<TITLE>17. Par 74-78</TITLE>L-74 Slowly now, sister. You know yesterday Brother Roberson was up to Brother Wood's. I slipped down; I was waiting for some visiting minister to come. He throwed on a picture, and a picture was... A lot of it we was looking at, but one of it when the church was walking out the door.
And I seen myself coming out there, and I looked. Oh, my, boy, how--what a few years has done to you. I looked again. That come in my mind this morning. Just a few more days we have with these toils and sins.
And I think of the times that I heard that song start, see them make their way up here, standing around the altar to take communion. I've heard the casket wheels squeaking as she down the room there, taking them out.

L-75 Remember, the preaching of this Word will be a--stand in the judgment. And I'll have to stand behind it, stand there. I'll have to be a witness to that. I can't take it back. I've done said it. Got to stay with that. It's going to meet me in judgment, just as God said His Word and can't take it back. See? Now, I weigh every word first in my heart and see if I want to say it myself. If it seems wrong, I don't say it. I let Him say it, but if He says something contrary, though I wouldn't believe it, I'd say it anyhow, 'cause It's Him. I want to be sure, 'cause I don't want any mistakes that day.

L-76 You know it's going to be awful dark down at the river that day. Ain't going to be nobody there to help. You ain't going to take no money down there. Your friends is going to be in the same shape you are. It's going to be awful dark. You got to cross. I want to be sure my ticket's right.
I want to be sure when I look over, and I'd see the red Blood of my Master. Then when I hear after while the old ship blow, it's going to be all right then. But I don't want no trouble down there then. I want to settle it now. If there's any trouble, I want to settled now. I'm going to need ever bit of grace I can get at that day. I'm going to be honest.

L-77 There was a great teacher said the other day, "He didn't want to be popular. He wanted to be honest." I voice mine with him. I want to be honest. I want to tell the truth, so at that day when it does come, I hear the screams around the bank. I want to look down, be sure.
Like the Hebrew children when they seen that black wings coming across of death, the little boy say to dad, "Are you sure the blood's on the lintel?"
The father look out, "Yes, son. The blood's there."
"Well, that's all right then. We're safe."
If it's not there this morning, friend, be sure. Now, Ora Mae, I know you come to be prayed for, sis. This poor little girl, how she set here on the row as a little bitty thing there. Little Shirley setting here. We--we just come in from Arizona.

L-78 I think of them little kids. All of you remember them, out here in a little--little old boxed up house. Their poor old dad set together behind the church here for them. Remember those little fellows, how I--how we all know them. How poor little old Ora Mae... It takes two to raise a family. Oh, God, this horrible thing of marriage and divorce, and how Curtis done the best he could by them. He worked hard, but a child, no matter who it is, needs a mother's love, somebody to love them. It's nature to quieten your feeling.
I'm a hunter. I study wildlife. That's... It's... And I get out and just study it. An old mother bear when she goes in in the fall of the year, she's bred to be a mother again. She runs all of her cubs away. She has from one to two. She runs them away. Make them hibernate themselves, so they'll be used to it.


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