Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room. Upstairs past the last collection of baseball bats in Cambridge and the broken crew oars, one finds a musty room, littered with empty cardboard boxes. There under shaded lamps stand the pool tables. One is covered with cartons, but the other seven are ready for use. The cues wait covered with dust in the racks, and red stiff-backed stools line the far wall...
Despite the addition of a second checkout desk, lines clog the lobby at the 9 p.m. signout hour, and the student who has already checked out his books must wait for a pink-card inspection just to get out of the building...
...leave here with peace and joy and happiness such as you've never known. You say: 'Well, 'Billy, that's all well and good. I'll think it over and I may come back some night and I'll-' Wait a minute! You can't come to Christ any time you want to. You can only come when the Spirit of God is drawing and wooing you ... I beg of you to come now before it is too late. You know you need...
Christ in your life. Leave your seat now and come forward. If you have friends or relatives here, they'll wait on you. Whether you're old or young, or rich or poor, white or colored-come quietly up now and say. 'Billy, tonight I accept Christ.' " The Flame Around the World. Night after night in New Orleans' 16,000 capacity Pelican Stadium, this gaunt young man with the Hickey-Freeman clothes and the eagle-sharp manner is bringing men and women down from the packed stands and up the length of the baseball field...
...when you fall in love with Jesus, you are. going to feel it ... Now if I had married all the girls ... I wanted to marry, the Lord only knows where I would have been tonight. The Lord gave me the grace and the strength and the courage to wait . . . And after eleven years, we are still sweethearts. And it's been heaven...