<TITLE>17. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 And the big mother deer begin to look around, see where that baby was. And I seen Burt take the lever on that rifle, shove the shell up into the barrel. Oh, he was a dead shot. And then he raised up that .30-06 as he leveled that scope hair right across the heart of that mother. And she come walking right out into the clear. Why? She was a mother. It was dangerous. She wouldn't have got in that clearing for nothing in daytime. But there was a baby in trouble. She had mother love. She wanted to see where that baby was. She hadn't thought about danger. She was watching for the baby.
So she walks out. And Burt raised up slowly, and I turned my head. I thought, "Oh, God, I can't watch this. How can he do it? How can he kill that mother? 'Cause, she's trying to find her baby." And the big mother deer turned and she seen him. She startled and she looked. Those big ears stuck out. But did it bother her? No. She had to find that baby crying. She moved on. Why? She was a mother.

L-60 And I seen Burt level that hand down, put that scope right across her heart. And I thought, "Oh, just a touch of the trigger and he will blow her heart plumb out of her." Across that little space, and I watched him for a minute. I thought, "Oh, God, how can he do it?" And there was a silence. I thought, "Burt... Why hasn't he shot?" And I waited just a moment; he still didn't shoot. I couldn't watch the scene.
And when I looked around at him, the rifle barrel was going like this. And he turned around. The tears was running down his cheeks. He threw the rifle on the ground and grabbed me around the legs. He said, "Billy, I've had enough of it." Said, "Pray for me." Said, "I can't stand it."

L-61 What was it? He seen genuine love displayed. He seen love in the face of death would hold strong. Brother, if a mother deer could cause a hunter to be converted by displaying a real, loyal, motherly love, what would the sinner do when he sees the love of Jesus Christ displayed in the believer's heart. Yes, brother, the world needs love. That's what the church needs today.
And while we think of these things, let us bow our heads just a minute, will you?

L-62 O blessed God, as my memories goes back to that cold chilly day yonder in northern New Hampshire, when I can see that big mother deer walking out there, and those big veins down across her face, how gallant she walked out to her death. She wasn't even thinking of anything else, but to find that little baby that was in trouble. And by that display it caused a brutal hearted man to surrender and know that that come from a real resource. It was in her heart; she was a mother. And today that man a happy Christian because love was displayed.
O eternal God, there's many here, probably Catholic, Protestants, Orthodox, Anglicans, and Pentecostals, Presbyterians who has never, ever sensed the thing of real, genuine, loyal love. They've joined church. Some of them has come in because of some mental emotion. Others has come in because of a intellectual conception of the Word. They heard it, and they believed it in their head. But never has it ever went into the heart to produce that real love.


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