<TITLE>14. Par 115-124</TITLE>L-115 One day... I remember Sister Cadle, Sister Howard Cadle, I think many of you remember her. I was across the street there, and my wife setting there now remembers; she was cold in the room. And I got up, and had a little, old monkey stove out there with a... We baked our bread up in the oven in the pipe. And I... It was real cold, and wind was blowing, wintertime, snow on the ground, and wind down the smokestack, and I couldn't get that thing to burn to save my life. And I was just so tore up about it. And I put some in, it'd blow out again. Billy was cold, and she was cold; I was trying to make a fire. And then I happened to turn on the radio, and a few minutes before I just got warmed up, come on, and Sister Cadle was singing, "When I reach that land, on a far away strand, I want to see Jesus. Don't you?" Oh, my.
I just set right down in the middle of the floor and just set there and started crying. You know how she could sing down there, that real sweet mockingbird voice of hers. I want to hear her when I cross over the border over yonder; said, "I want to see Jesus. Don't you?"
I thought, "O God, yes, I want to see Him someday. When the flowers are all floated by, I want to see Jesus." How... To see Him upon His throne, His beauty, His splendor... And if I... Oh, I want to stand where John did, so I can just stand and look at Him.

L-118 Here sometime ago, down--the slavery time. I say this in behalf of my colored friends that's here this morning. There was an old colored man, that he was a--went over to a little place, they used to.
And used to do this down in Kentucky, have singing. Maybe Mama Cox and them can remember when they used to go and have singings, you know, go out to the houses and they'd play a organ, young folks and all sing. Used to do it up here at Utica and around in the country places. Now, they got a quart of whiskey, out somewhere to a rock-and-roll party. But then they sang hymns.

L-120 One of these old hymn-singings, there was an old colored brother got saved. And the Lord called him to preach, and the next day he went around telling the slaves on the plantation. He said, "The Lord saved me last night and has called me to preach to my brethren."
And finally it got back to the owner of the ranch--or the owner of the plantation. He called him in and said, "Sambo, I want you come in here." Said, "Come up in my office."
He said, "Yes, sir," walked up to the office.
He said, "What's this I hear you're scattering amongst the slaves, amongst them fellows out there, my hands, my slaves, that the Lord made you free?"
Said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Boss, I'm your slave." He said, "I was bought with your money, but..." He said, "But the way that God made me free last night, Jesus made me free from a life of sin and shame, and a life of death. He made me free."
He said, "Sambo, do you really mean that?"
He said, "I mean it."

L-124 He said, "I heard them say that you was going to start preaching around here to your--your people on the plantations and things."
Said, "Yeah, sir." That's what I aim to do, is preach this Gospel to my people."
Said, "You really mean it, Sambo?"
He said, "I really mean it."
Said, "Come, go with me down to the--the court; I'm going to also give you your freedom. You're free from me, and you're free from any more slave. I bought you; you're mine, and I'm setting you free so that you can preach the Gospel to your people." He went down and signed the emancipation to the proclamation, and he was set free. He could no more be sold as a slave. He was a free man to preach the Gospel.


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