<TITLE>18. Par 66-68</TITLE>L-66 When I was a little kid, we lived up in Kentucky, and we had a hard time living. Mama used to take old corn pone (I don't know whether you know what it is, or not), black-eyed peas and turnip greens. And when she'd take that old corn pone... We didn't have any lard. She'd render out meat skins. And then she'd make that (the grease) the shortening for this corn bread out of them meat skins.
And you know, it was kind of bad living. So every Saturday night we all used to have to take a big bath, and we had a big old cedar tub. And then they'd pour water in there and get hot. There was about nine of us, and so all of them would take a bath. They never changed the water, just add some more hot water. I was the last one had to take my own. Boy, I got a bath all right.
But... And then, the thing of it was after that, to get ready for school Sunday. Now, this was on Saturday night. And on Sunday we'd all take a good round of castor oil on account of the way we had to eat. I got so sick of it. I'd hold my nose and just gag. I said, "Mama, I can't even stand the stuff." I can't yet.
She said, "Honey, if it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good."
That's the way this Gospel is. If it don't get your spiritual gastronomics all stirred up, make you real sick, you won't go to digging and finding out whether it's right or not. That's right. Yeah. Oh, yes. It's--it's good for you. It'll stir you all up, and fix you up, make you ready for the--the rapture when it comes. That's right. Yes.

L-67 So this mother's decided she don't want her little eagles to become just denominational chickens. My goodness, no. She's decided that. So she has to get them out of that nest. When everything's working right, she has to give them a trial. So you know what she does?
She gets right in there, and takes her big bill (her and papa), and throws every bit of that--of that packing out of there. Then it gets rough (oh, my.), like it did after Pentecost. Persecutions rose and everything else, you know. Every time the little eagle starts to set down, he'd jump. He was on a sticker. Did you ever have that experience? Every way you go, stickers.
I don't want to get adjusted to the world. You don't want to get adjusted (no, no), and walking on soft things. Oh, my. Let's take the way with the Lord's despised few. That's right.

L-68 Little eagle kind of got... She--she done that purposely, so he wouldn't be so adjusted to that nest. He's a eagle; he's not a chicken. She want to get him out there so he can trust his own. So after while, he just can't set down. He's just having an awful time. And mother decides then that she wants to make him a... knows he's a eagle. She looks him over, and she finds out, "Yep, he's an eagle." So he's ready to leave the nest now. He's dissatisfied with these old things of the world.
So first thing you know, she said, "Now, if he's a eagle, if he stays like that all the time, he will become a chicken. So I've got to get him out here, and get him some experience. So she comes down over the nest. She spreads out her great, big wings.
Oh, you ought to see it. My. Some of them eagles stretch fourteen feet from tip to tip. She'd throw them big wings out like this and holler, "Caw, whir-r-r," what a big scream, like that. She'd wave them big wings. Them little eagles lay back like this, that wind fanning in like that. My, when she brushed them big wings like that... Now, she's got to get all the loose feathers out of them, 'cause if you don't, they'll die when they get up there. They'll--they'll... Them feathers will come out up there, well then, it's in a bad shape.


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