<TITLE>10. Par 23-23</TITLE>L-23 So that was it. I was patrolling, and I was on the conservation. And I'd been over there to a--a creek, and I remember a brother was across the other side was sick and had sent for me to come over and have prayer for him. I just thought this was a good time, so I started walking up over the hill. There was a little brush in the field like. And when I got about middle ways of this field of about five hundred yards across there or more, what raised up but that same bull that had killed that colored man. And there he was standing about thirty or forty feet from me. And you--him... Some cows was laying there. He raised up and snorted and looked at me, and I recognized the bull.
Well, I's supposed to have a gun, but, huh, I didn't have one. And so I looked back to the fence; it was too far to run, and no tree to get into. So I thought this is probably the end then. So I looked at him, and you know... Now, this is not a joke. When I looked at that bull, and he lowered his head, and threw his horns on the ground, threw the dirt back over him, and he started coming... Now, instead of hating that bull, I was glad I didn't have no gun. I loved him. Now, that seems strange. I--I want you to remember this. I loved that fellow. I thought, "Poor fellow, I'm in his place. I'm on his territory. He was sleeping and I woke him up, just got him roused up."
And I said to him, not knowing; I said, "Creature of God, I am the servant of God. I'm on my way to pray for one of God's sick children. Now, you can't bother me, because I'm God's servant. Now, I'm sorry I disturbed you. In Jesus' Name, go lay down."
And that bull, not a bit more afraid of that bull, than I was the man that night or my brethren setting here. And that bull run right to me, till he got within about ten feet of me, and I wasn't no more afraid than I am now. And he got right close to me, and he stopped, and he looked this way and that way so depleted. And I just looked at him; I thought, "Poor fellow." He turned right around, and walked over, and laid down, and I walked right on by him.
Love will conquer anything. Where there's tongues, they shall cease. Where there's prophecies, it shall vanish. But when love comes, it conquers everything. God so loved the world. There's where you're failing, friends. Don't practice so much of whether you got gifts or not, but practice that one real gift of love then you'd be better.


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