<TITLE>10. Par 111-124</TITLE>L-111 And said, "This preacher turned around to her, and told her, said, 'You know, you, lady setting back there, you are So-and-so. And tonight when you left home, you put a little handkerchief in your pocketbook, with a blue figure in the corner of it.' Said, 'And you've got a sister named So-and-so.' And said, 'She is dying with cancer of the stomach.' I've just saw it in a vision. Now, take that handkerchief, and go lay it on her. And, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, she'll be made well.'"

L-112 He said, "And the lady... That night, we heard the awfullest noise, up on the hill. I thought they had the Salvation Army up there," he said, "about midnight. And we thought the old lady died."

L-113 And he said, "You know what? Me and my wife went up the next day, to see if we could offer comfort, early in the morning. And there she set at the table, with the coffee pot, just pouring coffee, and her and her husband was eating half-moon fried apple pies for breakfast." I said...

L-114   How many knows what the half-moon apple pies are? You know, I'm at home now. That was just... I love them, and I like sorghum molasses on them. And I've looked all over this place for sorghum molasses. And if I get back here again, I'm just going to bring me a bucket, 'cause I just can't hardly get along without it. And you know, I--I use a lot of them, 'cause I'm kind of a Baptist, you know. I--I--I don't believe in sprinkling them cakes. I just baptize them all over, real good. And I... So I pour the molasses on them, heavy.
So then he said, "She was eating that." I said...
I thought, "This is it."
I said, "Now, you don't mean that."

L-115 "Well," he said, "go right up there and see for yourself." Said, "That's been two years ago." And said, "She don't only do her own work; she does the neighbor's work." Now, see, he was preaching to me then.

L-116 You know, my mama used to say, "Give the cow enough rope, it'll hang itself." So that's about right. He got his own foot in his own mouth, that time, when he said--he said, "Go up there and look."

L-117 I said, "Now, look, sir. You mean the doctors cut that woman open and found her with cancer?"
"That's right."

L-118 And I said, "And sewed her up? And then you mean to tell me that man over there, fifteen miles from here, saw that woman and told exactly what would happen when they laid the handkerchief on? And that woman got over that cancer?"
Said, "Go right up there. I'll tell you how to get there."

L-119 I said, "No, no. I'm taking your word." I said, "I'm taking your word." I said, "Yes, sir. Yeah."

L-120   I was eating this apple, you know, all the time, chewing it. I said, "That's a fine apple." I said, "I want to ask you a question. What made that sap leave the tree and go down into the roots?"

L-121 "Why," he said, "it had to, to preserve its life for the winter."

L-122 I said, "Then next spring it comes back, bringing you another bunch of apples?"
"Right."

L-123 And I said, "Now I want to ask you something. What intelligence runs that sap, say, 'Here, it's fall. Go back down in the roots and hide. If you don't, the winter will kill you. Go back down into the roots and stay there till spring. And then when it warms up and gets just right, now come back up and bring up some more apples for this fellow'? Now, you know that's botany life. It has no intelligence of its own. Then, tell me what intelligence sends that life down into the root of that tree. It has no intelligence of its own."
He said, "That's just nature."

L-124 I said, "Then take a bucket of water, and set it on that post out there, and see if nature will run it down in the fall of the year, and bring it back in the spring. See? No, sir. What is it?"


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