The Letter O — Walter Wilson

So I won't have to have a chiropractor when I get through troubles, and books on heart troubles, and books on nerve troubles, because I want to know how to handle those things. And the lawyers buy books that cover the kind of cases that they expect you to face.

And if you want to become a useful, fruitful Christian, get books that will help you to be that. And then you'll find that at the end of your days you'll be so glad you read those books. Now, some of the best books in the world are books I've written.

Of course, if I don't say it, who will? The Growing Up for God contains a chapter on how to study the Bible, how to remember where things are in the Bible, and how to know the Holy Spirit. And there are two chapters that are practical.

I wrote this for young converts, but lots of old converts need it, too. Growing Up for God, plus his full sum of 50 cents. Ye know him, tell you how to know the Holy Spirit, because most of God's people don't.

Very few people ever mention him in prayer or in conversation, never depend on him for anything, and he's just as important as the Father, and just as important as the Lord Jesus is. But we pay almost no attention to him.

That book will show you how I got acquainted with the Holy Spirit through Dr. Gray at the Moody Bible Institute, and how it changed my own life. There's just one chapter on that. And then why you should pray to him, why you should watch his work and depend upon him.

That's Ye Know Him, 50 cents. Strange Heart Stories is a book on how to open a conversation with people. It's about hangings, and red pencils, and hen eggs, and ants, and beans, and postage stamps, and butterflies, and dogs, and hardware, and leaves, and flies, and fleas, and dandelions, and Christians, and nuts, and old shoes, and flags.

All sorts of things that I use in opening a conversation with folks. Little short stories that will help you to be a soul winner. The Moody, small Moody books, you ought to get some of those and put them in the fire departments in your city, or in the police department.

Those fellows sit around with nothing to do. They just have more time to waste. Get some of those little 40 cent Moody books and put them in there. We did that in Kansas City. We put them in every fire station in the city.

And the men just befollowed them. And they get the gospel, you see. You may know telling how many you'll win for Christ with those little books. The Miracles in a Doctor's Life, Remarkable News Stories, The Sure Remedy, Romance of Doctors' Visits.

They just, well, put them in, get some to your doctor's office, your dentist's office. And he'll let you put them in there. And that way you get a permanent record of the gospel in the office. Let's Go Fishing with the Doctors is a book on how to win souls for Christ.

That's my book on, a textbook on soul winning. And the picture on the front is a picture that was taken up, the drawing was made up at the Geneva, Lake Geneva, at Williams Bay. This very thing happened up there.

It's on the front of this book. Dictionary of Bible Types is my largest book and covers, I've tried to cover all the types in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The meaning of gold and silver and precious stones, the meaning of different trees.

Every tree in the Bible has a different significance. And the weather, and mountains, and hills, and valleys, and streams, and dogs, and not cats. Cats are only mentioned once in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned a good many times.

There's only one reference to cats. It's in the 91st Psalm. It speaks about the pestilence that walketh in darkness. This book on types will show you, beloved, how to understand the types in the Bible, and there are many, many others.

The other day I mentioned to you, thank you brother, I mentioned to you two books, one on the Holy Spirit and one on the Trinity, by Bitterstaff, Bishop of Exeter in England. I asked Mr. Creagle to reprint these books.

They're so valuable. This book is one of two books that made me fall right on the carpet and worship God. There's nothing like it in print, these two books. One on the Trinity and one on the Holy Spirit.

And they have them now. They come in over at the bookstore, and you'd be surprised how you'll get acquainted with God through those. And then this, the source book is a new name for an old book, really, the Topical Textbook.

Now the concordance tells you where every word is in the Bible, but this tells you where every thought is in the Bible, and it's arranged alphabetically. All thoughts that you find in the Word of God, practically, are listed here, and every place where that thought occurs in the Bible is listed there.

So you can take any thought that you want in the Bible and look up alphabetically in this book, and you'll find that same thought in all the other places where it occurs. I've had that for years, and this new edition is just lovely and wonderful, and helps you follow a thought down all through the Bible, and then the concordance helps you follow the Word all down through the Bible.

And here's one by my precious brother, Lehman Strauss. I love that man. He's 100 for the Lord in his messages and ministry through the years. He's just been wonderful to my heart. The third person in Trinity is entitled to this, Seven Devotional Studies on the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, His Lordship, His Life, His Leading, His Liberty, His Love, His Limits, and His Love for you.

That's by dear brother Lehman Strauss. Two dollars and a half, and it's worth it. Well, that's that all. You gave me 22 dollars and a half in quarters yesterday for the Navajo Indians, and I had a letter yesterday from them saying that two of the Indians that have been doing a little work up in the Navajo land have now taken up permanent work with their six little children at Hidden Springs.

So I wrote her back and said, This next collection that you give me, I'll send to that couple at Hidden Springs, a Navajo Indian, his wife and six children, giving their full time to spreading the gospel in that neglected part of the country.

Og’s Bedstead and the Meaning of a Self-Centered Life

Now, we're talking this morning about the letter O. So I want you to turn to the first page. Let's see, we find this following in Deuteronomy 3 .11. Deuteronomy 3 .11, this is the first lesson on the letter O.

That's in the Old Testament, page 197. How many Bibles do we have out there? Let's see. Oh, lovely. The rest of you left me in cold stories last week. And I noticed this wonderful lesson in this verse, Deuteronomy 3 .11.

For only Og, O-G, Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of giants. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Is it not in rabbis of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits of breadth thereof, as the cubits of a man.

And that's all he gets. That's his victory. He left the bedstead. How'd you like that on your tombstone? Isn't that something? Og, the king of Bashan, great big man who ruled over a country as big as the United States.

And ruled a good many years. And all he gets is one verse, and that's about his bedstead. Hey, look at that. Now, Og, the king of Bashan, left the bedstead. That's wonderful. It was made of iron, and was large.

Nine cubits. That's about 14 feet length of it, and about six feet width of it, and that's all. Now, how do you suppose God took up space in the Bible for that? Well, it turns out that bedstead told what kind of a man he was.

He was a man that looked after his own safety, so he made the bedstead of iron. And he looked after his own comfort, so he made it large enough to contain it. That's the Bible. His own comfort, his own safety.

God put it down. He didn't do anything or say anything worth writing down, except to let the bedstead. I wonder what God would say about us if we wrote up our lives. I have a friend in Kansas City that I've known many years.

And about six or eight years ago, I told my wife that if she ever said anything to this friend, and the answer didn't come back, I, I'd give her $50. That's six years ago. We'd take her to church in our car, take her home.

We'd go and visit her, and she comes to our house. But you can't say anything about anything under the sun. But she answered, I. I did this, or I did more than that, or I knew that before you told me, or I something.

I still got me $50. That woman lives absolutely wrapped up in herself. None attached to our hearts, whether that kind of life we live. For our own comfort and our own safety. Wasn't that a wonderful word Brother Raymond Strauss gave us about security?

I just love it. I said, I value that. Well, that's his actual heart. Every morning we get up, do we think of our own security and our own comfort? Or are we thinking of others? And say, glory to God. Now, the next case is, uh, begins with letter O2.

The Spirit of the Lord Clothing His Servants

And you find that in, uh, Judges, chapter 3, verse 10. That's five words. Judges, chapter 3. And you look at this one. This is a lovely one. And you may never have noticed it. Chapter 3 of Judges, verse 10.

Have you all found it? Remember, you preacher brethren, when you give out a scripture, wait till the people find it. Because if they haven't found it and they're looking for it, they're not listening to you.

You might as well save your breath to cool your coffee, because they're not listening to you. They're trying to find the place. And they think that Judges, and Genesis, and Jude, and John, and James, and Jeremiah are all in the same place because they all begin with J.

Now, look at verse 10. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him that is Othniel. Perhaps you've read, read verse 9 just mentioned. When the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel, Othniel, O-T-H-N-I-E-L, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Othniel, and he judged Israel and went out to war. Now, he is one of four men of whom it's said the Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with him. That's what it is in the Hebrew.

The Spirit of the Lord clothed, you know, it's a marginal reading, if you have a marginal reading, the Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with Othniel. That happens four times in the Old Testament. Gideon is the next one.

In February of Gideon, Judges 6, 34, the Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with Gideon. And the next one is Amastei, 1 Chronicles 12, 18. The Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with Amastei. And Zechariah is the next one in 2 Chronicles 24, 20.

The Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with Zechariah. That is, he so filled him that all that was left was the skin of the self. You look, you don't even know who it was, but all the rest of him was Holy Spirit.

He was filled with the Spirit. These four men in the Old Testament days. Isn't that wonderful? Now, the first thing, this Othniel, the Spirit of the Lord filled himself, filled Othniel, for fighting to win Israel's victory.

You know, you remember dear T .T. Shields. He was that kind of a man up in Toronto. He was always after the enemy, false doctrine, people with false beliefs and false faith. God raised that dear man up to fight the good fight of faith.

And then Gideon, he was raised up for leadership. The Spirit of the Lord filled that man, says he clothed himself with Gideon. And then for leadership, Israel needs somebody to lead them. And God raised up that man.

And the fourth in the Mashiach was for comership. Remember, he came out to David and says the Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with the Messiah. And David said, You for us? He said, Thine am I, David, known thy side thou some death.

For fellowship. And you need to be Spirit-filled for fellowship. And then the last in Zechariah was for holiness. Remember, he stood between the temple, the altar, and the gate, and recruited a king for a permitting idolatry in the land, and pleaded for holiness in Israel.

The Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with that man. And those are the four things, beloved, that we need to be Spirit-filled for. The Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with, with, Gideon. With, off you go.

That letter O. You see, we take Christianity sort of a sideline, and we like to be good on Sunday, and we like to be nice, and we should be, of course, and pay our debts and be polite. And polite and cultured, and we're fine, that's nice.

But God wants something more positive than that. So when people meet you, they get something of heaven on them. Have you noticed the last verse of Haggai, where God says, I will take thee, O's rubbable, and make thee as my signet, saith the Lord.

Signet. Well, I've seen the signet of Queen Victoria, and King George, and King Edward the Sixth. I've seen their shield that they use for imprinting wax, you know. They're in the Tower of London in England.

And everything that ring touched left an imprint of the king or the queen there. So God says, I'll take you, O's rubbable, and make you my signet, so that every life you touch will receive something from heaven.

Every life you touch will receive an imprint of God. Wouldn't you like that? You know, I wrote in my Bible, God do that to me. I wrote that in my Bible. I owed a commerce trust company a lot of money one time, $545 ,000, in fact, when I had my paint shop.

And then when I took the last $25 ,000 in, I gave it to the treasurer, the vice president that I was dealing with. And I said, I'd like to meet the new chairman of the board of this bank and thank him for his kindness to me in letting me have that money.

So he took me into this big political office. And Mr. Adams was, at that time, the president of the bank. He's now in Detroit. And he shook hands with me and thanked me for being a good customer, and I thanked him for lending me the money.

You know, the three days after that, I put my hand up to my wife's nose, and I said, smell that, sweetheart. What color was her hair? Oh, I said, you're mistaken. That came off the hand of the chairman of the president of the bank of commerce.

Three days before that, I shook hands with him, and the perfume on that man's hand stayed on my hand nearly a week. This was three days ago. And I washed my hands eight or ten or twelve times a day. He didn't get that stuff for ten or twelve.

And when I did that, I said to my lover, I wish that was possible for me. Such a contact with God that I would be a sickness, so that each life touched would get something in heaven, something to go on.

You know, we ought to want that. We ought to crave that. He did it for his lovable. And then again, in this matter, well, turn to the 62nd Psalm. That's what I want to talk about. This is just preliminary.

I have to have something to get started with, you know. I never got to go to Bible college, so I didn't learn homiletics. In homiletics, you know, you have a firstly, secondly, thirdly, and lastly, and everlastingly.

And so I didn't get to take that. Look at Psalm 62. Truly, my soul waiteth upon God, from him cometh my salvation. Now, that word truly shouldn't be the word only. You notice in the margin of your Bible, it says only.

Only my soul waiteth upon God, from him cometh my salvation. Now, David's saying that this is wrong. He wanted everybody to know that he was waiting on his soul, waiting on God. He wanted everybody to know.

He never dreamed that we would have it at Winona Lake there, all these years later. About 2 ,500 years ago, he didn't know we'd have it here. But you see, what he said was so valuable. God wrote down his book so we could have it here in Winona.

I wonder if you and I have said anything at all to God or about God that's worth repeating and memorizing and passing on to the neighbors and friends in the coming generations. Have we said anything like this?

You see, when you talk about him, that's valuable to him. Only my soul waiteth upon God, from him cometh my salvation. Cometh, you see, he isn't talking about his original coming. He's talking about a daily coming, salvation every day from the things that we need to be saved from, bad tempers and stinginess and laziness and indifference and perilousness and all sorts of things that we need to be saved from each day.

Well, David said, my soul waiteth upon God. I'm just waiting every day for him to see what he'll do today for me. And he was surrounded by enemies inside and outside. His own family was his enemies. And the outside nations wanted to come in and get all his valuable possessions.

David didn't have any sense to go picnic. He had a terrible time off. So he's telling us, this great, wonderful man, 2 ,500 years ago about, truly, my soul waiteth upon God, from him cometh my salvation, that it's only, only my soul waiteth upon God.

Only. Now, let's be honest here. Do we feel like that we can only get from God what we want to have, what we need? A young fellow said to me, I'm going off to a seminary, Dr. Wilson. I hope you'll pray for me.

Well, I asked him, what will I pray for? I don't like to go to God and live off going for something. When you ask anybody to pray for you, tell them what to pray about. You know, that's all foolishness, just say, pray for me.

Because you don't know what you want. You don't go to the banker and say, pray for me. You should ask them to buy $5 or whatever it is. Don't go to God and say, pray for me. You should go to people and say, pray for me.

Ask them what is definite. And so I said to him, what are you going to the seminary for? Oh, I want to be a preacher. I said, have you spoken to the grocery man today? No. Did you speak to anybody today about the Lord?

No. I said, what are you going away to college for? You won't learn how to speak to people over there. You learn that right now. See, he was waiting on an education before he would talk to anybody about the Lord.

You don't need that. All you need to do is love, be in love with him. You remember the end of the conversation with the elders in Hebrews 13? Considering the end of their conversation with Jesus Christ, no matter what they started to talk about, they ended up talking about him.

No matter what their conversation was about, they ended up talking about him. Considering the end of their conversation, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, that is, they talked about him yesterday and today.

They're talking about him today and tomorrow they're going to be talking about him. That's where they end up their conversation. Only my soul waited from God. And then verse 2, he only. You see, we're on the letter O.

This is the only psalm. He only is my rock and my salvation. Now, since I've been at the conference here and it's seen everywhere, people come to me in soul trouble because they don't think they've come right, or they believe right, or they've done right.

They think they're saved if they have a funny feeling at all. Exposure sometimes. But they don't know this verse. He only is my rock and I'm a feeling. You're just as much saved when you don't feel like it when you are, when you do feel like it.

That's right. Your feelings have done good. Now, you're just as much married when you're talking business with somebody as when you're making love to her. You're just as much married. You see, your relationship with the Lord doesn't depend on your feelings.

It doesn't depend on whether you feel happy or feel sad, or whether you feel safe or feel insecure. I don't know if you heard the two folks going to England on Queen Mary, and one was sitting in a deck chair enjoying the sunshine, the other one was wrapped around the railing, holding on to the railing so to get over there safely.

So try and get over there safely. It doesn't depend on your feelings at all. And you might be weeping and sobbing when he paid the debt all the time. I was talking with a woman over at Medicine Lake. She was sitting on the front seat.

There was 17 young people she brought to that conference. And when I was talking about the sacrifice of Calvary and the man that was slain, I saw her start to weep. And I went over and I said, what's the matter?

She said, I don't think I wonder the blood. I don't think I've been saved. And I said, that's too bad. I said, I'll tell the Lord about it. So I kneeled down beside her right in the sawdust in the cabinet.

I said, Lord Jesus, I'm certainly ashamed of you. The way you mistreated this woman. You died for everybody except her. I can't understand. She said, shut up. Why are you telling that boy? Well, that's what you said.

She was trusting and appealing for her experience with some of the others. Not him. He only is my rock and my salvation. He only. I was talking with a nurse up in the research hospital. I was up seeing some patients.

He said, I wish I had the piece that you had, Dr. Wilkins. Well, I said, did you ever sing the song? Jesus paid it all. Yes, I said, I've sung that since I was a little girl. Well, did he pay it all for you?

He didn't. Come on. Come on, tell me. Did you sing it? Yeah, I've sung it many times. Well, did you sing the truth or was it a lie? Come on, did he pay your debt or didn't he? She didn't answer me, but she dropped down beside a chair that was there by the window.

And the tears running down her face. She said, Lord Jesus, I am sure ashamed of myself. I haven't seen Mark. He paid my debt and I never knew it till today. He said, he really did. You see, the group of feelings is something or other.

I said, he owns it. Owns it. He owns it. You have taught him no feelings. Not the Lord no experiences. Not the Lord no faith or anything else. It's all. You just rest in the rock. I was drowning one time and I thought sure I was going to heaven with a watery grave.

And when I couldn't swim anymore, I turned over on my back and floated down the river until I got to where the river spread out all the two cornfields. I thought, well, the river couldn't be very deep here.

It's spread out so far. So I let down my feet and bless your life. My feet hit a rock. Was iron dead and had long toes. Boy, I hung on to that rock. I didn't look to see if it was the neck of this rock or the back of this rock.

I said, he only is my rock. And you rest on him and nothing else. Not experiences. Not your faith. Not your feelings. He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. After I'd been saved about a year and a half or two years, a neighbor named Ms. Webster was going to heaven or something.

And she came and said to my mother, I don't think Walter's saved Paul. He hasn't been saved. One day he's way up in the mountaintop, neck deep down in the gully. He hasn't got anything. And she told me.

And that worried me. To think that the neighbor didn't think I was saved. So I went up in the bedroom. I got on the knee and I said, no, Lord, Ms. Webster don't think I'm a Christian. I found out after because I wouldn't cut a grass to nothing.

That's the reason she didn't think I was Christian. I discovered that. But I searched myself to see if the Lord Jesus put my sins away or didn't. And when I found he did it, that set me free. All I needed was more of the spirit of God to make my life more than it should be.

I remember an old judge at Lexington, Missouri. He was about 80. And he'd been a judge for 50 years. And his daughter called me up one day and said, will you speak to my dad if he comes over to the hotel?

He can't go out of the hotel. He's too feeble. If you meet him at the hotel, he wants to see you. He had heard me on the radio. So I went down to Pickwick Hotel and this girl came in on the bus. And I took him up on the mezzanine floor.

And I said, what's in your heart, judge? He said, Dr. Wilson. I've sent many a man to the gallows, to the hanging, the gallows. And I sent many a man to the penitentiary. And now God's going to send me to the gallows.

And he will send me to the penitentiary. And I don't want to go if there's any way out. So I turned to John 14 6. I am the way, way out and way up. You belong to him, judge. He goes to take the hanging for you.

He goes to the penitentiary for you. He was wounded for your transgressions. He was bruised for your iniquity. The punishment of your peace was from him. And with his stripes, you are healed. And that dear old fellow trusted the Savior.

That was in October. The next January, another daughter of his called me up to move on in with Billabong. And said, Dad, Terry wants to see you. So I went over. He said, Dr. Wilson, did Jesus put my sins away or didn't he?

No, I won't know. Because I went to church yesterday. His church is just about half a block from where he was. So his daughter helped him over there. And the preacher started to pray. He said, Lord, forgive our sins.

Then when he got to the end of his meeting, he said again, Lord, forgive us our sins. So he said, I made my way down the aisle. And I said, Brother, haven't you ever been to Calvary? And he said, he kind of stammered around.

He said, well, yeah, I've been to Calvary. And he said, where are you asking him to forgive your sins for if he put them away at Calvary? And he couldn't answer. He just stumbled around. So I said to you, I won't know.

Did he put my sins away or didn't he? Bruised fellow. So I read to him. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins. Return unto me, for I have redeemed thee. Isaiah 44, 22.

And the little fellow burst into tears out of his eyes. He said, thank you, Lord. I know you've done it. But there was some doubts in my mind. Didn't he put them away or didn't he? He's my defendant. I shall not be greatly moved.

I want you to notice that word. You know, every word in the Bible is important, just like everything you use is important. I was giving a lecture one time on the value of the human body. That's one of my hobbies.

On the different parts of the body, the miracles in the human body. And at the close, a woman came up and said, I'd like to know what good the appendix is. I said, it's good for $150. I'd get rid of it for less.

Kept many a doctor out of the poorhouse. Now he says, I shall not be. The Lord is my defense. I shall not be greatly moved. Now you look down at verse six. He only. There it is again. Is my rock and my salvation.

He is my defense. As the rest of us say. Oh, where'd that greatly go? He had greatly in verse two. But you see, after he got talking about the Lord being so great, he's greatly disappeared. I shall not be moved.

Not at all. Solid, substantial, firm. No greater than this. I love that. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So when there are doubts there, you get to your Bible. And the spirit of God will lead you if you trust him.

He'll lead you to the passage and clear all those doubts out of your mind right away. And he loves to do it. When I come back to verse four. They only consult to cast him down from his excellency. That's the only job the unsaved have for Christian is to wreck his life.

Resisting Attacks on Christian Faithfulness

And just as sure, beloved, as you have a talented gift of any kind, the devil will try to take that thing away from you. He wants to cast you down from your excellency, because those who walk with God are excellent people.

They're the B-T-O-E of the earth, the best people on earth. And the devil wants to take it away from you. If you're a happy Christian, he'll try to bring some sorrow to you. I remember one morning at home, I was getting ready to go up on the platform and preach.

And my heart was just full of joy of the Lord that morning. And a woman came up to tell me what Mrs. Jones did. I would look like dead doing what she did, Dr. Wilson. And I think you ought to know it.

Well, you know what that does to a fellow? That kind of a yawn takes the joy out, takes the sweetness out. Doesn't it? Anything of that sort. The devil wanted me to lose that enthusiasm I had about my scriptures to preach on that morning by telling me that junk.

If you're a person of faith, he'll bring something into your life to make you question whether it's right or not. Anything. That's his business. They only consult to cast him down from his excellency.

You try to get you to waste your time and stay at home from church because some relative came to see you. I guess somebody has to keep fast because you've got a headache. You thank God if you ever have a headache, you've got to have something in there.

It wouldn't make empty-headed people never have headaches. And they want to keep anything to do with your soul and heart. That's the devil's business. So he says, they only consult to cast him down from his excellency.

They delight in lies. My sweetheart told me one day that a relative of ours told her that another relative had told her, we hated her, we didn't like her, we didn't want her, we didn't want her a house, we endured her.

Never happened in the wide world. And for several years, that dear relative of ours wouldn't come near us because somebody told her a lie. And then I said, well, we ought to find out what's wrong with that house.

And we went over there. No, we invited them to our house. That's the best way. And we filled them up with fried chicken and dumplings. No, they don't serve dumplings with fried chicken. Stewed chicken and dumplings.

And pumpkin pie with whipped cream on it and mugs just to fill that girl up. And then we said, what do you got against us? Try that with your enemies. That's what the Savior did with Peter. He fed him fish and toast.

Then he said, do you love me? Well, what did he say? They only consult to cast him down. And now that relative and the husband, we've had the sweetest fellowship being mingled. And we should have had that for seven last years or eight years.

We should have had and could have had it if somebody hadn't pulled it along. Be very careful, beloved, that you're not a garbage carrier. Then verse five. My soul, my talking to himself. In that night, nobody said to himself.

I see people walking along the street talking to themselves. Very interesting. But here he's talking to himself. My soul, wait thou only upon God and upon that inheritor you'll get in your grandmother.

My soul, wait thou only upon God and your efficiency and proficiency in business. We had a wonderful surgeon in Kansas City. Not a surgeon, but a chest doctor. Heart and chest. A wonderful fellow. He was known for all over the middle west.

Very fine fellow. But he was a foul mouthed fellow. I studied under him in college. His mouth was always full of rotten stuff. But he got a heart attack himself. He was lying in bed. And he sent for me to come and see him.

In the college, I was trying to win him for Christ. I gave him gospel tracts and talked with him, but he didn't want it. But he sent for me. And he said, look Walter, I'm never going to get out of this bed.

God's going to send me to hell. And I know that my friends can't do anything for me. All my doctors can't do anything for me. I've got an incurable heart attack. And I want to know how you save me. I had the joy of going up there to Dr. Cross in his last illness.

Dead. Wait thou only upon God. He said, I don't know any remedy that I can go to except for a few thoughts. My soul, wait thou only upon God. Beloved, write that word only down in your heart. Not in the bottom of your heart, because that's no good.

The bottom of your heart is a solid bit of gristle. That's no good either. Don't ever tell anybody you love them from the bottom of your heart, because there's nothing there. It's a hard, solid piece.

You know, you try to eat a chicken's heart, or a cow's heart, and that tickles down there. Oh, terrible. That's not good. So it's from the top of the heart that you love. My soul, wait thou only upon God.

For, you notice the next part of it, my expectation is from Him. Now that's the sweetest word, that Hebrew word, expectation. It's a word that's used about baby birds in the nest, and you hear the flutter of mother's wings out there, and they know she's got a worm or something.