<TITLE>18. Par 72-73</TITLE>L-72 This old preacher come out to preach. He said he had--was going to preach the message that night. And the old fellow come out. And I thought, "Poor old brother. He was just all crippled up like this."
He come out. And he took his text from over in, I believe, in Job 7:27, or somewhere there. "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the world?" Said he, "When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy." And instead of preaching what He'd been done out here on earth, he took Him up back yonder about ten thousand years before the world was ever formed, brought Him on down across through the skies, and come down the horizontal rainbow back yonder in eternity somewhere.
When that old fellow got anointed, he jumped up in the air, kicked his heels together, hollered, "Whoopie." Walked off of that platform, looked around. He had more room than I've got up here. He said, "You ain't got room enough up here for me to preach." Walked off.
I said, "That's what I want. If--if It'll make an old man act like that, what would It do to me?" I said, "That's the thing I want. That's what I want." I said, "My, what a wonderful people."

L-73 I went out that night, and I got down in the old corn field, and I prayed and I prayed. Nobody knowed me. So I took my trousers and put them between the seats of the Ford and pressed them, you know. Took the back seat out and the front seat out, put them down. Probably you've done the same thing, pressed them overnight. I laid down over there in the grass, and I prayed nearly all night.
And next morning they said they was going to have breakfast at ten o'clock. I wouldn't eat with them, because I had no money to put in the offering. And I just had my rolls. So I--I eat my rolls, and come by a hydrant down there, and got me some water, come on down. Now, I'd been welcome, but I just didn't want to do it, because I couldn't help them out. So I didn't have the money to... But I was wondering what they had spiritually. And I...
And then that morning, they started singing that little song, "I Know It Was The Blood, I Know It Was The Blood." And oh, my, they was having a real time.


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