<TITLE>16. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 Paul said one time, he was having a struggle. He was out in the islands, and he had a fever. He was a nearly a hundred miles from a doctor, out in the swamps. In the swamp, Blackwater Fever took him, and that's sudden death. And it got dark, and he told his little faithful wife, said, "You stand right by me, honey, and pray. It's getting so dark in the room." But said, "I believe in God." Said, "I don't care what happens; I believe God. I'll stay right with it." Said, "You stay here and pray, honey." And she prayed.
And he got darker said, "Dear, it's getting darker in the room, but oh, I feel at peace." And after while, it got so dark, he went out. he went into a dream. He thought he was dreaming; he was back up in Oregon, where he come from, cutting some timber. And the boss said, "Paul, go up to the top of the mountain there, and cut me a tree, so many inches through, so many feet long, and bring it down to me."
He said, "All right, boss, I'll do it." Went up there, and downed his little old tree and stuck the axe in it, reached down to get a hold of it, and he just couldn't lift it up. He just... He said, "I've lost my strength. I just can't go any further. I have lost my strength." Why, he said, "Here I'm a big man. I weigh better than two hundred pounds. I got a great muscled back." Why, he said, "I used to just get my knees together, get a hold of most any size log, and could raise it up for them to put chains under it."
He said, "And here that, a little limb, no bigger than that, and I couldn't lift it." Said, "I took hold and tried till all my strength was gone." Oh, he said, "Then I thought, 'What can I do?'" Said, "I set down and leaned up against a tree." He said, "Oh, I'm so sad. My boss wants this little tree down there, and I'm not even man enough to take it down."

L-54 Oh, what our Boss wants. He wants a Church without spot, without wrinkle. He wants a Blood-washed bunch of people. He wants a people that'll cling to, or stand on His Word, and say, "That's God, eternal Truth; It was meant for me and I believe it."
And said, as he set there, he was leaned against a tree, and he was weeping, and said he heard his boss speaking. Said, "Paul."
And he said, "Yes, boss. Here I am, but I've lost all my strength. I just can't go any farther. I've tried to do, and I've tried to obey you, and do what you said do; but I just can't get this thing off the ground." He said, "I've struggled, and I've tried and I've done everything..."
I just wonder if that ain't the attitude of a many good true hearted preacher today, that's long to see a church built without spot or wrinkle, to see the promises of God made manifest. We've tussled, and tried, and screamed, and cried, and preached till we was hoarse, and laid on our pillows and wept.
O God, why is it just when we get straightened up, that in comes the devil, and busts up, and tears it up, and just knocks down everything we got? What can we do, when we see our lovely people and how they be scattered and gone about like that?

L-55 And said, when he heard his voice of his boss, he thought, "That sounds strange. I never heard my voice speak--that boss speak so gentle to me." And said, "When I turned around, it was my real Boss; it was my Master, my Saviour."
He said, "Paul, you're just struggling yourself to death. That won't do you any good." Said, "Paul, don't you see that little stream of water running there?"
He said, "Yes."
He said, "Just pitch the thing in there; get on it and ride it on down to the camp. It goes in the camp."
He said, "I jumped up, and rolled the log in, and jumped on the log, went over the riffle just a screaming to the top of my voice screaming, 'I'm riding on it; I'm a riding on it; I'm a riding on it.'"
And when he come to himself, he was right out in the middle of the floor, and his wife screaming to the top of her voice. He was out in the middle of the floor, saying, "I'm riding on it; I'm riding on it; I'm a riding on it."


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