<TITLE>08. Par 85-95</TITLE>L-85 He said, "No." He said, "I don't believe in going." He said, "There was one fellow, one time, that come in here about two years ago from Indiana, had a place over here. They had a meeting at the Methodist campgrounds." Said, "I forget the guy's name." And said, "If I ever meet him, I want to talk to him."
I said, "Yes?"

L-86   And Brother Wood started to say... And I... Cow was at the end of the rope, so he don't want to discuss It. I said... Standing there, whiskers on my face, about that long, just bloody all over, and hadn't had a bath in two weeks, and so you know.
I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "What about it?"

L-87 He said, "Well, we got an old lady lives up here on the ridge, by the name of something." And said, "She was dying with cancer." Said, "Her, we had her out to Louisville, to the cancer specialist, and they tried to operate. It was in the stomach." And said, "She was so wound up, through her stomach and intestinal tract, they couldn't even wash her with an enema. And they just brought her home to die." And said, "She gotten so low till they couldn't put her on the bedpan no more; just had to use the draw sheet." Said, "Wife and I would go up, twice a day, and change her bed." And said, "She was dying."

L-88 And said, "This preacher was over here at Acton." And said, "He was there for two nights." And said, "Her sister lives down here, another creek, about thirty miles below. She went up there that night. And said, 'The man never was in this country before.' And said, 'He was standing on the platform, looked out across about fifteen hundred people. And said, "A--a lady there, by the name of such-and-such, when you left home tonight you put a little white handkerchief in your pocket, you got off of a marble-top dresser. And it's got a little blue working in the corner. You got a sister named So-and-so, that's dying with cancer. Go, take that handkerchief and put it on the sister. For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, she shall live."'"

L-89   And said, "About eleven o'clock in the night, I thought they had the Salvation Army up there on top the hill, of all the noise." And said, "I... Woke me up." Said, "I said to the wife, 'Well, she died. And so tomorrow morning I'll get my wagon to take her out.'" The only way you could get where she lived. You'd have to bring her out, to where you could get her to the car, with a wagon. "Said, 'I'll just wait till in the morning.' And said, 'We'll go get her, and bring her out.'"

L-90 Said, "The next morning, wife and I got up early, to go up there. And what did we find when we went in, but she was eating fried apple pies at the table, with her husband." And said, "She is up there now. She don't only do her own work, but she does her neighbor's work."
I thought, "Uh-oh, here it is!"
And I said, "Now, you don't believe that."

L-91 He said, "Well, if you don't believe it, you go up and see for yourself." He's preaching to me now.

L-92 "Why," I said, "in the day that when we got modern science, and doctors, and fine as we have, and you mean to tell me that some..."

L-93 "Well," said, "if you don't believe it, you go up there and ask her." Said, "There she is." Said, "Isn't that right, John?"

L-94 He said, "That's right." The other old man was a believer. He said, "That's right. She's right up there now. You can go ask her." Now, him preaching to me now, you see. So, well, that's all right.
So I said, "Well, what'd you say taken place?"

L-95 Said, "How I want to ask that man, how did he know that that was that woman up here? He never was in the country before. She was dying with cancer. How did he know she was dying with cancer? How did he know her name? And how did he know that was her sister? And how did he know that she was going to get well when that handkerchief was put on her?" Said, "I want to talk to him when I see him."
I said, "Oh, I hope you do."


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