<TITLE>13. Par 65-69</TITLE>L-65 One day I remember; it was long in the fall of the year, early October. The storms hadn't come yet to run the elk down. I was three days back on a horse, nobody with me, nobody in seventy miles of me, way into the mountains.
And I was searching around the mountain top, for the elk hadn't come down. They had no storms. And in that time of year there'll be a--a storm; it'll rain awhile, and then snow awhile, and then the sun will come out and melt it all off, and so forth.
And it come up a storm. And I stood behind a tree. And after the storm was over, I got out from behind the tree, and I looked and the sun was setting through the crevice of the rocks in the west. And a rainbow came out because the evergreen was froze high. And a rainbow come across the valley. And I thought, "O Jehovah God, there's Your promise." The rainbow is a covenant. The covenant was with Christ.

L-66 John saw Him to look upon His jasper and sardius stone, the rainbow over Him, the First and the Last. And I got so filled with joy. You may call me a holy-roller after this. But I set my gun down. And then an old gray wolf got to hollering upon the mountain side. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... mate answered it in the bottom.
My mother's mother come off the reservations up here. My conversion didn't take that out of me. I love the wild, nature.
And when the wolf got to hollering and its mate got to answering, I started crying. The storm had run the big elk herd apart, and I could hear the males bugling one to another. It was like heaven.

L-67 I set down the gun. I run around and around and around that tree. If there would've been someone in the woods, they'd have said I was out of the insane institution. I didn't care what... I was worshipping my Creator. I could hear Him in the wolf call. I could hear Him in the elk call. I could see Him in the rainbow. I could see Him as the sun was setting. Everywhere around was God.
I felt like Peter. "It's good to be here." But just below the hill, of course, there's sickness waiting.

L-68 And while I was worshipping God, I happened to notice; I heard a little pine squirrel. And, oh, he was making so much noise, like he was going to hurt someone. Just a little noise box was all he was, setting on a stump in an old blow down.
And he was just a chatter, chatter, chatter. And I thought, "Little fellow, what you so excited about?" And he'd cock his little eyes sideways and look down. And I thought, "Surely, you're not scared of me. Only I know you're the blue coat policeman of the woods. But why are you making so much noise?"

L-69 But I found out he wasn't barking at me. In the storm a great huge eagle had been forced down. A eagle... A prophet in the Bible is a eagle. He goes higher than other birds, and he can see way off, things coming.
And he'd been forced down. And the big eagle jumped up. His great big, gray eyes, and he looked at me and he looked at that squirrel. And I thought, "God, why did You stop me from shouting? I see You in the rainbow and all around, but where are You in this scene?"
And I watched the big bird. And I thought, "Well, maybe He's in the bird. Well," I thought, "there's one thing, that bird don't seem to be a scared. He's the hero."
God don't want cowards. He wants somebody who will stand. He don't want somebody that's ashamed to testify to their boss. He don't want somebody that's afraid to tell the doctor that God healed you. He wants a hero.


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