<TITLE>06. Par -</TITLE>L-7-7 Now, I begin to study the eagle when I read this. What about the eagle? I find out that the eagle is a very odd bird. He can fly higher than any other bird that there is. He's a special built bird. He builds his nest--nest in the rocks, way up high. He's a very odd bird. And another thing, his feathers are so tight you can't hardly--you can't pull them out with a pair of pliers. He's a huge mammoth bird, one of the biggest there is, and he's a--a very odd bird. But he's built special because he has a special work to do. The word "eagle," means "ripper with the beak." And he feeds with the beak--a very beautiful thing of the Word of God: feed from mouth to mouth, God feeding His children.
And then he builds his nest high, and He has that for a purpose and everything. Now, if the eagle had a great powerful wing, that's for deliverance. And another thing the eagle does that's strange, he renews his youth. The eagle, after so long a time, just rotates and comes right back to a young eagle again--brings himself right back. He renews his youth. That's another type of the church, of God's people. We'll get all down and kind of stale, then all at once the Holy Spirit comes and renews us again: God renewing the experience and the youth of His church, giving them a new experience. That is the type of the eagle.

L-8-2 Some years ago, I used to do a lot of riding, ranch, and we was up on Troublesome River in Colorado. The Hereford Association grazes that Arapaho pastures there and so forth, and up around on the mountains, and we used to take the cattle up there, and then fall of the year we'd have to hunt them out again; put them on the National Forest, and then we'd raise their hay down in the bottoms to feed out through the winter.
And I'd go out there each year to hunt; I do yet. And a friend of mine, we'd go back after all the people from the city had got down there and shot around the does, and fawns, and young cows, and old straggling bulls of the elks that's down low. Why, we always go way back high, where you can't get in, and camp out back there. He takes the east--east or west fork, one, and I'll take the other. We'll be several days before we meet one another.

L-8-4 And I never forget, one year it hadn't snowed. It was along in October when the season come in. And if it snows up in the mountain, why, maybe in October it'll come a--a real pretty afternoon; maybe in another hour it'll be snowing. Then it'll rain it off, and then the sun will come out: just changing weather. But then when the snow comes, it runs the elk and the deer, those big ones that stay high away from the noise of the civilization; it runs them down into the valley. That's where you usually get the trophy.

L-8-5 This year the snows hadn't come yet, and I was way up high, and I'd left my horse several miles behind and tied him up so he'd have plenty of room and some hay so he could eat, and I'd went all the way a--around timberline, up in there looking.
That afternoon there come a storm sweeping across the mountains and the--and the roaring of thunder and lightning a flashing. And I got behind a tree, and I stood back behind the tree till the storm was over; it dropped down into the timber. There'd been a blow down there. And I was standing behind the timber, waiting till the storm passed--standing there thinking. And I had my rifle setting just against the--the tree. And then when the--the storm was over, I was thinking about God, how wonderful He was. And while the storm was going on, the cold winds set in, and it froze much of the water on the evergreens--like icicles a-hanging. Then when the sun came out, way back over in the west, I could see the sun just peeping through the crevice of the mountain, and looked like the eye of God.


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