<TITLE>03. Par 19-28</TITLE>L-19   I remember an experience I had with one, one time. I was state game warden in Indiana, and I had been out in the field; and I heard something, the most pitiful cry. And it was a--a little lamb, had--had lost his mama. And he couldn't find his way to her, and the mother couldn't find her way to the--to the little lamb. I picked the little fellow up, and how quiet he laid against me. I went along there, my hands holding the little fellow. And crying, and--and I heard him. How he just snugg'ed his little head down against me and it seemed like he knew that I--I--I was going to help him.

L-20 I thought, "O Rock of Ages, cleft for me, pick me up in the arms of the Lord Jesus, just be content as I know I'm--I'm going to go Home to be with my loved ones." I thought, "At the end of my life's journey, just bring me in Your arms, Lord, like that. That I know I'll be carried across the river then, there on the other side where there'll be no sorrows and sicknesses, and things, and I'll be with the loved ones that I've loved."

L-21   And if you'll study nature, there's a great thing in nature. Everything that I--that I look at, and God has made, He's the Author of nature. Nature runs in continuity. All nature runs about the same. You notice, everything... As I have said, I believe last evening, that "Nature testifies of God." If you never had a Bible, you could still watch nature and know that this Bible is the Truth.

L-22 I--I had the privilege of being around and around the world. And I've read the different phases, and I've seen different religions; the Mohammedans, and I've read the Koran, and--and seen the Sikhs, the Jains, and Mohammedans, and the Buddhists, and whatmore. But yet, each one of them, they have a philosophy and a--a--a--a book of creed and a book of laws, and so forth. But our Bible is the Truth, and our God is the only One that is right; 'cause each one of them has to point to a grave somewhere where their founder is still laying, but Christianity points to an open tomb and can live in the Presence of the One that was put in there. He is alive! It's not a God that was, It's a God that is. Not a "I was" or "I will be," but "I AM."

L-23   And all nature runs in continuity, as I have said, talking on our Church Ages (which we have the books now that's coming out). The... Why did I... about my writing of the Church Ages. And how that we see the Church, how It's matured, come up just exactly like all nature does.

L-24 And we was talking the other day about how the sun rises in the morning, it's a little baby, real weak, not much strength to it at all. And as the day goes on, it gets stronger, stronger. About eight o'clock it enters school, like a young boy or young girl. And then about eleven o'clock it's out of school, and it's ready for its--its service. And then across till about three o'clock it changes, in the middle life into old age. And then dies in the afternoon. Is that the end of the sun? No. It comes back the next morning, to testify that there is a life, a death, a burial, a resurrection. See? See?

L-25   We watch the trees, how they move and what they do. I was sometime ago down in Kentucky, I--I like to squirrel hunt, and I went down in the fall of the year there to squirrel hunt with a friend of mine. And it's... got very dry.

L-26 And anyone ever hunted gray squirrel, know that how hard it is to slip up on them. When, the--the leaves, just crack one, and, oh, Houdini is an amateur escape artist to--to those fellows, how they can get away! And then trying to shoot eye shots at fifty yards, it takes some good hunting to get your limit in a day.

L-27   So, Mr. Wood, a friend of mine, a--a converted Jehovah Witness, was with me. And we... He said, "I know a farm over here where there's a man that's got a lot of..." We call them there, "hollars."

L-28 How many know what a hollar is? Well, what part of Kentucky you from, anyhow? See? And that's where I am from.


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