<TITLE>15. Par 63-67</TITLE>L-63 I was just looking at Leo, come up the way a few minutes or Gene, set down here, these boys. Just a little story, a little story that happened not long ago. Many things happen along my life and your life that we don't tell people. And we'll start the prayer line just immediately after this little--little story.
We were setting... I call them boys. There were kinda... I call them my students. That's all right brother, ain't it Gene? All right. And so I call my students. I've met them, and talk about being mixed up, they was. They didn't know whether they were Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, Trinitarians, Jesus Only, or what they was. Then didn't know.

L-64 But the Lord has helped them and blessed them and wonderfully. And they move right down in Jeffersonville like FBI agents following my meeting, first, to see whether them things was really true, see if the visions come at home, just the same as they come here, and to see whether it was all right or not. And they rented them a little place down in Jeffersonville and watched constantly until they were--knew what was right.
And now, they're wonderful boys. Both of them here, they take--take the recordings of the messages and so forth, will be with me in the tent meetings as we go on, the Lord willing.
And now, they--they were setting on the porch this last (I believe it was about July, wasn't it, or June, somewhere, June or July)... And we were sitting out there and we were talking to them. And a young colored girl a few days before that had--had gave birth to a baby. She didn't want it, and she wrapped it up in a--a quilt, and took a cab and went out on the bridge and dropped it over in the water like that, and to get rid of the baby.

L-65 And so, we were talking about it. I said, "Just think of the--of the cruel heart of a person that could smother a baby in a blanket and drop it in the river." I said, "I don't know what God will do with such a person. I pray for her sinful soul," like that.
And then Mr. and Mrs. Wood, which are book salesmens in the meeting, they were there. And Mrs. Wood is a veterinary. And so then the next come in was Mr. Gilmore, which was the milkman, a friend of mine was standing there. And along up about ten o'clock in the day... Now, I used to work in conservation, so I--I studied animal life. And I live... And oh, that's my second nature is to be in the woods.

L-66 I'm going in to the woods in Mexico, and then up into Anchorage, Alaska. Just can't hardly wait to get into it, 'cause there's where I find God, out by myself in the woods. Be great. My mother's a pretty near half Indian. And there's just enough about it to make me love the nature and be out in the woods.
And so, I was looking, coming up the road. And I noticed coming from the Arctic Springs about a city block below me, of woods, cross the Utica Pike and coming up the road, passed four other houses, was a opossum. And the opossum was dragging its side like this, as it come along. And as it moved on up the road coming into the--the place, it passed all those houses, who did not have any fence around them and come to my place. I live in the parsonage there, which had a little rock fence around it, and a board fence this other way, and turned in the gate, and started up towards the house.

L-67 I said, "Look. There's a opossum. It's got rabies." See, it don't travel. A opossum's blind in the daytime, and they travel at night. So I said, "Looky, there's a opossum and it's--it's got rabies. Something's bothered it." I said, "Look, it's all mashed up."
So I run out in the yard, keep it from getting to the house. And Mr. Wood had been raking in the yard with a yard rake. So I picked up the rake, and Gene and Leo, and them come out with me. And I throwed the rake over the opossum. Usually they do what they say, "play opossum," just lay down. But not this one, it's... She grabbed it.


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