<TITLE>23. Par 98-100</TITLE>L-98 Here's Leo and Gene; they're setting right here behind me now; they're kind of student ministers. They were setting on the porch last summer. Then we're closing. About ten o'clock in the morning, was it, boys? Around ten o'clock in the morning, setting there, I was talking to them about a colored girl; her picture was in the paper. She took her baby, a little lovely looking woman, and took her baby, and smothered it in a blanket, and took it out on the bridge in a taxi cab and dropped it off in the water. They caught her. And I said, "That was not a mother; that's a female, not a mother. A mother wouldn't do that."
And while... Here come the milkman up bringing the milk. Mr. Wood, he will be with me the next meeting. His wife's a veterinary, so they... Their boy had been cripple with a drawed up leg. He was a Jehovah Witness; she was a Methodist. They brought him to the meeting, was setting way back. Hundreds of... thousands of people in there at... What was that name, Paul? Where? No? The one that David Wood was healed? No, it--it's up here, where that big lake is. Oh, I'll--I'll get it in a few minutes. Anyhow it's up here on the Great Lakes.
And he was setting way back in the meeting. And the Holy Spirit come over and said, "You're a contractor; you're a Jehovah Witness. Your wife now is a Methodist; she has a tumor sticking out. You got a boy with you that's got a drawed up leg from polio, but THUS SAITH THE LORD, you're healed." See?

L-99 And she set there a little bit; they begin to look. She said, "Banks," to her husband... If you're at the next meeting you can hear her testify. Said, "Looky here." Mrs. Wood, said, "David, stand up." There he was just as normal; he's my boy's buddy here now. So they just... He just quit contracting; she quit the veterinarian. They moved over and next door neighbors to me.
They were standing in the yard and Gene and Leo. And down the road come a opossum. You have opossums up here, don't you? Opossums? Now, anyone knows that knows conservation, a opossum is blind in the daytime; he's a night prowler. Here he come down the road, come a past three or four houses that didn't have no fences, turned right in mine with a fence, a rock wall, and come right up to meet me. I said, "There comes a opossum; he's got rabies." I said, "I'd better go out and stop him."

L-100 Mr. Wood had been raking in the yard, so I took the rake and laid over it. I called Gene and Leo out there, and they all come out and was looking at the opossum. I said, "Look at him." And I happened to notice; he didn't have rabies, but his left shoulder here was all chewed up. The dog's had got a hold of it. Now, this is bad to say, but gangrene had set in, and maggots had bloat it and that leg was broke to pieces, and a dragging it like this. I said, "Look at that poor thing." I said, "That's what's caused it to be that way."
And usually they'll play opossum when you touch them, but she was just a fighting to get up from there. And as I noticed, she... Now there's only two animals that has pockets; that's a kangaroo and a opossum, where they pack their little ones. And her nerves let down, and that little pocket come open, and she had nine little naked babies about that long, little opossums. And I said, "Look at there boys," I said, "come here. That opossum is more of a mother than that colored girl was." I said, "That colored girl with a healthy baby, so she could keep running around, she drowned her baby. And this old mother opossums got about twenty minutes longer, or half hour, at the most, to live, and she'll spend that twenty minutes fighting for her babies." Yes, sir. I said, "God will... God's with that opossum." And I said, "You look at there. Ain't that something?"


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