<TITLE>12. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Seven years I was game warden in Indiana. One day while I was putting some fish in the water... I don't know why I'm saying these things. But crossing a field where a great bull had just killed a colored man, and he belonged on the pasture of Mr. Gurnsey up at Sellersburg, Indiana. I forgot the bull was in there, for there was signs all around, "Do not enter." But I had had a little old gun that I was supposed to pack, and I threw it in the car. And I was going across the field, over the hill to pray for a sick man that I knew.
And I was walking through the field, not noticing, and all of a sudden right out in a bunch of bushes, up jumped this big killer. And he looked at me; he let out a roar; he threw his head down; and hooked his horns into the dirt and threw them back. Immediately I felt for my gun. It was in the car. There I stood, alone. The fence was about two hundred and fifty yards, the bull was about thirty yards, no trees nor nothing. I said, "Well, here is the end." I said, "I do not wish to die as a coward, but I will stand and die as Christian should die." And as I reckoned myself, and that big fellow turned around, I knew it must be death, to be gored to death in a few moments. I... Oh, he was more than a match for my strength.

L-43 And I'm thankful I didn't have the gun for something happened. Oh, excuse my emotion, but something happened. Love come down. Now, this may seem strange, but it's truth. I talked to that bull. I said, "I disturbed you, but I am the servant of your Creator. I'm on my road to pray for my sick brother. I'm sorry I disturbed you. Now, you will not hurt me, for I love you. And how can you hurt me when I love you."

L-44 And here he come. I was no more afraid of that animal than I am of my brethren setting here. He come and I just stood there. And I said, "I love you because God created you. I disturbed you, and I'm sorry." And as he come close to me, I stood still, and he got within about ten feet. He threw out his feet and stopped, and he looked so depleted. He looked this way and that way. I said, "In the Name of the Lord Jesus, you creature of God's creation, go over and lay back down." And God being my witness, the bull turned around and laid down, and I walked in five feet of him.
What was it? Death was at hand. Love was projected, and sovereign grace stopped the bull.

L-45 Who has not heard the opossum story? As I close... It's went over the world. Last summer... Leo and Gene setting here, my two boys that takes the tapes... Brother and Sister Wood sets right out there. Leo and Gene is two fine boys that goes with in the meetings, one of Catholic family and the other one had formed a little FBI of their own. They were going to investigate me. And they did. And they've been going with me ever since, taking tape recordings. And they're fine Christian boys. And when they did, they were setting on the porch, and I call them my students. And I was teaching to them the love of God.
Mr. Wood and Mrs. Wood--Mrs. Woods was a Church of God, and Mr. Wood was a Jehovah Witness. And they had a crippled boy that had his leg drawed up. And they come to the Louisville meeting, and they seen the Lord doing the work. Mr. Wood, a very well-known contractor all over northern Kentucky, he said, "I might've been a Jehovah Witness, but that's of God." So he goes to Houston, Texas, to the next meeting, and there's where the Angel of the Lord come down and had his picture taken. Mr. Wood and Mrs. Woods was present to see it.


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