<TITLE>18. Par 240-254</TITLE>L-240   I come home, went out at the funeral home, picked out the clothes. Oh, you know how it is. You've had to do the same thing. The kids all crying, one down in one place; one, another. I said, "Mama was the hitch-post. We'll never be the same no more." Doc and his family in this corner. Jesse and his family in that corner. We just buried Howard, recently. I said, "Well, we're gone, boys." I said, "We'll... We won't come to see one another. Mama was our stay." I said, "We won't see one another, no much more now."

L-241   I went up home, nighttime, after we got her clothes picked out. I went up home.

L-242 Mrs. Domico, anybody know her, from Chicago? Been a very dear friend of the campaign. She had give me a Bible. (Excuse me.) And it was one of those red-letter Bibles with a zipper on it. And somebody, when I preached that sermon, The Lamb And Dove, they had sent me two doves, as a holder. Another brother of mine, Brother Norman, had sent me a little dove. And a lamb, and Brother Borders give me the lamb. I picked up the Bible. Meda was over in one corner, crying.

L-243   And all you Business Men here know, when I was in Jamaica, seen my mother-in-law, told you at the table out there in Jamaica. I said, "Someone of my people is dying, that hasn't got any teeth. I see them going." Right at the table, Demos Shakarian and all of them setting there. Few hours from then, my mother-in-law just almost dropped dead, one time, see, no teeth, just exactly.

L-244 I said, "I seen a young man spit blood." I called, said, "Don't let Billy..."

L-245 Is anybody here was at the--the Jamaica meeting over there at that time at--at Jamaica? Can't see. Yeah. There is two. So then...

L-246 And I said, "It must... Billy, don't you go up there. I seen a young fellow spit blood." And it was my brother-in-law. He went, had a hemorrhage when his mother died. It just throwed him in such a shock.

L-247   Then standing here that day, I picked up this Bible. I said, "Father, I don't know. Maybe just Your love, You didn't show me her going. But I'm so broke up, God. Will You just give me some word of comfort out of Your Word?" I said, "Let me just read something that's comfort, comforting to me." I just let the Bible open up like that. There it was, big red letters, "She is not dead, but sleepeth." And I went in the room. We went to sleep.

L-248   About eight o'clock, next morning, got up. They was going to have her fixed up, along about noon, so we go down and see her. Meda went out to get the children's breakfast, and little Joe crying. Becky in one corner, still crying, "Will I ever see grandma again?"

L-249 I said, "Yes. Yes. You'll see her. She's just across, went upstairs." I said, "She, we'll see her again." And she loved them little kiddies, you know.

L-250 And, so, and they was all crying, "Can we see grandma this afternoon?"

L-251 I said, "You can see the body she lived in, but grandma has gone up to be with your other grandmother, them up in Heaven."

L-252 And Joe couldn't understand it, my little boy, you know. He just couldn't understand it. He said, "Then will grandma come back down tonight?"

L-253 And I said, "No, no. I don't know when she'll come back. When Jesus comes, she'll come back."

L-254   I was standing there. And I turned around, walk in the room. And when I did... Don't ask me to explain it. There's no way to explain it. I seen myself standing out there, just the same as I look across this audience. And I was leading songs. I never did that. I can't even sing, at all. So, and there was a great, mammoth crowd of people.


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