<TITLE>07. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 What was it? Love. A mother for her baby, not to be seen, but not a hypocrite, but a real genuine love for her baby projected the sovereign grace of the Almighty God...?... How simple it is to believe it. Here not long ago. You can get in some awful predicaments, as we all know.
I was sitting on the porch talking to my associates here Brother Goad, and Brother Mercier. And we were talking about a young colored girl who had killed her baby the day before. She was a--had an illegitimate child.
And the child, she wrapped it in a blanket and smothered it, got in a cab, and went out into the river, and dropped it into the river. The cab driver reported it to the coast guard. They seined the bundle out and found the little baby killed. But the baby had not drowned, it had died from suffocation. And her picture was in the paper. And I was telling my brethren setting on the porch. I said, "You know, that women isn't no--not even should be called a woman." I said, "A dog has better morals than that women."

L-30 And just then we looked coming down the road, and my house is the fourth from the highway, up a lane, or a little avenue, you might call it here. And it's the only house that's got a fence around it.
Well, I looked coming up, and coming into the driveway, and there come an old opossum. Now, you people in Virginia know what opossums are. I was a game warden for many years in Indiana, and I studied wildlife; it's one of my studies.
And anyone knows that a opossums doesn't travel in the daytime. Opossums travels at night, and then lays it up and sleeps in the daytime. And I said, "Look, Leo, Gene. Here comes a opossum." And when he got in front of my gate, he turned in.
And I noticed he was leaning sideways like this with one limp legged. And I jumped up and run out there, and there was a rake laying in the yard. And I took the rake and laid it over the opossum. I said, "It's perhaps got rabies, because it's hot weather now." July I believe it was, June or July. And I said, "It's got rabies perhaps; and therefore, we had better stop it.

L-31 And when I stopped the opossum, I happened to look and her leg was all chewed up, where a car had hit her or dogs had chewed it. And it was swollen twice the size, and I don't mean be--make you sick, but the flies had blowed it, and there was maggots and flies blows all in the leg.
And I said, "Oh, it's been hurt a few days before this." And I held the rake on it. Usually they'd what you call play opossum: lay down. But not her. She was biting at the yard rake.
And them opossums is the--the second animal; kangaroo and opossum, is the only two that has a pocket to carry the little ones in.
And I noticed when she let her pocket down, there were nine little naked baby opossums about that long. And they were trying to nurse her. I said, "Here it is, boys. She's a mother." And I said, "Come here, Gene."

L-32 And about that time Mrs. Wood which--and Mr. Wood which was a formerly Jehovah Witness and their boy had been healed with legs paralyzed up under him, so much that he don't even know which leg it was drawed up now. And they had moved over next door to me, and she's a veterinary.
And he come up there to look and she said, "Look at that."
I said, "Boys, that opossum is more of a mother than that woman there that drowned her baby." I said, "She'd probably hasn't got over an hour yet to live, but she's willing to give that hour fighting for her babies. She's a real mother."


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