<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 I called up the doctor, and he said, "Well, Billy," said, "I could down there." But said, "I'll just go look at the x-rays." Said, "If they've x-rayed him, cancer is there. That's all I could do and just put him in more expense."
He went and looked at the x-rays; said, "Yes, he has cancer."
I said, "Is there anything that you could do?"
He said, "Well, we might send him over to Able, in Louisville." Which is a clinic, great cancer clinic in Louisville. So I told Mrs. Hall. They got him ready, wrapped him and put him in an ambulance, took him over there and he had the examination, come back. He said, "Well..."
Told... they'd tell Dr. Adair. And a doctor called me, said, "Billy?"
And I said, "Yes, doctor?"
He said, "Well, the... Your friend Mr. Hall," (now here's the remark) said, "he going to jump overboard in the next four days."
I said, "I hate to hear that doctor. Nothing you can do?"

L-18 Said, "Billy, we can't take the man's liver out and him live." Said, "Just what he's got, just--he just live on." Said, "His time has come." And he said, "If he's a minister, he ought to be prepared to die."
I said, "Oh, he's prepared to die." But I said, "He's fairly a young man yet, about fifty-six, fifty-eight years old. Much work he could do for the Lord. I hate to hear that, Dr. Adair."
He said, "But he's going to go." Said, "Able seen the same thing that we seen. And we give him the test and he's cancered. His liver's completely eat up with a cancer."
I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, thank you very much." I said, "I'll pay you."

L-19 Of course, he never would take pay for anything he did for a Christian, or believer, minister. And so I said... I went down and I told Mrs. Hall, I said, "Well, Miss Hall, I'll--I'll give you the message, you come out." And I said, "The doctor said he'd be dead in four days." And she started screaming. I said, "Now Sister Hall, as many times as Brother Hall and I have stood in the pulpit and preached together, and we've talked of the lovely Jesus..."
Said, "Oh, but I just don't know what I'll do without him."
I said, "Well, God's perhaps calling him home, Mrs. Hall." I said, "We'll go in and pray."

L-20 And my secretary, and my wife, my mother-in-law, and many of us, we went in to pray. He was just almost unconscious, just yellow as he could be, and someone rubbing on his hands, and his eyes sunk way back, real yellow: liver condition, you know, the cancer. So I went home. And the next morning I was to leave to go into Toledo, Ohio, Erie, Pennsylvania, coming home for one day, having one night at the high school gym in Jeffersonville, and then was going to Africa from there.
And I'll never forget it. I'm--I was borned in Kentucky. I... My conversion never kept me from liking to hunt squirrels. I--I still like to squirrel hunt. So I thought I'd get out early the next morning, if nobody was there, and the house got empty about twelve o'clock. And I got my little .22 rifle and set it down in the corner, and my old--old coveralls, and was going to get ready to go hunting.

L-21 Three o'clock the--the alarm went off. I got up and put on my clothes, and looked out on the runway, coming in the driveway, rather, and there was no one setting out there. So I thought, "Well, I'll--be all right for me to leave now." And I wasn't so much going hunting as just to get away to rest a little bit.
So I started through to the bathroom, and as I look--started into the hallway, there was a little green apple about that big, and it was real knotty, and worms all through it, looked like had eaten holes in it. It was hanging; I thought, "Well, what did my wife put that on the wall for?" Thought of... "That would be awful." And just a little old knotty, green, sour-looking apple, hanging on the wall...


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