<TITLE>06. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 I come down the street. And I went in to hear this revival, I thought. And when I did, he said, "All preachers come to the platform." There was about three hundred of us there. I'd been listening that day to fine young preachers preaching about the coming of the Lord Jesus, and all about what He did on earth. And they were scholars, and gentlemen, and Spirit filled men. Of course their church manners wasn't very good. They screamed, and shouted, and carried on. I didn't understand that.
But then that night, when he had us all on the platform, and he said, "We have chosen tonight, Elder So-and-so," an old colored man. And here, the poor old crippled fellow come out on the platform. I don't know he was crippled. But he had a long preachers coat on, the old fashion with a velvet collar, and... I believe we used to call it "pigeon tailed coat," claw-hammer coat, way down. And he was--just had a little rim of white hair around his neck. And the poor old fellow come out something like this to the platform. And he took his text from over in, I believe, Job 7, reads something like this, "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the earth, when the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy?"

L-23 And me about twenty-three years old, youngest preacher on the platform. I thought, "What would they do to put an old man like that up there before about fifteen hundred people, when they got all those fine young scholars." But he changed from what the boys had been preaching on. He preached on what went on in heaven, while that day, they preached on what went on in earth.
He'd been preaching about ten minutes. And he begin to bring Him all across the heavens, and coming on the second coming, down the horizontal rainbow. And about that time something struck the old gentleman, and he jumped up into the air, and clicked his heels together, and hollered, "Whoopee!" He said, "Glory to God!" And he had as much room as there is here. Tipped off that platform like a young man, said, "You've got not enough room up here for me to preach."
I said, "If It will do an old man like that, what would It to for me? I want what he's got." It renews your youth.
The eagle renews his youth ever so often. And he's a special bird all around. God make's him thus. And I have great honor for him.

L-24 And about five years ago, I was down to your fair city here in Cincinnati. I brought my little girls up for the zoo. And wife taken the oldest girl, Rebekah, and she taken her over to one side to see some kind of a little monkey, was in the pa--a room. I didn't like the smell of that place, so I told her, Sarah and I would go down below the hill.
And I heard something a bouncing and beating. And I walked up there with the little Sarah, about three or four years old. And I held her by the hand. She said, "Oh, daddy, such a huge bird." And a eagle is the largest among the bird family. Sometimes the big mother eagle, which is larger than the father, they stretch fourteen feet from tip to tip.


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