<TITLE>07. Par 71-83</TITLE>L-71 Some time ago a famous, fine brother of mine, we were down at a--a... fishing at a place. I was come in, off the meetings, was resting. We had been fishing with snails, and we caught a nice mess of fish. And that night we was running our trot lines, and we run out of bait. Late in the afternoon, I went out to catch some little bluegills, these little bitty fellows. Can't... The big ones you could eat them, but this is just small bait fish. I flipped the line in, fly line, was catching them, putting them in a bucket.

L-72 And Something struck me, setting upon this boat. This boy had been a Jehovah Witness, and his brother had just got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, and so the two boys was with us. And as I was catching these fish, all of us, Something struck me. I said, "You know, there is going to be a resurrection of some life, like a little animal." Well, a little animal?

L-73   Now, many of you remember of the foregoing of the Word, that said, "There'd be a little boy would come back from the dead, had been struck by an automobile." Brother Jack Moore is with me tonight, who was over in Finland when that happened. See? Many of you here remember me telling it through here, see, told you to write it in your book. Notice.

L-74 And Brother Woods turned around, Brother Banks Woods, the one his boy was healed, with polio. And he turned and said to his brother, "You just watch. Something is fixing to happen." I kept on catching the fish, you see. So we baited up our lines with the fish.
That night we caught nothing.

L-75 The next morning I said, "There was some, quite a few, bluegill over there."

L-76 He said, "Say, by the way, didn't you say there was going to be some kind of resurrection of life?"
I said, "Yes."

L-77   I tell you, when I left home, they was... My little girl... We're kind of... You people can have them if you want them, now, see, but I'm scared of a cat. And so I--I just don't like that superstitious feeling you get around them. And so we don't have them around house, and--and I believe the cat can realize that I'm afraid of him. So, my father was afraid of cats. So, then, my little girls knowed not to have any cats around there. And the little...

L-78 My little girl walked down the lane with another little girl, and she come back, all sad-looking in the face, and she said, "Daddy?"
I said, "What do you want, honey?"
She said, "A horrible thing has been done."
I said, "What is it?"
She said, "If you just only knew!"
I said, "Well, tell me."

L-79 She said, "Somebody has throwed out a poor old cat, down the lane here." And said, "The thing is about ready to die, can hardly walk." And said, "Daddy, do you mind if we feed it and take care of it?"

L-80 I said, "Certainly not. If you want to feed it, just be careful. Don't let it scratch you." I said, "Let me see the cat."

L-81 So when they brought the cat around, I got a box, and, course, the next morning we had a whole bunch of kittens.

L-82   And then, so, the little--the little boy of mine, when I was leaving, little Joseph, he was looking at them. Oh, he thought they were cute, you know, climbing around, you know. And--and so he gets one in his hand; he squeezed a little too tight, and he dropped it on the concrete. The little fellow begin turning around, around. I thought "Oh, my!"

L-83 And I thought, "Well, now, that may be that little old kitten, when I go back home." You remember the opossum case. I thought, "Well, it might be that kitten." So then we were setting back in a little cove, fishing, and we was catching these pretty-good-size bluegill then, throwing the small ones back.


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