<TITLE>12. Par 55-59</TITLE>L-55 Well, one time I set down and talked to that stream. I said, "Now, what makes you so happy? Perhaps maybe deers drink from you?"
"Nope. That's not it."
"Maybe bears drink from you?"
"Nope. That's not it."
"Maybe you're happy because of... what's making you bubble is because that I drink from you. You just keep bubbling all the time so I can drink from you."
"Nope. That's not it." If he could talk, you know what he'd tell me? Why, he'd say, "It isn't me bubbling. It's something behind me pushing me, making me bubble."
And that's the way every man that's borned of the Spirit of God. He don't go hisself, no more, but there's Something behind him when he's led by the Holy Ghost makes him do things that he thought he wouldn't do.
It's not you a bubbling; it's Something in you bubbling you. It ain't you shouting, it's Something in you screaming. It ain't you crying; it's Something got in your tear ducts. Amen. That's it. Led by the Spirit of God.

L-56 Went down there with this wife on a mule and two little babies with a stick in his hand, an old, dead stick in his hand, hobbling along with the whiskers hanging down like this, perhaps bald-headed, going down whiskers along with that, his back all bent over, nearly a hundred years old (eighty years), going on his road down to Egypt to take over that big nation. Goes to show no matter how much in a minority you are, as long as you're led by the Holy Ghost, one is a majority.

L-57 Don't make any difference what your neighbors says. She say, "You know what? Sally, I don't know what's become of her. She used to go downtown with me. We used to shop and buy all kinds of clothes and things, but, you know, she doesn't wear them any more. There's something wrong with Sally." Sure there is. God got a hold of her. That's exactly. "You know what? Every time the church bell rings, here goes Sally to church." Well, praise God. That's good.

L-58 "What made the difference, Sally?" She got Something in her pushing her, leading her, shoving her. That's right.
I used to watch... I study nature. Used to be an old nightingale... At my home there's these speckled mockingbirds they... we... I live on Mockingbird Hill. All night long, keep the windows up. That's what they call it, Mockingbird Drive. And in there in those bushes, there's dozens of mockingbirds.
I keep cats shooed away all the time with a .22 rifle. I hope I'm not hurting a cat lover, but I'd sure hurt the cat if he got one of my birds. So I... They, out there... They come there and raise every year because we try to protect them. Raise up the window and set there, and I'm telling you, they'll set in those bushes and sing all night long.

L-59 And I got to reading about them one time, and you know what they do, they cast their eye right on a star, and right on the moonlight, if the moons a shining. And they'll sing a real dark night they'll let up, but then the clouds will pull through and they'll see a little spot of light, and they'll start singing. As long as they can see light in the heavens, they know there's a light somewhere the sun is shining against it, and the sun will shine again on earth.
And that's the way we feel about an old time Holy Ghost meeting. You don't have to be all the time down in the dumps, but when you get to a place till you can feel the first little tinkle of God coming down from heaven into your heart, it makes a child of God sing, "Glory to God in the highest." No matter how cold the church is or anything about it... It could be in the middle of a cathedral of Rome and you'd holler, "Hallelujah."


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