<TITLE>10. Par 120-127</TITLE>L-120   I called the wife, the night going through, and she said, "Honey, tomorrow I've got to go to the--the doctor's again, for an examination." And she says, "Bill, I haven't been able to move my left leg, this week. It's sticking plum through my dress." Out like this, was swollen out, growing fast. And said, "It's so sore, I can't even put my hands out." Said, "This week I've just had to put one leg out, at a time, and move like that."

L-121 And I said, "Honey, he is going to want to take it out." And I said, "If he does, it will be right through Christmas time; we can't come back here, back home."
And she said, "I know it." She said, "Well, what must we do?"

L-122 I said, "Well, just tell him, if he'd 'just let it go till after Christmas.' Then we'll have it taken out, immediately after Christmas. Cause, I want you to come back home again before you go to the hospital."

L-123 And now she said, "Now, I'm going tomorrow, about three o'clock," something like that. And that would be different in our time. She said, "You'll have your first service then in Shreveport, then you call me, afterwards."
I said, "All right."

L-124   A lady friend down there, a very fine Christian woman. They was here Sunday, I don't think they are tonight. They'll come up. Norman, a Mrs. Norman. Would you be here, Mr. and Mrs. Norman? I don't know whether they're here, or not, Brother and Sister Norman, from Tucson. She was the one who... I think they can't come every night, so she'll be here tomorrow night, I suppose. Is there a brother, Sister Norman's brother here? I think he come. Is he here? There's... The family, any of the family here, the Norm-...? Oh, yes, sure. There they are, back in the back. Yeah. All right. She taken the wife over.

L-125 Now the morning that I left, at our home, we always had to get up, and when we would go to pray; when we'd leave, we'd take the children and all of us, stand around towards the picture of Jesus, in our front room, Hofmann's Head of Christ at Thirty-three. And we would all gather round there, the children, and each one of them would pray for me. The wife would pray for me, and then I pray for her. Then I'd go overseas, wherever it is. And we commit ourselves to the Lord, for His service.

L-126   You know, I lost a wife, once, when I was a boy, Billy's mother. And I had been there in the house for two or three days, and, you know, the kiddies and everybody there, and everybody gone then. It was lonesome. It brought back all those memories.

L-127 And that morning, early, I got up, Billy and Loyce there was waiting for me. And I knelt down, and pulled this little old stool along, little ottoman. Knelt down, looked up, and I said, "Oh, how I miss them!" I said, "Heavenly Father, I'm on my road now to Shreveport. I pray You'll help me down there. And bless me, give me souls, Lord, for Your Kingdom. Use me in any way You wish. I'm in Your hands." I said, "Way across the deserts, is my faithful little wife, waiting this morning. She is going up there, for get ready for that operation." I said, "Lord, I told her, last night, 'Ask the doctor to put it off till after Christmas.' Did I do wrong? Would that turn malignant? If I did that, and asked her to beg that doctor, 'turn off,' and, between that time, it would go malignant and I'd lose her, I would never forgive myself for that."


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