<TITLE>10. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 When the day come to be baptized, I walked out there. And there had been a preacher, he had ridiculed me on water baptism. Oh, my, my. And he'd had a revival in a tent just on top the hill. And while I was out there in the water baptizing, I said, "It just seems to me that the angels of God are setting along." And every one of his congregation (that muddy water with pretty white dresses on) walked out there and was baptized in Christian baptism, every one of them. That's right. Oh, what a time.
We started up to Mr. Wright's to eat supper. And when I did, I said, "I don't feel like eating supper before I go back to the meeting tonight. I believe I will go up and pray. I have a burden on my heart for that little girl."
And I went up there and--in the hill side and started praying. About two weeks ago I was down there, that same little bush. I was knelt down there praying, looking up to God. I tried to be quiet, and there'd be green briars around my leg, scratching me, just... You know, you just start to pray or do something right and watch how the devil gets a hold of you. And I went back over here and the sunshine setting was shining in my eyes. And I went back on this side, everywhere you was... And finally I just give up. And I said, "Lord God, let the sticks hurt my knees, or rocks hurt my knees and whatevermore, I'm praying." And I started praying.

L-31 Just about time I got into praying real good, I looked and out of a little dogwood bush... Anybody know what a dogwood is? Oh, sure, Ohio knows what dogwoods are. And a little dogwood bush there... That Light, that Angel of God Whose picture you got here; that Light was shining down out of that bush, said, "Rise to your feet."
I said, "Yes, my Lord."
Said, "Go by the way of Carter's." That's all He said.

L-32 Well, when I--I heard that bell ringing... And Mr. Wright told me, he said, "Now when that bell rings, mama's got supper on the table and you come on." an old country bell... Said, "You ring it. She--when she's ringing it, you come on." I heard it. But I was in the vision, and I couldn't go. You know God answers on both ends of the line. Don't you believe that?
The same time little Georgie was so nervous, knowing I was going to leave the country, she was crying; and she wanted to come and be baptized; and she'd promised God; and she got real restless.
And her mother, wonderful woman, and she went out in the kitchen, and knelt down, and shut the door between her and Georgie. And she said, "Oh, God of heaven," she said, "do something to that low down impostor, that's come through our country here. In the nine years that my poor little girl's laid on that bed, she's never complained one time. And now, he's got her all scrupled up in her mind, telling her about a Healer or something another." And said, "Rebuke that man. Rebuke that man, Lord." She was honest about it. She said, "Run him out of the country. My poor little girl laying in there dying with not a hope that she can live any longer in there; and laying in there like that... And that impostor getting her all worked up under a false hope..."

L-33 She said... Now, this is her testimony; I wasn't there. She said, "She raised up." She thought she heard someone coming. She raised up. Her daughter lived up the hill a little ways. And she thought it was her daughter. She looked back. She looked and said, "On the wall where the sun was going down (At the same time I was praying), she seen a shadow coming down the wall. It was Jesus," she said. Said, "There He was just as pretty as you ever seen Him with His beard. He said, 'Why you weeping? Who's this coming?' " Said, "She looked over here and she seen this shadow of me, kindy partly bald-headed and packing this here same Bible over my heart, coming, walking in with a man following me."
And she run in and she said, "Georgie, the funniest thing happened." She said, "I must have went to sleep. I dreamed a dream. I saw that preacher come in."


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