<TITLE>10. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 And I looked over, and I seen all that bunch of chartered busses setting there. I seen one of them had Memphis on it. I thought, "Well, I could get her over to that bus anyhow." So I said... if the people didn't begin to recognize me coming in. So I said, "Well, what are you doing over here?" Just to test her faith...
She said, "I come over to see the healah."
I said, "The what?"
She said, "The healah."
And I said, "You don't believe that, do you?"
She said, "Oh, yes, suh."
Oh, my. I begin to feel something stir in my heart.
And she said, "I listen to all the good radio programs." She said, "This morning, I heard people testifying from this place that had never talked before in their life." And she said, "I heard of a blind man from up in Missour' that received his sight." Said, "Sir, I come over to receive my sight."
My, I thought, "Oh, I'm a hypocrite, Lord." I said, "Why am I bump into her like that?" I thought, "Well, I'll go on through with it." I said, "Do you believe in that?"
She said, "Yes, suh!" She said, "I believes it with all my heart."

L-35 I said, "In the day... How'd you come to go blind?"
She said, "When I was a little girl, the doctor told me I had cataracts." And said, "He said, 'When they got ripe...'" Now, I don't know what "ripe" means yet. But said, "When they got ripe, he would take them out." And said, "Now, that they got ripe, he said they done went down and wrapped around the optical nerve of my eyes. If he'd pull the cataract, he'd pull my eyes out." Said, "My only hope is to get to the man. And they tell me this is his last night here. And I can't even get near the building. And I've lost my daddy, and I don't know what to do. Nobody will help me." She said, "Could you help me to the bus, sir?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am." But I said, "First, about this healing..." I said, "Did you hear that man testify about that Angel coming down from heaven?"
She said, "Yes, suh."
I said, "Do you believe that?"
She said, "With all my heart."
I said, "In the day when we've got all the best medical science and the best doctors we ever had, and you mean to say that God Almighty would do something like that?"
She said, "Yes, suh. I believes it."

L-36 And I... Now, she couldn't see me. She was totally blind--had been since she was twelve years old, and she was about twenty then, I guess.
And said... And I said, "Are you totally blind?"
She said, "Yes, suh. I couldn't tell daylight from dark." Said, "I haven't for years."
And I said, "Well, look. Do you... Why don't..." I said, "We--we got good doctors."
She said, "But, sir, they can't help me." She said, "I'll tell you what I'll do." She said, "If you'll get me into the building where that man's at, I'll find my daddy after that." Oh, my. That was too much for me. I couldn't stand that. She said, "You get me in to where he's at, and I'll find my daddy." She said, "There's a blind man been blind twelve years, this morning received his sight. And sir, won't you help me get where he's at, that I might receive my sight?"
And I thought of poor old blind Fanny Crosby:
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.


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