<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>60-0723, Speak To The Rock And It Shall Give Forth His Water, Lake County Fairgrounds, Lakeport, CA, 75 min
L-1 Thank you, brother. You may be seated. Sorry to keep you standing up singing so long, but I just met an old friend I haven't seen for years, right outside here, Brother Noel Jones. We used to hunt together down in Arkansas. You heard me talk about it many times, the guy had lizard eyes, that could shoot squirrels when I couldn't even see them. And so, it just happened I recognized him. He'd changed a little and a grandfather now, but I was certainly happy to see him.
Somebody told me, one of my field secretary, that--that--that there's another friend of mine in here tonight, an old friend, Brother Morse from down around--down around San Francisco. I wonder if Brother Morse would stand, or hold his hand, or something where I could... Morse, Brother Morse. Bless you. I'm sure glad to see you again. God bless you. Oh, an old Bible teacher. I remember... Is that sister with you there? Yeah, well, I'm certainly glad to--to see you. Lord bless you. They were some of my first sponsors when I first come to the west coast, many, many years ago. Oh, this turned into be a homecoming week, won't it? Wonderful.

L-2 Well, we're glad to have our brother and sister and Brother Jones, Sister Jones. And I remember about them years ago... I don't think he's in yet; he's at the back talking with some of them. We... He asked me... I'd been about eight days and nights at the pulpit. He said, "Brother Branham, don't you like to hunt just a little bit?"
I said, "Oh, I love it."
He said, "Well, I'll take you hunting," and Brother Johnson and I. So he had a old 97 shotgun. You men know what I'm talking about, the best ones was ever made. And then... So then he had another old gun there that they'd borrowed which was just an old oak stock you know, the old--the old gun. And every time you'd shoot a single barrel, it would kick open the... You'd have to take a stick along with you, knock the shell out the back. And Brother Noel said to me; he said, "Now, Brother Branham, you take this gun."
I said, "No, I can beat you any day with this here."
He said, "I'm telling you, you better take the gun." So they turned the dog loose, and he run about fifteen squirrels up a tree, and he barked. We started running over to where he was at, he said, "Now, if you want squirrels, this is your last opportunity. You better take this gun."
I said, "Just keep moving." Well, that guy had about three squirrels on a fly. I never seen so much shooting in my life, squirrels dropping everywhere. And I shot once, and the old thing like to kick me down. I--I was trying to knock the hull out of it.

L-3 We took Brother Johnson a couple days after that, and that was his father-in-law, and we had to walk across the--the--a little bayou of swamps, as it is, way over in Arkansas there. And he... So he had one pair of boots. So Brother Noel was the largest, tall, thin fellow, and he picked up me and put me on his back and across the swamp he went. He come back and got Brother Johnson; he's a little short, fat fellow, got out there, and I got to teasing, and he got to laughing and dropped Brother Johnson right in the middle of the water. Oh, my. Oh, God bless, Brother Johnson, I... He just told me that he's very ill. So I pray that God Almighty will help Brother Johnson. That's his father-in-law.

L-4 Oh, I tell you, wherever I've roamed, some of the finest old hearts beats under them old blue shirts down in Arkansas. Don't you... How many Arkie's is here? Let's see your hands. Well, all California's made out of is Okie's and Arkie's they tell me. So... Well, that's might fine. Mighty fine people in both Oklahoma and Arkansas. Frankly, everywhere you find God's people, they're fine people. That's exactly right, everywhere.


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