<TITLE>15. Par 50-54</TITLE>L-50 How many loves me with all your heart? I want to tell you a little story. All right. I hope your confidence is real deep now. This may sound kinda strange to you. Many of you has been down at my house, as I see Brother Wood setting here laughing at me, because I know he knows the experience. Oh, people come and go, and you know how it is.
And last summer, I couldn't even get my yard mowed in the front. And I--about the time I got around the back, the front had growed up again. And I'd start mowing a little while, and people would come in, have to go out and pray for them, and I use come back have to mow a couple of rounds. And I got quite a front yard, so I... Wife would say, "You're not going to have on those overalls and go out there and pray for those sick people. Get in here, and change your clothes."

L-51 So I would go down the yard, praising the Lord, and come back again, with the old mowing machine just in rhythm, you know, and I'd come back. A car would drive in, well maybe, I'd be a couple of hours with them, and then somebody else would get in there, and probably ruin the day. And the next day the grass was coming real high again.
And so I'd got around in the back yard to mowing. And when I got back there, I took off my--my shirt, for I was in the backyard, where no one would see me. And I was mowing; it was hot as could be. And I mowed up against a--a little fence there, and I got a little Martin box that I built out there so the children could watch the Martins going in. But it happened to be that a bunch of hornets inhabited it. And when I hit that bunch of hornets, roused them out, I was covered over with great big hornets, just flying all around me.

L-52 Now, this may seem strange. Do you read the story over there, the--in my book there, called--when the maniac run out there at Portland, Oregon, and was going to slay me. You remember the book? I didn't have dislike for that man. I had pity, and love for that poor fellow. He was in that shape. I felt sorry for him. He--he, perhaps, if that spirit was off of him, he--he'd love me. You've got to love even your enemy. And when this--this... just a little thing, while they're making ready.

L-53 These bees covered me all over. And instead of being scared now, I had love for those hornets. Now, that sounds foolish, but it's true. Something happened. And I thought, "Poor little fellows, probably taking a nap, and there, I went and disturbed them." And I hit that like that, and they were really meaning business. They were all around me, and I stopped my mowing machine. I said, "I am sorry, my little friends, that I disturbed you, and I'm sorry. I am God's servant. And no wonder, you're angry with me, because I disturbed you. But I am God's servant, and I am praying and ministering to His people, so I haven't got time to play with you at this time. So you rush right back, in the Name--in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and go into your box." And my Bible laying here, and as a Christian minister, and God knows my heart, those bees swarmed right around me, about two more circles, and lined up one by one and went right back into the box...?... Uh huh, and that is true. One day, out on a big farm, the... just...

L-54 How have you got it? How many you got lined up now? Want some more? You need some more? All right. Bring me up the last four. Where'd we leave off? Fifteen? All right, give me up to twenty then; let them be lining up, if you wish to, up to twenty. All right.


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