<TITLE>11. Par 86-92</TITLE>L-86 I've often thought, if God give enough gumption to a duck, called instinct, to lead him away from trouble, what ought He to do to a church that's borned again, full of the Holy Ghost? What ought He to do? He has no compass, but he was borned a leader. Ducks know their leader, but the church don't. The Holy Ghost is our Leader; He's our Teacher; He'll lead us into Truth and to Life. Ducks know theirs, but it seem like sometime we don't have as much intelligence as a duck. 'Cause he likes to keep in cater with what's given to him, but we try to figure out something different. That's the intellectual; you get out of God's great universe.

L-87 I'll tell you what you can do, some of you people from the cold countries. You watch that old sow go over from the north side of the hill, and bring all them shucks and cobs around on the south side of the hill, and make her bed. And that night you listen to the news, and the news will say, "Tomorrow, it'll be fair weather," don't you pay a bit of attention to what he says. That old sow know more about the weather than he ever will know. That's exactly right. She went to the south side where it'll be warm.
You go rabbit hunting and see those rabbits setting back under the brush, like this, look out for cold weather. And if you see them get into a corn field, it's fixing to rain.
Just watch God; He moves, oh, how wonderful He is. If you'll just open your eyes, you can see Him all around you. He's in His universe, everywhere, moving. Watch Him in the sunset. Watch Him in the sunrise. Watch Him in the rainbow. Watch Him everywhere. You can see Him. He's no farther from you than your right arm is. God's in His universe.

L-90 Some years ago I was elk hunting up in Colorado where I usually hunt quite a bit. And up in the mountains there it was early in the fall, and the snow hadn't come deep enough to run the elk out of the high timber down into the valleys. So Jeff and I, the rancher, we had... I've helped him ranch in there for years and still help them on the roundup. And we'd rode up for hunting, and he'd be gone from me for three or four days. He went back up on the west fork of the Troublesome River, and I was hunting the east fork. And if we got elk, we'd hang them up, and know where to bring the pack horses, and we was just on our saddle horse.
And one day I was up high; I'd got way away from my saddle horse and up around the rim. And that late in the fall, it'll... First thing you know, the sun will be shining; then it'll rain; then it'll clear off; then it'll snow. And it's just changeable weather. And I was hunting high. It'd been pretty dry, and I heard a crack of lightning; and I looked, coming across the mountains, and the rain was coming. So I just got in behind a tree and stood there a little while till the storm was over. The winds blew and twisted, and around, and I stood in behind the trees till it was over. After it was over...

L-92 I had been standing there thinking about God. It's just been a few years ago; I was holding these campaigns. And I thought, "How great God is and how wonderful." I said, "I must've been born for this place, out in the woods, alone by myself, away from peoples, and crowds, and the sick, and the afflicted, and everything, the telephones a-ringing, and the ambulances a-coming." I thought, "How sweet and peaceful. Lord, let me stay here. And I--I was born for this; this is my nature; here's where I belong. Here's where You live." And I thought, "Well, if I don't get it in this one, I'll have it in the millennium, so I'll just wait for that time."


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