<TITLE>12. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Remember one evening after she was gone, just before his little sister was born, she was smothering. I was taking her... Used to walk up-and-down by the old oak tree out there. Never forget it... Come into the house, she just barely is breathing, hardly, she was smothering so bad. About a year after she was gone, I couldn't get over it, hardly. I had Billy in my arms and he was crying for his mommy and he didn't have no mommy to go to. I was walking back and forth up-and-down that same little path through the back yard, and he said, "Daddy, where is my mother?" And I said, "Honey, she's gone up to heaven," and I tried choke it back to keep him from crying.
And he said, "Will I see her again?"
I said, "Yes, sweetheart, you'll see him again," patting him like that. And he had his little head over my shoulder, and he'd nod his little head up again, and he said, "Daddy, daddy!"
Said, "What, honey?"
Said, "I see my mommy, right up there on that cloud." Oh, my. Like to killed me. What was it? maybe God, I don't know. I can't say. But anyhow...

L-40 One day, later, we went to the grave one Easter morning, with a little Easter flower. And his little sister and mother, sister, laying on his mother's arm... We buried her out there.
I remember the day when the minister looked at me, Brother Smith, looked over, and tears running down his cheeks. He picked up the clods of dirt, said, "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust..." and hear them bouncing on that casket.
I thought, "My..." And about that time the wind whistled down through them old pine trees, seemed to say, "There's a land beyond the river... we only reach that shore by faith's decree. One by one we gain the portals, There to dwell with the immortal. Someday they'll ring those golden bells for you and me."

L-41 I was going down to the grave; he had a little pot of flowers in his hands. It was about breaking day. And I took off my hat as I neared the grave. The little fellow started crying, kindly chugging in himself. I put my arm around him. He said, "Daddy, is mommy down there? Could we dig her up just a minute and talk to her? And my little sister, Sharon, there..."
I said, "Let's set the flower down, honey." I put the flower down, put my arm around him, I said, "Honey, boy, the remains of the earthly journey lays there, but way across the sea, yonder, towards the rising of the sun, there's a empty tomb this morning. They were in Him. Some glorious day, we'll see them again." Pulled him up to my bosom and prayed. Why? There's a empty tomb yonder that says that someday I'll see her again. Someday we'll meet again.

L-42 My, how that those old Hebrews look into that casket, and see those bones, and know that someday they'd go out of there. Then when Moses come to take the children of Israel back to the promised land, he gathered up the bones of Joseph, and took them before him, and took them back over to Palestine, and buried them in Palestine. I wonder why? Spiritual revelation.
Look, those prophets knew that the firstfruits of the resurrection would come out of Palestine, not out of Egypt, Palestine! The resurrection wasn't coming to Egypt; it was coming to Palestine. That's the reason they wanted to be buried in Palestine. And that's the reason that I said bury me in Jesus. For those that are in Jesus, will God bring with him at the second coming. No matter what the world's got to say about it, let me be dead and buried in Christ. Hallelujah. Spiritual revelation...


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