<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 So he said, "About two nights after he'd been there, he just washed the dishes and had been laying down in the bed, thinking." And between his room and the old lady's room, there's a piece of canvas was hung up. She had a lantern setting on a box. And said that he heard two men outside, talking. And he begin to hear a real funny noise taking place, a real mournful, rumbling noise. And said one of the men said to the other one, those great big husky woodsman, said, "Jim, we better go on down to the cabin, for we may be blowed off the face of the earth in the next few minutes."
Said it alarmed him. And he'd had his head under the covers. Said he threw the little blanket back and, "What could be going wrong?" But said, "In a few minutes, the lightning begin to flash in the window." And said he got up and looked out the window, and said one of those great tornadoes that hits that country was a winding through the timbers just a little ways ahead. And said, he said, "What if it would strike this place," within himself.

L-21 And said, "The old auntie in the next room said, knocked on the little canvas, she said, 'Son, come over here.' Said, 'I've got a lantern lit.'"
Said, "I went over into her room, and she took hold my hand and she said, 'Young fellow, are you a Christian?'"
Said, "No ma'am, I'm not."
"Well," said, "you'd better get down here now, for within the next few minutes, this little cabin, if that hurricane stays in its path, will be blowed into pieces."
He said, "She dropped down by the side of that old soap box." And he said, "I never heard anyone pray with such coolness. She talked to Somebody that she'd talked to before," he said. And he said, "She didn't seem to mind if the cabin blowed away." But said, "All of a sudden, limbs begin to hit the cabin, trees uprooting and falling in."
And the minister said, "Did you pray?"
He said, "No, sir. I was too scared to pray." Said, "I didn't know but what the next one fell would take me. But this one thing I said, 'Lord, if You'll be merciful to me, when I get out of here, I'm going to know You as my Saviour." He said, "That's what I'm here for now. For I don't know when I'll hit another storm like that." And he wanted to come while he was in his right mind, and while he could think, and when he could pray, and when he could think for himself, and get in contact with God.

L-22 I do believe there is a deathbed repentance. But don't you depend on it, for it might be... I've seen many on the side of the road in wrecks, glass drove through their bodies, and some shot and a bullet through them. I'd run to them quickly, I say, "You're a Christian?"
"No. No," and can't pray.
Don't you take a chance on it, for now God is our refuge and our strength. And He's a very present help in trouble. Think on your ways now!

L-23 Some time ago, I kinda took advantage of a little trip. I'd just got married. I see my wife setting there looking at me. And we'd just got married, and I was going to take her on a little honeymoon. We'd saved up a few nickels, and I was going up to Niagara Falls. And I thought while I was that close to the Adirondack, I might as well get a little hunting in. So I took her with me hunting.
And so when I was... So when I was... Put her in a little lean-to. The ranger was coming up the next day, up on Hurricane Mountain, the Adirondack.


<A HREF="P7">Next Page</A>