<TITLE>14. Par 47-48</TITLE>L-47 And he looked over to Banks. That's Mr. David--David Wood's father, the one that's here in the meeting. He looked over... He thought maybe Mr. Wood had told me that, and I caught his thought right quick. See?
So I said, "You thought that Brother Banks had told me that. He did not. He's told me nothing about his family." But I said, "Maybe you think if Banks told me this... Night before last you was with an auburn-haired woman. You were in the room with her when her lover come up to the door, and knocked at the door. And she went to the door, and wouldn't let you come, and you looked through the window. It was a good thing. He'd shot your brains out." I said, "The man's standing there with a dark suit on, a red tie."
Oh, he liked to fell over on the floor. He said, "That's the truth. That's the truth." And there I baptized him. And a few days later from that, here come his daddy down. Here come his--his sister down. She was going to come down straighten both the boys out. Baptized her the same day she come, by the same thing. Down come his daddy, and he was going to straighten us all out. So he wanted to take us.

L-48 I said... He was a fisherman. I said, "Now, Banks, let's take him a-fishing." So we started across the river. It'd rained all night. You know how it is in the east. Them rivers get up, and things. We was going down to Wolf Creek Dam. And on the road over... He never said nothing about religion yet, very stern old man. And he said... And smart as he could be. So he crossed the river.
I said, "Well..." I saw a vision come before me there as I was setting. Banks was driving; I watched the vision. I said, "Now, every stream we cross..."
He'd just said; that night he'd said, "If could ever see anything like that happen, I'd believe it."
And so that morning... The Lord's grace, and said, "Every stream we cross will be muddy. When we get to the Wolf Creek Dam... The rain went above the dam and that--or below the dam, rather, and it won't be muddy, and we'll fish today. We'll catch nothing today until evening. And then Mr. Wood here, Banks Wood, you're going to catch one small catfish. I'm going to catch about twenty pounds, and some of them will weigh as much as ten pounds apiece. You'll fish with the same bait in the same place; you won't catch anything. We'll fish to about eleven o'clock at night. The fish will quit biting. We'll go in and--and eat our supper at eleven o'clock at night, stay all night. And the next morning, we'll go out, and I'm going to catch a large fish that has scales on him, and that'll be the last thing that's caught. We won't... We will fish the rest of the day, and catch nothing."
And the old man looked around, kind of like that. We went down; and everything happened just perfectly to the dot, the way it did. And when I come out on the banks that evening he said, "Here's water. What does hinder me from being baptized?" And there's the whole group of them. Oh, it's a glorious thing to know that we're hanging on the tree.


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