<TITLE>04. Par 10-11</TITLE>L-10 Later, I become the state game warden of Indiana. (Conservation officer.) And one day on a--going up on the bus, there was a great crowd, and I had--we had to stand up. And I felt a strange feeling. I was always sensitive to spirits, especially when I'd meet one of those people. I'd feel that real funny feeling. And I begin to feel that, and I looked around; and there was a strong woman looking right at me. She said, "I'd like to speak to you."
I said, "What do you want?" I never did like women, but not--not you sisters, I--I mean, He told me not to defile myself. And it made me have a complex.
And so then, because all my associates would be sinners in that day. And there's a great story there that I could tell. Being offered whiskey, and immoral, and how the Holy Spirit come down, makes me stand back from it. It wasn't me. See? I would have did it. It was God taking care of that gift. It must go forth.

L-11 One day, I started to take my own life, and the gun wouldn't even go off. Then I turned it and shot it. It was God taking care of the gift. When he'd... Just like Moses, he couldn't run away from it; God will find you. Wherever you are, He will find you.
So this woman--I said, "What would you want?"
She said, "Sir, did you know you were borned under a--a sign?"
Quickly, that scared me. I said, "I don't know nothing about that, and I don't want to know nothing about it."
She said, "Haven't you never talked to preachers?"
I said, "I have no use for them. I--I don't go around where any of that's at." I said, "I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I don't want to hear anything you have to say."
She said, "Sir, that's not a gentleman."
And I turned to her again, I said, "How did you know that?"
She said, "When you got on the bus, I seen it." She said, "I work in the White House." She said, "I'm on my way now to Chicago to see my son, who is a minister." She said, "I'm an astronomer." She said, "Did you know who... When God does anything, the first thing He does is to declare it in heaven, before He declares it on the earth?"
I said, "I know nothing about it." And I turned around again. It kindy made me feel bad, because there's many people on the bus, and me an officer. And so I thought that wasn't gentleman like. So she called me--kept calling me. And I turned around again; I said, "What's that got to do with me?"
And she said, "When Jesus Christ was born, or before he was born, wise men came from the east." She said, "What is a wise man?"
I said, "I have no idea."
She said, "They're astronomers that watch the heavens, and before God does anything on earth, He declares it in the heavens."
And she said... I--I said, "I don't know nothing of it."
She said, "But when God gives a gift, He declares it in the heavens."
I--I said, "I know nothing about it."
And she said, "You were borned under that sign." And she said, "What if I tell you when you were born, would--would you believe me?"
I said, "Lady, you can't read my mind. I won't believe it."
And she said, "You were born on April the 6th, 1909, at five o'clock in the morning." She said, "That's when certain stars," she said, "crossed or something." (Or astronomy.)
And I said, "I don't know nothing about it, and care less."
So she said, "You may pass it by," but said, "if you would respect it, it would shake the world."
I said, "Tell this young sailor here, when he was born."
She said, "I couldn't do it."
So then I was almost to my place where I was going to get off. My righteous indignation all up, my face all red, shaking, scared, I was glad to get off that bus.


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