me. 24 00:01:01,650 --> 00:01:02,810 You know, some people have to talk with 25 00:01:02,810 --> 00:01:05,190 their hands, as well as with their lips. 26 00:01:07,730 --> 00:01:10,210 The two scriptures that stand out much in 27 00:01:10,210 --> 00:01:16,970 my life, one is this portion before us, 28 00:01:17,490 --> 00:01:20,370 and that is since I've become a Christian, 29 00:01:21,530 --> 00:01:24,350 and the other one is in Genesis, Chapter 30 00:01:24,350 --> 00:01:28,730 24, where the Abraham servant said, I being 31 00:01:28,730 --> 00:01:30,370 in the way, the Lord led me. 32 00:01:31,910 --> 00:01:33,430 And, we don't have to walk in the 33 00:01:33,430 --> 00:01:34,610 dark when we're believers. 34 00:01:35,950 --> 00:01:38,170 The Lord can lead us and direct us 35 00:01:38,170 --> 00:01:40,210 each step of the way in every aspect 36 00:01:40,210 --> 00:01:41,470 of our lives. 37 00:01:42,110 --> 00:01:43,790 We're yielded to him. 38 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:47,550 Anyone who really wants to know his will, 39 00:01:47,630 --> 00:01:50,110 he shall know that the Lord Jesus and 40 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:51,490 shall know the doctrine. 41 00:01:53,350 --> 00:01:56,470 Mark, Chapter 5, is a marvelous chapter. 42 00:01:57,110 --> 00:02:00,690 I'm just going to read the, most of 43 00:02:00,690 --> 00:02:02,590 you all know it, but let's read the 44 00:02:02,590 --> 00:02:03,230 Word of God. 45 00:02:03,430 --> 00:02:05,470 It's probably better than anything we can say. 46 00:02:06,770 --> 00:02:08,710 They came over onto the other side of 47 00:02:08,710 --> 00:02:11,290 the sea, into the country of the Gadarene. 48 00:02:12,490 --> 00:02:14,110 And, when he's come out of the ship, 49 00:02:14,150 --> 00:02:16,710 immediately they met him out of the tombs 50 00:02:16,710 --> 00:02:20,910 of men, with an unclean spirit, who had 51 00:02:20,910 --> 00:02:22,490 his dwelling among the tombs. 52 00:02:22,590 --> 00:02:25,150 And, no man could find him, nor not 53 00:02:25,150 --> 00:02:27,470 with chains, because that when he had been 54 00:02:27,470 --> 00:02:30,490 lost and found with feathers and chains, and 55 00:02:30,490 --> 00:02:33,230 the chains had been plucked asunder by him, 56 00:02:33,490 --> 00:02:36,330 and the feathers broken in pieces, neither could 57 00:02:36,330 --> 00:02:37,950 any man tame him. 58 00:02:38,570 --> 00:02:40,990 And, always night and day he was in 59 00:02:40,990 --> 00:02:44,250 the mountains, and the tomb, crying and cutting 60 00:02:44,250 --> 00:02:45,690 himself with stone. 61 00:02:46,450 --> 00:02:48,770 When he saw Jesus afar off, he ran 62 00:02:48,770 --> 00:02:51,690 and worshipped him, and cried with a loud 63 00:02:51,690 --> 00:02:53,970 voice, and said, what have I to do 64 00:02:53,970 --> 00:02:56,010 with thee, Jesus, thou son of the most 65 00:02:56,010 --> 00:02:56,470 high? 66 00:02:56,990 --> 00:03:00,110 God, I adjure thee, by God that thou 67 00:03:00,110 --> 00:03:01,530 torment me not. 68 00:03:02,310 --> 00:03:04,370 For he said unto him, come out of 69 00:03:04,370 --> 00:03:06,510 the man, thou unclean spirit. 70 00:03:07,030 --> 00:03:09,470 And they asked him, what is thy name? 71 00:03:10,170 --> 00:03:12,270 And he answered, saying, my name is Legion, 72 00:03:12,890 --> 00:03:14,010 for we are many. 73 00:03:14,750 --> 00:03:16,690 And they besought him much that he would 74 00:03:16,690 --> 00:03:18,650 not send them away out of the country. 75 00:03:19,610 --> 00:03:21,690 Now, there was nigh unto the mountain a 76 00:03:21,690 --> 00:03:23,650 great herd of swine feeding. 77 00:03:24,490 --> 00:03:27,530 All the demons besought him, saying, send us 78 00:03:27,530 --> 00:03:29,950 into the swine, that we may enter into 79 00:03:29,950 --> 00:03:30,390 them. 80 00:03:30,950 --> 00:03:33,130 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. 81 00:03:33,750 --> 00:03:36,130 And the unclean spirits went out and entered 82 00:03:36,130 --> 00:03:39,550 into the swine, and the herd ran violently 83 00:03:39,550 --> 00:03:41,790 down the steep place into the sea. 84 00:03:42,390 --> 00:03:45,390 There were about two thousand, and were choked 85 00:03:45,390 --> 00:03:46,210 in the sea. 86 00:03:47,010 --> 00:03:49,610 And they that fed the swine fled, and 87 00:03:49,610 --> 00:03:51,030 told it in the city and in the 88 00:03:51,030 --> 00:03:54,110 country, and they went out to see what 89 00:03:54,110 --> 00:03:55,430 it was done. 90 00:03:56,630 --> 00:03:59,730 And they come to Jesus, and see him 91 00:03:59,730 --> 00:04:02,130 that is possessed with the devil, and hath 92 00:04:02,130 --> 00:04:04,350 the Legion sitting and closing in his right 93 00:04:04,350 --> 00:04:04,830 mind. 94 00:04:05,410 --> 00:04:06,530 And they were afraid. 95 00:04:07,170 --> 00:04:09,270 Then the Lord told them how to tell 96 00:04:09,270 --> 00:04:12,510 to him that they were possessed with the 97 00:04:12,510 --> 00:04:14,770 devil, and also concerning the swine. 98 00:04:15,610 --> 00:04:18,110 And they began to pray him to depart 99 00:04:18,110 --> 00:04:19,810 out of their coasts. 100 00:04:19,890 --> 00:04:22,450 When he had come into the ship that 101 00:04:22,450 --> 00:04:24,970 had been possessed with the devil, prayed him 102 00:04:24,970 --> 00:04:26,490 that he might be with him. 103 00:04:27,510 --> 00:04:30,950 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but said unto 104 00:04:30,950 --> 00:04:33,730 him, go home to thy friends, and tell 105 00:04:33,730 --> 00:04:36,870 them how great things the Lord has done 106 00:04:36,870 --> 00:04:40,870 for thee, and hath had compassion upon thee. 107 00:04:41,270 --> 00:04:44,210 And he departed, and began to publish in 108 00:04:44,210 --> 00:04:48,650 Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for 109 00:04:48,650 --> 00:04:53,050 him, and all men did marvel. 110 00:04:53,850 --> 00:04:57,750 Little boy had his blessing for this striking 111 00:04:57,750 --> 00:04:59,790 portion of his holy work. 112 00:05:01,110 --> 00:05:06,770 I read this in when his lady came 113 00:05:06,770 --> 00:05:07,950 and spoke to me. 114 00:05:08,170 --> 00:05:10,550 It was under the mosquito nest in the 115 00:05:10,550 --> 00:05:12,770 tent in the edge of the Sahara Desert 116 00:05:12,770 --> 00:05:13,770 in North Africa. 117 00:05:16,030 --> 00:05:18,250 Most of us are called to the Lord's 118 00:05:18,250 --> 00:05:21,730 work in this country to go some other 119 00:05:21,730 --> 00:05:24,130 country, but I was called in Africa, in 120 00:05:24,130 --> 00:05:28,110 Northern Africa, to go back to Prince Ebbot 121 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:30,890 Island to preach the gospel there. 122 00:05:31,630 --> 00:05:34,790 And this was the verse in verse 19. 123 00:05:35,170 --> 00:05:38,050 Go home to thy friends, and tell them 124 00:05:38,050 --> 00:05:40,770 what great things the Lord has done for 125 00:05:40,770 --> 00:05:43,290 thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 126 00:05:44,330 --> 00:05:47,970 It really just stood out in bold letters 127 00:05:47,970 --> 00:05:50,170 to me as I was reading that out 128 00:05:50,170 --> 00:05:51,530 there in Northern Africa. 129 00:05:52,190 --> 00:05:54,070 Northern Africa is a hot spot. 130 00:05:54,150 --> 00:05:56,310 It used to be 120 in the shade, 131 00:05:56,690 --> 00:05:58,630 and when that wind was blowing, it was 132 00:05:58,630 --> 00:05:59,690 like in a furnace. 133 00:06:00,470 --> 00:06:02,750 We used to put our metal tins out 134 00:06:02,750 --> 00:06:04,530 in the sun to get hot water to 135 00:06:04,530 --> 00:06:06,890 shade with, and it didn't take very long 136 00:06:06,890 --> 00:06:07,890 to heat the water. 137 00:06:08,850 --> 00:06:12,170 From 12 to 4 in the afternoon, it 138 00:06:12,170 --> 00:06:13,950 was too hot to work on the airplane, 139 00:06:14,510 --> 00:06:16,630 so we had a fiesta, and that's when 140 00:06:16,630 --> 00:06:18,110 I used to then read the word. 141 00:06:18,450 --> 00:06:20,190 All I had was a New Testament, and 142 00:06:20,190 --> 00:06:22,610 for four hours a day we'd be reading 143 00:06:22,610 --> 00:06:24,630 the word, and while I was reading it, 144 00:06:24,950 --> 00:06:27,450 God by His Spirit really spoke to me 145 00:06:27,450 --> 00:06:28,730 through this portion. 146 00:06:29,790 --> 00:06:32,090 It's remarkable that the Greek principle stood out 147 00:06:32,090 --> 00:06:34,010 here in the same principle as you get 148 00:06:34,010 --> 00:06:35,210 in Acts chapter 1. 149 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:40,780 You shall receive power as the Holy Spirit 150 00:06:40,780 --> 00:06:42,780 come upon you, and you shall be witnesses 151 00:06:42,780 --> 00:06:47,660 unto me, for us, to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, 152 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:50,020 and unto the other more parts of the 153 00:06:50,020 --> 00:06:51,820 earth, and that's the principle that Paul has 154 00:06:51,820 --> 00:06:54,780 made as you compare it with Luke chapter 155 00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:57,080 8, where you have a parallel passage. 156 00:06:58,020 --> 00:07:00,440 In Luke chapter 8, he says to him, 157 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:04,320 return to thine house and show them what 158 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,260 great things the Lord has done for thee. 159 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,960 Here, he tells them, return to your friends 160 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,160 and tell them the showing comes first, and 161 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:14,160 it starts at home. 162 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:17,660 The light that shines the furthest shines the 163 00:07:17,660 --> 00:07:18,980 brightest at home, doesn't it? 164 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,280 Anyone can say they'd be a tie-broken 165 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,120 Christian in a meeting, but how is it 166 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:24,620 at home? 167 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,060 What kind of a testimony do we have 168 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:27,360 there? 169 00:07:27,420 --> 00:07:29,120 That's the big thing. 170 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,100 He refers to return to his own house 171 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:35,000 and show them by his light. 172 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:38,180 Then, he was to tell his friends. 173 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,100 Thirdly, in Luke's gospel, it says he went 174 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:47,820 and he populated throughout the city at Samaria, 175 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,860 if you like, and here the province, Decapolis, 176 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,600 several areas there, and he populated throughout there. 177 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,740 So, there you have the expansion of the 178 00:07:57,740 --> 00:08:00,040 testimony, and if that's what our lives should 179 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,340 be, we also need to continually expand our 180 00:08:04,340 --> 00:08:04,920 youthfulness. 181 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,640 You know, my father-in-law used to 182 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,760 say that his olden years would be the 183 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:12,380 most fruitful. 184 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,620 It might be a fruit in old age. 185 00:08:14,660 --> 00:08:16,240 That was one of his favorite verses when 186 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,640 he became older, and that's a great desire 187 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:19,640 to have, isn't it? 188 00:08:19,940 --> 00:08:21,700 It would never be because I'm old I 189 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:22,500 can't do much. 190 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,480 Now, the greatest ministry is available to us 191 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,500 as we get older, and that's the ministry 192 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:28,360 of intercession. 193 00:08:28,380 --> 00:08:30,800 Ministry of prayer, which we're going to have 194 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,299 in a little while. 195 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:35,100 I just thought I'd give a little word 196 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:35,820 of testimony. 197 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:37,960 We have these things informal, give a little 198 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:38,700 background. 199 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:41,740 You can tell by my southern accent that 200 00:08:41,740 --> 00:08:44,580 I also said that's what I thought I 201 00:08:44,580 --> 00:08:46,760 was one time I spoke in Toronto, and 202 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,980 one girl said to my wife, Walter, did 203 00:08:48,980 --> 00:08:50,900 you hear that fellow's southern accent? 204 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:57,480 But, I was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and 205 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,580 baptized as a baby. 206 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,200 Christian, they called it, but it didn't make 207 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:02,840 me a Christian. 208 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,560 That's the sad part, isn't it? 209 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,800 And, you know, the people over in Denmark, 210 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,640 I visited several times since, and my cousin 211 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,340 said to me, you know, Stan, if a 212 00:09:15,340 --> 00:09:17,660 man is good to his wife and family, 213 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,760 and makes an honest living, and goes to 214 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,000 church once every three years, we consider he's 215 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:24,760 a good Christian. 216 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:27,360 That's what it is. 217 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:29,740 That's the definition of a Christian. 218 00:09:29,860 --> 00:09:31,220 I had a great time to witness to 219 00:09:31,220 --> 00:09:31,520 him. 220 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:34,700 So, that's what often people think. 221 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,380 My father always wanted to come to Canada. 222 00:09:39,580 --> 00:09:43,300 So, in the depression in 1920, he lost 223 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:45,300 his job, and while he still had money, 224 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,280 he came over to Canada in 1929. 225 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:53,660 1930, he bought a farm, and sent for 226 00:09:53,660 --> 00:09:56,940 the family, a mother, and three brothers, and 227 00:09:56,940 --> 00:10:02,160 one sister, into a little place called Prince 228 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,360 Edward Island in 1930. 229 00:10:05,140 --> 00:10:08,000 So, two churches there, one baptized by a 230 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,360 merchant, and one was baptized by a straightening, 231 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,640 and the other one was baptized by a 232 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:13,200 straightening. 233 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,820 They said, well, you're more like us than 234 00:10:16,820 --> 00:10:17,340 the Baptist. 235 00:10:18,940 --> 00:10:20,900 Anyway, both at that time. 236 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:22,800 And so, you join us. 237 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,640 So, they joined, and the next question wasn't, 238 00:10:24,740 --> 00:10:26,600 how much can you pay for the church 239 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:27,160 every year? 240 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,340 You see, the more families they had, the 241 00:10:29,340 --> 00:10:30,040 more support. 242 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:32,540 But, there was never a question of us 243 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:34,720 being born again or being saved, and I 244 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,140 was raised in that neighborhood. 245 00:10:37,020 --> 00:10:39,200 It was a horse and donkey day, so 246 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,400 there was no tractors when we came in 247 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:41,960 that area. 248 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,820 There was no electricity in that area, and 249 00:10:44,820 --> 00:10:46,880 we used to walk three miles one way 250 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,880 to attend services, sometimes twice on the Lord's 251 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:50,200 Day. 252 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,500 We'd walk an afternoon and evening, walk 12 253 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:54,060 miles. 254 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:56,760 The horses had to rest because they worked 255 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,920 hard all week, but my father said, you're 256 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,160 young, you can walk, and that's what we 257 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:01,560 did. 258 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:02,180 All the time. 259 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,880 So, we did drive with wintertime when the 260 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:10,580 horses were not working so hard, and I 261 00:11:10,580 --> 00:11:15,400 was 21 years old before I ever heard 262 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,160 the gospel that I know of. 263 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:19,680 We went there faithfully. 264 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:20,300 I listened. 265 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:22,480 I could tell that my parents, what the 266 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,680 minister spoke on and all that, but I 267 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:26,740 never understood the gospel. 268 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,520 Then, the Second World War came along. 269 00:11:30,220 --> 00:11:32,500 My oldest brother was engaged to be married, 270 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:34,520 and he was talking about joining up, but 271 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,020 my second brother and I, we said, no, 272 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:38,020 we'll join up. 273 00:11:39,180 --> 00:11:42,240 We had one bicycle, and we bought one, 274 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,420 and we drove 40 miles to join the 275 00:11:44,420 --> 00:11:45,600 Canadian Army. 276 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:47,120 That's quite a ride on a bicycle. 277 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:48,740 You're not used to having it too much. 278 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,160 You get pretty sore by the time you 279 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:50,820 get there. 280 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:52,840 I was really there for that. 281 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,540 We joined the Prince Edward Island Highlanders. 282 00:11:56,540 --> 00:11:58,020 It was a Scotch Highlander. 283 00:11:58,100 --> 00:11:59,940 We used to wear the Glengarry, you know, 284 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,720 and old Ben had the kilts on, and 285 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,280 you Scot people might appreciate that. 286 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,520 I was only in the army four months. 287 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,540 We were stationed in Halifax, North Scotia, when 288 00:12:13,540 --> 00:12:16,420 the commanding officer came and called us to 289 00:12:16,420 --> 00:12:18,280 one side and said, we have to take 290 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:19,220 you home, boys. 291 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,080 Your oldest brother's funeral. 292 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:23,480 We didn't even know he'd been hurt. 293 00:12:24,220 --> 00:12:27,980 The officer kicked him, and he never complained. 294 00:12:28,140 --> 00:12:31,500 Gangrene set in, and in four or five 295 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:32,740 days, he was gone. 296 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,100 Turned black all over at the age of 297 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:39,940 25, and that was the beginning of God 298 00:12:39,940 --> 00:12:41,980 working in my life. 299 00:12:42,060 --> 00:12:44,100 God has to speak to us very loudly 300 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:47,960 sometimes before we listen, and it was through 301 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,460 a crisis. 302 00:12:51,260 --> 00:12:56,260 For two years, we were a very, very 303 00:12:56,260 --> 00:12:58,560 close-knit family, and I missed my brother 304 00:12:58,560 --> 00:12:59,560 so much. 305 00:13:00,380 --> 00:13:01,260 He was the oldest. 306 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:04,980 We were knit together for two years of 307 00:13:04,980 --> 00:13:05,380 searching. 308 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,400 Well, after we got rid of the mail, 309 00:13:08,580 --> 00:13:10,420 out with all the mail, and my father 310 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:12,620 then looked after the farm, I joined the 311 00:13:12,620 --> 00:13:18,700 Air Force, and I think Mrs. Moody is 312 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:18,920 here. 313 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:20,060 Is she here at this moment? 314 00:13:20,860 --> 00:13:23,240 She was here, but she went to a 315 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:28,940 little church in St. Thomas, Ontario, and for 316 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:31,480 the first time in my life, at 21 317 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,000 years old, I heard the gospel clearly preached. 318 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,260 It was a wonderful thing, isn't it? 319 00:13:37,820 --> 00:13:40,020 I'm sure you have felt like you're the 320 00:13:40,020 --> 00:13:41,140 only man in the audience. 321 00:13:41,260 --> 00:13:42,980 It was just like our heads and shoulders 322 00:13:42,980 --> 00:13:44,640 above everyone else sitting there. 323 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,500 He was looking right at me and preaching 324 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:46,820 to me. 325 00:13:47,020 --> 00:13:48,660 Somebody had told him all about me. 326 00:13:49,180 --> 00:13:49,880 Isn't that it? 327 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,220 That's the Holy Spirit, isn't it? 328 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:56,040 Well, he really speaks to our conscience and 329 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,280 to our heart, and I remember preaching that 330 00:13:59,280 --> 00:13:59,620 night. 331 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:01,120 If you were to die that night or 332 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,040 the Lord should come, where would you go? 333 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:04,880 And I wasn't ready. 334 00:14:04,980 --> 00:14:06,380 I was laying on a bench on a 335 00:14:06,380 --> 00:14:06,700 sunny morning. 336 00:14:06,820 --> 00:14:09,080 My heart was pumped. 337 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,080 The Holy Spirit was working. 338 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:12,340 I was late at night. 339 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:13,460 I couldn't go to sleep. 340 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,580 I was restless, rolling and turning. 341 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:16,980 Where would you go? 342 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:18,980 Are you ready to meet the Lord? 343 00:14:19,740 --> 00:14:21,480 And the word of God came to my 344 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,100 mind, Christ Jesus came into the world to 345 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:25,060 save sinners. 346 00:14:25,420 --> 00:14:26,560 Well, I qualified. 347 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:29,940 That's the place we have to get to. 348 00:14:30,020 --> 00:14:30,880 We know we're sinners. 349 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,580 And then he said, hidden there cometh the 350 00:14:33,580 --> 00:14:35,240 meal, lo, I cast out. 351 00:14:35,860 --> 00:14:37,980 He took him at his word, laid in 352 00:14:37,980 --> 00:14:39,740 my bunk, and accepted him. 353 00:14:40,140 --> 00:14:41,460 And I tell you, the joy of heaven 354 00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:42,400 filled my soul. 355 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,640 I was a happy man. 356 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:46,700 Oh, the burden that holds off. 357 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,060 I couldn't go to sleep with joy, and 358 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:50,940 I was picturing myself up in that country 359 00:14:50,940 --> 00:14:53,320 church where I'd gone so often, and I 360 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,960 was telling my friends how to be saved. 361 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:56,500 Well, I had that joy. 362 00:14:56,580 --> 00:14:59,640 Later on, after my first year at Emmaus 363 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,160 Bible School, I had the joy of going 364 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,720 home, and the first time I ever remembered 365 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,400 in that, I just mention this by way 366 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,020 of how the Lord leads, though having a 367 00:15:11,020 --> 00:15:13,060 week of evangelistic services. 368 00:15:13,260 --> 00:15:15,820 There's a low profile mind. 369 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:18,760 You're not much clear gospel, but because I 370 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,920 was a student at Bible school, the minister 371 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,680 took me up to the platform and asked 372 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:26,720 me to read the scriptures. 373 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:28,500 I said, well, if you only would have 374 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:29,560 said a few words. 375 00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:30,860 He said, yes. 376 00:15:30,940 --> 00:15:32,220 So, I gave him a testimony of how 377 00:15:32,220 --> 00:15:33,120 the Lord saved me. 378 00:15:33,420 --> 00:15:35,000 And the old evangelist, he got kind of 379 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,320 warmed up by the testimony. 380 00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:38,060 The first night to tell me he really 381 00:15:38,060 --> 00:15:38,860 preached the gospel. 382 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,600 But, that was Friday. 383 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:45,600 And Sunday, the minister had us home for 384 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,280 dinner in between the afternoon and evening service, 385 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,240 and so I said to the minister, isn't 386 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,180 it too bad the meeting has to stop? 387 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:54,020 Now, the people are just getting interested. 388 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,180 Well, he said, we're going to preach. 389 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,260 Dr. McKenzie can't stay any longer. 390 00:15:58,540 --> 00:15:59,740 Well, I said, I'll preach. 391 00:16:01,780 --> 00:16:03,380 Well, he said, I'll have to talk to 392 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:04,060 the elders. 393 00:16:04,820 --> 00:16:07,000 So, he did, and that night he announced 394 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,240 there'd be services next week. 395 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,620 And I'll tell you, I never in all 396 00:16:12,620 --> 00:16:16,560 my life, before nor since, have ever seen 397 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,080 the Spirit of God working like it did 398 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,600 in those four nights and five nights of 399 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:21,900 meetings. 400 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,020 People were actually trembling. 401 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:25,900 So, who was judging? 402 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,420 The old Dr. McKenzie, when he gave an 403 00:16:28,420 --> 00:16:30,240 invitation in the last night, he had people 404 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,060 stand right up. 405 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:32,320 So, I followed his critique. 406 00:16:32,460 --> 00:16:33,720 I said, now, if anybody wanted to be 407 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:34,920 saved, stand up. 408 00:16:36,220 --> 00:16:38,020 And, each night, folks stood up. 409 00:16:38,140 --> 00:16:40,580 And the crowds doubled during that week, and 410 00:16:40,580 --> 00:16:42,580 that was the beginning of that work on 411 00:16:42,580 --> 00:16:44,240 Pentecost Island unknown to us. 412 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,160 We never knew we'd be coming back again. 413 00:16:46,260 --> 00:16:48,660 Then, you see, we'd gone home to tell 414 00:16:48,660 --> 00:16:50,540 our friends what great things the Lord had 415 00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:53,520 done, and now there were some new converts, 416 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:54,780 and they needed shepherding. 417 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:55,880 They needed looking after. 418 00:16:56,220 --> 00:16:58,140 So, that way, we went back again to 419 00:16:58,140 --> 00:17:01,120 P.I.F. the next year at Emmaus 420 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:02,100 Bible School. 421 00:17:03,020 --> 00:17:06,480 So, I must tell you, too, is am 422 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,000 I boring you with coming to this? 423 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:10,960 We don't want to bore you, folks, because 424 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,160 sometimes you talk too much about oneself, you 425 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:14,380 know. 426 00:17:14,980 --> 00:17:16,500 It doesn't take me more than one morning 427 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:18,280 to relate some of these things to you. 428 00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:24,160 But, when I was overseas, the only Bible 429 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,980 school I knew about in Canada was one 430 00:17:26,980 --> 00:17:28,540 out in western Canada. 431 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,120 And, I wanted to go there, but I 432 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,360 couldn't get my day job. 433 00:17:33,460 --> 00:17:34,620 The way wouldn't open up. 434 00:17:36,020 --> 00:17:38,240 But, I had been overseas with a friend 435 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,360 by the name of Stan Stanford. 436 00:17:40,980 --> 00:17:42,240 Stan and I, we used to send our 437 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,360 leaves together, and we used to go to 438 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:48,980 and preach the gospel, you know, in Hyde 439 00:17:48,980 --> 00:17:51,660 Park, and give attractions, street corners. 440 00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:53,620 We just sent our whole leaves of serving 441 00:17:53,620 --> 00:17:54,340 the Lord. 442 00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:58,880 It's a great privilege, you know, and I'll 443 00:17:58,880 --> 00:17:59,640 never forget. 444 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:03,660 I'd never preached in my life, but we 445 00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:06,400 were standing with some men in Hyde Park, 446 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,260 a group of men that had opened their 447 00:18:08,260 --> 00:18:13,280 meeting, and preaching the faithful gospel. 448 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,220 And, in the afternoon, we were with them 449 00:18:18,220 --> 00:18:21,420 to supper, and I just want to tell 450 00:18:21,420 --> 00:18:22,580 you one incident here. 451 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:25,980 One man sitting right across from us, he 452 00:18:25,980 --> 00:18:27,500 said to my friend, what's your name? 453 00:18:28,260 --> 00:18:29,760 You know, he said, Stan Stanford. 454 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,080 Well, he said, you have nothing on me. 455 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,520 My name is Paul Carlson. 456 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,800 So, he said, Stan Stanford, you're nothing but 457 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:37,480 a big seal. 458 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:39,380 What's your name? 459 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:40,200 I said, Stan Christian. 460 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,420 You're nothing but a big seal. 461 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:42,300 Christ is everything. 462 00:18:43,380 --> 00:18:44,800 Well, then, we were at the meeting that 463 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,920 night again, and the man was preaching. 464 00:18:47,020 --> 00:18:47,920 He suddenly got down. 465 00:18:47,980 --> 00:18:48,840 He said, now I'm going to have my 466 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,700 father here give the word, and he pushed 467 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:51,240 me right up. 468 00:18:53,580 --> 00:18:54,780 Well, I thanked the Lord. 469 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:56,380 I left the word of God with Paul 470 00:18:56,380 --> 00:18:57,500 today for big fun. 471 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:04,200 And, the Holy Spirit just took, you know, 472 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:07,040 when you come into a meeting like that, 473 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:08,420 how blessed it is to have the word 474 00:19:08,420 --> 00:19:09,720 of God in your heart, and in your 475 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:10,720 mind, and your soul. 476 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:12,860 And, I preached for half an hour. 477 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:15,240 It's unbelievable. 478 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,480 The first time in a perfect way. 479 00:19:17,980 --> 00:19:21,660 The Lord just took me up, and took 480 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:23,580 a couple of souls to save that night. 481 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:24,780 That was the best part of it. 482 00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:26,040 A lot of folks get it. 483 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:29,580 But, Stan was a great friend of mine, 484 00:19:29,780 --> 00:19:31,720 and I'm coming back to what I was 485 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:32,140 telling you. 486 00:19:33,380 --> 00:19:34,960 I wanted to go to Bible school. 487 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:36,160 I couldn't get into the airport. 488 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,800 Then, I had a note from Stan Straight. 489 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,640 He says, I'm going to a Bible school 490 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:42,400 in Toronto. 491 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:44,200 The Emmaus Bible School. 492 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,160 It just opened this year in Central Gospel 493 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,400 Hall in Toronto. 494 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,980 They opened the Emmaus Bible School in the 495 00:19:50,980 --> 00:19:51,380 basement. 496 00:19:52,460 --> 00:19:56,800 So, I again called the authorities, and they 497 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,560 not only let me out of the airport, 498 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,300 but they sent me to Toronto to be 499 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:02,680 discharged and paved the way 400 miles. 500 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,640 And, that's how we come to go to 501 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:06,640 Emmaus Bible School. 502 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:07,780 The Lord opened the way. 503 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,600 He led, and that's where the Lord has 504 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,040 a wife for me. 505 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,400 I think we were the first couple that 506 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,000 were admitted in there, and were married. 507 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,600 The first couple to be married from Emmaus 508 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,160 Bible School back in May of 1946. 509 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,820 The Lord has given me a wonderful helpmate. 510 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,740 Like for you, if you're not feeling too 511 00:20:28,740 --> 00:20:30,560 good, like you're to pray for her. 512 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,720 If she didn't come this morning, you didn't 513 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:33,580 feel up to it. 514 00:20:33,660 --> 00:20:35,000 But, like you're to pray for her. 515 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,120 She's a wonderful wife to me, and I 516 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:39,040 really appreciate it. 517 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:46,800 So, when we went to Emmaus, we went 518 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,580 to one assembly, one church. 519 00:20:50,580 --> 00:20:52,540 All the time, we wanted to be faithful, 520 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,200 because we believed. 521 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:56,220 You see, I had no home church to 522 00:20:56,220 --> 00:20:58,860 preach the gospel, and we wanted to go 523 00:20:58,860 --> 00:21:01,740 someplace where they would get to know us. 524 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:05,200 You know, those great men came to Toronto. 525 00:21:05,420 --> 00:21:07,040 There were great preachers in Toronto. 526 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,960 Dr. Irons Eyes used to come up there. 527 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,900 There was a great TT, Dr. TT Shields, 528 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:14,580 and some of those men, and I never 529 00:21:14,580 --> 00:21:16,440 went to hear them once, because I wanted 530 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:17,120 to be faithful. 531 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:19,200 Now, sometimes I wish I had gone to 532 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,520 hear some of those great preachers, and learn 533 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:22,300 something, you know. 534 00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:25,480 But, I wanted to be faithful to that 535 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,980 local assembly, that local church. 536 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,760 So, after we were there three years, I 537 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,160 approached the brethren, and asked them, you see, 538 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:38,140 that we're exercised about going back to Pittsburgh. 539 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:40,520 I remember, go home to thy friends, and 540 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,880 tell them what great things the Lord has 541 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,040 done for thee, and have compassion on thee. 542 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,600 And, these dear brethren, and all the gospel 543 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,440 chapel in Toronto, they commended us to the 544 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,300 Lord's work in May 1948. 545 00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,400 I want to tell you something. 546 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,340 God is a great and a faithful God. 547 00:22:02,740 --> 00:22:03,880 He really is. 548 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:06,540 I remember these people up there had a 549 00:22:06,540 --> 00:22:07,560 farewell thought. 550 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,280 We were to go down to Princess Island, 551 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,800 that young couple, and some other students came 552 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,440 down with us as a team. 553 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,520 I just tremble now when I think of 554 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:15,620 it. 555 00:22:15,660 --> 00:22:16,780 Here, I was only saying, it was about 556 00:22:16,780 --> 00:22:19,120 three and a half years, or four years, 557 00:22:19,260 --> 00:22:21,100 when we took a team of students down 558 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:22,780 there to start a work. 559 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,200 We kind of frown as a bit of 560 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:25,680 a young fellow. 561 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,600 I think if we're doing that today, sometimes 562 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,060 we forget, as we get older, what we 563 00:22:30,060 --> 00:22:32,260 can do, what young people can do. 564 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,480 And, we went down there. 565 00:22:38,260 --> 00:22:39,880 My father-in-law said, do you want 566 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,380 to go down and tell some of the 567 00:22:41,380 --> 00:22:44,280 different assemblies and churches about your exercise, and 568 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,260 what you're going to do? 569 00:22:46,060 --> 00:22:48,000 I said, no brother, I'm going to trust 570 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:48,580 the Lord. 571 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,000 I'm going to look to him, and not 572 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,000 just look to men. 573 00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:57,280 And, exactly what we did, because we hadn't 574 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:58,540 proven anything. 575 00:22:58,660 --> 00:23:01,200 I hadn't done anything, and we thought the 576 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,980 man ought to prove himself in his work. 577 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,940 So, I remember a man at a farewell 578 00:23:07,940 --> 00:23:08,780 we had. 579 00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:12,880 He shook my hand sincerely, with his eyes 580 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,900 a little moist, and he said, Stan will 581 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:15,980 not forget you. 582 00:23:17,460 --> 00:23:20,260 And, I thought to myself, oh boy, that's 583 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:20,460 good. 584 00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:22,720 We've got someone here you can, that's going 585 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,100 to be telling us something once in a 586 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:24,300 while. 587 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,380 He said, oh father, no I never heard 588 00:23:26,380 --> 00:23:27,660 from that dear brother since. 589 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,000 Never put your confidence in man. 590 00:23:31,180 --> 00:23:32,520 Man at best is madness. 591 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,080 If you look to the Lord, and trust 592 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,520 him, that's so much better. 593 00:23:38,620 --> 00:23:40,500 And, we went down to Prince Edward Island 594 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:41,200 to labor. 595 00:23:42,660 --> 00:23:46,220 Now, remember this was, I would call pioneering. 596 00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:52,560 No, no testimonies established, but hardly a Christian 597 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,300 out at the altar here and there in 598 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:55,180 the old churches. 599 00:23:55,340 --> 00:23:57,800 But, most of the people were not saved, 600 00:23:58,620 --> 00:24:00,140 and we were in the pioneering. 601 00:24:00,660 --> 00:24:02,700 It was something to take a girl from 602 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:06,060 the city back into a back area with 603 00:24:06,060 --> 00:24:09,660 no electricity, where we saw horses and train 604 00:24:09,660 --> 00:24:10,300 them one at a time. 605 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,680 Horses wagging one at a time. 606 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,300 We've got an old basin farmhouse, had a 607 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:17,600 paper doll inside, and cleaned it up to 608 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,340 live in with a little girl six months 609 00:24:19,340 --> 00:24:19,820 old. 610 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,680 And, the water was out in the yard, 611 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,020 and I had to let a bucket down 612 00:24:24,020 --> 00:24:26,200 the well, and haul it up. 613 00:24:27,180 --> 00:24:30,300 And, and the outside conveniences out there too. 614 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,200 That's uh, it's always, but you know I 615 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,240 never thought a thing about that. 616 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,980 The Lord was so faithful, and how he 617 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:40,740 supplied our needs. 618 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:46,100 And, then we started doing, having vacation Bible 619 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:47,700 schools, and schoolhouses. 620 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:50,100 You have to run a community, and see 621 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:52,520 three or four trustees, and get their permission. 622 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,260 Often the thing is a ministry. 623 00:24:54,380 --> 00:24:55,220 There's always a ministry. 624 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:55,860 You can do it. 625 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:56,960 If it's not, you can't. 626 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,900 You know, you had always that type of 627 00:24:58,900 --> 00:24:59,620 thing to say. 628 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,360 And, that's how the work began. 629 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:03,680 It was hard going. 630 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,860 Got a few soul slaves to take, and 631 00:25:06,860 --> 00:25:09,560 you had to keep them the word, and 632 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,280 trust them, and see them baptized, and come 633 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,220 and down, and it was our first communion, 634 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:16,620 breaking the bread service. 635 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,080 It's thrilling, but I'll tell you there's a 636 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,600 lot of hard work to it. 637 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:24,680 When you first start, you don't have anybody 638 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,180 to do anything. 639 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:28,660 I remember coming to the, we, the first 640 00:25:28,660 --> 00:25:31,540 meeting we got, an old Church of Scotland 641 00:25:31,540 --> 00:25:32,760 building. 642 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,600 The sheep were using it for a shelter. 643 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:38,520 So, it holds all of the roots, and 644 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,060 the grass, it was just a network of 645 00:25:41,060 --> 00:25:41,580 grass. 646 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,380 We worked on it for a week, but 647 00:25:43,380 --> 00:25:46,560 Alan Weaver helped us on it, and it 648 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,780 was a lot of hard weeks and weeks. 649 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,600 We had to even clear the land, great 650 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,340 big trees, all of it, clear the land 651 00:25:52,340 --> 00:25:53,100 around it. 652 00:25:57,070 --> 00:26:00,530 It was a much, much hard physical work. 653 00:26:01,030 --> 00:26:02,610 And, then once you start the meeting, the 654 00:26:02,610 --> 00:26:04,810 meeting floor, you come there early, you light 655 00:26:04,810 --> 00:26:05,610 the stoves. 656 00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:08,230 We had gas lanterns then, and we had 657 00:26:08,230 --> 00:26:09,790 to put them all up, you know. 658 00:26:10,850 --> 00:26:12,750 Then, after you get all that work done, 659 00:26:13,270 --> 00:26:14,950 there's not no place to wash your hands. 660 00:26:15,030 --> 00:26:16,330 You get up and eat the thing, and 661 00:26:16,330 --> 00:26:17,590 preach with dirty hands. 662 00:26:18,430 --> 00:26:20,230 Wash them all the best that you could. 663 00:26:20,930 --> 00:26:22,650 When you look back at that, it's a 664 00:26:22,650 --> 00:26:25,070 little different than what a lot of folks 665 00:26:25,070 --> 00:26:26,670 call pioneering today. 666 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:32,120 When we started the work in, in, later 667 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:36,620 on in Charlottetown, and this is before the 668 00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:40,040 power saws, and so, I thank the Lord, 669 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:41,820 he gave me a good strong body, but 670 00:26:41,820 --> 00:26:43,700 we went in single-handed and cut all 671 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:46,580 the lumber, and the wood, hauled it to 672 00:26:46,580 --> 00:26:49,000 the mill, or the truck, and then hauled 673 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,120 it into the chapel. 674 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,840 And, then a lot of that, and that 675 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,920 doesn't save, and we pour the old cement 676 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,080 with a hand cement mixture, and built that 677 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:57,620 chapel. 678 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,620 It's almost a year. 679 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,900 It has three carpenters only for five, six 680 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:04,680 weeks, and the rest we did ourselves. 681 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,260 It was hard going, but now you see, 682 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,220 it's wonderful when you look back, and you 683 00:27:11,220 --> 00:27:13,440 see what God is doing, and how these 684 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,260 different assemblies are growing. 685 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,820 The first little country assembly we started up 686 00:27:20,820 --> 00:27:24,300 in the country has carried on now for 687 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:25,600 many years on their own. 688 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:27,640 It's been hard there, because people keep moving 689 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,260 away because of lack of employment, but now, 690 00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:33,560 just the last couple of years, there seems 691 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,000 to be a new blessing on that work. 692 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,520 Several new couples have come into it, and 693 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:45,480 another young brother has been commended, fireshop there, 694 00:27:45,620 --> 00:27:49,620 and the Italian island boy, he's helped them 695 00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:50,060 some. 696 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,500 He lives about 15 miles from there, and 697 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:53,720 we go out and help them some, and 698 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:54,600 the work has been growing. 699 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:56,880 And my own son, Timothy, some of you 700 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,540 know Timothy, who came here, and Timothy wants 701 00:28:00,540 --> 00:28:01,480 to be remembered too. 702 00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:02,900 We had another woman yesterday. 703 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,940 Timothy's a real help there, and on the 704 00:28:06,940 --> 00:28:09,820 10th of the 26th was his mother's birthday, 705 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:11,780 so he said, mother, I spoke to them 706 00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:14,920 on raising children, and I think much about 707 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,400 you on your birthday. 708 00:28:16,620 --> 00:28:18,360 So, he visited that morning. 709 00:28:18,380 --> 00:28:19,980 He doesn't do all of them in by 710 00:28:19,980 --> 00:28:23,240 any means, but several of them take part, 711 00:28:23,380 --> 00:28:25,680 and they take turn in visiting the world. 712 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,560 It was encouraging to see what was established 713 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,400 in that old Church of Scotland building. 714 00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:32,580 They put on an extension to it now, 715 00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:34,840 with several more Sunday school buildings, and it's 716 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,560 good to see that work moving ahead. 717 00:28:39,260 --> 00:28:40,860 It's all a different way, you know, when 718 00:28:40,860 --> 00:28:42,560 you go out and find that you've got 719 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:43,860 different works. 720 00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:48,440 One area, like there, we started the Sunday 721 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,100 school, and the Cajun Bible school, Bible studies, 722 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:53,760 and it grew into a work. 723 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,080 In Montague, a town about 60 miles from 724 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,000 there to the center of the eastern part 725 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,060 of the island, we started to work there 726 00:29:01,060 --> 00:29:04,420 with open-air meetings, and it was a 727 00:29:04,420 --> 00:29:07,420 thrill to see people listening to that. 728 00:29:07,660 --> 00:29:11,860 We had tent meetings, and also Bible school, 729 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,660 and the work was established at Montague. 730 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,700 And, boy, thank the Lord, it has been 731 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:19,020 growing steadily the last few years. 732 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:22,580 It was encouraging to see that. 733 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:27,240 Now, as one, there's still needed places up 734 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,620 in that part of the world, in New 735 00:29:29,620 --> 00:29:33,720 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Pinnacle Island, and Newfoundland. 736 00:29:33,820 --> 00:29:35,700 There's areas they can go into where there's 737 00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:39,360 no gospel preached whatever that is in the 738 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,020 community. 739 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,180 Modernistic churches are just ritualistic. 740 00:29:44,740 --> 00:29:47,500 Some places there's enmity, too. 741 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,660 We try to get into the testimonies to 742 00:29:52,660 --> 00:29:54,060 a place deeper there. 743 00:29:54,460 --> 00:30:02,740 Strong Roman Catholic area with Irish and French 744 00:30:02,740 --> 00:30:05,400 background a lot, but they're very, very strong 745 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,040 and bitter. 746 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,880 They're just looking back now 25, 30 years. 747 00:30:09,940 --> 00:30:10,920 We went up there. 748 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,380 We had a portable altar. 749 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,020 We set it up on the street, and 750 00:30:14,020 --> 00:30:16,520 started to pray, and on a Saturday night, 751 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:17,780 people all came to town. 752 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,580 You see, from all around the town area, 753 00:30:19,980 --> 00:30:21,460 and in no time, there were about 300 754 00:30:21,460 --> 00:30:24,620 people gathered, and, boy, did they like the 755 00:30:24,620 --> 00:30:24,940 singing. 756 00:30:25,060 --> 00:30:26,460 A few of us were singing, and all 757 00:30:26,460 --> 00:30:26,920 liked it. 758 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,140 But, whenever you started to speak, then opposition 759 00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:30,740 came. 760 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:32,700 It wasn't very long. 761 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:33,640 My wife was there. 762 00:30:33,740 --> 00:30:36,920 I'd come home from there flattered, and that's 763 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,220 true. 764 00:30:37,220 --> 00:30:39,900 We were flattered with eggs, and tomatoes, and 765 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:42,720 what have you, whatever they could find, and 766 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,140 the priest, and the lawyer that was there, 767 00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:49,480 strong Roman Catholic, put them up to it. 768 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:55,540 Well, it's so intensified that they even stoned 769 00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:55,940 us. 770 00:30:56,980 --> 00:30:59,980 One sister, she stoned him, and we had 771 00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:01,860 to hold up for a moment, because the 772 00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:05,440 days, you know, and the Mounted Police, as 773 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,760 they're still out there, said, we just can't 774 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,280 protect you any longer. 775 00:31:11,420 --> 00:31:13,300 Remember, we were there the last night, and 776 00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:15,420 that crowd really mocked us. 777 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:17,840 An old father was at once up there. 778 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:20,480 He was preaching for 30 some years, an 779 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:21,220 old fisherman. 780 00:31:22,340 --> 00:31:24,080 He started the word in his boat, and 781 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,160 saw these principles of the word that we 782 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,900 believed so dearly, and he said, in all 783 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:31,120 my 32 years as a Christian, it's the 784 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,740 first time I feel like a soldier of 785 00:31:32,740 --> 00:31:33,220 the cross. 786 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,200 I'll tell you, it weeded out the boys 787 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,140 from the men when you went up there, 788 00:31:38,340 --> 00:31:40,140 but it was a great joy. 789 00:31:40,660 --> 00:31:41,700 I want to tell you an incident that 790 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:43,400 happened there one night. 791 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,760 We'd just finished the singing, and I said, 792 00:31:47,820 --> 00:31:48,960 I was going to open and pray, and 793 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:49,940 the fellow came right up. 794 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:50,920 He was drinking. 795 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,120 He said, you're not going to pray tonight. 796 00:31:54,260 --> 00:31:54,960 I said, I'm going to pray. 797 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,780 The minute you pray, they're going to hit 798 00:31:56,780 --> 00:31:57,020 you. 799 00:31:58,320 --> 00:31:59,680 He said, close your eyes, and I'm going 800 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:00,120 to hit you. 801 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,060 Another chap came up, whom I knew, a 802 00:32:05,060 --> 00:32:06,700 partisan fellow, and got in between us. 803 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:07,780 He said, you go ahead and pray. 804 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,800 So, we prayed, and nothing happened. 805 00:32:12,860 --> 00:32:15,760 All the time that night, that priest, these 806 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,400 two fellows were shirking me. 807 00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:24,200 Oh, the other fellow, the fifth clint, the 808 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:25,480 way he distracted us. 809 00:32:25,940 --> 00:32:27,180 You cannot distract me. 810 00:32:28,260 --> 00:32:30,220 If you can preach, and hold attention, and 811 00:32:30,220 --> 00:32:30,620 that's it. 812 00:32:30,780 --> 00:32:32,120 It's good training, isn't it? 813 00:32:33,140 --> 00:32:36,340 But, these are some of the things that 814 00:32:36,340 --> 00:32:39,740 we have enjoyed, that we have tried to 815 00:32:39,740 --> 00:32:39,960 serve. 816 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,930 The Lord has been faithful, and in our 817 00:32:44,930 --> 00:32:47,990 years in Prince Edward Island, we had the 818 00:32:47,990 --> 00:32:52,690 joy of helping with our poor families, and 819 00:32:52,690 --> 00:32:54,710 we just had the joy this summer of 820 00:32:54,710 --> 00:32:57,590 having another one between the two main cities 821 00:32:57,590 --> 00:32:58,310 on the island. 822 00:32:59,370 --> 00:33:01,470 I just had a letter from them yesterday. 823 00:33:01,750 --> 00:33:03,210 I'll probably, I can hand it to me. 824 00:33:03,310 --> 00:33:07,650 It's having families there, meeting together, and they 825 00:33:07,650 --> 00:33:08,970 are kings of encouragement. 826 00:33:08,970 --> 00:33:10,470 We'd like to pray for them. 827 00:33:10,490 --> 00:33:13,350 A little village, sort of a center, where 828 00:33:13,350 --> 00:33:15,890 different communities come into, by the name of 829 00:33:15,890 --> 00:33:17,310 Hunter River. 830 00:33:18,430 --> 00:33:21,270 A little newer family just established there for 831 00:33:21,270 --> 00:33:21,870 the Lord. 832 00:33:23,130 --> 00:33:25,190 Now, it's all worth time. 833 00:33:25,270 --> 00:33:27,410 If anybody has any questions they want to 834 00:33:27,410 --> 00:33:29,070 mention, or something like that. 835 00:33:37,290 --> 00:33:41,130 Well, yeah, that's right, because as far as 836 00:33:41,130 --> 00:33:42,970 the record says, they went into the climb, 837 00:33:43,050 --> 00:33:45,510 the climb went down into the, and we're 838 00:33:45,510 --> 00:33:46,310 all choked. 839 00:33:46,830 --> 00:33:48,430 It doesn't mention what happened at the end. 840 00:33:48,950 --> 00:33:50,130 I guess we'll have to wait to get 841 00:33:50,130 --> 00:33:51,130 the evidence, if I may. 842 00:33:51,910 --> 00:33:54,430 I guess any answer would be speculation, wouldn't 843 00:33:54,430 --> 00:33:54,990 it? 844 00:33:56,390 --> 00:33:58,950 Unless somebody else knows the answer, I don't 845 00:33:58,950 --> 00:33:59,150 know. 846 00:33:59,430 --> 00:34:17,250 You see, right, 847 00:34:17,650 --> 00:34:19,130 and that's a good point. 848 00:34:19,750 --> 00:34:22,489 You see, I believe that there's a real 849 00:34:22,489 --> 00:34:26,710 point there, if the Lord wanted to, he 850 00:34:26,710 --> 00:34:28,510 could take us to heaven as soon as 851 00:34:28,510 --> 00:34:29,710 he sees us, isn't it? 852 00:34:30,630 --> 00:34:32,150 But, no, he says, I want you to 853 00:34:32,150 --> 00:34:33,630 go and be a witness here. 854 00:34:34,330 --> 00:34:35,690 I want you to seek to bring others 855 00:34:35,690 --> 00:34:36,170 with you. 856 00:34:36,850 --> 00:34:38,969 We're left here as ambassadors for the Lord 857 00:34:38,969 --> 00:34:39,389 Jesus. 858 00:34:39,489 --> 00:34:40,750 Isn't that a marvelous thing? 859 00:34:41,330 --> 00:34:42,770 We're here to represent him. 860 00:34:43,670 --> 00:34:47,230 We're just, this is not our home. 861 00:34:47,429 --> 00:34:48,409 We're just passing through. 862 00:34:48,409 --> 00:34:49,989 Heaven is our fatherland. 863 00:34:50,449 --> 00:34:52,810 We want to be the inhabitants, and the 864 00:34:52,810 --> 00:34:54,110 Lord has left us here to witness. 865 00:34:55,130 --> 00:34:56,330 You want to go to be with him? 866 00:34:56,450 --> 00:34:57,950 He said, no, we can't, as I think. 867 00:34:58,290 --> 00:35:00,870 And, I believe, if you follow the scriptures, 868 00:35:01,130 --> 00:35:04,250 that later on, through this man's testimony, the 869 00:35:04,250 --> 00:35:06,110 way was opened up for the Lord through 870 00:35:06,110 --> 00:35:08,730 groups of other people there. 871 00:35:11,930 --> 00:35:13,470 And, you check it out. 872 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,840 Oh, all right. 873 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,120 He went to the ball, says that he 874 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,840 bore the mark of his body. 875 00:35:26,620 --> 00:35:28,660 Well, I bear the mark, and my body 876 00:35:28,660 --> 00:35:31,120 too, of Immanuel Bible Camp. 877 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,740 Stan Strait, the dear brother that's laid up 878 00:35:36,740 --> 00:35:38,620 in the island many years together with us, 879 00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:40,360 came up the time we came up. 880 00:35:41,740 --> 00:35:44,620 Stan is an excellent, lovely brother. 881 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,240 To tell you a quick little story about 882 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:52,060 Stan, the same minister that asked me up 883 00:35:52,060 --> 00:35:55,540 on the platform at that time, and we 884 00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:56,740 had those gospel meetings. 885 00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:59,020 When it was the funeral on, he was 886 00:35:59,020 --> 00:36:01,160 always a gracious old scotchman. 887 00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:03,040 You know, any other preacher, he'd ask up 888 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:08,340 on the platform, and Stan was inclined to 889 00:36:08,340 --> 00:36:10,160 be a wee little bit on the late 890 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:10,600 side. 891 00:36:11,460 --> 00:36:14,820 So, after the funeral had just started, Stan 892 00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:16,680 came in, and he stood behind the Paul 893 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,440 Barrett, and the old Mr. McLeod, who was 894 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,320 hard of hearing, you know, and he whispered 895 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:23,280 very loud. 896 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,320 He did like this for Stan, and Stan 897 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,060 didn't come. 898 00:36:28,620 --> 00:36:30,440 So, right in front of Stan was a 899 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,700 man by the name of Norman McLeod, with 900 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:36,320 a little bit hunched back, and he did 901 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,800 like that, and Norman called him, and he 902 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,800 came up, and he didn't know Stan was 903 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:40,400 behind him. 904 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,740 He whispered very loud, Stan Strait! 905 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:47,760 The old boy straightened up. 906 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,340 He said, I thought Stan was straight as 907 00:36:51,340 --> 00:36:52,000 the rest of them. 908 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:58,140 That really happened, but with the camp, Stan, 909 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,320 we built it in 1954. 910 00:37:02,860 --> 00:37:04,840 The folks had given us a gift, and 911 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:10,660 we bought some shingles and things, and as 912 00:37:10,660 --> 00:37:14,780 soon as January 1954, we announced the camp. 913 00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:18,880 We had 5,000 camp holders printed, announcing 914 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,660 a chance to open July the 3rd with 915 00:37:22,660 --> 00:37:28,300 a $3.21 building fund, and you know 916 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:30,080 the Lord really undertook. 917 00:37:31,180 --> 00:37:33,000 A camp was built, and the first year 918 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,600 we had 80 campers, but oh, I've seen 919 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,050 the Lord supply in wonderful ways. 920 00:37:40,980 --> 00:37:44,800 One night at a time, I think I'll 921 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,100 continue tomorrow night. 922 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,320 So, we'll tell you a little more about 923 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:50,120 how the Lord supplied. 924 00:37:50,260 --> 00:37:51,180 Let's have a word of prayer.