One rainy day, Brother Gov decided to explore his cave…he’d gone back some two hundred yards or so when he discovered a natural spring…the coolest, most refreshing water he’d ever tasted…drinking that water was almost a spiritual experience…
“I can’t keep this for myself”, he thought…“I’ve got to share it with the world”…
He went to the old ‘Gunsmoke’ set, and borrowed a buckboard wagon and Ruth [very Biblical name], Festus’s mule, and then stopped at the local bottling plant and bought all the cheap plastic bottles he could carry…he filled them with the cave’s spring water, loaded them onto his wagon, put his Bible under the seat for good measure, and went out into the world to share his treasure…
In the first town he came to, he set up in a shopping center parking lot, and was almost totally ignored…a youngster, perhaps one of his second-graders, told him that he’d never attract anyone without a big sign…he went to the hardware store there, bought all he needed to make the sign, painted it, and attached it to his wagon…
The sign read “Brother Gov’s Travelling Salvation Show”, and he was sued by Neil Diamond before he could give away his first bottle of water…