<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0202, Escape Hither, Come Quickly, The Hippodrome, Waterloo, IA, 58 min
L-1 Thank you. Let us bow our heads now while we speak to Him Who we've come to worship.
Blessed Lord, this is a great day for us, the Lord has made it. Let us be happy. We thank Thee for His grace that's been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. And now, we become citizens of the Kingdom of God. It does not yet appear just what we shall be in the end, but we know we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is. May that be the stay of our hearts and mind this afternoon as we meditate upon Thy Word. Bless every heart. Bless every believer here. And prepare us, Lord, for His coming. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.

L-2 That beautiful sunshine outside, it's too bad we couldn't have had this all week. But He knows just what to give us. He knows just what's best for us. And that's the good thing about our blessed Lord, He knows what we have need of before we even ask Him for it.

L-3 And so, this week has meant many things to me. I... One great remembrance that I have of this week will be a visitation of the Holy Spirit the other night. I yet can't get over that. Oh, it was a grand experience. And it only happened once before in my life. Brother Wood here, and I and his brother was fishing down at the river. Many of you heard the story of it; I'm sure. And it--and it came like that again.
The day before... See my friend Mr. Wood here was a Jehovah Witness. And to you Jehovah Witness, God still has the Holy Spirit for you; He sure does. And so, he had a boy with polio. And he was... He'd come down to Texas where the Angel of the Lord had the picture taken. And then he... I went overseas. And he came back and was setting in a meeting as long as this building is here, when the Holy Spirit called him out, healed his boy. He don't even know which leg it was now that was crippled. And he's just so perfectly well.

L-4 And then Mr. Wood, and all of his people being Jehovah Witness... His brother came down. Well, they kinda excommunicated him from the family because he's a--he'd took up with this faith. His brother came down to see him one time, and the Holy Spirit just happened to just take him apart right there while I was out cutting grass. And come in, and revealed to him and so he went and got his father.
His father on the road down, we'd come down, he said, "Let's go a fishing." So we... On the road down the Holy Spirit came and told him just exactly what would happen on that tour, just exactly what fish would be caught, who would catch them, how they'd be. It happened just as perfect as it could be. And it was quite cute. He talks way down in his, deep here. And his boy asked him, said, "What do you think about that, dad?"
He said, "Well, if a fellow can see a fish before he catches him, I guess that's pretty good."

L-5 Then a few days after that, Lyle, his converted brother and I were together. And they were talking; we was fishing, down Kentucky lake. And he said, "Lyle, you know we ought to go up and tell a certain old woman," that belonged to the Church of God, the Anderson Church of God. I believe it's called the First Church of God. She used to baby them and love them. They was little Jehovah Witness boys, but... "And we ought to go tell her," said, "that we got saved."
Well, as he said that, the Holy Spirit came. And I raised up in the boat where we were fishing, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, there'll be a resurrection of a little animal soon and you'll see it." I thought, "Little animal? Where did that come... What would that be?"


<A HREF="P2">Next Page</A>