<TITLE>29. Par 109-111</TITLE>L-109 And he looked down. I see him moving down like this, just setting himself. Oh, brother, I knowed what was going to happen. I couldn't look at it. And--and the... When I turned around to see what he was doing, the deer spotted the hunter, and she spooked. That--that's the hunter's word. That means she got scared.
And she--she looked up. She threw them big ears up like that. Did she run? No, sir. Death or no death, her baby was in trouble; she was looking for it. Oh, my. She couldn't help it; she was a mother. She was borned a mother. She wasn't playing the part of a hypocrite; she was a mother. Death or no death, that baby was in trouble, and she was looking for it. And I thought, "Surely that ought to strike that cruel-hearted man."
And I seen him level himself getting ready to shoot. I turned my back. I couldn't look at it, I just couldn't stand it to see that precious mother going to get that precious loyal heart... And she loved her baby so much until she was going to have it blowed plumb out of her. Looking at him, looking at him when a hunter was setting there too, and knowed that meant death to her. But she was hunting her baby.
And I turned around; I thought, "O God, oh, how can he do it, how can he do it? My, so cruel." And I was standing behind a little spruce tree. I thought, "O God, how can he do it?" And there was a snow bank there. And I thought, "That precious mother's going to get her heart blowed plumb out of her. God, I can't look at it. How can he do it?"

L-110 I noticed the gun didn't fire. I turned around to see what he was doing. He was going like this, he was shaking. He looked around to me, and those lizard eyes had changed. Great big tears was running off his cheeks. He grabbed that gun and throwed it on the ground, and he grabbed me by the pants leg, he said, "Billy, I have had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus that you talk about is so real."
What was it? He saw something real. He saw something that wasn't put-on; he saw something that was genuine. He saw a mother's love that would stand in the face of death, or regardless of what it was. He saw something real, not a sermon I preached or a song that the church sung. He's a deacon in the Baptist church now.
He caught me by the leg on that snow drift, he said, "Billy, I have seen something that's real." Said, "I've had enough." Said, "Tell me about Him."
I knelt down in the snow, and I said, "Burt, God said, 'If they hold their peace, these rocks will cry out.' Do you love Him?"
He said, "I want the kind of love for my God that deer had for her baby." There on the snowdrift there I led that hunter to God.

L-111 I wonder tonight, how many in here would like to have that kind of love for your Lord like that...?... that...?... She... what did she do? She displayed something that was real. Now, friends, there's so much make-belief today. Let's not take that. Let's have something real. It's so late.
Let's just stand to our feet and consecrate our lives to God. All that wants God to come into your heart and give you an experience to be a lover of Christ and have the love for Christ that you could face death or anything, the kind of love that that mother deer had for her baby, raise up your heads and hands like this. Let us bow our heads.
Yes, Lord, we got balm. There's balm in Gilead. There's physicians here. God, I pray that You'll help the people now to come and be inoculated, come and be inoculated from temper, from unbelief, get ready for that great service tomorrow. Grant it, Lord.


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