<TITLE>02. Par 6-7</TITLE>L-6 My people--my people were not religious. Formerly, we were Irish, so we were Catholic in the background. But my father and mother went to no church at all. I was borned up in the mountain cabin, in the mountains of Kentucky. We were very poor.
And the morning when I was born, so my mother tells me, she opened a little door, that didn't have glass, it was just like a window, although it was a door, she opened it back, father did, so that she could see me when I--a--when I was--he put me in her arms. It was early in the morning about five o'clock. The sun had never come up yet, so when they opened up the window, a Light in the form of a--like a bucket or a pillow, come in the window and stood over the little bed where I was born. That is the picture they have in Washington, D. C. today, and all over the world of that same picture. Now, that astonished my people; they knowed nothing about religion, so they didn't know what it was.

L-7 When I was just about two years old, the first vision I ever remember seeing... I was playing in the backyard with my little brother, who could just crawl. And there was a voice came from a bush and said, "You will live near a city called New Albany." It... I was very much frightened, and ran into the house to tell my mother. She didn't know what it meant. But three years later, we moved near a city called New Albany, Indiana.
And then at the age of seven, I was packing water from the barn in a little bucket up to the house. And it was in the fall of the year. (Autumn.) And I set down under the tree to rest just a little while with the buckets in my hand. My father was a very heavy drinker. And I heard a wind blowing. And it was real still everywhere, and I wondered where that sound was coming from. It was a tall tree I was setting under. I stepped back to look around to see where that wind was coming from. And about halfway up the tree, of about the size of a barrel, the leaves were going around, around, around, milling in the tree. And a Voice came from there saying, "Don't you never smoke, or drink, or defile your body in any way; there'll be a work for you to do when you get older. (There'll be a work for you to do.)" It scared me. I dro--dropped my little buckets, ran home real quick, jumped into my mother's arms, screaming.
I said, "There's a man up in that tree." And I--she was very much excited. She went down around the tree, and looked all around to see if there was anybody there. And I was so scared. She called the doctor, and the doctor said, "He's just excited."


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