<TITLE>11. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 So then He... I just kept walking, walking, walking, walking. And I just walked on. And I walked plumb out of the city. And I was way down towards the river there, where those group of little colored houses was. And I... Well, it was already past time for the plane to go, but it just looked like I kept wanting to walk.
I was going along there singing this little song that you Pentecostal people sing there.
They've gathered in the upper room,
And praying in His name,
And all received the Holy Ghost,
And power for service came...
You remember that little song?

L-39 And I was trying to get that in my mind, going along there singing that. And [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... cross a--a gate down there. And a very typical Aunt Jemima type of a colored lady, she was leaning across the gate like this, and she had a man's shirt tied around her head, an old work shirt like tied around her head. A little old whitewash hut, there like, some vines around...
It's a beautiful morning, and I was walking along like that. And she was just watching me coming down the street. And I come by like that. She... I seen she was crying. She had great big fat cheeks, you know, and the tears running down, and she was smiling.
She said, "Good morning, parson."

L-40 Oh, I done quite singing way back up there, singing to myself anyhow. So and she said... I said, "How'd you know I was parson?"
She said, "I knowed you was a parson."
I said, "Well, how... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
She said, "Well," she said, "I knew you was coming." She said, "I knowed you was going to have on a light suit and a light hat."
And I said, "How'd you know it?"
She said, "Did you ever hear the story, in the Bible, about the Shunammite woman that was barren and--and didn't have no children, and the prophet blessed her, and she had children--a child and the child died?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am. I'm acquainted with the story." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] So I said--I said, "Well, what's that--what's that to do with now?"

L-41 She said, "Well, I was that kind of a woman." She said, "And I promised the Lord, if He'd give me a child, that I would raise it for Him, and the Lord give me a fine boy." She said, "And I raised that boy the best to my knowledge, until he got to going out with bad company." And she said, "He got with bad company and taken a horrible disease." And said, "He backslid on God." And said, "He's laying in here dying." And said, "When the doctor had come his [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] his blood had done... It was a venereal disease (social disease, syphilis), and it had done eat a holes in his heart. So he said, 'There's no hope for him at all to be cured.'"
And said, "And I've prayed and I've prayed," and said, "I... The doc... He's been unconscious now two days." And said, "The doctor done said, they is no need in coming back, because there's nothing could be done." And she said, "And I've prayed, and I've prayed, and I said, 'Lord, don't let my baby die like that. Let him be saved before he dies.'"


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