<TITLE>04. Par 35-43</TITLE>L-35 I will always miss mother. She was sweet and dear to all of us. I can remember her old shaking, palsied hands, when Delores had to steady her arm right there to give her communion. That's the last time she was at the Tabernacle, besides when her funeral was preached.
I want to say another thing that right by when mother was going, strange, unpredictable, we didn't know she was going at that time. But Brother Neville stepped in. My wife said, if ever one time that I was happy to see Brother Neville, it was that time. Said... I don't know why, but just something, just how God works those things. Brother Higginbotham was there too, the one that just gave the message just a few moments ago, he walked--he stayed at the hall door. And Brother Neville came in. And I got the children around the bed, and I said, "Now, let's all get around, and have--let Brother Neville..."
Mama always loved to hear Brother Neville pray. She just liked to hear him, said, "He talked just like, sincere, he was talking to God."
That was the last she heard on her ears, Brother Neville was standing, praying. I was holding my hands on her head, and one on her hand, and while he was praying. And while he was in prayer, God called her. And I felt that little odd jerk, and I looked around. She had turned her head and looked at me, and I knew she was going. So I said, "Almighty God, I commit her soul to You now." And she... Like a wind came through the room, and she was gone to meet God. So some glorious day on the other side, I will see her, young woman.

L-39 'Course we know her now as an old broke-down mother, shaky. When she had her children, ten of them, it wasn't like we do today. We didn't have the modern way, and we didn't have money to afford it. Mom would have her baby, say, this morning, and this afternoon she'd do her washing. And it just broke her down.
But not an old shaking mother with palsy trembling over her, but a beautiful young woman will she be in that Kingdom that's beyond.
And I thought of the comfort of God, to let me come to that moment. And then right after it was all over, then tell me why, and then give me those comforting words by a vision of my mother.

L-42 Therefore, friends, the Gospel that I have stood for, I've watched It when it come down to the hours of death. I seen It on my mother. I seen It on my wife. I seen It on my brothers of... I--I know what it means when you come to the end of the road with an experience with God. It means something. So I am now determined, by the grace of God, to go to every quarter of the world that He'll send me, to every creature that I can, and preach this Gospel, because It is the power of God unto salvation.

L-43 Knowing this, that when this life is over, we have a life on the other side, where we turn back to young people again, and will live in His Presence and His blessedness for ever and ever. I trust that every precious mother in here, and every daughter, every son, and every father, will die in the Lord. "Even so saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." Some bright day we'll go and see them. Yes.
If that isn't so, then why are we standing here this morning preaching in vain? But, friends, our religion is not in vain. It's the power of God, tested right down with the acid test of death. Through sufferings, through any kind of way it wants to come, what difference does it make? We're going to meet God.


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