<TITLE>35. Par 123-124</TITLE>L-123  She said, "Promise me you won't worry, will you?" Said, "Sharon and I are better off than you are. Oh, honey," she said, "Just promise me you won't worry."
And I said, "All right. I won't worry no more." And she kinda raised up like this, and looked around, and she said, "Will you set down." And I looked, there's a great big chair setting there. And I looked at that chair and I looked back at her. She said, "I know what you're thinking. Here's what it was." While we was a preaching... Now we didn't have nothing, just them old hickory bottom chairs. We was living in a house. And I--I'd preach half the night, work all day long with a air hammer, and pick and shovel. I'd come in at night, and I wanted to buy one of them chairs, them, you know, Morris chairs, you call them, whatever it is, you know, lounge chairs. And I wanted to buy one. They was for sale then for fifteen dollars and ninety-five cents. And I would just pay a dollar down and a dollar a week to pay for it. And I had got one and moved it into the house, and my, I'd set there of a night and just relax when I come in, studied the Bible till I'd go to sleep.
And one day while I come in, and I'd got a dun, I couldn't make the payment that week. The next week passed; I couldn't make the payment and they sent to come get my chair. And so I--I just couldn't make the payment, I just couldn't do it. So I told her; I said, "You call them up and tell them to come get it, honey."

L-124  And so, I remember coming in that evening. She'd baked me a cherry pie. I--I love cherry pie so well. And I went in, she'd had some of the boys to dig some fishing worms so I could go fishing. They was setting out. She was a real girl. And so, and she had set out there and we come in to eat supper. I seen she was extremely happy, or seemed to be, or putting on something. She had her cherry pie and I was eating it. And afterwards I kind've suspicioned something. So I said, "Let's go in the front room."
She said, "Oh, let's go fishing first, down at the river."
I said, "No, let's go in the front room." And she put her arm around me. When I walked in the room, the chair was gone.
She started crying, put her head over on my shoulder; she said, "I'm sorry, honey, I tried everything to borrow two dollars even," but said, "I couldn't do it." We'd paid about ten dollars on it, and said, "I couldn't do it; we just had to let it go." And then she looked at me and she said, "Can we...?..." and I said, "Yes."
She said, "Well, sweetheart, there'll never be nobody come and get this one. It's already paid for. It belongs to you." Said, "You've been so tired; you been preaching and praying for the sick."
I--I wasn't praying for the sick then. So I know that sometime my going will probably be from the platform, praying for the sick. That been the thing that was a help...?... to get up.


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