<TITLE>13. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 I looked out; I seen the sun setting; I said, "Oh, Your all-seeing eye, You watch over me. There You are hollering up yonder in the wolf? There You are bugling in the elk. Oh, You're everywhere, Jehovah." And around and around that tree I went again. I couldn't help it. There was something in me called out to worship. I was in His Presence in the greatest cathedral I ever set in in my life, God's great cathedral. Hearing them pines come together, that whisper in the pines singing, "There's a land beyond the river, that they call the sweet forever." As it was singing like that, them pines a whispering, oh, I thought, "That's right, Lord. Hallelujah." I said. That great land somewhere. And I was a worshipping. And I stopped. I was just having a great big old fashion jubilee by myself. But I didn't care who heard me. I was worshipping God. So I stopped a few minutes. I thought, "Oh, how wonderful."

L-55 I begin to hear something. I looked over to my side, and there set a little old pine squirrel. I don't know whether you have them here or not. That's the noisiest thing in the woods. And there it was setting up there with that little tail throwed up going chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter; chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, like he was going to tear me to pieces. I thought, "Did I excite you, little fellow? Didn't aim to." But I said, "Oh, you're...?... like I did. Hallelujah. Hallelujah." And I said, "Oh, how wonderful."
And he kept chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter. His cotton blue eyes looked down like that. I thought, "You're not watching me." And all at once I noticed a great big old eagle had been forced down in the storm, under this blow down; and he jumped up there, looked at me with them big gray eyes, looked back at that little pine squirrel. I thought, "Now, God, You're in the wolf. You're in the elk. You're in the sunset. You're in the wind. You're in the tree. You're in the rainbow. What did You break this up for? Now, what--what--what--what's in that eagle? What--what's that pine squirrel got to do with it? Me here worshipping You, and something like that happens."

L-56 I looked at this big eagle; I thought, "Well, what makes him so brave?" I thought, "Say, fellow, are you scared?" He just... I seen he wasn't scared. I thought, "There's God right there." God's not a coward. And He can't use cowards that's afraid to testify of your healing or your salvation; He can't use you; you're no good. See? He's got somebody that's got a backbone in them that'll stand up and say right's right and wrong's wrong. That's the kind of people He can use. That's admired by anybody. That's admired among men by women. No matter how ugly she is, or what she might be, he will admire her if she holds her place, don't care what she is. That's right. It's admired among many, among soldiers, everywhere. It's among--in God's army, how that God admires, like David after His own heart.

L-57 I seen this old eagle setting there. I thought, "I admire you, but really, are you scared?" I thought, "You know, here sets my rifle; I could shoot you?" I wouldn't do it for nothing. So I said, "You know, I could shoot you?" That didn't bother him. I thought, "I believe I'll just find out how if--if he will jump if he knows what that rifle is." I grabbed that rifle. When I grabbed the rifle, he looked at me like that, snapped them big eyes, looked at me. But he wasn't worried about me. Look like that little chipmunk was getting on his nerves, that little pine squirrel, get that little tail throwed up, going chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter.  And I thought, "My, my, you're a noisy little fellow." And I thought, "Why ain't you scared? What makes you not scared?"


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