<TITLE>16. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 And then, I remember Mom would say, "Just a minute, honey." And she'd... We'd get the croup. You know what she'd do? She'd take a spoon full of this 'coon grease and--and put some turpentine on it, and sprinkle a little sugar on it, and we had to gulp that down. I don't know what that did for sore throat. But, anyhow, we got well. God's a merciful God.
Then when our eyes would all be stuck up, she'd say, "Just a minute, honey." And she'd set the old can of 'coon grease on the stove. And she'd get it good and warm. And up the steps she'd come, this little, old ladder. Come up there and massage our eyes with that 'coon grease until it--it come open.
Well, that'll be all right for the natural eye. But I'm telling you: There's been a lot of cold weather passing through the church. That's right. And they've got spirituals closes of their eyes. And it'll take more than 'coon grease to ever open it. It'll take the power of the Holy Spirit to come into the eyes.

L-54 "Counsel of Me, come and buy eyesalve from Me as I knock at the door. Let Me come in and open up your eyes, put eyesalve on your eyes. It will open your eyes."
You don't know. Like Elijah, with--down at Dothan with his servant. When the--the army, the aliens, come up and surrounded the whole city of Dothan, and he said... The servant woke up, and he said, "My father, the whole Syrian army's upon us."
And the old prophet... You know, he could see. So he got up and looked around; he said, "Yeah, that's right. But there's more with us than there is with them."
And he said, "I don't see nobody but you."
And he put some eyesalve on him. He reached over and took a hold of his head and said, "Lord, open this boy's eyes that he can see." And when his spiritual sight come to him, all around that old prophet was Angels of fire, and chariots of fire, and mountains on fire. See, he was blind and didn't know it.
There's many people today that's blind and don't know the goodness of the Lord, honest, sincere people that don't know the goodness. You don't understand how good God is, what a pleasure it is to serve Him, what a--what a rest it is.

L-55 Someday I got to stop. Someday I'll close my Bible for the last time. I've got to meet God and give an account for every one of you. And every person to... I guess I've preached direct or indirect to twenty or thirty million people around the world, seven times around. And I--I--I know I've got to answer for that. And I've got to be in the deepest of sincerity and know that I'm telling them the truth.
You don't realize the goodness of God. If a person, a sinner, could only open their eyes and see how good God is. If He could just rub a little salve on their eyes and they could look around and see how good He is...

L-56 Down in Shreveport, Louisiana, not long ago, there was a... I was down there preaching in a tent meeting. I'd thought of Billy Graham out to the--the baseball stadium. And--and there was an old, colored brother down there. And he was a great old preacher, good old soul. And he had an old man in his church by the name... His name was Gabriel, but we kind of called him Gabe, because of short. And...
But he'd never would line up with the church. He would go to church, and he had a good, godly, sainted woman. And they prayed for Gabe, and they done everything that they could to get Gabe to go to church and to do right. But he just wouldn't do it. But he liked to go hunting.


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