<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-11-8 My, God made the eagle, Now, if he didn't have... If the hawk tried to follow the eagle, he'd disintegrate in the air. A crow try to follow him, the feathers would fall out of him. He's a special made bird.
God likened His eagles unto His prophets. A prophet rides high into the spheres where he can look way away. Now, if the eagle has got great powerful wings that can take him up there, and his eyes isn't compared with his wings, he'd be blind when he got up there. That's the reason a hawk, trying to become an eagle, when he got so high, he couldn't see anyhow; so it wouldn't do Him no good to climb up. See, he's a special made bird. And a Christian is a special made person. It's exactly right.
There's no need of going to church 'less you got something that tells you that it's all there. See? It's something special that God does for you. That eagle can go so high till you can't see him, and he can see anything moving on the ground, the least little object, his eye is so great.

L-12-3 Some time ago, three or four years ago, my little girl and I were walking up at the zoo at Cincinnati. I had them up there one Saturday afternoon, showing them the different things; and little Sarah and I walked down. She was a little bitty girl then, just about three years old. And we were walking around, and there was a big eagle in the cage.
And I always hated to see animals caged up. I don't know; I just hate to see a canary bird. Now, I'm not throwing off on your parakeets and things, but I don't like to see anything in a cage. I know how it is to be caged up in a religion where you ain't got no freedom. And I--I--I want to... I--I like to be free.

L-12-5 It's Just like giving your canary bird all the vitamins you can to make good feathers and good wings and then keeping him in a cage. What good does it do him? What good does it do to send preachers away to seminaries and so forth and educate them and everything like that, and then cage them up by saying, "The days of miracles is passed; there is no such a thing." What good does it do to educate them to...
Brother, I like something free, where you can fly, exercise yourself, a religion that lets you get free.

L-12-7 I noticed this big eagle. They had just caught him, put him in the cage. And I thought that was the most saddest sight I ever seen. That great big fellow, he was laying there on the floor when I got up. His great big wings laying out. The feathers was all beat off his head and around his neck and over the ends of his wings.
I looked at him. He crawled across the cage. He looked back across the cage like that. Here he come. And he hit that cage with his head and wings, just flopping. The feathers would fly; he'd fall back. He'd get up again; he drop back this a way and he look up. And he'd fly just as hard as he could, and hit his wings and head against it, and fall back. He laid there and his big eyes rolling around, looking up.
Oh, I thought, "That's one of the saddest sights a man could look at." He's a heavenly bird. He was born to soar the heavens; and here, by the trickery and devices of man, he's caged up. He can't... He's a heavenly bird; he knows nothing about the ground hardly. He's got to live in the heavens.
Laying there looking up where he really ought to be, where his heart longs to be; but these bars between him and that.

L-13-4 I thought that was a sad sight until one time I saw mankind that God created in His image caged into denominations and things that didn't believe in Divine healing; caged into places where they couldn't be free. Their heaven-born, God-sent spirits in them like that, but caging them up so they can't get out.
See men and women walking on the streets immorally dressed, in saloons, caged down where they should be free sons and daughters of God, and beat their brains out nearly against something trying to get free.


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