<TITLE>26. Par -</TITLE>L-42-3 And then I--I dreamed the other night that I seen "Six-second" Smith (Now, it wasn't a vision, it was a dream.), and I seen "Six-second" Smith--young fellows coming against him and wrestling. And he that old man about--oh, I guess, I'm fifty-two; he's about fifty-eight, sixty; there wasn't any of them young guys could touch him in any way. He'd just tie them in a knot, like that, just lay them on the floor and hold them with his hand. Now, I thought, "That's strange," and I thought my wife was with me, and I said, "That's strange." I said, "You know what, Meda? He used to be my trainer."
She said, "I--I remember that, you telling me about it."
I said, "Yes, sir. With his good training I won fifteen professional fights and quit the--the business to preach the Gospel."

L-42-1 Just then it changed, and I was starting to cross a--a water. But when I was going, I was going by a power boat. And I looked over, and there set two of my brethren, setting there in a canoe, getting ready to go with me. I said, "You can't do that, brethren. Huh-uh. I must go alone."
And the boatman come up and he said, "Here's you a boat," a real white, plastic canoe.
I said, "Naw, huh-uh, not that."
He said, "Well, you can run up this way with it fifty miles an hour."
I said, "But I got to cross that way." See?
"Well," said, "get with them guys.
I said, "They're not boatman. They don't know enough about that; they're enthused. They can't shoot that; they'll both drown out there; they just can't do it."
And he said, "Are you--can you trust..."
I said, "Listen, I--I know more about boats than they do, and I wouldn't try to shoot it with that--just that kind of material." I said, "It's got to take a power boat to cross that." I said, "It'll take something greater than that."

L-43-1 And I seen him look around to one of the brethren and said, "Are you a boatman?"
The brethren said, "Yes." See?
I said, "That's wrong."
And the boatman come back; he said, "Tell you what you do." Said, "They love you; they believe you," but said, "if you try to cross in the power boat, they'll try to follow you in that canoe; they'll both die." See? Said, "They can't follow you."
And I said, "Well, what must I do?"
And this boatman at the dock, he said, "You go back up there." Said, "There's only one little storehouse in all this country, one little storehouse. And just lay in plenty of supplies," said, "and they'll stay here. They'll--they'll stay here, while you are--while you're gone," but said, "you'll have to lay in supplies.
And I was just ordering all kinds of cabbages, and turnips, and radishes, and things, piling them in there like that; and I woke up. I didn't know what it was, but I do now. See? We're laying in the supplies, brethren. This is a life that you have to walk alone.

L-43-3 Leo, you remember the dream you had that time when you first come here about the pyramid and you thought you'd come up in there; and I said, "Leo, no man gets up here; God has to put a man up here. You climbed every physical realm that could be climbed." I said, "You can't come here, Leo. (See?) Go back down, just tell the people that it comes from God. (You see, see?) It's something that you... You can't depend upon..."
As good as brethren, and sisters, and my church, and everything; and good as other churches are, and brethren everywhere...


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