My Testimony

  (Reference:  Parables of the Deer Appendix A)

 

   “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience -- among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind… For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Ephesians 2:1–3 and 2:8–9

 

   It was the second day of the 1960 Wisconsin gun season. My dad and cousin Clifford were supposed to noisily walk through the “ash swamp,” in hopes of causing deer to flee toward my Uncle Johnny and me as we waited at two strategic locations.  But when we arrived at the east-west trail I was supposed to watch, someone was already there, even though it was on our property!

   We proceeded to Uncle Johnny’s stand and then I cut back to a point about 100 yards west of the trespasser on the same trail he was watching.  My dad and Clifford had barely begun their march through the “ash” swamp when I glimpsed a deer heading for Uncle Johnny.  The deer must have scented him, since it cut back toward me headi ...