<TITLE>12. Par 52-56</TITLE>L-52 So I got my box and went out there and set down on the box. And Brother Wright come back down from another people he was visiting. He said, "Say, I got to do a little shopping up on the hill here."
I said, "Well, while we're waiting for the crowd, I'll just leave my box up here, and I'll run up on the hill with you." Well, we went up, and as we passed by, we passed by a great big old beautiful church setting there. I said...
Something just told me, "Stop at that church."
I thought, "Well, all right." I said, "Brother George, you coming back this a way?"
Said, "Yes."
I said, "Well, I'll just wait here for you."
And he said, "All right."
I said, "What is this church?"

L-53 Said, "It's a Baptist church." And said, "But the pastor got in some trouble here long ago and started a big shooting scrape. And they've been gone for... Baptist people just closed up and most of them go over at the Methodist church, or down here at the Nazarenes, or so forth."
I said, "Uh-huh." I said, "Well," I went over and I took hold of the door knob, and it was closed, locked. Now, everybody was... Nobody around. I knelt down, and I said, "Heavenly Father, do You want me in this church to hold a meeting here? If it is, unlock this door for me."

L-54 I set down there. And I hadn't been setting there no more than about five minutes, until I heard somebody walking around the building. Come round, said, "Oh, hello."
I said, "How do you do, sir?"
He said, "You want in the church?"
I said, "Why?"
He said, "I have the key."
And I said, "Thank you." He opened the door. I said, "Thank you, sir." And he said... I looked around.
He said, "It's a Ba... It belongs to the Baptist people. It did." But said, "They just went away" and said, "it's went back now to the city."
I said, "Uh-huh. Well, do have any services here?"
Said, "No. Just funeral services, County funerals and things."
I said, "Uh-huh." I said, "Thank you." I said, "Who's got the say so over it?"
Said, "The quarry over there."
I said, "Thank you."

L-55 Brother George come down. I said, "Would you run me over at the quarry?"
He said, "Yes." And I went over there.
And the fellow said, "Why, sure, if you're a Baptist preacher, go on up there." Said, "Put you in a meter." Well, I was working for the utilities, so that was easy. So I put me in a meter. Started out... Announced in the papers down there, I was going to have a service.
And so then, I went around and I asked somebody, when I got in that afternoon, there was nobody there. And so, I got up there, and climbed up, and somebody must've wanted to lead a cow home or something, took the bell part out. So I got me a cord and fixed it up and begin to ring the old bell like that. And nobody there yet but me.

L-56 And so, I seen a fellow going along side of the hill, so I went over there. I said, "Say, brother, I'm starting a revival down here." I said, "I'm a Baptist minister; I'd--I'd like for you to come down."
He said, "Listen fellow. Get next to yourself." He said, "We don't have time for religion around here. We raise chickens."
I said, "All right. It's okay."
But you know what? About five days from then, you know, they had to take time out to bury the man. He died. And about five days from that time. And so you must have time for Jesus. You must remember that. Regardless of how busy you are, what kind of life that you're living, you better take time for Christ.
And then we started the meeting, and I remember that night, oh, I had a sermon in my heart just a burning. You know how it is, brother, when you got one you think, "Oh, my. Everybody's going to get saved."


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