<TITLE>13. Par 127-138</TITLE>L-127 I think of myself. As a little old boy, I remember as... People call me today, "a woman-hater." The reason it was, is because I seen so much immorality out of women when I was a kid. I hated them. And I don't do that now, because I know there is some good ones. But I remember how it was so bad, so immoral. And I thought, "My, I--I'll never be around where people is at. I have no education, so I won't get any."

L-128   And a little old kid sitting there, not even a shirt on, with my coat pinned up like this, with a safety pin, and it real hot. And the teacher said, "William, aren't you hot with that coat on?"

L-129 I said, "No, ma'am, I'm a little bit chilly." And she made me go over to the stove and put some wood in the stove, and I liked to have burnt up. And I--I didn't have no shirt that whole season through.

L-130 And I thought, "If I could ever get the money, some time that I could get a little, get me a thirty-thirty rifle," I'd come out West here and live out here and hunt, for the rest of my life. I didn't want nothing to do with people. Just stay away, because they didn't like me, and--and I'd just stay away from them.

L-131 And then every time I'd go downtown, to talk to anybody, see some fellows on the street, I knew. I'd say, "Hello there, John, Jim! How are you?"
"Oh, hello."

L-132 See, they didn't want to talk to me, didn't want nothing to do with me, because of my daddy and them that made whiskey. And I--I didn't do that. It wasn't nothing I done. And I would have been that type.

L-133   But now I said to my wife, not long ago, "My wall is plastered with the best guns that can be bought." Oh, and I think of them old dirty clothes. Tonight I got two or three good suits. And no friends? I have to hide out in the wilderness, to keep away from people. What's the matter, is it because of my personality, is it because of my education? No. God, rich in mercy, saw me in that condition and He saved me.

L-134 I remember being led by the arms, as a blind man. I could not see. Everything in front of me was a blur; I would be blind the rest of my life. But God, rich in mercy, restored back my sight. I'm fifty-five years old, and still got good sight. God, rich in mercy, is the only thing that I can say.

L-135   Once the church had no provided way of healing. They had one, but they turned it down. But God, rich in mercy, has sent them a gift of Divine healing. That is the Holy Spirit among us, confirming the Word with signs following. God rich in mercy!

L-136 I have two or three pages here of these notes, but I ain't going to try to strike them, because I'm--I'm conscious that it's almost time to start that prayer line. But God rich in His mercy!

L-137 Many of you here tonight, the doctors turned you down. There is people sitting in them wheel chairs, they'll probably never come out of there. They are there to stay. Some of them, paralyzed in different ways, they (would never) couldn't come out, there is no way for them to come out. But God, rich in His mercy, has provided an atonement. Don't turn it down. Receive it. There is man out there with heart trouble, there is people with cancers, that the doctors can do nothing with. You are hopeless, helpless, in this world.

L-138   But God, rich in His mercy, has sent down the Holy Ghost, and right here now to confirm the Word, to prove that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Because we deserve it? Because God is rich in His mercy! Amen. Now that's the One, that's the Person, It's that Lord Jesus. He is not dead, but He has risen from the dead, and He is alive forevermore.


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