<TITLE>07. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 Delores went home. She called me up, and she said, "Bill, I just can't stand to see mama go."
I said, "Delores, what makes you say a thing like that?"
She said, "I just can't stand to see mama go. It's the only mama we got, and the only one we'll ever have." And said, "Here you are fifty-three years old and me twenty-seven." Said, "How--how are we going to stand it, Bill? We've had her all this life."
I said, "Delores, look out the window where you're setting at your phone, to your left. What do you see? Is there a tree standing there, a great, big oak tree?"
She said, "Yes."
I said, "Two months ago all the leaves were pretty and green."
"Yes."
I said, "What color are they now, Delores?"
And she said, "They are brown, and they are red, yellow, and green."
I said, "What's the matter?"
She said, "The life is leaving the leaf."
I said, "Correctly." I said, "When was it its prettiest?"
She said, "Right now."
I said, "In its death... Amen. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints, seeing them old saints come down to the end, to the last moment."

L-26 When mama couldn't speak no more, I said, "Mama," Okay if you can... I...?... I said, "as your preacher boy, I want to ask you, what does Christ mean to you?"
And she'd say, "All in all, All in all. He's dearer now then ever."
And when she couldn't speak no more, I'd say, "Mama, you can't speak no more. You're going now just in a few minutes. I want to commit your soul to God, standing here. Mama, if you can't speak to me now, if Christ still means everything to you, when you're now fixing to die, if you can't speak, bat your eyes." And she'd bat her eyes up and down--and went off to meet God.
Oh, my, my. Precious in the sight of the Lord, that beautiful testimony, when Satan standing there, say, "I'll make Bill and Delores and them turn their back upon You. Let me have her and torture her a little." But, oh, my, see that old saint holding right out up to that end and going to meet God, just like a leaf going.

L-27 I'm looking at a precious friend of mine setting over here, formerly a Jehovah Witness. And he's--name's Banks Wood, and he's my neighbor. And he come, not...
Sometime when he first come, he and his wife, they had a boy that had polio. And he was at the Texas meeting. First at Louisville, where he saw a girl (turning to chalk, or stone it was) was healed, running up and down steps, amazed all the doctors and everything. They brought their polioed boy to Texas. There's where the Angel of the Lord had His picture taken, the Pillar of Fire.
And then, after there I went to Norway and Sweden, come back. I was up into Ohio. They brought the boy up there, not knowing then.
One night the Holy Spirit spoke and said, "The little boy with the yellow shirt on back there is healed. THUS SAITH THE LORD." And that moment the Holy Spirit came down, straightened out that crooked leg, just perfect in...?... Is David in the--in the building tonight? No, he went home, didn't he? This is his father. Raise up your hand, Banks. His mother's setting here somewhere. Where are you, Sister Wood? There they are as a witness.


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