<TITLE>11. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 So... And the first thing you know, why he... That's binoculars and I... He was right close to me with--with them binoculars. So then I seen the little fellow. He come out of this sink hole, you know, and he looked all around. He didn't see nobody, and right down the road.
He come to this sack, and he stopped. He looked at that sack, turned his little head sideways and raised up. He thought, "That ugly looking picture." And he walked up a little closer and looked at it, and then backed off again. So then the first thing you know, the wind blew. Oh, my. He turned and looked back, and he looked again. He walked up to it again. He looked, thought "There's butter beans behind that sack, you know." And so he thought, "Well, say..." He walked up to that sack, and he smacked it with his paw, and it rattled; he jumped back. He smacked it again; it rattled. Went right on around behind it and started eating butter beans just as...

L-42 Well now, we ought to have as much sense as a groundhog. Don't you think so? Absolutely. Let me tell you. When you see old scarecrows standing out, remember it's a dinner bell. Right in behind the thing lays something good. Amen. When people say, "They're holy-rollers and they're this, that, or the other." Don't pay no... We have got a bunch of fanatics, but brother, right behind there lays a real kernel of God. Amen. Right there the real power of the Holy Ghost, the resurrection of Jesus Christ... Yes, sir.
So the devil puts a lot of old scarecrows out, but just don't pay any attention to it. I was remarking one time. I was going down a road, and there's a... I seen a bunch of crows or blackbirds, and they were just a squawking and going on; I thought, "What's the matter?"

L-43 There was a man lived down there, and he really loved birds. He had a--a wild strawberry patch, and wouldn't let nobody bother it. He just let... kept that there for the birds. He went to Florida one year, and he didn't get back in time, and some fellow wanted to pick them berries. So he put a big old scarecrow out in the field like that.
Well, all these birds making it their habit of coming there every year, they come and found these--this patch, and there was this big scarecrow in it. And some of them birds was setting way up in the trees, some setting on the telegraph wires, some set on the poles, and they was just a squawking and carrying on about this.

L-44 Well, I thought, "Isn't that amazing look at that?" But to my amazement right out in the middle of the patch, setting right on the arm of that scarecrow, set two great, big crows just a eating their belly full just as hard as they could.
I thought, "Well, isn't that something?" I said, "That's just exactly... Well, I could preach a sermon on that." I said, "That's right. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the good Man, has prepared all good things (that's right) for His Church." You believe that?
And some of them stand way back off, "I tell you now; I don't believe in no such thing as that. Look what they did. Uh-huh. Uh-huh."
Others come down on the telegraph wire, "Well, I could believe it, but my church wouldn't let me."
And the one setting on the side here on the post saying, "Well, I tell you; I believe the days of miracles is past, but there was something or other to it, I believe."


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