<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 While we were... I was standing there. I looked at that. I seen that rainbow, and I said, "Looky here. God's plumb up on top of this mountain. There He is in the rainbow." You see Him in Revelations 1, to look upon, you know: a rainbow, walking in among the seven golden candlesticks, to look upon as jasper and--and sardine stone; Benjamin and Reuben, first, last. And I looked at that and I thought, "Isn't that beautiful."
About that time, an old gray wolf howled up on the hill, and the mate answered it down in the bottom. I thought, "Yeah, there's God in that."
The storm had separated the elk herd. There was about... I got eighty-some-odd elk in that herd. And just try to get the biggest bulls, as anyone understands. I like them just like you would your cattle. You don't want to butcher them out and--just because you can shoot them. But just take out the old ones, 'cause if you don't, why, it hurts your herd.

L-15 And I heard an old bull over on the side, bugling, because he'd got lost from the other herd. Oh, my. You talk about... As David said, "the deep calling to the deep," standing up there, and hear that wolf howl yonder; hear this elk over here bugling.
Something way down on the inside of me begin to gurgle up. I thought, "O God." I thought, "It's good to be here. I wish I could build three tabernacles." I got so happy. I set my little old rifle against the side of the tree, and around, and around, and around that tree I went, just screaming at the top of my voice; jumping up and down, and flopping my arms back and forth. I said, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah," around the...
Why, if somebody had been in the woods they'd thought they had a maniac out there. Around and around the bush I went, just as hard as I could go, and saying, "Praise God, praise God, hallelujah," just running as hard as I could; 'cause I was feeling good. I didn't care for anybody else see me. I was just... I was just blowing off the steam. If I didn't, I was going to burst. So I just had to whistle--put a little out the whistle.
So I was just going around, and around, and around as hard as I could. After while I stopped and throwed up my hands. I thought, "There He is, over yonder in the rainbow. Here He is down here, howling in the wolf. Here He is, bugling in the elk. Here He is, in my heart. Oh, You're just everywhere." And around, and around, and around the tree I went again. I thought, "Oh, it's good to be here. Wish I could build me a cabin, and stay here."
And then I thought, "No. Like it was with Peter, James and John... There's a sick child just below the hill. You see? Got to go down."

L-16 So while I was standing there, I noticed I must've excited a little old pine squirrel. I don't know whether you Tex... Oh, sure. If it's anywhere else, you got it in Texas. But a little pine squirrel jumped up on a stump there where there was an old blow-down. And he begin to just say all kinds of things to me. I guess I must've scared the little fellow half to death. And I was running around like that, I looked over, and he was setting there switching that little tail, just chatter-chatter-chatter, chatter-chatter-chatter, chatter-chatter-chatter.
I thought, "What's the matter with you, little guy? I'm worshipping the very God that created you. You want to see some more of it? Here I go." Around, and around, and around, and around again. I thought, "How'd you like that? Why don't you run around a little while?" But the only thing he could set there and go chatter-chatter-chatter, chatter-chatter-chatter.
I thought, "Now, God, why did You attracted my attention to that little fellow for, when I'm just having such a big time here, You and I?"


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