Transcript:John Robarts/Regarding family's pioneering to Botswana

Transcript of: Regarding his family’s pioneering to Botswana, misc stories, importance of prayer by John Robarts

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I'm very happy to be here. I have a lot of things I'd like to say. I'm going to tell you some stories and they're not to entertain you. I hope you will enjoy them. But they really do explain points that you might otherwise understand as well. Ah, but there are many wonderful stories to describe what is going on in the world today. We are in a crisis situation in Canada and throughout the world. We have never seen in such a situation as we're in now the difficulties of terrible, terrible things that are happening in Iran, how the numbers of the believers are being martyred. They are being having their houses burned down there, being treated so badly there money is taken away from them. They're losing their jobs and in every way they are having an extremely difficult time there and in other places in the world, we seem to be having a typically teaching on DDE. But in other other places where the work is going very well and so we want to talk about some of these and to give you a picture on to realize I hope to be able to show how the faith Baha'i Allah is the one and the only hope for mankind, as the Universal House adjusted said to us that long ago upon your efforts depends in very large measure the fate of humanity. We are now in the position friends, where we need more Baha'i eyes and more money to carry on the work. And I'm going to tell you how we overcome these things. And mainly it is the fact that we know that God does assist all those who rise to serve him way must realize that that God does assist he has promised us. And so I made. I will tell you a few stories to illustrate how very important it is that we continually realize how we must turn to God and ask for his help and to, uh, count on that assistance. Audrey and I are being my wife who wasn't able to be here today, and we with two of our children Nina, who was then a 13 and Patrick 19 way cabled The Guardian, said that we would like to pioneer wherever he would like us to go. And that was in 1953 and he cabled back betcha. Iran land highly meritorious. So we were on the first ship out of St John, your Brunswick for Cape Town, and we had our car. And from there we drove up into Petra inland and to map picking, which was the capital. And we had 13 years in better on land and we loved him. We had no thought of ever coming back to Canada. That doesn't mean that we are very happy to be in Canada. But we love the people there and the work. And it was going so well and we were so pleased with it. Uh, soon after we arrived, we were given positive instructions that we wanted to teach the black people, not the whites. And this was a bit of a problem because I had to earn my living and the way I had Bean earning it for many years before leaving Canada Waas I was in the life insurance business and I found when I arrived by post in math, picking that then I can only sell to the white people because at that time the black people were not able to buy life insurance. So way had the situation where we taught the faith to the black people and we made our money selling life insurance to the white people. And we couldn't let the white people know that we were spending all our evenings with the black people because in those days, the black and the white people didn't meet socially. They just didn't meet, period. And they still don't do very much of that either. But there there has been some some improvement in that situation in those years. But I want to tell you what happened to us way we learned that we realized even of course, before we went, the God does assist all those who rise to serve him that abandoned, chosen angels will accompany anyone going forth to serve the faith. We were told this, and we knew it was true, and we had proven it many times before we had gone there. But the situation we found ourselves in their waas happy to earn a living by teaching, but by selling insurance to the white people and yet doing our behi work by teaching the faith to the black people. And so we thought when we first arrived, the important thing was for us to establish a business in the in the insurance business before we bothered with the Baha'i work. So we got to know some white people and I started right in business and the white people were very nice to us. And we had a lovely neighbors and or we made many friends among the white people. There were delightful people and they were always having parties and we were invited to them and we found it a good thing to go because we get to know them and then they would they would just have to buy some life insurance. So in that way, we ate. We were able to do make a little money, but happy. We've been there about three months. We had a lovely message, a cable from our beloved guardian congratulating us on having settled in our goal and saying that now is the time that we should begin to teach the black people Well, that was a bit of a shock to us because we were teaching the black people we didn't know any way had weighed, bought a house and we had two servants. Everybody had lots of servants down there, but they didn't speak any English, so he couldn't teach them the face and s o we wondered. And that was the guardian wanted us to start to teach the black people right away. We didn't know how to go about it. We saw many black people on the street, but we couldn't very well. Say what? Come on in. We want to talk to you about God. And so we had a few problems like this. But this cable from the Guardian came on the day of a feast, and Audrey and I had the feast alone, and that was a bit of a joy to because our house in Canada here in Toronto before, still was just filled with people all the time. And here in Africa, we didn't have anybody. We just had lots of spare time to ourselves. But when suddenly we we're faced with the need to find somebody to teach who was black, and we didn't know anybody. You will admit that that was a bit of a problem. So we had our feast. We read the cable and we re read it and we wondered, How are we going to connect with black people? It just didn't seem possible. And so we thought about it and we prayed about it. And finally, Audrey said that one of our white friends had told her that there waas a black doctor in the town. Dr Bythe name of Dr McGary Mill Emma. And but we didn't know where his office waas where we could find him. Uh, we, uh Audrey also said that this person that told her that Dr Mill Emma was a perfectly wonderful person, that not only was he an outstanding surgeon, but that he was a writer. He had written three books on the life of his own bitch wanna people. He was a musician and he had organized a choir of 18 voices, and they had been singing in math, picking and in other places. And he was a very fine person in every way. So we thought, Well, there is the man who would make a wonderful behi. Only we could get in touch with him, but we didn't know him. We didn't know where to find him. But after much consultation, we decided that he was the man. But then how are we going to do to get to see him? so he decided that this was a Saturday night. We decided that on Monday I should go to see him after lunch and try to talk to him about life insurers and pray that he wouldn't want any because I couldn't sell him any, and that seemed a bit of a problem. But way couldn't think of any other way to handle this situation. So on Monday I came home for lunch, all prepared to go to call on Dr Mill Emma. I had found where his office Waas and Audrey greeted me with the news that Lena she was the The gallery had dinner in our house and she was black, had stepped on a nail and had a very sore foot. And Audrey had been bathing this foot, doing everything she could do to give Lena some relief from this pain way. We realized that we had to get a doctor in to see Lena, and we thought, and we knew that the chosen angels would handle this situation for us. We didn't have any doubt about the chosen angels. We knew that they would they find somebody somewhere. Hey, getting us to some black person someplace. So wait, then thought instead of going to talk life insurance to McGary mill, Emma, um, we would get him to come in to see Lena. The only difficulty to that waas that right next door to us, we had a black doctor. No, no, we had a white duck and he and his wife had been very kind to us. And they were all resenting his cakes and oh, all kinds of things and coming to see us. And they had become friends of ours. And we thought, What we can't bring a black doctor in the trees are made when we have is very nice White doctor right next door, he'd be sure to see him. And the daughter that black one would probably come in, parked his car right outside this other doctor's house, and it just seemed to be filled with problems. But again, we saw well, the Baha'i la will hand lateral nicely. So we waited on that day until it was dark. About about eight o'clock. Aren't we continue to bathe Lena's foot? And finally, about eight o'clock, I phoned the doctor and introduced myself and asked, and I told him about Lena's foot and asked if he would come. Well, he told us later that he was scared to death. He never heard my voice before. And here somebody was coming on. He had been accused of having Communist tendencies before that, and he's not really here. Somebody was out to get him again. And he said he was sorry he couldn't come in to my house that night. Treat Lena's foot because his car wasn't working. It is broken down, I said. Well, Dr Mill Emma, I will come out to get you, if you will come. Oh, he said you would never find my house. I live away out of town, miles out of town, and you'll never find it. Well, I You with the chosen angels would get me there if I had his consent. And I said, Don't worry about that Doctor Mill. Emma, Get there, if you will. You come. So he was in the position where he had nothing else but the same. Okay, so I got out there and it was nothing but the chosen angels. I don't know how many it took, but wait. I got out there anyway and to his house. And he did live a way out off the mean streets miles off. And I found his most delightful person, a man of about 65. And then black is the ace of spades, but a great broad smile and just the kind of person you couldn't help falling in love with. And so he got in my car, we drove to my house and we took him around and Dolina and that, you know, in that part of the world, the servants, you're black servants don't sleep in your house. They aren't allowed to, but they all have a little house of their own outside. It's called a kaya. And so Lena had a chi and we took the doctor out there and he looked at his at her foot and treated it and said that she'd be all right in a day or two. So then we were going leaving the Kyra, and we're already and I was kind of hoping we would get him inside our front door or some way. And it happened that I had a a sore finger. I had a hey nail and I pulled a hangnail. And you know, if you ever do that and that That kind of gave me an infected finger. And so I said, Well, you come in and look at this finger is pretty sore. And so he came in and he looked at it. Well, he said yes, That does look pretty sore. And he whipped some black Doug out of his satchel and wrap my finger up. And hey said you'd better come to my office tomorrow to my surgery, and I you know, a good look at it there. Well, that pleased us because we wanted more appointments and so that Audrey and I drove him back, and by the time we got him back to his house, we were just in love with Thin Man. He was always a wonderful person. And so then I had, uh, uh, appointment to go to his office the next morning, and he was going to take a real look at the finger. So the next morning, I went and he was working on my finger and and standing behind me and he said, Mr Bars, do you believe in prayer? That's a good subject, right? Right in here. Then I said, Yes, I do. And then when he said I do to, you know, I'm a doctor, but I don't ever hear anybody, he said. God heals. I do what I can to help with the process. But it's God always heals. And he said, Do you believe that? I saw? Yes, of course. I believe that. And as I was sitting in his chair over on the wall, there was a picture of the graduates of Edinburgh University. And I said to him, You were you and Ed bread He said, Yes, I am. And he said, I have a brother who went to Glasgow and he's a He's a graduate of Blasco. I have Edinburgh. Then I said, Well, that's that's interesting. Your father must have been a very progressive man. And when he said my father was a progressive man, Um but they said you had. Do you ask me that? Because he was able to set his two sons overseas for an education? I said Yes, really said, You know, my father was a very progressive man, but he said my grandfather, he was really a progressive man. He said, you know that, Um, my grandfather was the first convert to Christianity in the whole of this country of betcha. Wanna land a boy? This is the right family. Imagine that. And so, uh hey said, Well, not that finger of yours. I may need to do a little more with it. And this this waas what day was that? This is Wednesday. Then he told me to come back on the Friday and that was good news for us because that meant another chance to get at him and the Audrey. In the meantime, I was at home praying for all she was worth. And between us and the chosen angels, we thought, Well, things were going pretty well. And so on Friday morning, Mrs Mill, Emma telephone and she said, You're to see my husband this afternoon. I said Yes. Well, she said, Would you mind coming on Monday and stand? She says, You know, he's at home with a cold, and it's the first time he's had a day off in 25 years. And if you come Wednesday instead, that that would be fine. Well, I said Mrs Mill, Emma, I could do that, but I have quite a sore finger. It really wasn't quite that sore, but, uh would he let me come out to see him at the house. And I boasted that I knew where their house waas And so she consulted him and came back and said, Fine, you come this afternoon. So I went out in the afternoon and I had a basket of fruit and I had a book which you all know and that's s lots Baha'i Allah in the new era. So I got out there and he fixed my finger and ah, then I said to him, I said, Dr Mill, Emma, do you remember when I was in your office the other day? We talked about prayer. I said, I have a book here and there's one chapter on prayer which I think you would enjoy. Will you read it? Well, yes, he said, glad to read it. Fine. And and so he said, You come to my office. I'll be better by by Monday. And then he said, I'll give you back your book. So on Monday, I arrived in and his office was filled with people and he saw me coming and he came right out to the door and greeted me and took me right in through all the crowd of black people took me back to his his surgery and he said, Mr Bars, that book you gave me the other day He said You asked me to read that chapter of prayer that I see Yeah, well, he said, I read the whole book and he said, I've read that chapter on prayer three times and he said, I want it. I want you to tell me one thing Uh he said, Since you've been in this country, have you brought any people into the faith here in this country? I said, No, no, we haven't done anything like that. Well, then he said to me to tell me that if I were to become a Baha'i way with first behind in better Iran land, I said, Yes, you would be Well, they said, You know, my grandfather was the first Christian, and that means that I'd be the first behind and I said, That's right and he sues arms around my neck and he was a buy from that woman on. Now I ask you, do you believe that the chosen Angels work? And that's pretty fast work. And from then on, amid eerie became our closest in our dearest friend. He did everything he taught his within a week. His sister is of a high. His sister's husband was behind and he had introduced us to all kinds of other people. And he said, Hey said we'll have fire sides in my house every Wednesday fireside in our so that that's it. Us very well. And he would have people. The Chiefs would come in from the From Better Iran land and way would meet them and he would talk about the face. And we happen to take a lot of books with us behind books. Almost every book they had in the in the in the library and I took a whole trunk full of books and he borrowed the mall and read them. Then he was by far the best. Red man is a lot, and he was he reading all the time. He couldn't get enough of these behind books and he understood them. And then he was teaching, introducing us to other people, and, um so that's that's one way that the chosen angels work. Don't you think that that is a pretty good effort on the part of those chosen angels. They, uh if we analyze that story and see how many totally impossible things happen Imagine Lena stepping on a nail that day, the day that I happen to have a sore finger. And, uh uh, he knew all these people, and he he was forever introducing us to people. And, uh, well, then, I must tell you, these fire size that we had on Wednesdays at his house were delightful and his wife or his her name was Lou Krisha. And the Lacresha was interested in the faith, but she didn't want to become a BEHI. In fact, she was active in the church that material Grandfather had established when he was alive. And so we didn't push her. Although we occasionally suggested that she become a behi. But she didn't. But she provided us was the best coffee you ever drank. And it took part in the whole thing, and it was very happy about it. But with sad thing about all this is that McGary died a few years later. And I might say that one time I had a letter from him from Haifa. He and Lacresha and their daughter decided they would like to go and see what the shrine looked like and they didn't know they had to have permission to make a build. Amazed the audio and I were out of town and he's just up and heading for Haifa, and he got there and he wrote a beautiful letter about what a wonderful place it waas how happy he was to be a high. So and and then hey continued until he died about five years after that. And it was a great loss to us to have him go that way. But, um uh, she continued to be interested and to have fire sides in the house occasionally, and in the meantime, other people they have Well, I think that perhaps give you that story pretty well. Uh, but Auggie and I made a trip back there. We left in 1966. That's when the house requested us to come back to Canada about in there a few years after that, remain a trip back and spent another three or four weeks in math picking and in and about there, and saw all our old friends. We're so glad to see them. And then this year, the house request that we go back. We had another trip on. We had a message from Lacresha saying that she hoped Audrey and I would stay with her. She was living in the same house and she and my Tahirih had lived in for many years. And, um, the very first day we arrived after an absence of some 27 years since we had lived there. And Krisha signed her car that day. And so she became a behind. It took her a long time to get around, but oh, happy everybody. Waas And we were there for the convention. The natural convention of bubble to swallow, which is the new African country. Really. And, um, we were at the convention and way had persuaded Lucrecia to come on Dhe she was sitting in the back. And then when I was called upon, I told the story much super. But I've just told you know, And then I ended up by saying that Lacresha had signed her card three days before that. Well, they were so excited and so thrilled to realize that finally, Lucrecia was of a high. They clapped and they stamped their feet and they only give it too much. It was welcome. So she came forward to the platform and she was so happy to have this wonderful reception. And they slapped instead, that be they had a wonderful time. And so that that is the story of the mill Emma's. Although there were there are other Malev, Abbas and many other friends of video series and relations who came into the faith but friends. That would give you a one picture of what the chosen Angels could do. And we must never feel that the chosen angels will let us down. We know that they are. They're always and we can count on them. And when we recent time of a crisis such as we seem to be in now we must realize that the crisis is not really a crisis because so long as they are there and we are receiving this help and we can always have it. You know the wording, the unseen, divine assistance and covers those who deliver the message. If the work of delivering the message be neglected, the assistance is entirely cut off, for it is impossible that the friends of God could receive assistance unless they be engaged in delivering the message. I remember one time when I was in Africa, the beloved guided and asked me to come back to Canada on a trip and visit my old friends and see what I could do helps them to get started in really teaching the faith. But there's one night in one place. On the Friday night I was making my talk on that subject and saying that everywhere, everywhere there are people waiting, wanting to get me into the faith, not to have the feeling that nobody wanted to come in and that there are people prepared, ready to come. And at that meeting, a young man stood up and he said, John, what you say may be true. It may be that there are people waiting to come into the faith everywhere. But he said, it isn't true where I live. Well, I said, Where do you live? Well, he said, My wife and I live about 20 miles from here in a little town and we have a store and he said, You know, we've been there for five years and we have a beautiful picture of Abdu'l-Baha and we have a picture of the temple and we have a pile of purple. It's Baha'i path, bliss, which we want to give to people. But it says nobody looks at those pictures. Nobody takes a pair of flip and he said, You know why they don't that I said no Why? He said, They're all dead. They're dead. They're spiritually dead. It isn't true that every place there are people waiting to come into the faith because there's nobody in that. This was a Friday night, and after I'd listen to this, getting a little redder in the neck. As he spoke, I said, Look, my friend, what you say really is not true. There are people there, and if you and your wife would go home and say these prayers tonight, which is Friday and tomorrow night and Sunday night, I said on Monday morning, somebody will come in and ask you about the Baha'i. And then I wondered what ever I said. I thought, I'm getting crazy as I get older. I wasn't nearly as old then, but any rate I said, somebody will come in to see you on Monday morning and they will want to know about the high faith So I had a letter from him several days later and he said You'll never guess what happened. He said, My wife and I went home and we pray those prayers Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night we opened the store a little earlier than we ever open it, and we closed it a little later than we ever close it, and nobody came to ask about the faith. But he said, We went home that evening and we talked about it and we decided that way we're going to be lights in this tongue. We just must tune into the source of power. And we would pray again tonight, Monday night. And so we did. We prayed more than we had prayed the other three nights all put together. We prayed and we prayed and we prayed at away prayed. And he said on Tuesday morning, a man came in and he walked over to those pictures of Abdu'l-Baha and the Temple, and he said, Would you come over and tell me something about this? And he said, I went over and he said, I'd like to know something about the Baha'i faith so he said, could I and my wife come and spend an evening with you and your wife and talk about this and he said Yes, you certain? Good. Let's make what can you make it tomorrow night? So they agreed that Wednesday night this couple would come to their house and they would talk about the faith. You know, that is, and he said they came and before they left that night they signed two cards and they were behind. And there were some live people in that, and within five months they had an assembly in the town where everybody was dead. And I told him that that I said, You know, it's You just can't make such a statement that people are dead, that there no behind way him to come into the faith. Because if you if you do make such a statement, you're accusing God of being une economic. Why would God have to fine teachers like I judge, you and your wife are living in a place where everybody was dead? I said, The very fact you're there is a proof that there other people who must be alive, too. And you know, funny thing about that story is that my wife. When I told her about it, I came back to Africa again in Torrance. And of course, he always believes what I tell her. She's not here now, but that is one story she we really didn't ever quite believe. I told her all about this. You know how this happened. And these people did come and so. But one time after we were back in Canada, way went to a meeting not far from our house. And we went out and loan Behold here. There were these two people who had signed up on that Wednesday night, and I got to know them by this time. And so with my wife sitting there, I told the story about how they had come into the faith. And I told the story just exactly as it waas as I always do. And then I introduced my wife to this couple and I said, I just wanted you to confirm what I said was right. And they said, Absolutely. I said that there was no embroidering of that story it all, And there wasn't friends that I have seen it happen again and again and again and again that there are people waiting? No right. No everywhere to come into the face. This is the only place there is. That is within the cause of Baha'i, where there's any hope for mankind. It is the one place and friends we have got to do something about it. We have to find these people and we don't have to look very far. We must remember that the chosen angels are working all the time. And I could sit here and tell your stories like this for a long time. But there are people like this just waiting to come in one time. Well, quite a few years ago, I was at a luncheon. I was I was with the London Life and our management put on the manager's Lantian and it happened to fall on the first day of the fast. I called the my chief. I said, Look, couldn't you make it a day early? That's not a good day for me. That's the day of the fast, and I can't eat And the company you're gonna pay for the lunch. I would like to have a good life on that Sit there. Have you paid for a great big lines that I don't eat any up, but he it is too late. So he had the lunch, and here there were six of 65 managers, and this this chap from head office. We were sitting around having a lovely lunch together, accepting that I wasn't eating. And the chap sitting beside me, he said, Why aren't you eating well? I said, I'm not a fast And he said it had something to do with your Your weight should know. No, not the way he said. Have you been overdoing it a little bit lately? I should know low. It's just it's just a kind of a religious fast, really said, That's interesting. What would What kind of a fast isn't for these other fellas? We're telling the usual stories these life insurance people tell when they get together on. I didn't think those stories would go very well with my talk on the behind fast, however, I told and this $1 to my surprise sitting beside me, he said, Tell me what kind of a fast it was kind of a religion. Is it? Well, I said, is the high face of never heard of that What is it? Tell me about it. Well, I knew these other fellows wouldn't be that interested in a talk on the behind faith. And what's more, I was a little timid in those days, and I didn't really like to start giving you talk high fast while they were all having a good time eating a great enormous stake paid for by the company that I knew they wouldn't be a bit and instead. But there's one bird. He was very much interested. And before the before we finished our lunch, he said, Take an idea of a high, just sure, no matter where you going to find them everywhere. And I said, Maybe want to take a little look at it first? Well, he said, When can I do that? So he drove me home any hey, borrowed a book and he really wasn't very satisfied with that. He said he'd like to have two or three books, but I told him one was enough. And if you start with a number, he said, Can we have lunch together tomorrow when we talk some more? So he had lets the next day, and by this time I brought him another book and he said, You know, my wife and I would like to do it. They could become two eyes with that fear. All right, well, I said, you'd better look into this a little more than that. I said, This is just a little too fast Way had a custom bringing people in like that and Wellies. And what can we do then? Because he said to me, I've been studying this very kind of a thing He said When I went to a university a few years ago, I was told that this was what the world needed, a religion just like that. In fact, my professor at the at the university, he described this very religion, but he didn't know about that religion. He never heard of the Baha'i things, but he knew what what the needs water. And this is it. And I'd like to join. Well, I said anywhere to do. You better talk it over with your wife. It's a good thing going for you both to come in together and not just 10 shucks, she said. I'd like to come in now, friends. You don't always get that eager, but but There are people like that everywhere you go And you know that fella, Uh, I said, Look, we have a summer school down in Rice Lake and you come and you bring your wife. And so they came. And they both were very anxious to be Baha'i eyes right off the bat. And so it wasn't long after that that they both signed their cards. They both met with the assembly. They both became the highs and friends. I don't want to embarrass anybody. I wouldn't tell you who they are, who these people are, but they're probably the best behind you ever saw. And that was back in 1945. And I'm not going to tell me who they are because some of you might know them. I wouldn't wonder. Embarrassed them. But that's that's a pretty good story. Don't you think? The teachings of the whole law happened to be the only thing we've got? It's the only hope for mankind. There is no other hope. Absolutely none. Nothing. Take a look at the world today. It's sinking, reading, newspaper, listening the newscast every day, any day. Then what do you find? Wars, hatred, imprisonment, fires, floods trouble of every kind. Prices going up, costs of everything going on, Values coming down. I'm afraid you won't know where we're going. What's happening to us? Well, the thing is, friend God has said a messenger to this this earth God has sent a messenger to this earth with laws, and he expects the people to look at those laws and obey them. He expects us to to rise and say, Dear God, thank you for letting me in on this great secret. We have got the buy things. We know about it. But what are we doing with us? And when we get into the next world, what's going to happen, then we're going to see all these people who haven't done a thing about it. Friends, I don't mean to thank you. The scurries. I know how to close the deal and invite people doing role in the face. That's another one friend. I told you some of them things. How you in a row how to close a deal. Well, one way, I think, is very good ways the way we do with Sydney Price or to just ask them to. They want to be of a high. They love the whole line and asked him aside and have a card. But don't press the card. Anybody don't ever. But I think you could just tell people what it is, what Baha'i bases, how important it is and how so one hope for mankind and how to use a teaching book. When I told you about that, I have that book in short, people, if you wish. It's a wonderful book, and they realize it and how to use a prayer to assist one's efforts with friends. That is, that is a subject to go on forever. There's 11 way that I think is very, very important is to pray, say, Pray. And I wanted to tell you about the longer obligatory prayer. But any prayer. You know, you know the story about the remover of difficulty 500 times, uh, or do you you know, the whole in God passes by page 119 in about halfway Soon, Baha'i says, people bid them to recite. Is there any remover of difficulty? Say there is a god. He is God. All are his servants and long abide by his bidding Well. And if you say that town recited 500 times 1000 times by day and by night, sleeping and waking so that many people Why are my house and rotten where we live? We've had people there every Monday night for a year, you know, next week saying remover difficulties 500 times. Sometimes there have been eight or nine people, sometimes only two for five, and they come to think of it seven o'clock. And we started saying prayers at seven and one person talks with the beads and we go through 100 he says, 102 100 he says. 200 to 500. It takes one hour and 40 minutes to say that 150 words. 500 words to take 140 minutes. Many people say that Great, Uh, and if you don't do you try it. Sad if you get to the point where you don't sleep very well at night, or if you just can't see the tall at night, say that prayer quietly, just turn to God and say, Is there any remover of difficulties? Save God save praised Be God. He is gone. All his servants and all abide by his bedding. I've got a string of these here. Perhaps you can't see them, but they're 100 these little tiny these and I have that on my fingers and I go through and I use that once through that that's 100 times, and that takes me 20 minutes and keep under a 500 times. And you know that you are speaking to God and it's a very comforting fuck, as you say, knowing that there is only one remover of dating copies and that's God. Is any removal of difficulty safe? God say, praise the God. He is gone. All his servants and all abide by his bidding and just go suited this. These bees do one and another one and keep on going into the 100 then keep on doing it. And 500 and that generate the way we do. It takes one hour and 40 minutes, and you feel close to God. When you've done that, you feel as though you belong and friends. This is what we do. And then when we get to the point way, think of these negative qualities, bug us, things we do. We know we shouldn't do. Nobody needs Tell it way do these things. But we do them and we want to get over them. And we think of the way of overcoming these things that I read out this morning to you. How way do it wait? So the power of the Holy Spirit Wait, thank you way return to that power of the Holy Spirit and we think about that. And we say, Is there any remover? Difficulty safe? God, we know there is no other difficulties. There is only one God freeze God, he is God. All are his servants. Fall. Abide by his bidding friends that he didn't say we had to do it. It's not part of the teaching, said we should do it, but it's there for us to do if we want to do it. And there are many, many people who do it every day. Lots of people do every day, and they have these bees and other. But other proven that my wife doesn't use beads, she praised, and she numbers them off her fingers. She knows when she's done 100. She knows when she's done 500 that other people have different methods. I sometimes do. I haven't got a beach. I do one o'clock and I know I do. In 20 minutes I'm done 100 addicted thinking I say that leads to the ticks of the clock. But friends, this is one way. And there are many ways. But this is the way we remember. Way should love God has been there And you know that that hidden word you love me But God says to us love me that I may love thee if they love me not my love can no eyes reach the know of its old servant We must love daughter. He doesn't love us. You know why? I'm sure you do love me that I'm a lovely if he loves me not that can in no wise receiving all this on servants to take a little plan Little struggling plant Put it outside in the sunshine and leave it there. The sun will come on in and warm and it'll grow in her in the lovely plans for the big trees. But if we don't die it's a head and got the love of God on it. And so if we want to have that love ourselves. If we want the love of God, we must love him. But I will say a lot of and thank you for being such a wonderful audience.