<TITLE>16. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 If you're ever around a eagles nest, oh my, it's a horrible thing. And there it was up there, stinking, old briars and things. I thought, "That's the way it was with me. I was down in the old nasty, vomity world and Jesus packed me out one day and set my feet (Hallelujah.) on a grass covered, glory filled carpet from glory." I didn't care what the people thought. Why, the Archbishop or who was standing around, I was having me a good time, free.
And I thought, "What makes them so free?" And every once in a while, they'd turn their little heads, you know. I'd look, it wasn't far from me with them binoculars; it pulled them right to me. They'd turn their little heads and look sideways. I thought, "What are they looking at?" And then they'd turn loose and just a chirp, and chirp, and chirp. I thought, "You know, wouldn't that be a real play for a coyote to get in that bunch now. They can't fly; they're too little, their wings." I thought, "Yes, God, I will try to fly; sometimes I do a lot of flopping, but I ain't... One of these day my wings will grow out." That's right, the Church will get wings.

L-57 Then I noticed, why'd did them little fellows hold their head sideways, them little black eyes look up like that? They were looking at their mother setting a way up high yonder. She was watching for a coyote. Watching what would take place.
Boy, my heart begin to melt. I thought, "Yes, our mother that gave us birth too, has rooted us out of the old nest of the world, and He's climbed the ramparts of glory setting yonder in the Majesty on high. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. What do I care what the world says; there ain't no harm around, God's watching over His heritage. Amen.

L-58 All at once a northerner started, a storm come, a little clip of lightning back there as it comes along, first part of June. And the old eagle threw that nose up, and they come quickly. And she let out a scream and here she come to the ground, throwed out her wings like that, and let a squall. And as she did, every one of them little eagles knowed their position. Oh, my. Each one run right to the wing. They knew what that wing meant, because they'd been on it before. Every man, when the Holy Ghost comes at the end of time, will know just exactly what it means; he's been there before.
And he grabbed his little feet right into the wings, tucked his little bill, and got a hold of a big strong feather, and that old mother eagle with them wings a quivering a little, she raised in that wind, set her face right towards the hole in that rock. And that wind coming down through there at fifty miles an hour, perhaps, she raised that wind and went right straight into the rocks to safety.

L-59 I said, "Oh, dear God, someday in this great jubilee we're having, Jesus will come, and we will catch on to the wings of the cross, and away we will fly yonder to safety, to the hole in the rock, safely protected forevermore. Hallelujah. He will pack you away on eagles wings.
He's watching over you tonight. Just have a good time. That's what He wants you to do. Be happy. Don't go along great long face, be happy. Rejoice in the Spirit. "No condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus that walk not after the flesh but the Spirit." No condemnation to them that's in Christ Jesus that's laid aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset them. They fly away.
All right, quickly now, we got to hurry to bring the message to a close; we're late. Notice, and tomorrow morning we got to get up early, the ministerial breakfast.


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