Smuggled Out In the Trunk of a Car

Smuggled Out In the Trunk of a Car

by Roland Brown

Transcribed from the original recording; may contain errors.

And loving Father, continue to empty us of self, that we may be filled with Thee. Amen. I had the strangest dream the other night. I dreamed that I died and went to heaven. Amazing. And St. Peter, on my arrival, gave me some chalk and told me to write all my sins down on the stairs that were leading. And so I began writing a different sin on every stair ascending. When I got about halfway, lo and behold, if I didn’t see Tony coming down the stairs. And I said, “Why, Tony, what are you coming back for?” And he said, “After more chalk.”

Oh, God is so good. Even let us go to heaven. He’s so good. Jesus is so wonderful. And we really don’t begin to sense His amazing goodness and His amazing grace until you get out into some of the less privileged countries.

And there your heart begins to bleed. And you begin to shed tears now and then. In fact, your heart is bleeding all the time. Especially in the countries in Asia. In the Middle East. All in through what Indonesia is the center of.

As you see the numbers of people who just vanished. Hungry. Starving. Sick. No medical attention. You can go just a few miles from Florida, our own country, and be in one of the most poverty-stricken spots in the Western Hemisphere.

Where they pick up dead on the streets every now and then who have starved to death. And we don’t seem to think about it, or remember it. Or if we do, we say it’s too bad. Isn’t that a shame?

Too bad. Or we can go down into Mexico. And if you’re a tourist, you’ll gather your clothing around you maybe, glad that you’re not as dirty as some of the people are around you, until you begin to realize that they’re dirty because they don’t have water to wash with.

And they have to walk long distances to get a pail of water. And when you have to go to such sacrifices as that, of course the kids are dirty. And the older people are dirty too. But don’t blame them. Pray more.

The first talk that I ever heard Frank Laubach give was in the Chicago Temple. And while he was speaking, he reached his arms over, you know those long arms, I can’t begin to imitate him, but his hands were hanging limp on the other side of the pole.

And he said, “It seems as though the blood drips from my fingers.” Some of us feel that way too, because it’s our fault. World conditions are our fault and no one else’s. Don’t blame the communists, or try to even think that they’re trying to find a better way.

Don’t blame them. But blame ourselves. For we’ve been given the way. And we have Him who we claim sometimes lives within us, who said He is the way. We have everything. We lack nothing. Except sometimes Him. And that’s our fault too.

In India they say that there are just two classes of people in the United States. Those who have someone wash their Cadillacs, and those who have to wash their own Cadillacs. But it’s very expressive. Because every one of us is a millionaire compared with most of them. And that isn’t kidding.

When you begin to see hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people sleeping on the sidewalks of one city. They say there are 300,000 people in Calcutta without a place to sleep except on the sidewalks. They call them pavements. Outdoors. Not even a newspaper over their heads.

Many of them refugees. And some of you have seen pictures that I’ve taken of them, day after day, year after year. I said to one person one time, an Indian friend of mine, “What do these people do when it rains?” For then maybe a hundred people living in one little area, not too far from a temple.

And I said, “What do they do when it rains?” And do you know what the reply was? “They get wet. There’s nothing to do.” Maybe it’s fortunate it doesn’t rain all the time. Yes. And there is something that we can do. There is something that we can do that touches every need in this world.

That there are some things that are basic, folks. We know it, deep in our heart. And we’ve been reading a lot of books, that is, you folks have. I don’t get a chance to dip into many. And keep on reading. But don’t think, just because you’re reading a lot of books and understanding what the books say, that that is all you need to do.

Let it stir you to the depths so that you will pray. And we talk about it. And sometimes we argue about it. And sometimes we strive to find new methods. And sometimes even get out on the fringes. Because it’s so wonderful. Things are so revealing. And the strange experiences, the unique experiences that sometimes we have, so intriguing.

And in the midst of it we forget the hungry. And that one of the greatest commands that Jesus made is that we pray that the kingdom of God may come on earth just as it is in heaven. May come on earth.

May come in your hometown. May come in your city. May come in your church. May come in your home. May come into your own life. Just as it is in heaven. What is your vision? What is your purpose?

Is your purpose to have a little tickling sensation inside and say, “Isn’t this wonderful?” Oh no. We’ve got a great mission, folks. There’s a world at stake tonight. And there are some people that are living in fear all the time. As some of you were having a little touch of it last night, when we went down into the catacombs.

Yes. We can do a lot about these things. But it seems to me as though most of us are just playing a little game. Oh, I know I’m talking to saints and would-be saints. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every one of us, for instance, have the deep, deep desire to be a saint?

Is that what you’re praying for every day? That you might be just like Jesus. That’s what you want, isn’t it? Yes. In your sober moments, when you face the statements that He made, yes. You admit you ought to be like Jesus. But you know you’re not. Well then, pray about it. It may be that the more you hunger and thirst to be like Jesus, the more like Him you’ll become.

But you’ll never grow anywhere near like Him unless you have a desire, unless you want to be. And if you want to be, so that that becomes the supreme, passionate desire of your soul, then you’re on the way toward becoming like Jesus.

And why should we want to be like He is? Why should we take time every day to pray? Why should we be striving to have some inner sensations, as some people do strive for? Why all this striving when Jesus tells us that unless we become as a little child, we cannot even enter the kingdom of God?

And you know, as well as I do, that the most important thing along this road is becoming selfless. That was the heart, at the heart of all Glenn Clark’s teaching. Erasing self, emptying ourselves, emptying ourselves of self, getting rid of the rubbish, as Alice is always talking about.

And you’re not getting rid of the rubbish just by doing rhythms. That’s no substitute for it. It’s a help. It’s to bring it into focus, so that we’ll take hours in the room with the door shut, engaged in the process of getting rid of the things that don’t belong.

All kinds of unrighteousness that we find within our thoughts, within our hearts, within our very souls. And it’s not going to happen just by going to camps. The camp experience won’t do it.

But I’ve found very few people who have ever gone to a camp but whose life was tremendously blessed and helped because of it. But it wasn’t because of the camp experience, but because of what he began to do when he got back home.

Some of you know the story that I have told. I’m not going to tell it now. But of the man that followed me around in England one time, and the next year, when I was over there, said, “You know, last year when you was here, I listened to you talk 50 times.”

I said, “Well, I don’t doubt it. Why did you do it? You were always present every time I was in the area, the creator of your community. Why did you do it?” And then he said, “Because I wanted to lay hold on this thing that some people have. And I know it is something that cannot be learned. It must be caught.”

And we do some of that catching in the camps. Some of that catching when we’re with people who have it. Somebody asked Rufus Moseley one time how he could get the Holy Spirit. Well, he suggested that he’d be a, it might help if he was a, stayed around an individual who has the Holy Spirit.

It’s contagious. No one has trained you to be good. No one has argued you into being good. No one has given you a ritual to follow so that you can be good. You are what you are today because you want to be. And you’re just as good today, and I am too, as I want to be. And we’re just as bad as we want to be, every one of us, right now. And if we want to be better tomorrow, we can be better tomorrow.

And if we want to be better next week, we can be better next week. But it takes time. Some of you have heard me say a great deal that it’s the easiest thing in the world to be good, providing one thing. And here’s the rub. If you want to be good. But you face yourself when you are being tempted.

Freeze it, and look it straight in the face, and say, “Why do I want to strike back? Why do I want to think like this?” And always the answer: “Because I want to.” In one short period of time, Marsha and I were in ten countries controlled by dictators.

And you know, every time we would leave one of those countries, it felt so good to be out. Oh, we could breathe more freely. Because you’re afraid what you speak, you may be overheard. You may use a word in a way that someone will misinterpret it. And they follow you around in some places.

I don’t know how many times they have followed us in Egypt, not just in Cairo either, but even in Upper Egypt. Numbers of times we’ve had meetings in Luxor, right across the Nile River from the Valley of the Kings. And on our last time in Luxor, we went over into King Tutankhamen’s tomb.

And a man and his wife went down into the tomb with us. We didn’t know who they were, and we thought that they were tourists, you know. But they just accompanied us. That is, when a man lived us, we had Menis with us, Menis Abdel-Nur, who some of you know, who has always been our interpreter in Egypt. And, oh, he’s just like a son to us. He’s so good. And we were down there, and afterwards Menis told us, “Do you know who they were? That was a plain clothes man. Secret police.”

Listening in. Yes. The Egyptians themselves right now are very careful how they word some things. Maybe you heard this little story that a little dog in Egypt got over into Turkey, and now the Turkish dogs got around him and said, “Why did you come over here?” And the little Egyptian dog said, “I just wanted to come.” “Well, don’t they have any bones in Egypt?” “Oh yes, they have plenty of bones over in Egypt.” “Well, don’t they give you enough to eat in Egypt?” “Yes, they give us enough to eat.” “Don’t you have a place to sleep?” “Yes.” “Why under the sun did you come to Turkey?” “Because I wanted to bark.”

But all remember it, folks, and thank God that we can bark. Imagine what it would be like to live all the time, even in your own home, afraid of what you speak out loud, afraid even of how you think sometimes.

We went to Jordan. Oh, we’ve been to Jordan on all of our trips. We’ve had a wonderful ministry all through Jordan, clear way from the Land of Gilead, clear way down to Hebron. And on several occasions we’ve had schools of prayer, or a camp farthest out, a miniature camp farthest out. We didn’t call it that, but we had just about everything that a camp has, and getting close to the people, winning them. And on this particular occasion that I have in mind, we brought together all of the ministers, the native ministers, and missionaries, and theological students from all over Jordan, some forty of them. Bishop Cubane of the Anglican Church looked after the details of getting them together. He’s a very dear friend of ours, and he presided in all the meetings. The next year, this time, we were in the Anglican Church, the Cathedral property, and we had this spiritual retreat here at the Jerusalem Cathedral. But the next year he presided at all of our meetings in the Southern Baptist Church right near Herod’s Gate. Yeah, three times a day. Not quite a camp farthest out, but as far as we could go with these lovely people.

Yes. We brought these people together. We paid for all of their transportation and their hotel bills, for someone had given me some money that made it possible for us to pay for people who come under such conditions. Well, after the first lecture, and we talked about the promises of Jesus, especially as dealing with prayer, you know, one of the ministers said, “Well, could we pray for rain?” And I said, “Well, why not?”

“Do you need it?” “Do we need it?” And they all said it in one breath almost. They explained to me that it hadn’t rained in Jordan for three years, and that even as we were there in this conference together, King Hussein, with his cabinet, were striving to work out plans of moving entire villages, because the people didn’t have water. Animals didn’t have water to drink, and animals have to have water. Where has it gone dry? Water is a tremendous problem there in that part of the world. You’ve been reading about it of course, and you’re going to read much more about it too in the days that lie ahead, very likely. Because water is the great necessity of life there. Human life, animal life. And it hadn’t rained for three years, and entire villages were preparing to move to places where there was water. And they explained all of this to us. And I said, “Well, of course we can pray for rain, but let’s not do it today. Let’s wait.” And the next day the first question they asked, “Can we pray for rain today?”

And I said, “Well, let’s put it off for another day.” Of course you campers know the reason why. Here all of these people of all different denominations come together, religious leaders, all with strong convictions of their own, and there I knew that the Holy Spirit would blend them together and melt their differences in His love. And then on the next day they said again, “Can we pray for water?” And we did. We prayed for rain, and then we went on to other things, and I forgot all about it, because we took care of lots of other things. And I hadn’t been living for three years in Jordan. The next morning Marsha and I were in a taxi cab going down to Hebron.

And we started very early in the morning, at dawn, and we hadn’t gone very far down the road when the taxi driver said, “Do you notice the people standing in the doorways?” And I said yes. And we rode on for some distance. Father. And then the taxi driver said again, “Do you notice the expressions on their faces?” And I said yes. “Do you know why they’re smiling?” And I said no. And they said, “Well, this is the first rain they’ve seen for three years.” And it was raining cats and dogs. And I’d even forgotten that we’d prayed for rain.

And it rained for 24 hours. And the next time we were in Jordan, I tell you, every minister that had been present reminded us of the fact of how we had prayed for rain, and the rain came. Let me tell you something about Ceylon. I think that we are received in Ceylon more eagerly, enthusiastically, lovingly than in any country that we go to.

Ceylon is that little country that you’d think of as India’s teardrop, right at the southern tip of India, you know. That precious, oh, there isn’t any country that’s more beautiful in the world than Ceylon, possibly, at least in certain areas, as Ceylon, unless it may be parts of Hawaii. Oh, it’s breathtaking in some parts of Hawaii. And here in Ceylon it is breathtaking. And from the very start we’ve been having wonderful fellowship with these Ceylonese. When we arrived there first, I had made the arrangements through someone that I knew who knew somebody who told us to be sure and get in touch with Salvaratnam, the saint of Ceylon. If anybody can fix up any meetings for you, or anything, it is he. Everybody in Ceylon loves Salvaratnam. And we’d written to him, and he was eager about our coming. And we arrived. Now, this was on our first journey, and Glenn was with us, and Glenn was so thrilled at the reception that was giving us upon our arrival. And we had a wonderful camp farthest out there at Jaffna, with Glenn and Marsha and I participating in it. But we found there in that camp probably 25 people who said they knew me.

Now, how under the sun could you imagine that people on India’s teardrop could know anything about Roland Brown? But they had read the book Recovery, and they all seemed to know me. My, it was such an entree. We had a terrific time. That was the beginning of it. Sometimes we’ve had as many as four camps in one month. We were there last December. We could only spend a week there this time, though. It’s the shortest time I think we’ve ever spent in Ceylon. And they told us this time that our meetings are the only meetings in Ceylon where the attendance is made up of people from all the different denominations, all churches. Truly an ecumenical experience.

And there we had mornings given over to Camp Farthest Out, a real Camp Farthest Out. But the evening meeting was held in a church, and that was a public affair. And the camp experience was for four days, and then the next three days were given over to the clergyman for a camp experience, things of their own. They wanted a pastor’s retreat, and we had it. We’ve had them before. So there was some three, four, seven, seven full days right straight through. But every evening in the public meetings, oh, we could tell you lots of stories of things that have happened because of the work there in Ceylon. Dozens of prayer groups, and praying earnestly, sincerely. And all the troubles that brew in Ceylon, pray for your Ceylonese CFOers over there. But not just for them. Pray for the five million Buddhists in Ceylon, for God wants every one of those Buddhists to be a child of His. And Marsha and I, and Glenn was with us on this occasion, in the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, we were standing inside one of the little shrines, or whatever they call them, with a great big Buddha there in the center, with a little ledge around the Buddha where the people come and place their floral tributes.

And we were standing there, and a couple of boys came in, probably about twenty years of age. They didn’t seem to notice us. Maybe they didn’t even see us. But we watched them as they came right up within six feet of us, maybe less than that, and knelt down right in front of that Buddha, putting their flowers, of course, in front of the Buddha. And kneeling there, and I looked into their eyes. I was standing at a place, at a position where I could look right into their faces. And I’ve never seen any Christian with a look on his face that indicated any greater sincerity than these two boys.

Oh, how our hearts went out to these young men. Oh, how they need Jesus. All their troubles, all the troubles in this world are because of a lack of love, the lack of Jesus, love incarnate, incarnate in you and me.

And it isn’t in us because we don’t take time for it to be in us. And it takes time to be holy, folks. It takes time to be pure. It takes time to be forgiving. It takes time to be emptied of the trash.

And just a few minutes a day isn’t enough. And just reading the books isn’t enough. And just reading the Bible isn’t enough. We’ve got to go beyond all that and actually obey, do what our Lord, our Master, tells us to do.

And the young man who has served us through the years, especially the secretary of the camp farthest out for Ceylon, Sam Buell is his name, wonderful young man, a true, an officer of the juvenile court, to whom men are paroled. And that, he was until January 1st of this year. But because he is a Tamil, he lost his position, and now the positions are being occupied by the Ceylonese people, because there’s been a split between the Tamils and the Ceylonese. Huh? I mean Singhalese. Thank you. That’s why I take her around with me sometimes.

And the official language now in Ceylon is Singhalese language, as over against English. Now, Ceylon has been English officially for a great many years, and now the nation is jealous. There’s a nationalism. They want to have the Singhalese language. And so that has become politics, you know. And they’ve won out. And now all the teachers have to teach in Singhalese. Up to this time most of the teachers, a large proportion of them, were English-speaking people. But now they’ve got to teach in Singhalese, and they don’t know Singhalese. They’ve never learned Singhalese, and they can’t learn Singhalese, maybe, that is, without a great deal of study. And therefore it has raised havoc just in the schools in every area of Ceylon. And this young man was thrown out of business, out of his office. A wonderful probation officer and a thorough CFO.

Just as wonderful a CFO as I know in the United States. He lost his job because he can’t speak Singhalese. His wife is Singhalese. He’d married a Singhalese. And I’ll tell you, when we were there on the first trip, he and his wife came to us.

They’d been married ten years and had no children, and they asked us to pray for them, that they might have children. And the prayer was answered. And, oh, they’re so thrilled because that prayer was answered. And they can’t do enough for us in showing us their love and devotion. But on one occasion the riots were very great. And because Sam was a Tamil, and they knew it, a friend of his, a Singhalese, came to him and said that they’re out to kill him. And this Singhalese friend got him in the trunk of his car and rushed him out of that area. And if he hadn’t escaped that way, he probably would have been shot.

Another one of our CFO leaders was up in Jaffna. He was to take a train to Colombo, he and his family. Salvaratnam urged him not to go. Oh, he said, “If you go, they may kill you,” because this was in the days of the riots, because of this situation, this language situation, politics of course. But they went anyway.

But before they got to Colombo, John had the feeling that they ought to get off the train, and they got off the train at the station just preceding Colombo, and was mighty fortunate they did. For after they left that station, and the train got to Colombo, the vagabonds came onto the train, and they raised all kinds of havoc, killing people and taking their possessions. But the Lord guided them. Oh, I tell you, our CFO brethren in Ceylon know what the power of prayer is, and they believe so thoroughly that God had saved these dear ones on these occasions.

You know how it started in England. You heard on the tape yesterday or the day before Glenn telling you how we went to England, and we had our first camp, Fathers out there. He didn’t tell you a little of the background. I’ve been going to England for four years preceding that camp. I’ve been preaching in churches all over England and Scotland and Wales. And in some of these places the people asked me about the camps. Once in a while I’d refer to it. I wasn’t there propagating. I wasn’t over there trying to start a camp. I was over there in the name of Jesus just loving the people.

And trying to help them to love Him also. But now and then I’d let it slip out something about the camps and the states, you know. And then my friends began to say, “Well, why can’t we have a camp over here?” “Well, maybe you can someday.” And I dropped it. And the next year, “Well, listen, I don’t know why we can’t have a camp over here.” “Well, you just pray about it a little while, and maybe it’ll come about. There’s no reason why you can’t have one, but you’ve got to want to have one. You’ve got a hunger and thirst along these lines. It won’t do any good to have a camp if the people that come don’t want to come.” And then the next year they said again, “Now we mean business. We want a camp, and we want you to help us get a camp. Now what do we do?” “All right, men.” I was talking to these men, a group of about seven, eight or nine, about seven, I guess, who had been undergirding all the meetings that I was having in England. They’d arranged all of my itinerary over there. Wonderful group of men. “Are you men willing to be a council ring for a camp?”

I knew every one of these men well through several years. And they said, “Yes, we’ll serve in that capacity,” and the camp was born. And I said, all right, you fix up the place. I said, Glenn Clark is going to go around the world next January.

And there’s no reason under the sun why we can’t stop right here and have a camp farthest out here in England. And so it was arranged. And do you know what? I don’t think Glenn told you on the tape. There were about 250 people who attended that first camp. Think of it. 33 of them clergymen and ministers. They make a distinction over there between a clergyman and a minister. I couldn’t understand it, but they told me one time, when I pinned them down to it, that a clergyman is a minister of the Church of England, an Anglican church, an Episcopal church, whereas the ministers were those of the hoi polloi, the non-conformist churches. That was the distinction. Anyway, we had that wonderful camp that Glenn told you about on the. And since then, I don’t know how many camps we’ve had there. Wonderful camps. And they’ve had council rings, and even a national and an international council ring right there in Britain. And I’m so glad that Tony and Margrit is going to, Marjorie is going to go over. Are going to go over there for the campus, because they, they need Tony right now. You know, in your own camp you go through experiences sometimes when you need a little something extra.

They need that. So be sure and pray for Tony and Marjorie while they are in England.

In Germany, let me tell you how it all started. In Germany, in just a nutshell, on my first trip to Germany I was asked to speak in different places. And one of the men over there wanted his son to interpret for me, and the son didn’t want to. But when a German father tells a son what to do, well, the son usually does it. And the son was about twenty-two, three years old. He had been captured by the Americans during the war, and had been in an internment camp during the war, and he had learned English, and he became an interpreter for all of the Germans, for all the Americans there in this camp. So he was a wonderful interpreter.

And I think he was my first interpreter in Germany. And I remember how we stood together that night on a little platform in a bombed out German church in a. When we were together, when we were together in Cologne, because he had been working with me on all of my visits to Germany. And he says, “Just imagine, that first night that we were together, oh, I didn’t want to interpret for you. I just hated Americans.” Well, you can imagine, we were enemies. “And then I had to stand beside you and interpret for you. But that night, in the middle of that talk that I was interpreting for you, it just came to me all of a sudden what it was all about.” His father was a minister.

He understood what a minister ought to be. He understood something about the Christian life. He was headed for the ministry himself. But it wasn’t until that moment that he understood, that he understood, had a real revelation. Well, he went on through his college, through the seminary, and today he is one of the strong youth leaders, as Glenn spoke about on the TV, I mean the tape the other day. He told you about Arnim Riemenschneider. But Glenn never lived to know what a terrific leader he is among young people in Germany today. And because of that, it has brought me into a fellowship with what is known over there as the Rufa Movement, which began a few years before we went there. But this began to give impetus to the whole movement. And today the Rufa Movement in Britain, I believe, to be the, in Germany, in Germany. Thank you. I believe it is the greatest young people’s movement that I have seen anywhere in the world, including the United States. I wish there were time to go into some of the details about it. Young people devoting their lives. Young people taking vows. Young people giving up their positions to go out and help others. Spreading the good news.

They told us this last January, when they were there, “If you can come over, we can have five camps farthest out, one right after another all over.” Oh, I don’t know how many camps they’ve had in Germany. I don’t know how many camps we’ve been at. But they have lots of camps that we’re not present. They don’t necessarily call them camps. They’re not set up in quite the same way as we’re set up. But they have learned. This thing has seeped in. They’ve caught it. And you can thank God that you have had a part in it. It’s a part of this great movement. 500 people coming two or three Easters ago for their Easter retreat. 500 young people from all over West Germany for a four-day retreat.

And 58 of them coming down from West Berlin, through the Soviet lines. And again and again we’ve spoken to great crowds of young people that the roofers have gotten together. 2001 Sunday in Hamburg. 800 at Gelsenkirchen, our last meeting on this last trip around the world. I mustn’t go on. I could go on and tell you how this all started in Australia. We were going to go over and…

Well, there isn’t time to go into that. But the whole thing unfolded so amazingly, so miraculously. And we had a wonderful camp. First, an all-day retreat with ministers. 30, 30 of them who came to a camp found this out that we had two weeks later. Right there in Sydney. They got a taste of it for one day. 30 of them came. Oh, boy. And then the next year, three more camps. Last November, we had four camps. Not a lot of camp, even down in Tasmania. You never heard of the place, maybe.

Oh, God is so good. What are you doing about it? I’m saying these things for a purpose, that without a vision, the people perish. Did you ever read anything like that, anywhere? Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Sometimes I’m wondering if we haven’t been losing our vision. Where an individual loses his vision, he’s apt to perish. And a home is apt to perish. And where there is no vision in a church, the church perishes. And you know some of those churches maybe that have perished.

And where there is no vision, the people perish. What is your vision? Find it out. Jesus had a vision. And His vision, I believe, was for the whole redemption of the human race. You find it perfectly set forth in the tenth verse of the first chapter of Ephesians. How God had revealed to them for the first time in all history that which had been withheld from the kings, which had been withheld from the patriarchs, withheld from the prophets, and at last had been revealed to them the great purpose of God. Namely, that everything in heaven and on earth might be brought into a oneness in Christ Jesus.

Into unity, into harmony in Christ. That’s the key: unity. And you can start just as well as everyone else can start in coming into that union with Christ, which brings about a union with everyone else that is in union with Christ.

And you will find in that farthest out that’s already been mentioned on the last page or two where Glenn says that love is the one great power that is capable of bringing all things into perfect adjustment and into perfect harmonious relationship with everything else. And He can do it with any family. He can do it with any home. He can do it with any church. He can do it with any community and with any nation. He can do it with any CFO. The power of God’s love is great enough to bring every member of your council ring into perfect adjustment and perfect, harmonious relationship with every other member of your council ring, when there is enough of it.

And if you need more harmony in your ring, then you get more love in you. That’s it. Take time. Lots of time. Devote yourself to how I lift up mine eyes. Read it and reread it and meditate upon it until you will become like the shadow of a great rock. That the love of God may flow through you just as it did through Glenn Clark.

And just as it does through lots of people whom you know. And flowing through them has transformed and healed and redeemed and changed and brought blessing. And there isn’t a person here or anywhere but there can be a channel through which that love of God may flow, when we become emptied enough. Emptied of self.

How many are going to do it? Oh, I know it’s your desire just as it’s my desire. And the reason that I don’t go farther is because I don’t keep the vision in mind as much as I ought. And when I find I’m too tired to pray, too tired to take that hour alone with God, then I let the vision come back. Those people in Calcutta. Those people in Pakistan. The people in Pakistan. The people in Indonesia. And I begin to think of them. And I’ve got to.

What difference does it make if we have to stay up all night doing the work of the Lord? Somebody thought it was so too bad that we had to stay here until 11 o’clock last night. And I said to them, “My gracious, folks, there’s a world at stake. And that’s what we’re here for. There’s a world at stake.”

Keep the vision of the world in mind. And let your praying be centered in the direction of the world. And, of course, your hometown is a part of the world. And you yourself and your family is a part of the world. So that the love of God may flow out to the very uttermost parts of the world.

And that brings us to the point where we’re going to do it. Even now. And there has been a little arrangement that has been worked out whereby we can do it. And I wonder if we should have a little prayer now. And then Tony. He didn’t die. He didn’t die and go to heaven. He really wasn’t walking down those stairs. I just made that up.

He’s going to take over and lead us into a little arrangement where we can rededicate our lives to Christ, so that we can go home from this camp on this high spiritual plane knowing that we are in Him and that we are one with each other. You know, this is an amazing thing I’ve discovered. And you’ve discovered it in your council rings. My, how we’ve discovered it in the national ring.

And I’ve discovered it in every country where I’ve been in, that when I find someone who is filled with the love of God and in union with Jesus, and I am too, sometimes I’m not, but when I am, then the two of us are in union with each other, irrespective of color, irrespective of race, irrespective of language. Maybe I don’t know one word of his language and he doesn’t know a word of English, and yet there is a perfect oneness. Irrespective of philosophy and culture and background and theology, imagine, folks, I’m not being sacrilegious when I say this, irrespective of theology, a perfect oneness.

Let’s pray. Loving Father, we thank Thee. Oh, how we thank Thee for Thy goodness. Yes, we thank Thee for the grace that Thou hast poured out upon Thy children.

Without a single one of us deserving it. And yet, Thou hast loved us so much. That Thou hast taken us unto Thyself. And cleansed and forgiven and breathed Thy Spirit into us. And that’s what we want to continue. We want Thy Spirit to go with us as we go back home. That we may be the men and women that You want us to be. Every day. Every hour. Take us and use us, Lord.

To Thy glory. And we ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen.