<TITLE>08. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 Notice. Then in this last fall, many have said to me, "Why is it, every morning you--when you're home you grab your rifle and take out to the woods to hunt?"
I want you to know that He's God of the woods just the same as He's God of the city. He's just as much God out there as He is here. And God always deal with men according to their capacity, and what... Like David, by the still waters and green pastures, because he was a shepherd, and different ways He has revealing... And something...
I'd get up of a morning to go out to the woods real early, around four o'clock to squirrel hunt. And my wife even said to me, she said, "Billy, don't you never get tired of going hunting?"
See, this battle is won alone. My wife doesn't understand it. I don't understand it. But it's a fight. You have to stand alone. Nobody can stand with you. There's just room for you and Jesus.
Misunderstood? Sure. Even to my little girl there, Rebekah. She said, "If I ever marry a man, if he even mentions going hunting, I'll not marry him." Said, "I know what my mother's been through: Husband out and gone in the meetings, as soon as he comes home, grabs an old rifle or a fishing pole and hits through the woods."
I said, "Would you rather he'd do that, or would you rather he'd grab a deck of cards or--or some blond and take off? And I just draw your opinion."
And when I come back that day, she said, "Daddy, I apologize for that. I'm going to marry a man like you that likes to hunt, then I'm going to hunt with him." She said, "I'm go out with him."
I said, "Well, that's all right too. I wish you could talk to your mother a little bit about it."

L-30 But it's something in the woods. When I first learned of God, I wanted to repent. I didn't know how to repent. I didn't know how to talk to Him. So I set down and wrote Him a letter and asked Him to forgive me. And I didn't know how to do it, so I knowed that I'd felt something out in the woods. And I tacked it on a tree, so when He come down through the woods in a place I'd saw Him, that He could read this and would understand what I meant; that I was sorry I hadn't served Him, and I want Him to forgive me of my sins. Then I got ashamed of myself and took it. I said, "If He's a man, He will understand as a man; He's my Creator."
And I got down in the shed and begin to speak to Him like a man, and He answered me back like a man.

L-31 Then, it was on the... I got some dates set down here. On October the twelfth... On the fifteenth, deer season was opening over in Wyoming. On--on the twelfth was the last day I could hunt. And we were going to leave on the twelfth. I mean, on the tenth. We was in the woods, which was a Saturday. Sunday, I preached, which was the eleventh. On Monday, Brother Sothmann and Brother Roberson back there, and all of us, we left for--for the meeting--or for the deer hunting over in Wyoming.
On that morning of the tenth, which would be... Then on the eighteenth, the season would close in Indiana. We would have no more squirrel hunting. So I said, "This will be the last time I can go out." And we'd gathered a bunch together, and I strayed them around the woods. And I went way back up into a place where I love to go at Salem. Season was late. Squirrels were few. I'd been out several times, just getting one squirrel at a time.


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