<TITLE>12. Par 132-148</TITLE>L-132 And one of the boys had fixed me a sandwich, and I pulled it out, and it was really a sandwich; and me, raining and sweating, it was just a big lump of--of bread with some meat in, somewhere. Well, I--I was kind of hungry, so I ate it, anyhow. And I was standing there. And I buried the little piece of paper; so, an animal will see those things, and, anything that's civilization, they run and get away.

L-133 So I stood there a little bit, and I thought, "Well, I'll just go on."

L-134 I started on. And just as plain as you hear my voice, Something said, "Turn and go back where you come from."

L-135 "How could that be God telling me to walk into that deathtrap?" I stood there a minute, and I thought, "That's the same One that said about them squirrels."

L-136 The same One I told you about last night, about my wife; just a voice, just a human voice. The same One told me, when I was a little boy, "never drink or smoke," and these things would be in the last days. God, and me telling this with the Bible over my heart, what good would it do me to tell you something wrong and know that I'm sending my soul to hell? See? It's true. It's unusual, but it's true.

L-137   "Well," I thought, "I know enough to obey that Voice. Why would I... He has got some reason for me to go up there. Maybe it's my time to go."

L-138 So I turned, and making my way through the wilderness until I got up to that saddle again, way up, maybe three hundred yards, four hundred above, right straight up the mountain, like that again. And it was so thick up there then, I couldn't see nothing; the wind, and trees just laying over and twisting.

L-139 And I took my rifle, I had on a red shirt and a red cap, and I put the rifle, keep from smoking up the--the scope in it, because bear and stuff move in them kind of times, so does lion; and if I'd run into one, the scope all smoked up. And I just held it up like this, not against me, where it would smoke, but keep the fog out of it, and the wet from the snow. And I set down under a tree.

L-140   I was sitting there. I thought, "Well, why would He want me to come up here? I--I doubt very much I can find my way down now, the... getting so terrific." I could see about ten or fifteen feet, maybe, and hardly that far, sometimes not over five feet, and getting rougher all the time. Well, I--I thought, "Well, He said come back. All I know to do is set here." And the snow then about an inch, or inch and a half, maybe two inches, on the ground. It'd been about twenty or thirty minutes. And--and it was blowing so hard, it was blowing it away, too. And I just set there just a moment.

L-141 I heard a Voice. He said, "I am the God of Heaven, Who created the heavens and earth."

L-142 I jerked off my hat, cap, and I just set still. And I listened again. I thought, "That wasn't the wind." Oh, it was blowing, making noise.

L-143   And I heard It again. Said, "I am the One Who stilled the winds upon the mighty sea. I am the One, the Creator. I created squirrels in your presence. I did these things."
I said, "Yes, Lord. I believe You."

L-144 Said, "Stand on your feet." I stood up, to my feet. He said, "Now speak to the storm. It'll do what you tell it to do."

L-145 Now, that is true. I, when I meet you at the Judgment, I'll have all this to answer for. I thought He...

L-146 I said, "Storm, go to your place, stop. And, sun, you shine normally for four days."

L-147 And no more than I had said that, the sleet and hail, which was about to blow me down, just stopped. And within a moment or two, the sun was shining right down through, upon me. And I looked down across the mountains, I see a--a east wind come. The wind was coming from the west. East wind come, and was coming this way, and I could see the clouds just mysteriously... Where they went, I don't know.

L-148   And I stood there a few moments, tears running down through my beard, and them gray. I thought, "God, how, I don't know what to do."


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