<TITLE>02. Par -</TITLE>L-2-3 Now, I have some announcements just before we dedicate these little fellows. Now, tonight there's service at the Tabernacle, and all you that come here at the Tabernacle, come right to the service here. And so we're--I'm going to speak for Brother Ruddell tonight up here on the highway, one of our visiting brothers. Then as soon as I get back, if I have another night, I want to go to Brother "Junie" Jackson. And then I--that Brother at Sellersburg, we owe him a night up there. And so we want to go up to see him. The Brother over at Utica... Getting in these nights as we can...

L-2-4 This week I leave for Green Bay, Wisconsin, as you know, to the regional convention of the Full Gospel Business Men.
Next Sunday I'm at that high school that I--up there, that I was the last time there. I forget the name of that high school auditorium. What is it? Mather? Stephen Mather (Yeah, all right) High School auditorium. And then, Monday I'm in a convention over where I held the discussion with that ministerial association in Chicago the last time there. We're in that place for a--a farewell meeting to Brother Joseph Boze, who's going to Tanganyika (Tanganyika I believe he calls it), and Kenya, and Urban and--and through there, making arrangements for my oncoming fall meetings and--in Africa and through South Africa. And then, we ask you to remember us in prayer in these meetings.

L-3-1 Then we return back... Now, I don't know whether I have time to get another day at the Tabernacle or not, before we go then up to North Carolina, and then from there to South Carolina, and then all the way over to the Cow Palace in Los Angeles at South Gate. And there's where I hope to get to go and see Mr. Weatherby, the one that made the rifle that the shell exploded in.
He didn't--have the headspace backed off too much and let the shell push back, instead of go forward. It was an old rifle; I just sent to him, and he had it bored out then, and made into a different kind of a rifle. And I put the shell in it, and raised up to shoot, and it, well, it blowed the gun fifty yards around me like that and melted in my hand. The barrel went out on the fifty yard line; the bolt went plumb back behind the deer cage, thirty, forty yards behind me, and pieces of shrapnel flew and knocked bark off trees and everything else. So that was that close to my eye, just about one inch, where it went off like that. And if it'd blow... And that gun will stand sixty-nine hundred pounds of pressure itself without blowing. So you can imagine how much was on it to do that. And you remember, if it'll blow that, it could've blowed my head and shoulders too. You see? But there was the Lord standing there. It didn't even let it hurt me; just scratched me across the face, and a little shrapnel went in below the side of my eye, made a ring around the sight, so it didn't touch the sight where the shrapnel went in. One of the big pieces that stuck in the skull went around the eye and didn't get in the eye. So... Oh, my.

L-3-3 Not long ago you remember, I told you He met me in the room and said, "Do not fear, for the never failing Presence of Jesus Christ is with you forever." So that proves it, that He is.
A doctor that looked at my eye in Louisville, he said... They wrote back to Doctor Sam Adair down here, our friend, and said, "The only thing that I can say, that the Lord was setting there that morning with His servant to protect him, or he wouldn't even have head and shoulders left." So He was really good to me, and I appreciate that. It brings me a little closer; it always makes a little different.


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