<TITLE>22. Par 82-86</TITLE>L-82  I started walking up...?... I was up fishing. So I--I started walking up there and I said, "Why, why, people," I said, "I'm just a little bit... I don't know what I am," I said. "I--I--I feel kindly funny," I said, "I--I--I'm not used to your all's religion," I said. "And..." And I said, "I--I--I wanted to speak just a little; I'll do the best I can." And so I got up over there--over there where the rich man lifted up his eyes in hell, and my, something got ahold of me. The next thing I knowed it was about a half-hour later. I was out in yard just. My, what a time we had.

L-83  Here come a fellow up with a big pair of Texas boots on, a big hat, said, "I'm Reverend so-and-so." I thought, "Well, I ain't so bad dressed after all." I said, "Are you a minister?"
He said, "Sure." Said, "I heard your message." Said, "I heard you was a evangelist." Like for you to come down to Texas and hold me a revival." I said, "Well, look, I'm just a young preacher. I just started." I said, "I ain't--hadn't got into this way just right, with you all. Oh," I said, "I like it."

L-84  A fellow tapped me on the shoulder. And he looked and he had on a pair of those there knickerbocker pants, bloused at the knees, like I used to wear when I was a little boy: golf clothes. He said, "I'm Elder so-and-so from Miami."
I said, "You a preacher?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
I thought, "Well, I'm all right then."
So he said, "Why, here." Said, "Will you come and hold a meeting for me?"

L-85  And a lady come up from some, oh, way up in the Indian country, said, "Oh brother, we need you up there."
I thought, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You. Maybe this is what You're going to do something for me." I got on over there; and I begin to take down their names and address. I said, "I'll find out. I'll talk it over with the Lord, with my family..."
When I went home, I'll never forget. Running in... My wife always met me with her arms stretched out; I can see her yet today, bless her heart. She come running to the door; I said, "Oh, honey, I got something to tell you. I met the best bunch of people in the world. I begin to tell her all about how they was acting. She said, "Well, where they at?"
I said, "Up at Mishawaka, Indiana." I said, "You think they're ashamed of their religion? They just scream and shout, run, shake one anther's hands." I said, "They don't care. They're just as free like birds in the air." I said...

L-86  She said, "Were they at?"
And I said, "Up in Mishawaka. A whole bunch of them up there." And I want to show you something. Reached down in my pocket. I said, "They have given me invitations to come to their churches to preach." I said, "You believe it?"
She said, "Is that true, honey?"
I say, "Yeah."
She said, "Well, maybe you couldn't preach in their kind of church."
I said, "That's what they asked me to do." I said, "Well, I'll go." So she... Well, I said, "Would you go with me?" God bless her heart, she'd always go.
She said, "Yes, honey, wherever you go I'll go with you." We didn't have no money. We went in and counted our money, what we had, and I didn't have even enough to make the payment on the car. I said, "Well look, honey, the--the--the Bible said don't take nothing and take no thought." I said, "The Bible said if you got two coats, give one of them to your brother and go on out and He'd supply." Now, I said, "Do you think if you and the baby could go on and be..."
"Yes, yes, we'll do it."


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