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0:00she had the largest crowds of anybody of
0:02her day thousands would come asking her
0:04to pray for them to be healed when she
0:06moved to LA to build her church a tithe
0:07the population of Los Angeles was a
0:10member of her church
0:10she'd be kidnapped twice married three
0:13times
0:13she's a first lady of Pentecost Amy
0:16simul McPherson
0:17I'm Robert Slayton and this is God's
0:19General's
0:20[Music]
0:28[Applause]
0:33I've always enjoyed still in the life of
0:36Amy symbol McPherson she stands out
0:39above all the other Pentecostals because
0:41of her personality because their
0:43entrepreneurship because she was the
0:45first in so many she was the first
0:47Christian radio station in American
0:49history the third one in Los Angeles her
0:52life began in Canada her mother was a
0:55Salvation Army preacher her father was
0:5750 years old her mother was 15 when she
0:59was born so I would guess she was born
1:01in the controversy of her parents being
1:04such age differences when they got
1:05married and had their first child
1:07throughout her life her mother to be her
1:09standby and her support through ups and
1:11downs and even in their own struggle in
1:13their own fight with each other trying
1:14to run the great ministry Amy McPherson
1:17and the beginning of her life did not
1:19really know if God was real didn't know
1:22of God was alive because when she went
1:24to school they told her one thing when
1:25she wouldn't in church they told her
1:26something else and you know what to
1:28believe but one night as a young girl
1:30she asked God if you're out there
1:32whoever you are reveal yourself to me
1:34and God did and she found salvation in a
1:37little while she met her husband in
1:38Roberts simple Roberts symbol was a
1:41Salvation Army preacher who had been
1:42baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke
1:44with tongues so he had the fire of the
1:47Salvation Army for Souls and the fire of
1:49the Holy Ghost for all the other aspects
1:51of Christian ministry what a great
1:53combination they got married and Roberts
1:55simple was Amy's Bible School he would
1:57teach her the word they would read the
1:59Bible together and align the different
2:01scriptures with different colored
2:02pencils see we teach her what this verse
2:04minute what that chapter is about that's
2:06how she learned the Bible that's how she
2:08began her ministerial training then they
2:10felt called as a couple to go to Macau
2:13so they begin to tell all their friends
2:15and the revival meetings they were going
2:17to be a missionary pray for them support
2:19them she goes over to the Artic kingdom
2:21she pretty the first public sermon in
2:23Ireland and she's recorded saying it's
2:25like praying in tongues that comes out
2:26English she was so thrilled the first
2:28time she preached then they finally got
2:30to Macau and while they were there there
2:32were so many cultural differences there
2:34were so many things that were not
2:35prepared for and eventually the saddest
2:37thing happened while they were there
2:39her husband Robert simple died he died
2:41because Amy did not know how to take
2:43care and prepare the food right so and
2:45not preparing the food right
2:46he got malaria and he died she was
2:48pregnant the first child which would be
2:50a daughter named Roberta her mother in
2:52Canada would have to raise the money to
2:54buy them the boat tickets to come back
2:56from China to the Canadian homeland and
2:59then she got home she decided well since
3:01I'm not married a little child I'll just
3:04become a nice little woman have mother
3:06and stay here with my mom on the farm in
3:08Canada but she got sick and on her
3:10deathbed she said I cried out to God for
3:12healing and she repented and said I'll
3:14preach if you want me to preached cause
3:16remember in those days women didn't
3:18preach it was a man's job so to be a
3:20woman preacher was meant you're breaking
3:22through a lot of cultural barriers but
3:24she got up after being healed by praying
3:26that prayer and accepted her call God
3:28zaptor healed her shut up and begin to
3:30preach now in the beginning days her
3:32crowds weren't very big so what she
3:35would do she'd go into town and she
3:37would do different stunts like one time
3:39I was told she went to a town and found
3:41the center part of the city where most
3:42of the traffic would be going at
3:44lunchtime and she stood on the street
3:46corner and beginning to look up at the
3:47sky like she was looking at something
3:49and folks would walk by and look up and
3:51producing a crowd were together and the
3:53crowd got big enough so she thought
3:55could fill up the auditorium this year
3:56to rent it or the tips she'd set up
3:58she'd run down the street saying follow
4:00me I'll tell you what I'm looking for
4:01then she'd jump on the platform grab her
4:04tambourine and start sitting as she was
4:06looking for the king and then you start
4:08preaching this is a part of Amy's
4:10personality that made people love her
4:11and something she was absolutely crazy
4:14but at the end we all loved her so
4:17eventually her meetings begin to grow
4:18and then she decided well now that she
4:21has got a little child and that home
4:23feeding begin to grab her she decided to
4:26get married again and she married a man
4:28named Harold McPherson and she had a
4:30second child named Roth so she has two
4:32children she has a family and mr.
4:35McPherson wanted a nice little home nice
4:37little wife little children come home
4:39from work with the meal a white picket
4:40fence but I must ask if you ever saw Amy
4:43couldn't you compute that this woman
4:45that you're looking at it's not
4:46gonna be your nice little American wife
4:48she is bigger than that her dreams are
4:51bigger her person I don't his bigger
4:52long story short that marriage ended
4:55when an inlet instead of being said and
4:57feel like her life was over and she
4:59messed up
4:59she put her babies in her big car and
5:02she began to drive across America to
5:03preach the gospel she delayed heartache
5:05stop she kept going forward she was the
5:07first woman to drive in a car for one
5:10side of America to the other side that
5:12was her first big event in her life a
5:14first woman in America to drive a car
5:16across the country and this is the
5:18beginning of many firsts for her so as
5:20we go through this story and the person
6:11took her gospel car and her babies and
6:13begin to drive across the country
6:14preaching in big towns and small towns
6:17and out on the field she'd stop and
6:19she'd see the cotton pickers in the
6:21south to get stopped her car run out
6:23there and talking about Jesus and give
6:25them a gospel tract and pray for them in
6:27those days the gospel evangelistic field
6:30was open to anybody who would go after
6:32it kind of like it is today if you've
6:35got the desire you got the passion you
6:37can create anything you want to create
6:38in this world that we live in today so
6:40Amy McPherson took her car their babies
6:42and begin to preach I asked her son one
6:45time in all those early days of ministry
6:47on the in the gospel car and those tent
6:49meetings and those small convention
6:51centers what was the greatest miracle
6:52you saw I thought he would say it would
6:55be like a blind eye opening or a
6:56crippled child being healed but he told
6:59a story that I want to tell you because
7:00it illustrates her faith and her
7:02wildness of believing God for the
7:04unusual and it would get it he said we
7:06were driving across in the gospel car
7:08and we had a flat tire and we had no
7:10spare and in those days they didn't have
7:12cell phones and the homes are far apart
7:15and they were dirt roads and the night
7:17was coming on very soon and she got
7:18concerned because she was a mama with
7:20two kids in the middle of nowhere so she
7:22jumped out walked around the car a
7:24couple of times Rob said then he then
7:27she told us get out the car we're gonna
7:28pray for the tire so my mother my sister
7:31died he said laid hands on the tire and
7:33asked God to heal the tire and I felt
7:36that I under my hands reinf late and
7:38become normal we got back in the car and
7:40drove across the country and finished
7:42our trip that day in that night so to me
7:45they got to the healings of the bodies
7:46but I guess God didn't fix tires - and
7:48you need them get fixed this is a
7:50Macpherson's type of faith it is not
7:52your traditional so you don't fit in
7:54this box where everybody wants you to
7:56fit if you're a preacher you fit like
7:58this you talk like this you act like
7:59this and you believe like this hopefully
8:01you'll be outside the box - because
8:03that's what our world needs today is
8:04somebody outside of the religious box
8:07that were in now to create a signpost in
8:10the middle of the nation for Jesus
8:12Christ
8:13she went to Los Angeles and she had a
8:16meeting about 3,500 people and at this
8:18time her children get a little bit older
8:20and was time them to start school and
8:22the heart of a mother was kicking in she
8:24wanted a place where children could go
8:25to school and come home and she wanted a
8:27place where she'd have to always be in
8:29tents or be driving or going through
8:31some of the hardships of the traveling
8:33advantages that she was for most of
8:35their little their little life and the
8:37Lord told her that Los Angeles was going
8:39to be her home base while she was out
8:42there in Los Angeles she begin to pray
8:44one night in an all-night prayer meeting
8:46and when God spoke that word to her she
8:48begin to do what we call him penny calls
8:50a shopping spell they said she shouted
8:53so much that her bobby pins fell out of
8:54her hair and her heroin every place
8:56because God spoke that had given her the
8:59city of Los Angeles you know a lot of
9:01people think well that's kind of an
9:02egotistical thing well it's not
9:04egotistical if God told it to you she
9:06began to preach in that city in a long
9:09story short she built her church of over
9:115,000
9:12people she had a tithe of the Los
9:15Angeles population that time of 25,000
9:18people as the member of Angeles temple
9:20the bosom of her church so she built
9:22that church she got those limors in
9:24there and when she opened it she began
9:26preaching 21 times a week just herself
9:29well you know only do that so long
9:31before you're physically and emotionally
9:32exhausted but in the beginning Amy did
9:35all of the services she preached morning
9:37noon and night they came in from
9:39everywhere and as the church begin to
9:41grow and other pastors begin to come to
9:42help her she became famous for her
9:45Sunday evening service called her
9:46illustrated sermons Hollywood would come
9:48over to see what she was doing in her
9:51illustrated sermons to put them back in
9:52the new industry called movies the
9:55golden era movies had begin to take
9:56place in in Los Angeles she became good
9:59friends with one of the great movie
10:00stars the time called Charlie Chaplin
10:02and Charlie jumping to help her do
10:04certain things in the inner in her
10:06illustrated sermons and she would help
10:07him do certain things in his movie so
10:09they had this secret friendship because
10:11in those days Hollywood and the church
10:13were enemies they didn't think each
10:15other liked each other and they didn't
10:16in those days they fought so Amy and
10:18Charlie would we're in a restaurant late
10:20at night and bring their families
10:21together so they could talk and keep
10:23this friendship they had to keep it a
10:25secret because if Hollywood knew that
10:26charters with the famous preacher and if
10:28if the were Church world knew that Amy
10:30there was a Charlie Chaplin there'd be a
10:32problem but you know God does not always
10:34obey these kind of traditions the Holy
10:37Spirit those places that tradition won't
10:40let you and you must have decide if you
10:42want to follow tradition or the Holy
10:44Spirit I'm so glad that Amy thought of
10:46the Holy Spirit and did what she did in
10:48her day she was the first Christian
10:50radio station in America she saw the
10:53advent of radios reaching people who
10:55could not come to church or who would
10:56actively turn her on and so she was the
10:59third Christian the third station in Los
11:01Angeles the first one in America and
11:03there's a big show that they put on
11:05years there because when she turned on a
11:07radio station in California the other
11:09two stations begin to have probably
11:11because her signal was so powerful and
11:12they kept writing Washington DC about
11:15turn her down give her less wattage and
11:17falling at the end of the trial the end
11:19of the fuss Amy statement1
11:21you can't make God's voice to be second
11:23he's always gonna be first and a radio
11:25station States
11:26and they're still going today in Los
11:28Angeles Scizor McPherson had lots of
11:31things that she did right there was
11:33controversies - mainly McPherson when
11:35you're that famous you know you cannot
11:37have people go I love you I love you
11:39they're gonna something I hate you
11:40William Randolph Hearst the founder of
11:43many of the newspapers around the
11:44country and the founder of yellow
11:45journalism told us newspaper men kill
11:48Amy which meant all these fine things to
11:51come against her or miss misrepresent
11:55her and make it look like a fool so we
11:57could go through the LA Times you'll be
11:59able to see your name in the LA paper so
12:01much and most of it was negative and she
12:03asked the papers mr. Berg reporters one
12:05time why he writes only mean things that
12:07aren't true about me he goes will they
12:09sell papers and her boss wants us to
12:11always find things to make fun of you so
12:14she didn't learn how to live with a
12:15negative press when I come back in a few
12:17minutes we're gonna talk about her
12:19kidnapping the most famous part of her
12:21controversy in her life
12:23Scizor McPherson is a class act before
12:25we go to the break I want to introduce
12:27you one little clip I found some clips
12:29of her speaking in the newsreels back in
12:33those time period before they used to
12:34play on the movies so here's one of a
12:36McPherson on her way to Broadway kind of
12:38the Broadway the mecca of Finland the
12:42Citadel of worldliness oh I feel in
12:46answering this invitation as though I
12:48should like to stand in the midst of the
12:50Broadway's of America and lift up my
12:52hands and cry stop you're drifting away
12:56from the faith of your father's you're
12:58drifting away from prayer drifting away
13:00from the Bible reading drifting away
13:02from the family altar and only a ruin
13:05and a heartbreak and the home break lay
13:08in the direction of backsliding I'm
13:11coming out to help bring you back if I
13:13can to the foulest give me a burden for
13:16Souls Lord give me a love for the loss
13:22letting my heart bleed as I
13:27the Lord give me a burden for soul
13:34living Los Angeles for New York and the
13:38boats upon which we sail immediately I
13:40was met in routes by altitudes of our
13:42friends among them ever was a liberal
13:45sprinkling of newspaper men and in each
13:47city they asked the same question mr.
13:50McPherson what do you think of
13:52prohibition
13:53rather difficult to answer the question
13:56in such a few words as one must use them
13:58but I told them that the case of our
14:00prohibition here in the United States
14:02reminds me of the story of the lecturer
14:05who gave a marvelous address on
14:08prohibition and he wound up in a blaze
14:10of glory that brought everyone to their
14:12feet enthusiastically why that my
14:15friends if I had my way do you know what
14:18I do
14:18I'd take every barrel of liquor every
14:21bottle of booze every crate and I'd
14:24empty it in the river yes sir
14:27mammy said shall we now close our
14:29meeting by rising and singing together
14:31shall we gather at the river he spoiled
14:36it all and that's the way perhaps with
14:38us over here in America we teach it but
14:40so often those who profess to make the
14:43laws you're not quite live up to them
14:45and back them themselves I wish that you
14:47could all have the joy of going with us
14:49if Easter tied to the holy land where we
14:52shall visit on Easter day the tomb of
14:54our rhythm Florida my trip has convinced
14:58me that all the world is looking to
15:00America for guidance the sudden dramatic
15:03fall of the blue eagle proves the
15:06impossibility of flying on one wing
15:08namely material recovery what America
15:12needs us have gone the other wing and
15:14rise in spiritual recovery
15:16it is to be hoped that out of all this
15:18suffering may come at people
15:19understanding and return to
15:21old-fashioned Christian American
15:23principles which you've heard on today's
15:25show is only a small fraction of the
15:27incredible stories of another one of
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16:26tell you a few more stories about the
16:28sister McPherson before I do I want to
16:30highly suggest and encourage you to call
16:32the number on your screen or go to my
16:34website and order the book where I talk
16:36about her life because I can't tell you
16:37everything about her in 30 minutes so
16:40order the Gods generals book and the
16:42other books that go with it you'll enjoy
16:43it you'll love to see what God did
16:45through a woman who kept saying yes when
16:47the world kept saying no behind me here
16:50on this set we have a scripture here I
16:52hope you can see it really good in the
16:53in the picture here and it reminds me of
16:56a store that she'd have to have
16:56stretcher Dame in her Crusades there
16:59were people who could not come and wait
17:00in the prayer lines and the normal
17:01service is the morning at night so in
17:04all of our Crusades you'd have stretch a
17:06day I'm showing you a picture right now
17:07of Amy in Denver Colorado and you look
17:10at the pictures she's there in the white
17:11dress looking out over the bottom of the
17:13audit one of all the people in the
17:15stretchers there and she takes the whole
17:17afternoon there'd be no preaching just
17:19singing and she'd be out there praying
17:21for them one by one and her philosophy
17:23was this she would not take our hands
17:25off of you and she felt the anointing of
17:27God
17:28leave her hands once it came out of her
17:29hands then her job was done is between
17:32you and God
17:32her success rate was phenomenal in
17:34getting people healed at Angela's temple
17:37though there was another thing that she
17:38would do cause there's folks who could
17:40not come and sit in the service because
17:41of their physical challenges and their
17:44illnesses
17:44she'd have ambulance day in Los Angeles
17:46and it's a fact in LA that when Amy
17:49would announce on the radio that this
17:51month on this Saturday or this Thursday
17:53is ambulance daim the sick people would
17:57start booking up all the illnesses in LA
17:59in LA County in the surrounding cities
18:01and the hospitals that have to reserve
18:03certain ones for true emergencies
18:04because everybody would book up all the
18:07images and head for Angeles temple and
18:09they've been lined up around the front
18:11of the church down the blocks around and
18:13those days her home was right next to
18:15Angeles temple and there was a little
18:16road and they'd bring the emmalin's down
18:19to her back door and she was standing on
18:21the back doorstep and get in out of the
18:23Amazon praying for the sick that way I
18:25love these kind of stories about sister
18:27McPherson I wish I had a 3-4 hours just
18:30to take her life and walk slowly through
18:32what she did how she did it how she
18:35overcame they asked at one time why are
18:38you a success why does your church live
18:40why does your meetings have so many
18:42miracles and people coming down from
18:43everywhere she goes it's because I
18:45preached the great I am NOT the great I
18:47was this is one of eight means I think
18:49some perfect simple answers of success
18:51she believed that I am was still that I
18:54am of today she'd not preached that I
18:56was he didn't do things he still does it
18:58today meeting some 18,000 people God's
19:15do that some early morning and the
19:17latest night that buildings of the
19:19Denver Municipal Auditorium will
19:22environmentalist would have to stay in a
19:24place after my meeting was over and
19:26heard the way up in the attic where the
19:28electric wires are dragged them in down
19:30out of there and get the women from out
19:32of the restroom the downstairs was
19:33barricaded the resolves
19:35in the basement to be there for the next
19:37day's meeting prepare they couldn't get
19:38inland God brought people to the altar
19:41for the thousand people converted at one
19:44service we would have to have the
19:46members and then the women are vice
19:48versa a preacher why don't every one of
19:55you folks get converted and give you a
19:57husband God sister McPherson as she was
19:59in the height of her career had one of
20:01the most controversial things happen to
20:03her this was a kidnapping now she's been
20:06kidnapped twice in her life early in her
20:08ministry a newspaper reporter was
20:10interviewing her and the Klu Klux Klan
20:12had taken her and the reporter out for a
20:14private meeting when she got done
20:16preaching to the Ku Klux Klan sort of
20:18burning the cross they were burning
20:19their hoods and getting saved so but the
20:22second time was more dramatic now she
20:24was famous all over the world she'd gone
20:26to Europe gone2asia she is at the height
20:29of her ministry the LA Church is at the
20:31pinnacle of its prestige and popularity
20:33and in the middle of this she's
20:36kidnapped and here's what happened she'd
20:38just come back from Israel and she was
20:40gonna tell the church family what she
20:42saw in the Holy Land she'd only have one
20:45service I did that there were so many
20:46people trying to get into the auditorium
20:48or a church she was gonna have to have
20:50five with those services just to tell
20:51people what she saw why she was there
20:54and they were doing some construction on
20:56the church where she couldn't get her
20:58nose together with her secretaries so
21:00they decided to go down to the beach
21:01finish her outline of what she was gonna
21:03tell that night and take a swim in the
21:06ocean now that right there's also a big
21:08deal to in Amy's life Amy was the first
21:10Pentecostal to cut her hair to wear
21:13makeup and to look fabulous you can use
21:15that word because in those days the
21:17Pentecostals have this lingering
21:19holiness mindset which had come into the
21:22flesh where it's how you look they
21:23couldn't cut the hair they look real
21:25ugly but Amy look beautiful and they ask
21:27me one time why do you wear makeup if
21:29she goes well any old bar needs some
21:31paint and I'm gonna put something on and
21:33look my best for Jesus and that's what
21:34she did so all the ladies and Pentecost
21:37around the world
21:38Oh sister McPherson a big thank you for
21:40breaking that religious stupid tradition
21:42that you can't wear makeup and be a
21:44preacher or go to church so she's out of
21:46the beach and her secretary wanting to
21:48get her some orange juice
21:49drinka she was going to a swim in the
21:50ocean and a man walked up to her and
21:53said are you sister McPherson she goes
21:55yes she goes he goes the temple sent me
21:57down here to ask you to come and pray
21:59for our child that is sick my wife is in
22:01the car up there any point of the car
22:03holding the child and would you just
22:05pray for because our child is gonna die
22:07unless God heals the child so Amy being
22:10as kind of she was said sure she grabbed
22:12the towel and put her around herself and
22:14walked up to the car talking to the man
22:16and when she bent over to greet the
22:18woman the men pushed her in and the lady
22:20in the car put her form over a nose and
22:22knocked her out and they drove her off
22:24eventually it took her to Old Mexico
22:26well the secretary comes back and thinks
22:29Amy is still swimming but then time
22:32passes and so concern sets in and all of
22:35a sudden she calls the church thinking
22:36maybe somebody picked her up and and
22:38then pretty soon they realized that Amy
22:40is gone and in a few more hours goodbye
22:42Amy is dead she drowned in the ocean so
22:45the noise went everywhere Amy McPherson
22:48has drowned the body's not been found
22:50it's a lost it scene so after little few
22:53days goes by and they can't find the
22:55body they go ahead and have the funeral
22:57the funeral her mother produces it and
23:00her mother takes the helm of the church
23:01and everybody's crying but Amy is in Old
23:04Mexico and the kidnappers keep sending
23:06kidnapping notes and they keep throwing
23:08the kidnapping notes in the trash and
23:10you go why well when you're that popular
23:12sometimes people don't realize of all
23:14the weird things that happened to you
23:16from strange people most of the people
23:18are good people but there's a small
23:19percent of folks who are always trying
23:20to do something to you that you kind of
23:23build a callousness around them because
23:25they're just simply weird
23:26or they're sent mother devil to irritate
23:28you so her mother kept throwing the
23:30kidnapping notes in the trash can but
23:32she escapes Amy does from Old Mexico
23:34walks across into Douglas Arizona while
23:38in Douglas Arizona she knocked on the
23:40first door and the guy didn't answer the
23:41door and told her to go away
23:42goes to the next house knocks on the
23:44door and collapse so the ambulance comes
23:47take her to the hospital she police
23:48comes and long story short of the
23:50survivor they asked who are you because
23:53I'm anemic first him and he goes no
23:55she's dead she goes no I am a Mesa month
23:58person so he calls the church in LA long
24:01story short she tells the secret
24:03mother only the family knows and the
24:05news of the Nelms that Amy is alive when
24:08she comes back to LA over 50,000 people
24:11meet her at the train station to welcome
24:13Amy home and then all of a sudden the
24:16Attorney General decides that she did
24:18this for money or publicity and all
24:20these things so a trial or hearing
24:22starts and they accused her of having an
24:24affair they accuse her running often
24:26doing this all kinds of things when the
24:28long story short she wins and every
24:30night after the trial she'd get up and
24:32tell on the radio what her song the
24:34story was and the interesting effect
24:36about the church the church didn't
24:38dwindle during this it stayed strong in
24:40numbers strong and money strong and
24:41support would you stay a member of the
24:44church if your pastor was on trial for a
24:46kidnapping with all the news in the
24:48newspaper being negative about him or
24:50her I don't know if today's generation
24:53has that kind of stamina but I hope
24:55we'll get back to that sister McPherson
24:57has so many more things she sold more
24:59war bonds then all the movie stars put
25:01together during the time of World War
25:03two she'd also win the awards in the
25:06Rose Bowl parade for having the best
25:07float in the Rose Bowl parade she have
25:09her own parades in Los Angeles she
25:12travel around the country she begin to
25:14build a denomination because out of her
25:15Bible School begin to come to her
25:17students and they build churches she
25:19wanted to put all those churches among
25:20this summons of God denomination but
25:22because she was divorced they wouldn't
25:24accept her so she had to build the
25:264-square denomination now let me make
25:28one comment here it doesn't matter what
25:30you go through if the matter of you keep
25:32on going so much of the time we people
25:35we have mistakes in their life we make
25:37mistakes we sin we do things that we
25:39later think we shouldn't have done but
25:41no matter what you do get up and go on
25:43the righteous may fall but they come
25:45back and Amy kept bouncing back over a
25:48kidnapping over her third marriage is
25:51about to happen in a divorce it's going
25:52to occur and I got a beautiful bride I'm
25:55very very happy
25:57I feel that I am most happy person in
26:00all the world every one of our members
26:02and fans have been so beautiful and
26:04sending in thousands of letters of
26:06telegrams and phone calls I think this
26:09is the beginning room it's very happy
26:11nice together
26:12[Music]
26:14my trip was primarily one for health and
26:18recuperation following my nervous
26:20breakdown some three years ago I'm very
26:24grateful for this beautiful rest
26:26I'm happy to be back in America back to
26:29our church into the evangelistic work
26:31and trouble our shadows cross our sky
26:35it's a marvelous thing to be able to
26:37turn to the Rock of Ages and the Lord's
26:39own work what are your plans
26:44I would have been so happy to have had
26:46him continue in the Lord's work but his
26:49life of course is in the hands of the
26:51Lord and that's something I'll be unable
26:53to decide for
26:54I have formed no plans all this news
26:58which is come to me have come very
26:59suddenly and without warning and I feel
27:01I'm equate flight get my almond know
27:03that email so Amy with you all the
27:06negatives what's the story for us God is
27:09the god of a second chance of third
27:11chance and a fourth chance and God
27:13doesn't obey public opinion if you stay
27:15committed with God you can win I hope
27:18you will enjoy the last clip I have a
27:19sister McPherson she's a class act she's
27:22one of a kind I wish I had a chance to
27:24see her as a child but I did not my
27:27grandmother tried to see her wanted to
27:28go to her Bible school but she couldn't
27:30make it from North Carolina to LA but
27:32I'm glad we had this film clip so you
27:33can least get to hear a personality she
27:35dies in Oakland California of an
27:38accidental overdose of her medication
27:40they found her not breathing well she
27:41died early that morning and even her
27:43death was a controversy her denomination
27:46because they need to grow after her
27:47death because her son Ralph knew his
27:48place he goes I'm not a preacher I'm an
27:51administrator let me administrate and
27:52you do the preaching and with those who
27:54are left behind they knew how to work
27:56together and continue the ministry that
27:58God gave the Foursquare Gospel in
28:07California and the churches of the
28:09forest where gospel I pray that I'm in
28:11as many years to serve God and my
28:14country I thank you and God bless you
28:20[Applause]
28:22[Music]
28:45[Music]
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