<TITLE>08. Par 27-29</TITLE>L-27 Down there in a little colored district, there was many little houses, as you went down a little hill like, I was walking along there, and I looked, leaning over the gate, there was an old typical Aunt Jemima, colored lady. And I was singing that little song you that Pentecostal people sing, "I'm So Glad I Can Say I'm One Of Them." I was going along, thinking about it, beautiful morning, springtime, sun had rose high, the odors besides the hill and the honeysuckles and roses was perfuming together, such a beautiful place to be. And then being led by the Holy Spirit.
I looked at this old colored woman, when she seen me coming she begin wiping her eyes; she looked again, she wiped her eyes and she started smiling. I thought, "What's on her mind?" I quit singing, started walking on by, and then she said, "Good morning, Parson."
I said, "Good morning, Auntie." I said, "I want to ask you something, how did you know I was a parson?"
She said, "Parson, just a minute," she said, "Did you ever read the story about the Shunammite woman in the Bible?"
I said, "Yes, Ma'am."

L-28 She said, "I's is that kind of woman." And said, "I prayed to the same God, the God of Elijah." And said, "I asked Him and promised Him if He'd give me a child, that I would love it, take care of it, and would dedicate it to Him." And she said, "The Lord give me a boy." Said, "I've loved him, and I still love him," and said, "I dedicated him to the Lord." But said, "Parson, I'm sorry, he's gone astray." And said, "Two days he's been unconscious," and said, "the doctor man was here and said he will never wake up no more." And said, "He's unconscious. And I was setting on his bed last night." His sovereign grace. For a mother's love...
Said, "I was setting on my bed last night, Parson, I said, 'O Lord, You give me the baby in answer to prayer. I turned it back to You according to what I promised You. Now, Lord, he's got--made a mistake, got in the wrong company, and he's dying with venereal disease, all puss in his blood.' And said, 'Now, Lord, I love that child.'" There's love. And when love is projected, Divine grace has got to step in.

L-29 She said, "Now I pray Thee, Lord," said, "here am my baby, You give it to me, but where is Your Elijah?" Said, "O Lord, have mercy." And she said, "I prayed pretty near all night." She said, "This morning, just before the day broke," she said, "I dreamed a dream." She said, "I seen a man come walking down the street wearing a light tan suit and a tan hat." And said the Lord said, "I'll send him." And she said, "I's been standing here ever since daylight," that's just the way I was dressed.
When love is projected with the right motive behind it, Divine grace has to step in.
Not knowing, I said, "Well, your boy's dying?"
Said, "Yes."
When I patted her on the back and she was still wet from the morning dew. Had a man's shirt tied around her head. I thought, "Oh, God, this must be it." Just led by the Spirit of God. All hopes was gone, but love was still there. Love doesn't fear; it waits on grace.


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