<TITLE>07. Par 21-22</TITLE>L-21 So we went on over to the place. And we drove way back through the fields, and down through the gaps, and up over the hills. And so, I had never been in the country. And so, when we got over there to this certain place, why, we stopped at a big house back there. And there was two old men setting out there, pretty well stricken in age, I guess in their seventies, setting under an apple tree shade. We drove up. Mr. Wood got out. And I heard the old Kentucky expression, "Come in."
You know, that's how they call the Indiana people "Hoosiers," See? How they got that, in the early days, in Kentucky that was in the south. So when you come up to a southern home down there in the south they'd say, "hello." You'd say, "Come in." No matter who you was, long as you was walking, had shoes on, or if you didn't have shoes on, come in anyhow; you're welcome.
But when you got across the line in Indiana they was a little suspicious. Say, "Hello." They said, "Who's there?" They want to know first. I'm glad I'm a southerner. And I kind of like it that way.
And so he--he said, "Come in." So Mr. Wood went up. He said... called the man by name. He said, "You are he?"
Said, "I'm that varmint."

L-22 So he said... I seen he was rather a stern old fellow. And I said, set in the car. And Mr. Wood said, "I would like to ask you..." He said, "First I want to introduce myself." He said, "My name is Wood, Banks Wood." And he said, "I was squirrel hunting, and I've been over here on a certain place." And he said, "It's flat woods, and it's got so dry over there. We knew you owned some acreage here that had hollows, and thought, maybe I'd come over and ask you, and you'd let me hunt."
The old man spit his big chew of tobacco out and he said--said, "Are you Jim Wood's boy?"
He said, "I am."
He said, "Jim Wood?"
Now, they were Jehovah Witness, you know. David, he (I guess they've got in here this morning. They sell books there at the meeting.)--his leg had been drawed up under him. And--and Mr. Wood, being a Jehovah Witness, had come to one of the meetings. And before I left the building the Holy Spirit had told me there'd be a boy there, and said, "His father's name will be Wood, and they're from southern Kentucky." And said, "He's got polio." And said, "Speak the Word; he will walk." And I looked all around to see the vision. I couldn't see the boy. And I went on. After while I spotted him way back in the back, called his name; there come his leg straight. You see? So he was no more Jehovah Witness.
I... By the grace of God, I've led every one of his family (his father a reader in Jehovah Witness) all to Christ and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and rebaptized all of them... So then--so then, by visions, what the Lord would give, and say things that would take place.


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