Well, personally I don’t change them, because I find in scripture the eternal question which is “What wantest thou of me?” I learned that lesson with a blind man. I would have thought any man who was blind and still young and healthy in body and in mind would want to see. So I said to him one day—his name was Clyde Munroe and we called him Brother Munroe—and he said he didn’t want to see. Then he gave me all the reasons why he didn’t want to see. He’d rather have the adulation that came with blindness than when he had sight as a young boy in Kansas City on a farm where no one cared whether he lived or died. He could see until he was about fourteen and then he went totally blind. Friends got together and sent him off to New York City in the hope they could do something for him with operations. They discovered that the whole thing was gone, the eyes were gone, might as well take them out. But then people read to him, because he didn’t read before, and they read him good books and he had a good memory so he could memorize the books. Then, because he was blind he could get permission to speak publicly in the public square. In New York City in those days it was allowed. So he had an American flag and a little box and he would get up with his long hair—he had long hair before the hippies had long hair, down to here. He looked like, well, the so-called traditional picture of a prophet. With a good memory and all these lovely poems people read to him he would simply spout. But he couldn’t tell how many listened to him and he would ask and they would say, well, Clyde, you had twenty tonight or thirty tonight. Oh, he said, that’s thirty people who would listen to me when not one person ever heard me before when I could see. So he had an audience and he loved it. He told me quite frankly that he didn’t want to see and he meant it. So in scripture the question is “What wantest thou of me?” You never take it upon yourself to say another one should do so-and-so. You go into a home and you find a little argument. There are people who will jump to conclusions and say, well, she should leave him or he should leave her when that is part of their nature to have a little argument and they love each other dearly. Some nut will come in and give you all kinds of reasons what they should do. And all these psychiatrists…you find one fellow on TV all the time, just brought out a book, and he thinks he is the biggest ever. All these silly little children, all permissiveness, and you should do this and he plays this little, tiny part of a child. You want to slap him. Here is this stupid little thing, no discipline whatsoever, everything is just “allow me.” Well, you don’t do that. We have a little dog, that is, our daughter has one, and we are baby sitters for the dog four days a week when she goes off to work. Well, he better behave himself in my place…I’m not going to have a kennel. So when he wants to go out I will always take him out and he has his own way of telling me. He’ll come and lick my foot and lick my hand as I’m reading the Bible. Today three times he came and licked my hand. I’m hoping he doesn’t lick the Bible. I don’t want to spoil it. So he licked my hand…that’s perfectly all right, licks my foot. When first I didn’t respond he goes and looks at me as though “Is he stupid, has he gone to sleep or something?” He comes back and does the same the same thing all over again. Well then, I know that he is right and I’m wrong, so I get up, put him on the leash and take him out and walk him until he performs whatever he’s supposed to. He does, he isn’t lying to me, and I always give him some little tidbit when he comes back. But he is disciplined. Well now, if he wasn’t disciplined, she couldn’t leave him in my home. I’m not keeping that sort of a house. So bring him yes. I love my daughter and she can leave all of her animals here. She has birds and a dog…if you’d allow it she’d bring an elephant. She loves all kinds of animals. Well, I’ll take care of as many as she wants. I’ve taken care of the birds and the dog many a time when she goes away, say for a weekend. But every four days a week, because her maid comes on Wednesday, so we don’t get the animal on Wednesday. We get Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday…we have a dog and I have to walk him. But he lets me know when he wants to go out…he has his own sweet little way of telling me. I can’t delay too long, because should he perform then it is not his fault, it’s mine. He’s a disciplined dog. Well, every child should be disciplined. Imagine some man, because of this permissiveness, still performing these functions of the body at the age of manhood no matter where he goes. He’s an animal and not a disciplined animal. No, I say every child should be disciplined. The Bible teaches that if you love it, you discipline it; if you don’t, let it become an animal and then push it out into the wilds. So I never say to anyone that I think you should really want so-and-so. I ask them what God in them is telling them: what do you want? Because, I know tonight there are millions of people in the world who would not want to change places with anyone in the world. In fact, everyone should be in that place where you don’t want to change places with anyone in this world. If people will think because this one has a billion dollars, wouldn’t you like to be in his place? So what? Would anyone in this room tonight like to be in the actual shoes and be the person, say, Getty is? Well, he has a billion and a half, so what? From reports he’s found no happiness tonight. It hasn’t brought him any happiness. You’re happy with your wife or your husband, with your family and you go home knowing that you’re wanted. Such people will never know when they’re married that they’re ever wanted. Because girls can play some very interesting parts and make you think that you are the last thing in this world; in fact, that you are everything a woman could ever want…and all she really wants is your money. He will never know that he was ever wanted for himself. Well, a man must feel that he is wanted for himself. And so a woman should feel she is wanted for herself and not because she has money or social position. What percentage of the world tonight would actually believe that Jacqueline married Onassis for his looks and his physical prowess? What percentage of the world would believe that? I don’t think you’ll find anyone who’ll believe it. But she married him and she does have a half-billion dollars. With all her money it still was not enough. Do you know it is never enough? When I made eighteen dollars a week at Macy’s, I said, O Lord, if I could only make twenty-five dollars, wouldn’t that be marvelous! I made twenty-five dollars and that wasn’t enough. If I could only make thirty dollars…couldn’t go too far, couldn’t envision more than that. Then I made thirty-five dollars and that wasn’t enough because it bought a bigger room in which to live. And then you did something else and bought a better suit of clothes. Then fifty dollars was not enough. I made $100 and that was not enough; then I made $500 a week and that was not enough. I’ve never made enough. Less than all is not enough. Good night!707 ¶54