<TITLE>07. Par 19-20</TITLE>L-19 Now, then I went and looked at the little fellow; I said, "No, dad, that isn't the child." But I offered prayer of consolation. We went on up through... Come back to Indiana, went out through the west, over through Canada, down through Toledo--or, up in Canada and Windsor. Come on back down, went down into the south, down through Houston, came back and went overseas.
And one day, I'd been fasting much. We was up in the mi--land of the midnight sun. I never forget that night. In the afternoon we went up to Kopio; it's a tower up there, showed where the Germans would come in and bomb the little cities, and how sweet and humble those Finns are. It's a battlegrounds of the world. They have to trust God for everything they get. And yet, they're the most honest nation, yet there is in the world. They pay their war debts. How they do it? I don't know. They just slayed man and women.
Here, some of you ladies here tonight, dressed real fine. You ought to see the Finns: great big thick skirts on like that, big high boots... Summer and winter, out with a pitch fork, pitching hay. They ain't got time to stretch out on beaches and things and act the way the American women does: plenty of idleness. I wonder what it's going to look like in the day of judgment? Uh-huh.
Come along the--s--along side of the road, and you'll see a bunch of them setting under a tree, there, eating their little sandwich or whatever it is. And they'll kneel down and have a prayer meeting right there. I seen one place where the... come by and they... I passed o... There's some of the fellows were before me give them a tract, and they was talking about the meeting down there; wrote in Finnish. And the bunch of women had laid down their cradles where they were cradling the grain, and about fifteen of them received the baptism of the Holy Ghost under a tree, standing down there. Hungering and thirsting... You can't interest people till they get thirsty of some water. 'Less they're hungry, you can't tell them about nothing to eat.

L-20 Now look, then up there, I was--we was up in that tower. Now, all of their songs, there's no foolishness. They... Even their songs are in minors. And they were singing, I... Just something begin to dig in my heart. I came down. There was a drunken British Englishman down there, and he was all crying. I walked to him and he spoke English. I said, "Well, it's good to hear English." I seen he was drinking. I said, "What's the matter?"
Said, "I heard them songs." Said, "What a kind of people is that?"
I said, "They're Christians. Are you?"
He said, "No, sir."
I said, "Aren't you ashamed to treat Jesus the way you are?"
Said, "What's your name?" I told him. Said, "Oh, you're the--the Divine healer."
I said, "No, I'm the Divine Healer's servant. See?" I said, "I--I down praying for the sick."
He said, "I... Really, I don't want to do this, preacher." And we led him to Christ there. Then we got... The--their taxi cabs are horse driven. Gasoline costs about two dollars and eighty cents a gallon, and their... A used automobile, about a forty model, would probably cost four or five thousand dollars. So there's not no cars in Finland, hardly.


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