<TITLE>10. Par 113-122</TITLE>L-113 And it's waiting for this Council of Churches, when it unites, and the Protestants. If I speak Sunday morning, that's what I want... I mean Saturday morning, that's what I want to speak on, see, now. And then when this gets together, then the Spirit of God always raises a standard against them. See?
There is man setting here, tonight, who is a witness of this.

L-114   I was in Colorado, not long ago, this last fall. I go up there on hunting trips. And, as usually, I'm up there on my wedding anniversary. When wife and I got married, I--I had saved off my nickels and things, and from my work, and had them in a baking powder can. And I didn't have enough to take a honeymoon, and go hunting; so I just blended them together, and I took her on a hunting trip, for a honeymoon. So since then, I've, to my shame, I have never been home with her on our anniversary. I was in Colorado.

L-115   Last night I seen two or three ministers was here, that was with me up there in a camp, where I had to come down from Alaska and meet them, hunting. It was the Martin boys. They was here last night. I... They're here, right back there. And then that other little fellow, I forget his name, sitting... Were you there, too, sonny? That's right. And maybe is Brother Palmer here? I... And we were up in the mountains. And I'm a guide in Colorado, I've hunted in there for years.

L-116 And every time our anniversary, twenty-third of October, comes along... There's a little place where I taken the wife on our honeymoon, up in the Adirondack Mountains, and this place looks just like it, only that was... This is quaking asps up here, the little thicket, and up there it was birch. And I walk out there, on the twenty-third, some time through the day, take off my hat and thank the Lord for a good, loyal wife that's been loyal and be kind to me through these years, and has helped me, as I'll go to preach the Gospel.

L-117   And it's been awful dry in Colorado this year, as it has been across the country. And all at once there was... I suppose there was two hundred man ahead of us, or a hundred man, pardon me, about a hundred man ahead of us, up above the camps. And they had been shooting up there, for four or five days. And I had shot a deer, one that I had been hunting for years. And, but I... come a fog down, and I didn't get to see him; I couldn't find him. And I had been hunting for him that day.

L-118 And the next day, the phone or the... come in on the radio, "A blizzard coming, could dump twenty-feet of snow in these mountains overnight."

L-119 And so I said to the brethren. I called them in. The Martin boys was there also. I said, "Brethren, you hear what the news said. Now, if you want to get out, you better go right now, because it's going to be too late. You might stay here for a week. And I should go, because next Monday I've got a meeting, Christian businessmen, Full Gospel Business Men at the chapter at Tucson. However, you make your choice. If you want to stay, I'm your guide, I'll stay here with you."
Every one of them voted, "We'll stay. We'll stay."

L-120 The Martin boys, having a low-speed truck, or a high-speed truck, rather, they all... We had a couple of extra deer there, we give them to the Martin boys and them, and they went out; 'cause they wouldn't get out of there, that's all. So, they, they're setting here as a witness tonight.

L-121   And then the next day, I thought... Well, it didn't snow that day, the day they went out. I said, "I'm going to call the wife and tell her I'm thankful for her being a nice wife, and all. It's her anniversary. And then tomorrow I'll go up to the place, if we get up there, for the snow."

L-122 And so I--I went in, and I couldn't call her. I come back. And everybody in town getting ready, and the big blizzard was coming, and the paper said "could dump twenty-foot of snow in Colorado," that night.


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