<TITLE>05. Par 46-55</TITLE>L-46   I was a little Baptist preacher, I used to think God called me to be the defender of the Word. See? He was defend the--the faith. One day I was over in St. Louis, Missouri, and I went into a tent meeting, and I run into a Robert Daugherty. He's a Pentecostal preacher. I set up on the platform with him. Man, that man preached till he'd get blue in the face, and buckle his knees together, and catch his breath. You could hear him for two city blocks. And come back up preaching. Then somebody say, "Are you a preacher?"

L-47 I said "No. sir." I get amongst the Pentecostal people; I don't say much about being a preacher. I was with that like it was with the horse. See? I just say, "No. The Lord called me to pray for His sick children." So I... See?
So we are--we are happy to be here this morning, in this.

L-48   While we're on the thought of riding; I love outdoors. That's where I found God. And I used to herd quite a bit, Colorado, go up there. Now, I usually ride the roundups, and so forth. We had the... up on Troublesome River. Now, many time I've stood there by the side of the gate, when we was having the roundup, spring roundup send the cattle up. The Hereford Association grazes the valley. Raise two ton of hay; you have a right, or your ranch, to put a cow on the forest. And some of them has hundreds of head, 'cause they got where they can irrigate down there. They have that wild meadow. And then of a...

L-49 Every spring, when they run them cattle up on the forest up there, the--the ranger stands there and counts those cattle, and watches the brands. They're, each one, branded. The little group that I worked for didn't have too many, about hundred and fifty, two hundred head, a little tripod brand. And Grimes, the Bar, Diamond Bar, had about fifteen hundred head.

L-50   But there's one thing I always noticed, when standing there. After we got the cattle up there, and the ranger stood in the drift fence. That's to keep the cattle from getting on private property again. I used to set there and put my leg around the horn of the saddle and watch that ranger. And he'd watch them cattle coming through, stand there. Every cow went through, you had to inspect. You notice, he didn't pay much attention to the brand that was on them. But there's one thing he really watched, that was for the blood tag. See? Because, you can't put nothing in there on account of the breed, keep the--the line of breed right. See? Nothing but a genuine Hereford could enter that park; that park, nothing but a Hereford. Had to have a blood tag, to show that it was examined. And it had the blood tag, to show it was a Hereford.

L-51 I think that's the way the great roundup will be. He won't ask us whether we were Assemblies, or whether we were Foursquare. He's going to look for that Blood tag, no matter about our brand. We'll watch for the Blood tag. "I see the Blood."

L-52 I, I'm so glad to be associated with such people as that this morning. The Lord bless you real richly now. I set and talk to you; my time would get away.

L-53   I want to read a Word of the Lord, because no service is complete without the reading of the Word. Now let's turn over in the Scriptures here with just a few thoughts I had lined out.

L-54 Used to be, I could think of the things that I was going to say, without even writing a note. But since I've passed twenty-five, the second time, I can't think of it like I used to. So I have to kind of make a note, write down my text, what I'm going to say, and think of it. Then I think too, little more.

L-55 I was a kid then. I just splattered, like shooting a shotgun. See? But now you got to zero it. People come to hear me because I was just a boy preacher. This is thirty-three years behind the pulpit for me. But now I meet great men, like I'm setting before this morning. You've got to hit the target. It's got to be the Word.


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