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A PHILADELPHIA
LAWYER
Now it wasn't until I was
(well, let me see, it was in 1926
and I was) 34 years of age that
I was challenged, and for the
first time began to look into
the Bible, because I thought it
said something it didn't, and I
wanted to make it say some-
thing that I wanted it to say.
Of course I was quite disap-
pointed because I said it didn't
say what I wanted it to say at
all. Then I began to learn
something about the Bible. But
I've learned all of that since I
was 34 years of age. I was
really a biblical ignoramus
before that, or a biblical illiter-
ate, whichever way you want
to say it, the first 34 years of
my life.
I did know that we'd gone
through the book of Proverbs
in Sunday school instead of the
usual quarterly, as they called
it, or the Sunday school
lessons that the church used in
all the other Sunday school
classes. Our boys' class, and
we all grew up together from
little kids up until I was 18, all
together, the boys' class. I
don't know where the girls
were, they must have had a
class of their own or some-
thing because I remember we
were only boys; and we had a
young man teacher. To me, we
thought he was quite an old
man. But as I look back and
think now, I think he must
have been in his young, or not
over his middle, twenties. But
we all liked him.
So we just went through the
book of Proverbs; and when
we'd finished the book of
Proverbs, we went back and
started going through the book
of Proverbs again; and after
that we went through the book
of Proverbs again.
Now that's about all I knew;
but that did put one thing into
my mind -- that I wanted to
have understanding. And I
know when I was 5 years old
my father said I was going to
be a Philadelphia lawyer when
I grew up because I always
wanted to know why. I wanted
to know how, and whether,
and everything else about
anything. I wanted to under-
stand it. I asked so many
questions.
Well, I didn't know then I
would be a Philadelphia lawyer
some day when I grew up
because here I preach the law
of God and the government of
God in the Philadelphia Era of
the Church. So I AM A PHILA-
DELPHIA LAWYER, am I not?
So my Dad was right.
Oh yes, I tell you from the
years of 18 to 20 I felt sorry for
my father. I knew more than
he did. And then he moved
out. We had been living in Des
Moines, Iowa when my father
moved out to the west coast,
first to Idaho and later out to
Salem, Oregon. So I didn't see
my father any more from
{3}1912 until 1924 (so 12 years
later when I saw my father). I
had a lot of respect for him
because I found he had
learned so much in that 12
years, and he now knew more
than I did. But I didn't know
that when I was 18 or 20. And
of course a lot of boys of 18 or
20 are like that. At that age
they know more than their
parents do.
But, nevertheless now, that's
all just a prelude to what I was
going to get into for a sermon
today. I wanted to tell you a
little something about the
Bible. And I was wondering, I
have been going back to those
two trees in Genesis; and that's
the foundation of everything in
the world. If you want to know
why anything is like it is today
-- Why is the world like it is?
Why do we have the kind of
world to live in that we do
have today? -- you have to go
back to that time; and I have
been developing a lot of time
to that recently.
I wanted to get to something
else today. Well, I thought
about whether I should bring a
message on prophecy. Now, I'd
like to get back to the prophe-
cies once again; and I think it's
about time that we do, and I
think that I shall very soon.
But it just seems that the way
things have been breaking I
haven't been able to speak
here just regularly every Sab-
bath; and I don't get any of it
but once every 3, 4 or 5 Sab-
baths. But perhaps I will
sometime soon.
Proverbs
Proverbs
Proverbs
Prophecy...
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Philadelphia Remnant Jul/ Aug/ Sept 2013