<TITLE>45. Par 456-464</TITLE>L-456 And said he said, "All right, boss." And said he could smell them, how fresh it was, and how good he felt. Said he was running up through the forest like that. And he took his axe, and said he could feel that old axe bit go into that soft pine, you know, that Oregon pine. And said, when it went down in there... You know, down south they have that same tree; it's real hard. You go up, up north, and the colder you get, the softer the wood gets. Said he could. Finally said he took his axe, and run across it with that old double bit, and scraped all the limbs off of it. Said he stuck the axe in there, said, "Well, I'll go right down the hill with it."
He got ahold of it, and said he just couldn't lift it. He just couldn't lift it. He said he tried and he tried. He said he remembered that a man's best muscles is in his back. So he said he put his knees together, so he won't rupture himself, and he stooped over and got ahold of it. And took his knees, muscles in the back of the legs, up here, the calf of the leg, in his arms, in his back, put all of his muscle to it. And said he pulled and he pulled, and he just couldn't do it, said he just toiled, until he tried and tried. Said, "I got to get this log down there. I just got to. The boss ordered it down there; I've got to get it there. Why," said, "usually... I don't know where my strength's all gone. So I could've put that thing on my shoulder and walked with it," said, "but I just can't get it up." And he tried, and he tried, and he tried. He said he just couldn't do it. He just wore hisself out.

L-458 Said he just fell down against the tree, and said, [Brother Branham pants--Ed.] "I've just toiled, and I've toiled. I've toiled and I've toiled, till I just can't go no farther. And I--I've got to get that log down there, but I don't know how I can do it. I can't lift it." Said, just setting there, and said he said, "I just don't know what to do."
And said he heard His Voice--Voice of His Boss, say, "Paul," and said it was the sweetest Voice he ever heard.
And said, "When I turned to look," it wasn't my boss, but it was my real Boss." Said, "It was Jesus."
Said, "What you toiling at it for, Paul?" Said, "You see that stream going there?" Said, "That stream goes right by the camp." Said, "Why don't you just push it in the water and ride on it, go on down?"
So he said he just took the log and rolled it in the water, and jumped on it; and went over them ripples, just a-hollering and a-screaming, said, "I'm riding on it. I'm riding on it."
And said, when he come to, in the room, his wife laying over him, praying; he jumped up in the middle of the floor, hollering, "I'm riding on it. I'm riding on it."

L-464 Brother, let me tell you something this morning. Don't toil at it. I'm not trying to toil at it. It'll wear you out, back and forth, and, "I'm Methodist, or I'm a Baptist, and I'm this." I just received Jesus. I took His promise. By grace He come to me, and I'm riding on it. I don't care what happens, or what goes, how many times we're called crazy, or fanatic.
On your healing this morning, when we're prayed for. We ain't going to have time now (It going on one o'clock) for a line of discernment. We're going to pray for the sick, and get--and--and pray for everyone here. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Is that right? I'm riding on it. Are you ready to ride on it? Let's bow our heads just a moment.


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