<TITLE>17. Par 191-207</TITLE>L-191 Here not long ago, a lady was down here on the corner. She had TB. I guess she's setting in the church this morning. I can't think of the lady's name. She lives across the... Reese. Thank you, sister. That's right. Mrs. Reese, she was laying there, had three or four little children, and I went down to pray for her. She'd been sent from the sanatorium up here to die. And so I went down to pray for her.
And there was an infidel lived next door to me, and he worked out here at the government, Mr. Andrews. So I was going past the corner on my old bicycle. And--and I'd prayed for the woman, a night, a couple nights before that. I went home. While setting on the porch, the Lord showed me a vision that the woman would live.
So I goes down. I said, "I have THUS SAITH THE LORD, for you. You're going to live."
And she said, "Oh, thanks be to God," the poor little thing.
I said, "Will you rise and be baptized in the Name of the Lord, calling upon Him, and washing away your sin?"
She said, "I'll do anything that God bids me to do. You just come and direct me, and tell me, and I'll--I'll do it."
Said, "All right."

L-196 A couple mornings after that, I met a--a man going down the street there, and it was Mr. Andrews. He said, "Say, wait a minute there, preacher." Long about this time of the morning, I suppose. And he said, "Wait a minute there, preacher." He said, "Where you--where you going?"
I said, "Up to the grocery."
Said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
Said, "What?"
Said, "Telling that poor, little, dying mother in there, that she was going to live."
I said, "Well, she is going to live."
He said, "How do you know she's going to live?"
I said, "Jesus has said so. That's the reason I know."
Said, "How do you know?"
I said, "He showed me a vision of her." Just the way He done it; I knowed it was going to be. That's right.
He said, "I'd be ashamed of myself." Said, "You just go around and deceive people like that." Said, "You ought to be ashamed. Now, I know it's kind of hard for me, first, to meet you and talk to you like that."
I said, "That's all right. You got your own ideas, and I have mine too." I got on my old bicycle and rode on up.

L-201 Two days after that, his wife, being a Christian woman, she fell sick. I went over, I said, "Mr. Andrews, could I do something for you?"
He said, "Now, looky here." Said, "We've got a good doctor." Said, "We don't need any help from you."
And I said, "Thank you." I said, "I know you got a good doctor." And he called his name; and he--he's a fine doctor here of the city, a friend of mine. I said, "He is a good doctor."
Said he, "She's got appendicitis. We'll have it taken out, and that's all." Said, "We don't need no prayer around here."
I said, "That's, Mr. Andrews, I didn't ask that." I said, "I just merely wanted to tell you that I--I could cut your wood. I could do anything I could for you, get in your kindling, coal, anything that I could do."
So, oh, he was very snippy about it. He didn't want to, nothing to be done with prayer. I said, "All right." So I went back over home. And when I did, why, they taken her out to the hospital.

L-207 And the next morning, I started to patrol. I was--I was a game warden, you know. And I strapped my little old gun and started up the road. I was walking along, up the road, going up through there.
And the first thing you know, there, Something said to me, said, "Turn and go back." That's that resurrected Jesus, "Turn and go back."
I thought, "Oh, well, that, maybe I felt..."
Something said, "Go back."
I turned right around and went back. I called up the Public Service Company. I was patrolling on the high lines also, so I called up, told them I wouldn't be working that day. It was kind of drizzling rain, although not enough to keep me from working, but I just went back. I didn't know why.


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