<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 This young man drifted into the north woods to a country I used to hunt in many years ago, deer hunt. And when... He wanted a job. He didn't have any money, and--and the woods boss hired him to help the old colored cook.
And one night after the supper was over, and the dishes was washed... They slept in a little back room with just a little canvas between them. And all of a sudden, the young fellow said, "I was awakened. And I heard two men standing by my window. And there was the most mournful sound I ever heard." He said, "I threw back the blanket from off my face and jumped up quickly." And said, "The room was just constantly in a light from the flashes of lightning." He said, "I heard those two men say, 'Well, Jim, we'd better go back down to the camp, because we may not be here in ten more minutes; that twister's headed this a way.'"
Said he jumped up, and he looked out the window in time to see that great snake-like of a circle of clouds tearing up the mountains, tearing the trees and twisting them into the air. When he seen the bodies of full trees flying hundreds of feet into the air, heading right towards the cabin.

L-17 And he said he heard something knocking on the canvas, and the old cook in the other side of the canvas said, "Son, come over on this side, I've got a lantern lit." Said he went over to the other side, and the old cook had a lantern lit. And said she said to him, "Do you know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour?"
He said, "No ma'am. I never prayed in my life."
"Well," said, "you'd better be praying, for we may be swept off the earth in the next few minutes."
He said that godly, saintly, old woman knelt down there with that soap box, and prayed just as calm as she could be. And said, "I couldn't pray." He said, "Every time I'd start to say, 'Dear God,'" said, "about that time a tree would land against the cabin." He said to me; he said, "Reverend, I was too scared to pray." And he said, "I got this much out, 'Sir, if You'll just spare me, I will come to You sometime when there's no storm on.'" He said, "That's why I'm here tonight. There's no storm going on. But that promise in my heart, and the memories of that hour still lingers."

L-18 It's right to come to God while you're sane and in your right mind, when everything is quiet. When you got time to think and come sanely and soberly, that's the time to come to God. For then, He's a present help in a time of trouble.
He said he'd never forget how that old saint just so reverently could pray as smoothly and calmly when that storm was going on. It means something to know God, to be ready for It when It comes. Then He's a present help in time of trouble.

L-19 I remember not too many years ago in the north woods... My mother's an in... half indian off the reservation down here. And I thought I was too much of a woodsman to ever be lost. And I'd just got married. And this looks like taking advantage of my wife, but on our honeymoon, I took her on a hunting trip. And I... She was staying in a little lean-to that we come into that morning.
I said, "I believe there is some bear track I noticed coming up." I said, "I will go track that bear; will be back about noon." It was about nine o'clock at morning.
I got on the trail of that bear, and I was led all over the country. Finally I lost him. And I was coming up a little draw, and I noticed a deer. I said, "That'll be a nice one to take home." So I shot the deer, started back. And I noticed the clouds had begin to get low, fog coming in.


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