<TITLE>04. Par 28-39</TITLE>L-28 Now, in the Hebrew letter... And here I squint a lot under this light, and 'cause I'm not a boy any more, you know. I'm getting to be an old man.
And here some time ago, I was going to have some colored glasses made to reflection of snow. I was going on a trip to Africa, and... No, I--I beg--beg your pardon. I was going up in Maine, or up in Canada, hunting. And the reflect of the snow, and you have to wear glasses, 'cause the sun come out, just blinded you. Just like your eyes get real sore, and you have to hold your head down, try to walk, looking down like this, and it hurts. So every time I put on a pair of any kind of sunglass it'd just make me so sick I couldn't hardly hold my head up. And always was that way.
So I called Dr. Adair, and I said, "What kind of a color would I use?" I said, "I've tried green, blue, and black."
He said, "Billy, it's not the glass. It's your eyes." Said, "You're past forty."
Said, "Yes."
Said, "Well, boy, it's them old eyes going bad."
I said, "No, I got good eyes." I said, "I--I..."
He said, "Oh!"
I said, "Oh, yes, I can."

L-32 So he sent me over the river to have my eyes examined at some specialist. And I seen that was the Lord's will, 'cause the man was a renowned Christian, and--and he wants to go to Africa with me when I go again. It was one of the best eye doctors in Louisville, in the great Heyburn Building there. So when he examined my eyes, and my eyes...
He took me in a little room, and turned on a thing where it was dark, and let me set there a little bit till my eyes dilated to it. And so then he turned on a little thing, said, "20/20." Well, I could read out of each eye. He turned it on again; it said, "Fifteen-fifteen." I read out of each eye. He turned it on again, said, "Ten-ten." I could read out of each eye. So that was... And that's all the further you had to go. So I could read it anywhere. So then he--then he said...
Then he put it on a little thing like this, and got a little card and started bringing it to me like this. When he got right up like this, I said, "I'm sorry."
He said, "Well, you're passed forty."
I said, "Yes."
Said, "I see." Said, "You got good eyes. But a man, or any human being a past forty, your eyeballs actually gets flat, like, your hair gets gray. It's just the natural thing." And said, "When it gets flat, they just won't dilate like they should, like that." And said, "Anything close to you, your eyeballs flattening, won't dilate out and let you see. You see?" He said, "Sooner or later, when you get close," said, "you'll have to get you a pair of specks, and lead it--read it down."
I said, "Oh my, doctor."
And I'd take it off this far away from me, it's perfect. But when I get it up like this, huh-uh. And so I have to kind of move it back a little bit.
And I was telling Brother Neville about it. Brother Neville said, "Yes, but after while you keep running on out, bring it out till your arm ain't long enough to reach it."
So I'm--I'm grateful for good eyes though. And now anywhere out, my, I could... I can almost see a hair laying on the bench down there somewhere. So it's real good, that way. But just getting old; that's all.

L-39 So I'm getting older here, but younger there (You see?), and that's the good part about it. So some glorious day though, the Lord Jesus will come, and all that we were when we were our best, we will be again forever. Only death set in to do this. Death set in to put that gray hair in your head. Death set in to put that wrinkles in your face. But it can only take you; that's all. Then in the restoration, what you was at your best before death ever touched you, when you was about twenty-one, twenty-two, that's what you'll be in the resurrection. I can prove that by the Scriptures. And that just makes us so happy, to know that no matter what comes or what goes, doesn't make any difference anyhow, 'cause we're coming right back again, new, over again.


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