<TITLE>10. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 I want to say this for my hunting partners. As most of you know, I'm a guide in Colorado. I ranched up there for years. And I used to remember times when we... the Troublesome River valley is... The Hereford Association grazes that valley. If you can raise a ton of hay, you can put a cow on the forest just this side of Estes Park and the Arapaho forest.
But your ranch has to produce a ton of hay, and then, of course, you brand your cattles there. I don't... I believe you do down in Vernon, Brother Shultz. You still brand--brand your cattle here. And that's to keep them from being mixed up.
And then, they got a drift fence where the--the cattle comes down so they won't drift back on private property. The ranger used to stand there. And when we'd bring the cattle up after the early spring round-up and bring them to put them on the pasture, we used to drive them up there. And a many time have I set with my leg around the horn of the saddle and watch that ranger watching them as they go through.

L-43 Oh, there's all kinds of brands. We had, I believe, we had... One was called the--the tripod, and my neighbor was a turkey track, and--and the other one was... Grimes, over on the other side, which was largest rancher on the valley, he had the--the barred--diamond barn. There was many different brands.
But you know, I noticed that ranger never paid much attention to those brands. But there's one thing he checked closely; that was the blood tag. Because nothing could graze that pasture without it was a thoroughbred hereford, because they were all registered. And he watched the blood tag.
I've often thought that's the way it will be at the day of the judgment. When we are standing there, He won't notice what brand we're wearing. But He will look for the Blood of His Son to see if we've accepted that.

L-44 One year up there hunting, I'd... The snow hadn't come yet, so the--the elk was high. And I was searching around up there for elk. And Mr. Jefferies, the boss of the ranch... And he'd went back in another section, and I'd pick him up in a couple of days. But we were done got all of our, what we call dudes, our hunters out of the way.
And so we were up high to get some trophies. And I was up high; because the snow has to run those elk out. They're are wild creatures. And I was walking along, and that time of the year it will--it will snow, and then rain, and then the sun come out and so forth. And there come a storm of rain, and I just got behind some trees, almost the timberline.

L-45 And while I was behind the tree, I was just standing there thinking, "O Lord my God, I in awesome wonder, how in the stars and the skies and the great universe, You are God." The rain ceased. Way back over in the west, the sun came out through the crevice of the mountain, looked like God's great eye looking. And because of the rain and ice hanging on the evergreen, there come a rainbow across the canyon.
And I looked up there, and I said, "O God, it's so good to be up here. There You are in the rainbow." And just then, a coyote howled up on the hill, and--and the mate answered it at the bottom. And how I love nature, the universe of God.
I can hear God in the howl of the wolf. And I heard the big old male elk bugle, lost in the storm from the rest of the herd. And there, standing there with my hands up in the air, weeping because I could see God in the sunset. I could see Him in the rainbow. I could hear Him in the cry of the wolf for his mate. I could hear Him in the bugle of the elk for his herd. God is in His universe, brethren. Certainly is.


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