Randy's Miracle!
The place was Abbeville, LA. The year was 1960 or 1961. The people were Ruth
and Olon Manning and grandson, Carl Randel Belcher. Olon worked for Ohio Oil
Company and they lived on the lease. Randy, about 8 or 9 years old, was
visiting them. Randy had heard his Daddy Pop tell about dropping a frog into
a crude oil tank and watching it. He decided that he wanted to do that. Ruth
and Olon were watching a TV program that they usually watched, when suddenly
Ruth wondered where Randy was.
 She started looking for him but couldn’t find
him. Then she spied him across the refinery lying over the top of a crude
oil tank. (It only takes 1 minute of breathing the fumes from crude oil
before you lose consciousness.) She ran as hard as she could praying as she
went with Olon with her. Sure enough Randy’s face was over the 12-16” hole
in the tank and he had passed out. They got him down as fast as they could
and Olon started doing resuscitation on him. The young girl that lived next
door had called the ambulance. The ambulance driver drove wide open all the
way because of Randy being critical. Ruth’s prayers had already worked
because when they got him to the hospital there was nothing wrong with him.
They kept him overnight to observe him but the Lord had already taken care
of the problem. Praise be to the Lord!
By: Linda Hilburn as told to her by Mary Lou Belcher and Sissy |
