<TITLE>11. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 Well, I wouldn't let them kill her. Gene and Leo left. The old opossum laid there all day in that hot sun, and them old green flies got all over her.
It come night, and Mr. Wood said, "Now, Billy, you've been working hard all day here, praying for the sick; I'm going to take you on a little ride. So he took his wife and my wife and I, and we went on a little ride. And coming down a country road, I seen a little pup, somebody had dropped out on the road. And I got out and picked that little pup up. And he was so mangy and lice all over him, till my hands was covered with lice. And I fixed him a little place to put him in my car.
And my wife said; she said, "Billy, you're not going to take that little old mangy dog."
I said, "Sure. He's got a right to live." And we went home, prayed for him. He got all right, washed him up, and he's a fine big collie dog now. He's got a right to live. I loved him.

L-37 When we got in at eleven o'clock, there laid the old opossum. Brother Wood, who hunts with me, said, "Now, Billy, you know good and well, if that opossum was going to move, when that sun went down, she'd have moved."
I said, "That's right."
Well, said, "Do you want me to kill her?"
I said, "No, I don't."
All night long I couldn't get that opossum off my mind. The next morning early, I went out, and as I started out little Rebekah, who I believe is going to maybe take my place someday. She seen her first vision just recently. And she's very tender-hearted, little thing.
When I went out on the porch about seven o'clock (the sun was rising) to see if there's anybody out there... And there was not. And first thing you know by my side was little Rebekah. She said, "Daddy, what about the old opossum. I just dreamed of her all night."
Well, I went down there, and there laid the old opossum, dew all over it, and the little ones still trying to nurse. "Aw," I said, "She's probably dead, honey."
She said, "Daddy, what you going to do with them little babies, you going to kill them?"
I said, "No, honey, I'm not." I said, "You hurry in the house; it's too early for you to get up." I said, "You go on." She had on pajamas. Said, "You go in the house, honey."

L-38 And I went back into the side door of the den room, and I set down there, and begin to rub my face like this. I said, "Well, today," I said, "I guess I'll have to take..." No wonder that old opossum laying there. I heard something say this. Now, you may think I'm mentally disturbed. But I heard Something speaking to me. I said, "What about that old opossum?"
And the voice said, "You used her for a text yesterday, telling what a wonderful mother she was."
I said, "That's true."
Said, "And you taught from her what a real mother..."
"Yes."
Said, "I sent her up to your door, and she's waited for twenty-four hours for her turn to be prayed for, and you haven't said one thing."
And I said, "Well, I didn't..." I said, "Who am I talking to?" Oh, I said, "Am I beside myself? What's happened? Who was that I was talking to?" I thought, "It must have been God." I thought, "Would God care for that animal? I'd knowed He sent people. But I remember that He even said a little sparrow can't fall to the ground without your heavenly Father knowing it. I know He spoke through a mule to a man once, and many things in the Bible."


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