<TITLE>13. Par 164-176</TITLE>L-164 The day that I got in Shreveport, which would be the day after that, when I got in Shreveport, she had to go for the examination. And so she went to the... Mrs. Norman was going, Sister Norman; all of you know her, the people that comes here to the Tabernacle. She was going with her, and to this specialist. And so she said, "Wait till you have your first night, at--at... and then come back." Cause, the difference, two hours in time. "Then call me when you come back, after the meeting, I'll tell you what I've got to do."
And I said, "All right." So, I went on.

L-165   And the next morning, before I left, I was going to get Billy and Loyce. They are both sitting present. And always...

L-166 We got an old stool there that Brother Palmer covered for us, here not long ago, and we always get around that stool and pray, whenever we're... Oh, Ottoman, like, you know, footstool. Whenever we get around there and pray, when I'm going on a meeting, we ask God to help us.

L-167 And I had been up there, a couple days, and I was--I was lonesome. The house; the kids gone, and her gone. You know, many of you know I had to go through that one time, go back to an empty house; only, I buried that wife, Hope. And now it all over again. And I got down, I thought, "Well, I'll pray and then go pick up Billy and Loyce, and go on."

L-168   So as I got down to pray, I said, "Lord, I miss them this morning, around here." I said, "I pray that You will help them and bless them. May we come back to this place again. And now," I said, "they're out there because that You sent me there on a vision, and You fulfilled it. Now I'm wanting to wait, to see what You're going to tell me to do next." I said, "I pray for... Be merciful to her." And I said, "Help me in the meeting down there." And then I kept... I said, "Lord, don't let it be malignant. And let that doctor wait till after the first of the year, to take it out. I--I just hate to see her..."

L-169 I said, "Lord, she didn't mean what she did that morning. She didn't mean that." I said, "Lord, not one time has she ever said one word about me going in the meetings, staying months, or whatever it was. Not one time has she ever opened her mouth about it. She has always sent my clothes to the cleaners, and washed my shirts, and had everything ready to go in the meeting. Then, she wonders how she can serve God."

L-170 You women, as you serve your husband, you serve God, of course.

L-171 "And now, and then when I come in, all tired and wore out, people coming from everywhere. I'd have to go out somewhere on a fishing trip, or a hunting trip. Why, many women would have blowed up at that. What'd she do? Got my hunting clothes ready for me to go; let me go." I said, "Lord, she didn't mean that." And I said, "She's had to be cut open three times, on account of she was caesarean." And I said I... "Lord, I--I hate to see her have to do it again."

L-172   And just then I heard something in the room. I looked up. And a Voice said, "Stand up." Said, "Now whatever you say, that's the way it'll be."

L-173 I waited just a minute. I said, "Before the doctor's hand shall touch her, the hand of God shall take the tumor away, and it won't even be found."

L-174 That settled it, to me. I never called her. We went right on, went and got Billy and Loyce, and went to Shreveport.

L-175 The next night I called her. She was happy. She said, "Bill, I want to tell you!"

L-176 Now here she is, and she can verify this. Had to hobble her way over there; went in the room with the nurse and Mrs. Norman, and put her clothes on for... the gown, for the examination. The doctor came out, and she could hardly get on the table; the tumor hanging up there, so big. And when she... The doctor come in and was talking to her. And he came over, to raise back the sheet to touch her, and, just before he touched her, it left.


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