<TITLE>11. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 And so we... I went out to the cloak room; I opened up this bucket, reached down in there and got a great big handful of that corn. Put the bucket back, went around, the bucket lid, rather, went back and stood behind the old chimney back there, and eat that popcorn. Oh, it was good. I come back in and wipe my mouth real good, and my hands, you know, so my brother wouldn't notice it.
So when dinner time come, we went out, picked up our bucket, and went out to eat. After we'd... We wanted to eat the popcorn first, you know, 'cause that was better than what we had. So we opened up the bucket, and about a third of it was gone. So my brother looked around; he said, "Say," he said, "something's happened to that popcorn."
I said, "Sure has." I--I knowed what had happened.

L-36 You know, friends, not long ago I come up from Houston; I was having a meeting there. And I'd been so tired. I--I just couldn't... I--I just pass out. I stayed eight days and nights without leaving the platform. I said, "I will pray for everybody comes." And I stayed there, and praying in the line till I was so unconscious, they packed me to the car. And I... They'd...
I would lay against the pulpit and sleep a little, and then I'd wake up, the prayer line still waiting. I don't know where it was out there on the street, I just--just keep on praying for one, the other. Then they'd bring me something; I'd eat a little bit, and then maybe pray till I'd get so sleepy I'd lean against the pulpit like that, for hours after hours. I'd gotten so worn, they tried to put me to bed, and I couldn't go to bed. Then I couldn't sleep.

L-37 I started home. And I never will forget, on the road home I--I was driving along and I'd wake up. I had an old Ford. That has been about five years ago. And it was backslid, and it was... Well, you know, what I mean, it was all right, it--it just been treated pretty heavy. And so, I didn't have any side in the thing where I beat my leg against it trying to keep awake, and pulled all the hairs till I don't have hair, yet on the back of my hand, trying to keep awake, praying for the sick, trying to keep awake to--to make my lines go on.
I'd found somebody that loved me, somebody who loved me, and I loved them. And I was trying to minister my heart out to them. And I remember waking up. I'd... And the cars would be blowing, and I'd be asleep over on the other side of the road. And after while, the funny part of it, I woke up. I'd stopped. I couldn't get to myself. And I had my hands out the window. And I was in a cow pasture; I had my hands out the window, saying, "Only believe, sister, that's the only thing you have to do. Just believe." And I--I said, "What's the matter with me?"
I--I got out. I done run off the road out into a cow pasture, asleep on the road. And I come home. And oh, my, when I got home, and there they was. And before, we kept the people from the house, and there they was lined up there, a hundred fifty, two hundred of them setting before the place.

L-38 Wife... I'd prayed for as many as I possibly could, it was coming long toward daylight. And I heard her. Now, if there's many of these people might be here today. She got me to bed, and I was getting quiet. I'd wake up, and after awhile I would have my arm around a pillow, standing out in the floor, saying, "Now, who's next? Now, if you'll just believe. Jesus Christ said if I could get the people to believe," praying with my pillow in my arms.


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