<TITLE>13. Par 135-142</TITLE>L-135   And he sat there, and he thought, "She said, 'He was a prophet.' All these things, 'He could think the thoughts of the people's hearts, and reveal it to them, and tell them what was wrong with them.' And, oh, this thing about 'Nathanael, come and told him he was under a tree out there.' You know, I ain't going to take no chances. I'm going to cover myself up, up here in the tree. So I'm in a tree, too. And so I don't believe He is a prophet, though. I just don't believe it, 'cause my priest tells me there is no such a thing as prophets. We haven't had them for hundreds of years."

L-136   So now, of course, you realize I'm giving a drama here, to make a point.

L-137 So he gets all the limbs and pulls them in around him, all around, disguised himself real good. Said, "Now when He comes up Hallelujah Avenue, from Hallelujah, turns to Glory. So right here on the corner, when He comes up that way, when He turns the corner, I'm going to leave me one big leaf here, so I can look out and see Him. I'll raise it up. He'll never see me, not up here. And then when He comes by, and I get a good look at Him, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to pull these branches back, and after He comes by here, and I'm going to give Him a piece of my mind. I'm going to tell Him about it." So he sit there a little while.

L-138   After a while he heard a noise coming. Usually Jesus comes with those noises. So here He comes around the corner. So, he, what's the first thing he finds? A bunch of people gathering around the streets. He said, "I'm glad I'm up here in this tree, so I won't get mixed up with them again." So here he is up here in the tree, sitting there, all camouflaged all over, so nobody would recognize him, his competitors won't know he is up in the tree now. So he has just got this one leaf he'll raise up and look out, and put it back down again, and the rest of him is all covered over. So he raised up the leaf, and the people are gathering on the corners.

L-139 And, you know, here come Mr. Jones out with that sick child. When he heard that the--the priest and the doctor, right in his own restaurant, discussing it the other day, that, "That child was dying, had a fever that the doctor tried to break, and there was nothing would break it. And that child must never move from that house. But here, that," his own customer, "has become such a fanatic till they brought that child out in that cool March wind. And here they had it wrapped up in a blanket, a little girl of about ten years old. What a fanatic! When he enters my restaurant again, that child will be dead, of course; I'll tell him, I'll give him a piece of my mind!"

L-140   After a while the noise gets more and more, and all of them run out in the street. The first thing come around the corner of Hallelujah Avenue, to Glory corner; as they come around the street, we find, is a great big burly bald-headed fisherman, by the name of Simon, saying, "Would you please step aside, folks?" Here was eleven more behind him, saying, "If you will, please, step aside. Our Master was in a great service last evening, and--and virtue went from Him, and great visions taken place. And He is tired this morning, and He's--He's--He's going to breakfast. Would you please just step aside, kindly?"

L-141 And here goes the Jones family out, with this baby. And the big fisherman and many of them, said, "Step back, would you, please." "Well, we've got a baby here that just simply it's going to die. The doctors has give it up. Would you please let us just as much as lay the baby..."

L-142 "I'm sorry. They'll all want to do that, so I--I just can't do it. You'll have to stand out, aside there. He is coming just right now. Would you please step out?"


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