<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Brother Lindsay, many of you know him, the editor of the "Voice of Healing." And we been associated together much in the past ten years of our lives. We were at Portland, Oregon, one night. And many of you has read the story, of a maniac who run out to kill me on the platform. And just as this great big, almost three hundred pound giant... I weighed at that time one hundred and twenty-eight. And he was close to seven foot, great big huge arms. And he come stomping down through the building, while I was preaching on faith, before about six thousand people. Rushed up to the platform, and preachers scattered like flies. And I wondered what was the matter. I thought it might've been someone coming to bring a message to some of the ministers.
And I turned to look, and this great big giant standing there with his chest swelled out, and groaning, and his teeth set, and his eyes... He said, "You hypocrite, up there acting as the man of God." Said, "I'll break every bone in your body tonight. I'm going to knock you plumb out in the middle of that audience, to show you whether you're a man of God."

L-21 Little did I know that he was out of the insane institution. And I knew by his size he was very able to carry out his threat. So I looked at him. Ordinarily I would've took off with the rest of them. But you know what happened, oh, if I could only always stay in that. Something, instead of hating the man, I felt sorry for him.
I thought, "That man wouldn't want to hurt me. Why, he's a man like I am. And that's got to be the devil making that man do that way. So the poor martyr..." And he rushed up towards me, and he hawked down in his throat and spit right in my face. And see, the devil was trying to get me to shake away from that atmosphere that God was getting me in. But it didn't bother me.
I thought, "Poor fellow, he don't want to do that; and surely he wouldn't have wanted to do it."
And he said, "I'm going to break every bone in your body." And he drew back his big fist to do so; and the strange thing was, I wasn't no more afraid than I am right now. Love casts out fear, perfect love.

L-22 There's where brother, sister, our differences hangs tonight, because of love, the lack of love. I don't mean earthly love, denominational love, sexually love, but I mean Divine love that makes us brothers.
Then when the man started to hit me, I heard my own lips say, "Because you have challenged the Spirit of God, tonight you'll fall over my feet."
He said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over."
And he drew back his fist to hit me, and when he did I said, "Satan, leave that man." And his eyes bulged way out, and his teeth set, his hands went up; he turned around, and fell over my feet, till the police had to roll him off of my feet. What did it? Love, the love of God.

L-23 I don't know how much you're going to believe this. But here about two years ago, maybe it was, I was... I got a great big ninety foot front yard, belongs to the parsonage there, and it's hard to get anybody to help you in Indiana, 'cause everybody works. And I'd have get out and mow the grass. And I was mowing the grass and make about two rounds and somebody'd come in, and the front would grow up before I got to the back.
So I got around in behind the house on a hot August afternoon, and I had on a pair of overalls the...?... type. No one was around, and it was awful hot, and my shirt was sweaty and gripping on my back, so I just took the thing off, started mowing the yard back in the back yard. And down through there going just as hard as I could, and I'd forgot that there was a big nest of hornets down at the end of the row. And I ran this mower right into that fence before thinking, and I was covered all over with hornets. You know what they are; they can kill you, great big fellows.


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