<TITLE>06. Par 64-87</TITLE>L-64 He said, "Well, the yellow jackets are eating them up, I guess you can have one." And then... And now I said, "Well,..." I--I bite... bit into it, and I said, "That's a nice apple."

L-65 He said, "Oh, yes." Said, "You know what? I planted that tree there, oh, forty years ago, or something like that."
I said, "Oh, is that right?"
"Yes, sir."

L-66 And I said, "Well, and every year..." I said, "I notice we haven't had no frost yet, it's early August." And I said, "Them leaves are falling off the trees."

L-67 "Yes, sir. That's right, it's coming on fall. Believe we'll have a early one this time."

L-68   I said, "Yes, sir." Changed the subject, see. And he said... I said, "Well, you know, it's strange" I said, "how that sap goes out of that tree." I said, "And them leaves falls off, and yet there's no... they--they haven't had no frost to kill the leaf."

L-69 And he said, "Well," he said, "what's that got to do with what we're talking about?"

L-70 And I said, "Well, I--I just wonder." (You know, mama always said, "Give a cow enough rope and it'll hang itself, you know." So I just give him plenty of rope.)

L-71 So he went on out, and he said, "Well, yes, what's that got to do with it?"

L-72 I said, "You know, God brings them apples up, and you enjoy those apples and leaves, and you set in--in the shade and so forth. It goes down in the fall of the year and" I said, "comes back up again with the apples and with the leaves again."

L-73 And he said, "Oh, that's just nature. See, that's just nature."

L-74   I said, "Well, of course, that's nature." I said, "That's nature, but Somebody has to control nature." See, I... he said... "You tell me now what does that?"

L-75 And he said, "Well, it's just--just naturally nature."

L-76 I said, "Who is it that says to that little leaf now, and the...?" I said, "Now, the reason that leaf falls off, it's because the sap goes down into the root. And what if that sap stayed up in the tree through the wintertime? What would happen?"

L-77 Said, "It would kill the tree."

L-78 "Well," I said, "now, what intelligence that runs that sap down into the roots, says, 'Get out of here now, it's coming fall of the year, get down into the roots and hide'? And stay down into the roots like a grave; and then next spring comes back up again, brings up more apples, and brings up more leaves and things."

L-79 He said, "That's just nature, it'll do it." Said, "The weather! The changing, you know, coming on fall."

L-80 I said, "Set a bucket of water on the post out there, and see if nature runs it down the bottom of the post and brings it back up again. See?" See?
"Well," he said, "you might have something."
I said, "Think of it while we go hunting."
And he said, "Well," and he said, "hunt where you want to."

L-81 And I said, "When I come back, if you'll tell me what intelligence runs that sap out of that tree down into the roots and stay all winter and come back the next winter, I'll tell you that's the same Intelligence that told me about that woman up there."
Said, "Told you?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "You're not that preacher!"
I said, "Would you know his name?"
Said, "Yes."
I said, "Branham?"
He said, "That's him."
I said, "That--that's right." See?

L-82 And you know what? I led the old man to Christ, right there on his own testimony.

L-83   And a year later I was down there and pulled a car (Indiana license on it) in the yard. They had moved away, he had died. And so when I come back, there stood his wife to really rake me over; I thought I had permission to hunt. And she come out there, she said, "Can't you read?"

L-84 I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "Did you see those signs saying 'No Hunting!'?"

L-85 I said, "Yes, ma'am, but" I said, "I--I have permission."

L-86 "You do not have permission!" she said. And said, "We got this place--place posted for many years."

L-87 I said, "Well, sister, I--I was wrong then, I'm sorry."


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