<TITLE>30. Par 114-117</TITLE>L-114 And I stood up and I looked at her, and oh, she looked like she did the night I married her. And I looked at her building. She said, "Won't you set down?"
And I looked, and there's a great big Morris chair setting there. And I looked over at her.
She said, "I know what you're thinking."
When we didn't have any chairs... We had the old hickory bottom chairs. You know what they are, cane bottoms? We had two or three of those. And I wanted a--a Morris chair to set in. They could finance us fifteen dollars, and I paid three dollars down and a dollar a week.
And I got one; and I paid up to about eight or ten dollars on it. And I just couldn't make the payments. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't shave that dollar out. And I went about two or three weeks behind, and I... They sent me a dun; they was going to come get it. And I wrote them, told them they'd have to come.

L-115 And I remember the day they come and got my chair. Wife baked me a cherry pie, and she had it all fixed for me when I come in: a real wife. God bless her. Her grave may be white with snow, but I still love her.
And then she... When she had this pie, I thought there was something happening. I went in; she was talking. She said, "Now, I had some of the boys to dig some fishing worms." Said, "We're going down to the river." She knowed I love to fish. Said, "We're going down to fish tonight."
I said, "Well, honey, what's the matter?"
She said, "Nothing."
After supper, I felt something. I said, "Let's go in the front room."
She said, "Bill, let's go fishing first."
I--I knowed what it was. And I walk--got up and started walking to the door, and she come put her arms around me. They'd come got my chair. I'd work all day and preach half the night, then I'd set in this chair and study when I'd rest and go to sleep. And they'd come gotten it. I owed money on it and couldn't pay it. They had to come and get it, and I never will forget how we felt.

L-116 And she'd recognized that when we were standing talking. She said, "Do you remember that chair they come and got?"
And I said, "Yes, honey."
She said, "They'll never come get this one. This one's yours." She said, "Set down." Said, "Promise me you won't worry."
She put her arms around me, and I said, "Honey, I promise you I'd never worry again."
I woke up and I was in the room, and I could still feel her arms around me. But from that day to this, I haven't worried about it. They're beyond the blue.

L-117 Someday, I got to go too. Each one of us has to make that journey here. Oh, my, a life, brother, sister. Scars and cuts, and went through that stream of poverty, and tears that paved the way...?... You don't realize. No wonder that sometimes it saps the very life from me.
But today, I'm trying to be as reverent as I can be before you. I'm trying my best, coming right back serving that same people that was considered trash at one time. They're my brother and sister, and I love them with all my heart. And I'm taking that gift and going day and night. We been here two weeks when it's nearly got me to a place I have about an hour and something sleep last night.
What do I... I was keeping my promise to God. Yes, sir...?... into all the parts of the country wherever I can go with a reverent, sincere heart. I want to serve God until the day He calls me home. There's a beautiful home, oh, over the sea somewhere.


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