<TITLE>27. Par 84-88</TITLE>L-84 I thought she was entering paradise; I said, "What did it look like, honey?"
Said, "Oh, it was so beautiful." She said, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"What is that, honey?"
She said, "I must hurry back." She said, "I guess you know why I'm going?" Oh, that's what hurt me.
I said, "Yes."
She said, "You shouldn't have never listened to mother."
I said, "I know it." I said, "I know I shouldn't have listened to your mother." I said, "Honey, someday I will make up for it, so help me."
She said, "Bill, if you'd have went ahead and done what God told you do, it might've been different today."
I said, "That's right," but said, "Sweetheart, you couldn't help it, you were trying to be good hearted." I said, "I know that, honey."

L-85 And so, she said, "Will you promise me something?"
I said, "What is it?"
I don't want to be a baby folks, but oh, when I think of what I done to Christ, the wrong that I've done. And I said...
She said, "Promise me something."
I said, "What is it?"
She said, "Promise me that you will preach that same Holy Ghost Gospel until death shall set you free."
I said, "I promise."
And she said, "I want you to promise something else, that you'll not live single."
"Oh," I said, "I can't promise that, honey; I can't promise that."
Said, "I've got two children," and said, "I don't want them drug from pillar to post. You find some good girl that's got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you marry her so you can make a home for the kiddies."
And I said, "I can't promise that, sweetheart; I love you too well."
She said, "There'll be somebody come along, Bill." Said, "Promise me that, will you?"
And I said, "Well, I can't promise that."
She said, "Don't let me go without promising."

L-86 She said, "Another thing," said, "you remember that time when you was in Louisville, and you wanted to buy that little rifle to go hunting with?" I just love guns and fish and things, and I was going away, and she said, "You know that little rifle you wanted to buy, and it cost three dollars down."
And I said, "Yes." Think it cost about seventeen dollars.
And said, "You didn't have money to make the first payment."
I said, "I remember that."
She said, "Bill, I wanted to get that rifle for you so bad." She said, "The allowance that you give me," she said, "I never bought anything, but I've been saving it." Said, "After I'm gone, when you go home, look under that old folding bed up there, at the top on that paper," and said, "you'll find it laying up there."
When I went home found that, about two dollars and eighty cents laying there, where she'd saved to pay that payment on the rifle. You don't know how that made me feel. She was a real girl.

L-87 And she said, "Another thing, I want to apologize to you." Said, "I did something wrong."
And I said, "What's that?"
She said, "I kept something from you."
And I said, "What's that, honey?"
Said, "You remember that time you bought me them stockings?"
And I said, "I don't know."
Said, "We was going to Fort Wayne."
I said, "Yes."
She said, "Them was the wrong kind of stockings."

L-88 What it was; she was taking her--her bath, and we were going to go up to Fort Wayne. Her dad lived at Fort Wayne at that time, and we was going up there. And I was at the, you know where the Rediger Tabernacle is, I just had service. Bert Williams was preaching there then. And we was going to go up there for that night. And she said, "Go down and get me a pair of stockings."
And I never designed clothes for women, and I... She give me about sixty or seventy cents, what it cost to buy a pair of stockings. And I went... She... There's two or three different kinds, one kind called, what is it, chiffon? Is that right? And the next is called, something another like that, rayon, right? Raylon, yeah. Which is the best? Chiffon, isn't it, that Chiffon? And I was... That's kind she wanted.


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