Passing by there, there was a whirl of wind in the tree, what we call here a whirlwind. Why, it was nothing odd for that time of year in this part of the country. But it remained in the tree. It didn’t leave. I stopped to see what it was. And a Voice spoke from It, saying, “Do not never smoke, or drink, or defile your body in any way, for there’ll be a work for you to do when you get older.” Frightened? That’s not a word for it. I ran home quickly, telling my mother that a Man spoke to me out of a tree. Well, she thought I was nervous. She put me to bed. But from then on, visions begin to come. And when this comes upon me, it produces a vision. I’m able to tell people what’s wrong with them, and what they must do in life, and the sins that they are holding back in their life. At the age of thirty-seven, one night I was praying in my room, and when I’d raised up, I noticed there was a Light on the floor. And looking around to see where it come from, It was coming from above. The Pillar of Fire was hanging just above, and was throwing the Light on the floor. I heard someone walking. I looked; coming through the room, coming into this Light, came a man. In human figure He’d be about two hundred pounds of weight. He had dark hair to His shoulder, an olive complexion. He was bare-footed.

The Twentieth-Century Prophet, Unknown Date, Jeffersonville, IN, §5