<TITLE>15. Par 128-135</TITLE>L-128 So then after while, Brother Wood said, "Well, now, could I have my pastor with me? I guess it would be an right for him to come along."
And this old man turned around on his cane, and he said, "Wood, do you mean to tell me that you've stooped so low, till you have to have a preacher with you wherever you go?"
And so that, I thought, after that I'd better get out of the car. So I got out of the car, and talked to the old gentleman a few minutes. And he let me know right quick that he didn't have much use for preachers, because he thought they were talking about something that they didn't know nothing about.
He said, "They just blat out at something they don't know nothing about. Well," he said, "when a man talks to me, I want him to know what he's talking about." Now, that's good sense. That's good sense. He said, "Now, if a man talks to me, I don't want him talk on some something, another, supposition that he knows nothing about. I want him to speak something that he knows what he's talking about." Well, I honored that. I respected that in the old gentleman.
And so I said, "Well, of course, that's every fellow to his own opinion."

L-133 And he said, "There was one preacher that come here in this country a few years ago, that had a meeting over at Acton." And he said, "This preacher, one night, being a stranger in the country, said to a--a lady that was setting in the audience, 'You have a handkerchief in your pocket. And you're Mrs. So-and-so. And you have a sick sister over on the hill here. Her name is So-and-so. She's dying with cancer in the stomach.' And said, 'Take this handkerchief and lay it on your sister, and tell her, "THUS SAITH THE LORD," she's not going to die, but live.'"
He said, "This same woman was a friend of ours." And said, "We took this woman... This handkerchief up; or this man to the person..." First he said, "This woman, my wife and I had been up there that morning and had took, waited on this woman. And she was so bad the doctors had give her up long ago. She was so bad till we had to move her in a sheet, lift her up to put her on the bed pan, take her back. Turn her in the sheet, she was so bad." He said, "One night, over there, there come a noise like they had somebody had died."

L-135 That was Ben over there with that handkerchief, taking it over there. I believe it was you, wasn't it, Ben? [Brother Ben says, "Amen. Amen."--Ed.] It was Brother Ben over there, getting that handkerchief, 'cause he took the woman over there.
And said, "The next morning she was eating fried apple pies." And said, "She don't only does her own work, but she does the neighbor's work. She was so well." He said, "Now, I've often wondered. If I ever seen that preacher, he knew what he was speaking about," said, "I--I'd like to talk with him."
Brother Wood looked over to me, and I looked over to him. Standing there, dirty, and sweaty, and filthy, had been camping in the woods, and--and squirrel blood all over us. And so I said, "Well," I said, "is... You mean that you could talk to this fellow and he'd tell you how he done that?"
He said, "Yes, sir, that's what I mean."
I said, "Well, that's--that's a good thing."


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