<TITLE>10. Par 111-121</TITLE>L-111   Up in Colorado, usually I go up there hunting. And one fall... Another fellow and I hunt up there, and we separate. We was hunting elk, way high, until the snows come and run the elk down. They're really up around timberline, because they're a wild creature. And so we had taken a pack horse, apiece, and a saddle horse, and went up high. And--and Mr. Jeverz, the owner of the ranch, had went back over on one fork of the creek, about twenty miles, and I come this other way.

L-112   And in fall of the year, that way, they'll... You know, the sun will shine a while, and the rain a while; snow a while, rain again, and then sun come out. You know how it is.

L-113 And a storm came across the mountain. I was almost at timberline. And I had my saddle horse tied up, way down, ten, twelve miles below me, and I was hunting along, pretty dry, and there come a storm. And I got behind a bush, by a blow-down, and where the winds had blowed down some timbers, some hemlock. And so I was standing behind these trees until the--the winds passed. And storm turned cold. I stood there, about an hour and a half, I guess, and almost froze, and the wind blowing. And then, after while, it let up. And I kind of nodded, and got a little sleepy.

L-114   So I looked up, and when I did, I standing, looking around. And I seen the sun coming out, as it was setting. And up high there, where the rain had blowed through, had struck the evergreens, and had froze ice on them. And the sun was reflecting against that ice, and it made a rainbow. Oh, my! I could see God there. There is God, right there, in the rainbow of the covenant. I thought, "There is God up here, on top the mountain."

L-115 Then, after while, I heard the big bull elk. He had got lost in the storm. Bugling for the herd. I--I--I could hear God in that. An old wolf got to calling on the mountain, the mate answering it, down in the bottom. There is God in that. I always believed He lived up there. There He was in the sunset. There He was in the rainbow. There He was in the elk call. There He is in the wolf call. He's in nature, all around, everywhere.

L-116   And to my amazement, just across from me, on a stump, set a little pine squirrel. He's just like the Irishman's owl, "all fuss and feathers, and no owl," you know. And just little bitty fellow, setting all humped up, but he's the blue-coat policeman of the woods. When he hollers, all game will run. And here he was, setting there, chattering at me, just like he was going to tear me to pieces. And he wasn't that big. But he just jumping up-and-down. And I thought, "Don't get so excited, little fellow." And what had got him excited...

L-117 I--I got a little excited, myself, when I begin to see all those things. "God," I said, "oh, what a wonderful place to be!" I felt like Peter did, up on Mount Transfiguration, "'Let's build three tabernacles and stay here.'" And I--I got so full of the glory of God in my soul, I--I set my gun against the tree. And I was exploding, I guess. I run around, around the tree, hollering, "Praise God! Praise God!"

L-118   I had to give vent to something. And it didn't... The only pop-off valve I had, I guess. So I just... I don't know whether you ever felt that good or not. But you can do it, 'cause I've had the experience of it. I know it's right, when you can look out and see God all around you.

L-119 You don't smell no cigarette smoke up there, and there's no beer and stuff up there, and no half-dressed women. They're--they're--they're down in the Devil's dumps.

L-120 But this is up there where God lives. And so then, up there, running around, around, saying, "Thank You, Lord! I've seen that rainbow." I thought, "He's to look upon..."

L-121 In the 1st chapter of Revelation, John saw Him as a rainbow, as Alpha and Omega, oh, the Beginning and the End. With a covenant, that He would destroy the world no more. And then we got, in this, the New Testament is the covenant of His Blood.


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