<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Notice, and as I looked at that, then I heard an old gray wolf howl back up on the hill, and the mate answered it down in the valley. My mother's a half Indian. And I tell you, the deep begin to call to the deep. My conversion didn't take that out of me.
And then, I heard the elk herd bugling one to another. The storm had separated them. And I was just having a great time. I set my rifle against a tree; I run around, and around, and around the tree just as hard as I could go, to give vent to the feeling that was within me. I was alone with God. Wasn't nobody in thirty-five or forty miles of me, way up on the mountain, just having a wonderful time. And I thought, "Oh, God, there You are in the elk herd; there You are in the wolf call; there You are over on the rainbow. You're everywhere. Oh, Great Jehovah." Around, and around, and around the tree I went again. If somebody would've come into the woods, they'd thought they had a maniac out there. But I didn't care; I was worshipping God, make any difference to me.

L-16 And then, all of a sudden I was attracted to a little pine squirrel. I don't know what's--you all have them up or not. He's a little fussy thing, about that long, just make a lot of noise, the blue coat policeman of the woods. And he got up on a little old stump, and all of the carrying on I ever heard: Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter. I thought, "Well, I might've scared the little fellow, me carrying on the way I was." And I thought, "Maybe I excited him." So I looked at him, and I said, "What you so excited about, little fellow?" And I noticed he wasn't looking at me; he'd cock his little eye and look down like that.
And I noticed, coming out from under an old blow-down, where a former storm had blowed some trees together, a big brown eagle had been forced down in there by the storm, and she was coming out. And I thought, "Oh, that's what he scared about."

L-17 And this big eagle jumped up on there, and his great big gray looking eyes looking around, and I thought, "God, why did You make me stop shouting just to look at that eagle. Could You be in the eagle?" Sure. And I watched that eagle as he set on this big limb, and I thought, "Well, he's just a scavenger; there surely isn't any good in that fellow." And I wondered, "What makes You--why did You stop me from shouting for? What lesson are You going to teach me now, Jehovah, about the eagle?"
Well, there's one thing I noticed, that he wasn't afraid. He wasn't scared. And I said to him; I said, "Old fellow, do you know I could take my gun and shoot you?" That never bothered him a bit. Well, I thought, "Why doesn't it bother you? Why ain't you all scared?" My rifle was setting against the tree. He knew that he could be in that timber before I could get that rifle in my hand. He knowed where he was standing. Oh, I like that.
Know where you're standing; know Whom you have believed and be persuaded He's able to keep that which you've committed to Him against the day. He knew right where he was.

L-18 And I thought, "Well, how do you know you could do it? What makes you so sure?" And I noticed him, every few seconds, he was feeling those wings to see if everything was in good gear.
You know, that's it. If God give an eagle two wings to escape danger, and he has to feel all the time to see if everything's in gear, what about the church of the Living God, that's got the Holy Ghost to pack you from danger?
If the doctor says, "You're going to die with TB," just see if everything's in gear. Just see if you're still in fellowship; check up a little bit.


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