<TITLE>05. Par 20-26</TITLE>L-20 Well, now, if you can't see this north star, and it's cloudy, then if you'll notice, if it's daytime and you're lost, if you'll watch the trees. The tree is always; the moss is on the north side of the tree, because the south side of the tree gets the sun more than the north side. But what if it's dark and you can't see the moss? If you'll close your eyes and don't try to do any thinking, close your eyes and get a slick-bark tree, put your hands around the tree like this till your fingers meet, and then start moving around that tree real slow. And when you hit a place where the bark is real thick, broke up, that's the north side (the winds), and you can tell which way you're heading, north or south. And that way, oh, there's many things, but it takes guides to know how to do those things. Just an ordinary man get up there and say, "I don't feel no difference in it." See? See, you've got to be trained for that guiding.

L-21 And these boys, no doubt that they were fine scouts; they might be able to tie knots; they might be able to make fires with rocks, and so forth like that. But to know your way out, that's the idea. They--they did not know the way out; so therefore, they all perished because they didn't take a guide with them.
An unthoughtful father, two years ago in Colorado, oh, he was going up into the mountains; he had a little boy about six, seven years old. He was going to take him on his first deer hunt. So they went high up on the mountain, and the little boy said to his daddy, "I'm getting tired."

L-23 "Get on my back. We're not high enough up yet, the deers are high." On and on and on went the man till he got... He didn't know; he was a city man. He didn't know nothing about how to hunt or where to go. Any man that knows anything about wilderness knows that deer don't stay up high. They don't go up there. Goats stay up there, not deer. They're down where they can feed; they got to get where there's something to eat. And so, but this man thought, "If I get way up in the rocks somewhere up there, I'll find a big buck." He had seen a picture of some standing upon--standing upon a rock, and he thought that's where he'd find him. Don't pay no attention to what them magazines read, my, oh, my, you'll have a nightmare. That... There's only thing to do, is take a guide where you know where you're at.

L-24 And that father, it come up a rain all at once up there, one of them quick rains that comes. And the man hunted too late, till it got dark and he couldn't find his way back. And the... Then the winds come across the top of the mountains, and he himself moving fast, and that's...
You have to know how to survive, if you're caught out. There's another thing, know how to survive. I've climbed up trees and slid down them, and climbed up trees and slide down, up and down like that, to keep alive. I've took snow when it would be four foot on each side, bust a stump and lay it down. And so hungry that I could hardly stand it, and bust up these old stumps, and light them and let it get hot and melt the snow down. And then about one o'clock in the morning, two o'clock, pull the stumps back, and lay down on that warm ground to keep alive. And you have to know how to do these things.

L-26 And this man didn't know what he was doing; he had nobody with him to direct him. And he held his own little son against his bosom until he felt him cool off and die. Unthoughtful: if he'd just took a guide with him, he could've brought him right back down the mountain regardless of what time it was. See? But he waited till it gets dark, then he couldn't see his way around.
That's the trouble with Christians today. They wait till the darkness settles over, then you find out that you've left without the Guide. The Guide...


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