<TITLE>11. Par 54-61</TITLE>L-54 A young lady come from a country church, and her father was an old fashion, shouting preacher, or a member of the church. And so she moved into the city, and she got all mixed up with the women down there, and got to acting like they did, and the fashions. And one day she was kind of ashamed for her papa and mama to come, or her father, rather, her mother was dead. So the old man, only thing he'd do, get up of a morning, eat his breakfast, and get the Bible, and read It, and cry and pray and shout all day long, and run up and down the room, and she was a little embarrassed about it. So then--then when the--all time through the night, if he got ahold of the Bible, started reading It, he'd raise up out of the bed and holler, "Glory to God. Hallelujah. Oh, glory to God," just stomp and cry half the night.

L-55 So one day she was going to entertain her church members to a little tea party like they always have, you know, so she didn't know what she was going to do with her dad. After all, it was her daddy. So she decided she'd put him up in the attic, and say, "Daddy, you don't want to be around where these women are, do you?"
Said, "No, I don't believe I want to do that."
She said, "Well, we're going to have the church women up here today, and we're going to have a little meeting, a little prayer meeting. So I--I tell you, dad, why don't you just go up in the attic?"
Said, "I just believe I'll do that."
So she said, "Read this nice book." And she gave him a geography, took his Bible away from him so he'd keep quiet. So knowed if he read the Bible, why, he would go to making a lot of noise up there. So he got up over them, you know, where they was having their party. So she give him the geography, said, "This is nice. You should read it, daddy, because it tells you all the truth about the world."
Well, he said, "I'll be glad to read that."
So he said, "Now, you go up there and keep real quiet till these women leave, and then I'll... You come back down and then you can do whatever you want to." He agreed to do it. So he goes upstairs, sets up there.

L-59 And they was all having their tea party, you know, talking about so-and-so, and you know how it goes, having all that big time. And about that time something cut loose upstairs, all the screaming and jumping, and the plaster falling. The old man running up and down through the attic just as hard as he could go, jumping up and down, and hollering, "Glory to God. Glory to God." The women didn't know what happened up there, what they had upstairs. So directly down the steps he come, hard as he could go.
She said, "Daddy, I give you a geography to read."
Said, "Yes, I know it. You know," said, "I was reading in this geography here where there's places in the sea that ain't got no bottom in it." And said, "I read over here in the Bible yesterday, He said He put my sins in the sea of forgetfulness. Glory to God....?... Said, "They're still going. They don't have an end; they just keep on going." That's right. And he was shouting about it. Well, that's right.

L-61 God puts our sins in the sea of forgetfulness, blots them out, and they're as if they never did happen. Oh, my. Then we stand by the grace of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord, pure and holy, just as holy as He was, because He doesn't see me when I come up there, He sees His Own Son. The only way He can see. Can't see me, because I'm in His Son (Yes, sir.), and He only sees His Son. Isn't that wonderful? We don't have to think about sins any more; it's all gone; it's under the Blood. Yes, sir. Don't have to worry about it any more; it's all out, and out of God's memory. He don't even remember it no more.


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