<TITLE>08. Par 78-97</TITLE>L-78 But, one by one, each one of them passing by, to say "hello" to him, the Holy Spirit would catch them and tell them things, and then they'd come in. And then they'd go tell some other. Then he'd come, It'd tell him something, then he'd come. And that's the way the whole family come into Christ. And so when we got the... out of the...

L-79   He got out of the truck, and he said to the man. He said, "Are you Jim Woods' son?"
He said, "Yes."

L-80 Said, "Jim Woods is an honest man. Yes, sir. Help yourself. Hunt where you want to."

L-81 He said, "Thank you." Said, "I brought my pastor along with me."

L-82 He said, "Woods, you don't mean you've got low-down enough to have to carry a preacher with you wherever you go?"

L-83   I thought it was about time for me to get out. So I got out of the truck, and I walked around. Oh, my! (You brethren hunt. My hunting partners, I know you're in here.) And how bloody and dirty, and whiskers about that long, you know; hadn't had a bath for two weeks, and, oh! So I got out of the truck and sidled over. And he looked me up-and-down, two or three times. I guess he thought, "Some preacher!"
I said, "How do you do?"
And he said, "How do you do?"

L-84 And so Mr. Wood started to introduce me as who I, my... his pastor. And he said...

L-85 'Fore he got a chance to do it, the old man said, "Well," he said, "I tell you right now." He said, "I'm--I'm supposed to be an infidel. I haven't got much use for you guys, call yourself preachers."
I said, "Yes, sir. All right." I said, "That's to opinion."
And he said, "Well, you know, I'm an infidel."

L-86 I said, "Don't believe that'd be worth bragging about. Do you think so?"
He said, "Well, I reckon not."

L-87 So I said, I thought in my heart, "Lord, if You ever help me, You do now."

L-88 So the other old man setting there, he never said nothing. The old slouch hats, I don't know what... You know what it is, sewed up with twine cord, you know. And so they set there a little bit.

L-89 And so he said, "You know what I got against you fellows? You're barking up the wrong tree."

L-90 How many knows what that means, "barking up the wrong tree"? That's a lying dog, you know, that barks up the wrong tree. The game is done gone from there. There ain't nothing up there. See?

L-91 So he said, "You fellows are barking up a tree. There's nothing up there," in other words. "You're talking about God, and there is no such a thing as God."
"Well," I said, "of course, we believe that."
He said, "Well, you might, but I don't."
I said, "Well, that's all right."

L-92   And he said, "You see that old chimney up there on the hill?"
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-93 Said, "I was born up there." And said, "My dad built this place down here. We moved down when I was about sixteen years old. After the death of my father, I took the place. I've raised my family. I've been here seventy-six or seventy-eight, or something like that, years." He said, "I've looked constantly, every day, through the skies. I've looked all over the woods. I've looked all over the ground. And I haven't never seen anything that looks like a God."
I said, "Well, that's too bad."

L-94 And he said, "That's the reason I think that you fellows are barking up the wrong tree."

L-95 I said, "Yes, sir." And then something happened. I looked up to the tree. I looked down, and there was apples laying on the tree. I said, "You mind if I have one of them apples?"

L-96 He said, "Help yourself. The yellow jackets are eating them up." You know what yellow jackets is, I'm sure.

L-97 So I--I got down, and got a hold of one of the apples, and rubbed it on my trouser leg, you know. And I took a bite. I said, "That's a dandy apple."
He said, "Yes, that's a good one."
I said, "How old is that tree?"


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