<TITLE>17. Par 107-116</TITLE>L-107 He's been My Guide through life. He's guided me unto Life. He was the One that led me to Life, and He is my Life. Without Him I have no Life. Without Him I want nothing else. He's all my All-in-All. In the hours of my trouble, He stands by me. Yesterday He blessed me, today they done the same. What can I expect? The same forever, praise His Name. Amen. Yes, sir. He promised it. He'll do it. He is my Life; He's my Guide, All-in-All. I've trusted Him. I've had some hard trials. I trust Him wherever I go. I want you to do it. If you go to wash, you women, trust Him. If you go downtown, trust Him.

L-108 I got one time where I thought that I was kind of a good woodsman, you know, hunted so much. I thought, "I'm just foolproof, nobody's going to... You couldn't lose me. My mom was a half Indian, and I loved that. Oh, my. Now, you can't lose me in the woods; I know where I'm at."
And off... My honeymoon, I kind of cheated a little bit on the wife; I told her, "You know, honey, it'd be a good thing for us to get married on October the twenty-third." 'Course, that's when the Lord told me to do it.
And I thought, "Now, for a little honeymoon. I saved up my money, and I'll take her over by Niagara Falls, and go over on the Adirondack and do a little hunting." See? So I took her and Billy; he was just a little bitty thing. And so I had to take her on a honeymoon, and it was on a hunting trip too, you know. So--so I thought that'd be a good thing to do. And so I took her up, and the...

L-111 I wrote to Mr. Denton, the ranger. And we was going up on Hurricane Mountain. And I said, "Mr. Denton, I'm coming up; I want to hunt some bear with you this fall."
And he said, "Okay, Billy, come on up." So he said, "I'll be up there on a certain-certain date." Well, wife and I got there a day early, and Billy, and so the cabin was locked up, and there was a little lean-to back up on the woods. Where Brother Fred Sothmann and I went not long ago and stood there... The Holy Spirit, I seen Him standing there, that yellow Light moving around in the bush, and Fred standing right there. He said, "Come aside, I want to speak to you. Tomorrow," said, "be careful; they set a trap for you." Said, "Be alert." Is that right, Brother Fred? And I went and told hundreds of people that night over in Vermont; I said, "There's a trap set for me; I'm going to see it. I don't know where it's at." And the very next night, there it come, there it was. Said, "Here's the trap that's set." Yes, sir. But the Holy Spirit led me in what to do. And, oh, my, that was just right. Oh, many of you know what it was. I haven't time to tell it.

L-114 But standing there at that place that time, it just begin to turn cold that day. Mr. Denton was coming up the next day. I said, "You know, honey, it'd be nice if I got a--a big buck to take home." I said, "We can. I had to save these pennies, and we just got married." And I said, "We'd get our winter's meat if I'd get a little hunt today."
And she said, "Well, go ahead, Billy." Said, "Now, you remember, I never was in these woods." She said she was about twenty-five miles up in the mountains, you know, and she said, "I don't know nothing about this." And she said, so I...

L-116 And I said, "Well now, you remember, it was two years ago I killed those three bear. That was right back over the top of the mountain over there." I said, "Now, I'll get a big buck and we'll get some bear," and I said, "we'll have our winter's meat in." Well, that sounded pretty good, you know. (And we picked blackberries, and got our coal for that--for that winter; and so then Billy sold them, and Meda and I picked them of an evening after I got off of my patrol.) So then I--I said, "Well, I'm going to pick up my rifle; I'm going down here." I said, "There's a lot of deer in here; I'll find one." And I said, "You know," I said, "then I'll get him." And I said, "Well... I'll be back in a little while."
She said, "Okay."


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