<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Now, to show how love is projected, this is... You might laugh at this. But it--it's true as I'm standing here. One time I was out in a--a field, when I was game warden. And there had been a--a bull had killed a colored man at the Brook Farm, just below where I lived, great Guernsey bull. And he had--he'd been sold away to another man. And he just turned him loose into the pasture. And I knew that bull was there, but I never thought. I was over on the creek turning loose some fish, and I thought of a man that called for me to go pray for him.
So going up across the hill to pray for the man, being about, right at three or four hundred yards from the fence in a little clump of bushes, this Guernsey Bull was bedded down there. And I got close to him, he raised up, and he was a killer. I looked back to the fence; it was too far for me to run; he was so close to me. There was no tree for me to get into. Well, I thought, "This is the end; I can't go no farther. For if I try to run, he will catch me, so what can I do?"

L-13 Now, that's when we come to these crisis that when sovereign grace steps in. Then something happened in--in my life that I wish it would--if it ever comes again, that It'll never leave. And I only wish that there was some way that I had the power this morning to project that to this group of men and women here, and it never leave you. Like when the maniac at--up at Oregon, when he ran to the platform to kill me, many of you read that book. Something happened there.
You've often wondered, I guess, how those things happened. It's something in the stead of despising that man though he was there to take my life, a Divine law set in for him. And he called me a hypocrite and a snake in the grass, and thousands of people setting there, and spit in my face, drew back his fist, and said, "I'll break every bone in your body."
People probably setting here was there. But instead of despising the man, something--grace came in, in a moment when I needed it. Grace sets in and projected a Divine love into my heart that I could project to him, and thought, "There stands a man, like a man--like I am." Said, "He--he likes to eat and drink and his family; but the devil has him bound." So the love of God constrained me, and the man humbled himself and fell across my feet. Grace stepped in when love was projected.

L-14 And in the case of this bull trying to kill me, he got up on his feet, looked at me, and snorted three or four times, and throwed his horns into the ground. I looked around, there was nothing. And as a officer I was supposed to pack a gun, and I wondered why I didn't have it; I would've killed the bull, and then went and paid for it. But I had no gun. God seen to it that I had no gun.
So He wanted to show His Divine grace in a crisis hour. And something struck me, way better than a gun or any weapon of this world. It was the Divine grace that took my heart, and thinking of that animal, wanted to live the same as I wanted to live. And instead of hating him, as he was planning to take my life, I loved him. That sounds juvenile, but it's the truth.

L-15 And as he rushed towards me, I said, "Creature of God, I am the servant of God; I'm on a legitimate call to a man who's dying. And our Creator has sent me, and I'm sorry to disturb you out of your rest, but in the Name of He Who created us both, go over and lay down under the tree."
And when he got so close to me, within ten feet, I was no more scared of that animal then I would be of my brethren here this morning, come Divine love, perfect love cast out all fear. And he stopped. He just looked so depleted; he looked both ways, turned around, walked over, and laid down under that tree and I walked in three feet of him, passed by through the field safely.


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