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the world's greatest salesman
of the world's best seller.
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- With gratitude, Mid-American.''
- Thank you.
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There are many people
who know the Bible.
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There are many people
who can quote from the Bible.
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But you're somewhat different.
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You know the business.
And what is that business ?
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Isn't is the business
that we hear when...
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the young boy,Jesus, was lost
for a matter of three days or so ?
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And they said to him,
''Why didn't you follow us ?
Why didn't you come with us ?
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We were worried. We were scared
to death. Where were you ?''
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And he said, very quietly
and very simply,
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''Whist ye not that l am
about my Father's business ?''
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Now, l don't intend to portray
the fact that the Father's business,
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in itself, is selling Bibles
for dollars and cents...
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and for the commercial aspect of it,
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but l do believe the good that comes
from the selling of Bibles...
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and the getting of Bibles
and the reading of Bibles...
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is definitely identified
with the Father's business.
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Some of you,
at one time or another,
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may or may not have had
a higher income,
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but you have never held
a higher position of esteem...
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in the minds of the world
or in your own self-satisfaction...
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than you now hold,
knowing what you're doing...
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about your Father's business.
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Hold your heads very high.
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Be very proud of your position.
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Stop thinking in terms
of Bible peddling,
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because I am confident
that once you realize...
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what you are doing for others,
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you in your own esteem
will rise so high--
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not with conceit, but in humility,