<TITLE>10. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 I couldn't let them do it. Art Wilson give me a--give Billy Paul a model 7, or model 70, .257 Roberts. Billy, my boy, is left-handed. He couldn't use a right hand bolt. A friend of mine that runs a Weatherby Company said, "Well, let me send that to Weatherby and have him rebore it, make you a Weatherby out of it." Said, "It wouldn't... Said, "It'd cost you about thirty dollars; cost me about ten." He did it.
He didn't bore it right. First shot blowed it all over my face; like to killed me, and...?... was about six weeks ago. Just, see the place there? Knocked the top of that tooth off, where it went through there, and then cut the side of my face. Three of them went right around there, sticking in the sinus glands, and in the bone. Fifteen of them went straight in behind the sight like that, almost cut the sight in two. Just goes to show...
I got a message out of it. These "shake-hand conversions," that's what that was. See, if that gun had been started in the dies as a Weatherby Magnum, it would've held the load. But being it was tampered with and tried to be re-bored... 'Course, any gunman knows what happened, had pressure this side. See? It blew it.

L-39 That's the way it is with some of this "shake-hands" religion. I believe in being born again: go back to the beginning, and die out, and be re-molded. See? If you don't, there's going to be a blowup somewhere down along the road. It'll blow up on you when the pressure comes. So let's hold the pressure.
I was down in Kentucky with a friend of mine selling books here in the meetings, Mr. Wood. He's a Jehovah Witness that was converted by polio boy he's got with him (married now), leg drawed up under him. Maybe get a chance to have him testify. He got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.

L-40 His brothers come. His fathers was a reader. They excommunicated him from all their being. One day his brother came in. I was home on vacation, or resting, and he went down to his brother. He said, "Banks, what..." that's the one here? Said, "What in the world have you got tangled up with?" He said, "The bunch of fanaticism..."
He said, "They're not a fanaticism." He said, "Look at David's leg."
He said, "Aw, nonsense." Said, "Your daddy's raised you, raised us from kids not to believe them hell-fire-burning preachers, and so forth like that. Said, "You shouldn't do a thing like that." Said, "What kind of a quack are you listening to?"
Said, "There he is out there in the field, pitching hay."
Called me in. I guess I looked like everything but a minister. And he said, setting there, he said... I was talking to him. Said, "How do you do?" Very cold, indifferent...

L-41 So a vision came (Just speaking, it's done it right here, three or four times since I've been standing here.), and I said, "You're a--why'd you leave your wife for? Them two little boys?"
He looked over to Banks, as if his brother had told me about it.
I said, "Don't look to him." I said, "He never told me that." I said, "What about the night before last? Your wife's a blond-headed woman; you was with a woman who had auburn hair. That man knocked at the door, and you went to the window. It's a good thing you didn't go, or you'd got your head shot off. The man had a pistol in his hand."
And he tumbled over on the floor. He gave his heart to Christ, and became saved. Now, his whole family's saved by the same way, each one of them. See? We were... Filled with the Holy Ghost...


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