<TITLE>12. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 Now, that's three times that I've seen that done. Maybe I can get to it later when Mrs. Hattie Waldorf here in Phoenix, and Ralph Perry at home. Now... That I mean's been pronounced dead, laying out... This boy, when I started in...
I was going to the little room, and I heard a door shut. And there was the ladies dormitory rest room there, such as it was. And when it stepped out, the most pitiful sight I ever seen in my life. It was a little girl.
How many takes that paper, "The Voice Of Healing"? You've probably seen her picture and know what I'm talking about. She had on a--a big steel thing around her like this, and one leg was a little shorter than the other. And she had no control of this limb. And she had a big shoe built on the bottom of this brace. And the brace was solid, not so it would bend the knee. It was solid. It come up around her and laced around. And there was a--a hook in the toe of her shoe, a strap come up and went over her shoulders and hooked the back of the brace. And then she had two crutches here that she walked on.
And she'd set the crutches out, and she'd swing her little shoulder, and that would set that limb out. And it not being quite grown, and no use of it, the weight of it flew upon this here (You see?) support. And she would hold and walk. And that helped her walk. She'd set that shoe down, she could make a step.

L-43 And the poor little thing standing there... And the ladies, if you knowed how they had to dress... The little thing was standing there, and little rags hanging from her little underskirt, and her little clothes all tore up. And I learned later, she was a little war orphan. Her father and mother was killed in the war, a Russian.
And she come out there, and she... little ragged looking hair. And when she seen me standing there, she looked and she straightened up like that, and bowed her little head. Oh, my, something just mashed down on my heart. I looked at the little thing. I... Oh, I just had the awfullest feeling. And that soldier said, "Mum, mum," pushing me on.
No... And I know she wanted to--she wanted to talk to me, only they'd been told not to bother her on the street or anything.
And I love those little old kiddies. I used to get them all in church. And when they was in the auditorium in the afternoon service... They give me some of that little old Finnish money, and I'd go out there and give it to them so they could buy their candies. And they would pull their little skirt out, and say, "Kiitos." "Kiitos" means "thank you." And they would holler, "Kiitos." And I'd have a line of kids from here back of the building following me along. I love the little fellows.

L-44 And she looked at me like that, and her little lips started quivering, and she stood still. And I motioned to her, come here. I knowed she wanted to come. And she came over to where I was. And she got over with her little crutch and her thing, she walked over. I wanted to see what she's going to do. And she took hold of my coat and kissed me on the coat, dropped it down, looked up to me like that and held her little crutches, pulled back her little skirt and said, "Kiitos." And the tears running down her little cheeks like that, dropping off. Oh, I... Looked to me like my heart would burst. I looked down at her, and I seen her healed. I knowed God would reward faith for that. I said, "Honey, you're healed."
And she couldn't understand me. They pushed me on in.
We had a great meeting that night. And the people, when they would see something being revealed out there, they'd just throw their crutches away and start walking on.


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