<TITLE>08. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 And then they brought that night, for the night meeting, an old colored man out, a great big long, old frock-tailed preacher's coat like we used to use in the south, velvet collar, just a little rim of white hair around his head. Poor old fellow could hardly get out there. He says, "Wells, I's going to tell you." He says, "I'm going to take my text tonight (I believe it was in Job 7:27 or something like that): Where was you, when I laid the foundation of the world? Declare unto Me... for their bands. When the morning stars sang together, and the Sons of God shouted for joy?"...
And I thought, "My, why don't they put some of them young fellows out there? an old man, like that, before about three thousand people? Well, they oughtn't to put that old man out there. He's just so stiff he could hardly get along."

L-25 Now, all the brethren had been telling what had gone on down here on earth, he started back there about ten thousand years before the world was ever formed, when the sons of God was shouting for joy, and the morning stars was singing together. He brought it across the skies, and down the horizontal rainbow in about five minutes. Directly he jumped up in the air, and said, "Whoopee," skipped his feet together, and tipped around there, and said, "You got enough room up there for me to preach." walked off the platform.
I said, "Brother, that's what I want. If it'll make an old man act like, what would it do for me, and I'm not just twenty-five years old?"
I tell you, it renews his youth. Is that right? When the Holy Spirit comes in, It makes the old act young. Yeah. They're become eagles. There something about... I never forget that. I just might make a quotation here.

L-26 That night, I slept out in the corn patch, and I took my old... I had an old Model-T Ford, it would go thirty miles an hour: fifteen this way and fifteen this a way. So... And I took the back seat out, and the front seat, and put my little seersucker trousers between them, and pressed them out. I had just a dollar and fifty cents to get back home on, buy me some gasoline. I got some stale rolls, and--and got the hydrant, something to eat.
And I'd prayed all night; I said, "Lord, I never seen such a people in my life. I never heard of such. Now, I don't go with their manners, because they just haven't got any manners." But I said, "But I--I sure think they're the happiest people. They're not ashamed of their religion."


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