<TITLE>13. Par 69-80</TITLE>L-69 And the other night he was stricken in such a place until he was so sick, and got so high in fever, and stuff. And the doctor had give him medicine, everything, and then it didn't do no good. And he even become to a place till he couldn't even move hisself anymore. His legs and things was, like, paralyzed.

L-70 And the poor little brother has been shot to pieces, with shrapnel from a eighty-eight, German eighty-eight. And it--it was just the... And I think all of his whole crew was killed, but him, and there he was blowed to pieces.

L-71 And you know what happened? I told his noble wife, Sister Roberson, to... She said... I said, "Got anything there?"

L-72 She said, "I got a handkerchief you once prayed over."

L-73 "Go get it." And I was in Tucson, and laid her hand upon that, and prayed and rebuked, and said, "Sister Roberson, it's going to be gone."

L-74 Just Something told me there, "It's going to be gone. Say it!" And within a half hour, the fever was gone; he was in the kitchen, hunting something to eat. See? See?

L-75 What I'm trying to say, "Don't never lose your confidence." Don't let Satan tell you evil about me; 'cause, there's much. But you keep that confidence; 'cause, if you don't, it won't happen. Don't look to me, as a man; I'm a man, I'm full of mistakes. But look to what I'm saying about Him. It's Him. He is the One.

L-76   As we were in Colorado, see, as we were up there, we went back. And it had been real dry. Game was scarce. Brother Wheeler, the Lord blessed him and gave him a--a fine trophy, and we was so happy about that. It was the first time he was ever in the woods hunting, and the Lord blessed him. And then I had shot a big trophy that I had looked for for twenty years, been watching him, Brother Banks and I been after him for a long time. And when I did... Shooting my rifle in down in the hot country, bringing it up into a cold, it swelled the stock, although it glass bedded. And it shot it several inches off, and hit the animal, standing between trees, where it oughtn't to hit him; lower than that, which would have humanely killed the animal in a second. But it hit him so high, it, he jumped, like he fell like that.

L-77   And Billy was with me, and he said, "That got him." And I thought it did, too; but when we went over there, it wasn't so. He said, "You hit a tree." I looked up and down, there was no mark on the tree. And then I went to searching for it.
And then there come a warning sign. There was practically a hundred men, just above us. And Brother Palmer and them is a witness of that. And Brother Evans, that's right, he was there; Brother Welch Evans and his boy, Ronnie. I believe I called them, a while ago. And great loads of men had went up above us, what they call the cow camp up there, where the cowboys stays and rides, keeps the cows separated. I used to stay in that camp myself and herd those cattle and keep them apart.

L-78   And then, so, in there, there was about a hundred men. But anyone knows, in that country, when a blizzard is forecast, you better get away right now. That's why Brother Palmer and them left early, because they only had a three-speed transmission in their car, and they had to get out of there; 'cause, weather, you're there, and you might stay for weeks. So they said, "There is a blizzard coming," the forecast, the papers, the radio. Load after load, practically everything from up around in there left out. They'd gone, right now, 'cause they knowed to get out of there.

L-79   But my brethren had two deer license, and they--they didn't want to go. So I--I said, "Well, we'll stay." But I had a meeting coming up, in about six days, and I had to go back to Tucson.

L-80 So, my little wife, I... we've been married twenty-two years. And twenty years, on our anniversary, I've been up there every time; just happens to hit there. So I--I got a little place I always walk out and pray, and it looked like a place where I had took her.


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