<TITLE>24. Par 252-260</TITLE>L-252 How many knows what an old lamp is, and old chimney? You know, that was the big old moon, and owl on the side. They used to have the littlest hand in the house, have to clean that old churn, you know. I used to have to take an old splasher, and it'd all splash over me; so I took that lamp chimney and turned it over there, to keep it from splashing. Yes, indeed.

L-253   Now, my grandpa was a trapper. My mother's mother come from the reservations. He married an Indian girl from the Cherokee reservations there in Kentucky and Tennessee, you know where, the Cherokee valley. And, they, he--he hunted and trapped, all the time, that was--that was the way he made his living.

L-254 And us kids laying up there, why, sometimes it get real cold. And that breeze coming through there, we would get cold in our eyes, and--and our eyes would stick shut at night, you know. Mama called it "matter." I don't--I don't know what that is, but a cold would get in your eyes, and it'd get cold. And she'd say, "You got matter in your eyes," because of the--of the, you know, the breeze circling through there, the draft come across at night. Our eyes would swell shut.

L-255   And mama would get there at the ladder, in the morning, when she got the biscuits made. She would have the sorghum molasses setting on the table. And she would say, "Billy!"
I'd say, "Yes, mama?"
"You and Edward come on down."

L-256 "Mama, I can't see!" I called my brother, we called him, "Humpy." I said, "He can't see, either. See, our eyes had got matter in them."
She would say, "All right, just a minute."

L-257 And grandpa, when he'd catch a coon. How many knows what a raccoon is? That's what, and she'd... He'd catch a coon, he'd get the fat off of it and put it in a can. And that coon grease was a cure-all in our family. They'd give it to us for a bad cold, with turpentine on it, and coal oil. We'd swallow it for a sore throat. Then get that coon grease hot, she would come and massage our eyes, and our eyes would come open. See, it was coon grease that did it. See?

L-258   Now, brother, sister, we've went through a cold spell, in the church. That's right, a lot of religious draft has come through, everybody has caught cold. A lot of people has got their eyes all closed up, and there is a big World Council of Churches coming up, up here, is going to force every one of you into it. They are getting away from that Word, our own groups are. I am duty bound to a Message; not to be different, but because of love. Love is corrective. Come back! Stay away from that thing! You ministering brothers, I don't care what your groups does, stay away from it! Stay out of it! It's the mark of the beast, stay away from it! See, Jesus is knocking in this Laodicea age. See where they put Him out? He is trying to get to individuals, not--not organizations and groups of people. He is trying to get one here, and one there, and one there, trying. "All that I love, I chasten."

L-259   As the little brother had the vision here, and said he had the vision. And said, "This same Light that you receive, cause your death, too." See?

L-260 "As many as I love, I chasten; be zealous, and return. I stand at the door, and knocking." Now, look, coon grease won't do this any good.
But there is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
Where sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
That dying thief rejoiced to see
That Fountain in his day;
There may I, though vile as he...


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