<TITLE>26. Par 100-102</TITLE>L-100 I walked over to her I said, "Sweetheart, you're not going to leave me, are you?"
She said, "Oh Bill." She said, "You've talked about it; you preached about it, but you don't know how glorious it is." Said, "Just before you called me, there was something in white was taking me home. I was going down through a great big place where there was pretty trees and big birds and swings. I was at perfectly at peace being taken my home." I believe she seen paradise as sure as I'm standing in this platform.
She said, "You've talked about that wonderful Holy Spirit, Bill. But you don't know how wonderful it is when you come to cross. That's the reason I'm going, brother. I know it's real. I've seen it at the end of the road." Yeah, you can call me holy-roller, if you want to but let me die one; that's the way I want to go. Yes, sir.
She said, "Oh, you don't know how wonderful it is." She said, "Sweetheart, you know I'm going, don't you."
And I said, "Yes."

L-101 She didn't mind going. She said, "Oh, it's all right, Bill. I hate to leave you and the children. But oh how wonderful that place is over there." She said, "I want to go back." And she said, "You know why I'm going don't you?" And oh, that's what killed me.
I said, "Yes, honey, I know it." I said, "If we'd have minded God instead of your mother, it wouldn't have been this a way." I said, "I'm going with them, don't you worry."
She said, "Promise me that you'll preach it as long as you live."
I said, "So help me, God...?..." I said, "I'll do all that I can, honey."
And she said, "I want you to do a few things for me. Will you?"
I said, "Yes, I'll--I'll try." I said, "I'll do all I can."
And she said, "Remember that time when we was in Louisville, and--and you wanted to buy that rifle to go hunting."
And I just love guns. And she... And it taken three dollars to make a down payment on it.
And I said, "Yeah, I remember it."
She said, "We didn't have no money to pay for it then."
And I said, "No."
She said, "Sweetheart." She said, "I wanted to get you that rifle so bad." She said, "I've been saving for about eight months." And she said, "After I'm gone, would you go home, look up on the folding bed under that paper, and you'll find the money there. You'll..."

L-102 I think she had a dollar seventy-five cents saved towards it laying up there. You don't know how I felt when I picked up that dollar seventy-five cents and looked at it.
She said, "And another thing..."
One time I bought the wrong pair of stockings for her, I'd never--didn't know what kind of goods to call for, and I called for the wrong thing. And she told me about that.
Then she said, "I don't want you to live single. I want you to promise me that you'll take my children and promise me you'll get some good girl that's got the Holy Ghost, and get married, and she'll be good to the..." She said, "Then they won't have to be pulled about from pillar to post."
And I said, "Honey, I--I can't promise that." I said, "I love you too much to ever get married."
And she said, "Please, please." And I said... She said, "You can't take care of that little girl and little Billy."
I said, "Oh honey, don't make me promise that."
She said, "I made you promise me you'll do it."


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