<TITLE>02. Par 7-11</TITLE>L-7 Now, the Brother Ryan there who wanted me to say something about the Indians... It was when I had first started in my campaigns about six, seven--seven years ago, I suppose. And I was in Phoenix, Arizona, and the first time that any person's outside of colored people or--had ever come into the--the lines, the colored and white, and then these were Indians came by, and they were dressed in all their native garb.
So when one passed by, the Holy Spirit said, "She's an alcoholic." See? And she was delivered. The next one passed by; I said, "Lord, if You'll just reveal what those Indians are, I promise You, I'll go to the reservation."

L-8 Next passed by, told her she had TB, and they was--they was packing her. She just got up and walked out. So then, the next passed by. I forget just what was wrong with that woman, but she was healed.
The missionary happened to be setting present. So when I was over in California, why, they--the missionary come over and said, "You remember what you promised God at Phoenix? You'd go back to the Apache Indians?"
So there wasn't nothing but one night to Apache Indians. We gathered early in the afternoon, 'cause it had to be an outside meeting. They had a little church back at San Carlos, way back in the desert hills of Arizona.

L-9 Well, I thought maybe we'd have maybe, twenty or thirty Indians out there, but my, there was just thousands of them gathered, and it was the most dramatic sight to see them setting around, the old father, and the mother, and all the little Indians setting on blankets. And just as far as you could see out in the desert like that, they were setting around, loud speakers set up.
And of all of it, there was only one person there that could interpret, and in Indian dialect, if anyone knows what it is, their grammar... They don't have any sentences or anything. They just start real low and start screaming at top of their voice and then--then drop off all at once, you know. So they just... there's no punctuations to it at all.

L-10 So then this interpreter was giving the interpretation, and I tried to tell the Indian. Now, as a... Now that is not a foreigner. That is a true born American citizen; the only Americans we have is the Indian. God gave him this country. We took it away from him.
And if there ever was anything as an American citizens, that I think that ever put a stain on the flag, if there'd be one there, would be the way we treat those Indians out there. When we bundle up thousands, and tens of thousands, and billions of dollars and send it across the seas, over there to Japan and things, and they blow it back at us, and our Indians starve to death out there every year.

L-11 After all, this is their country, God given country, and I said, "I certainly feel sorry, and my sympathy goes for you," but I said, "I am just one voice in America. We're made up of all the voices." I said, "But being that the country give you a rough deal," but I said, "I know Somebody Who won't give you one. That's Jesus Christ." I said, "He will give you what you--what you really deserve. Christ will be kind to you."
Well, an Indian's a strange fellow. He doesn't--he doesn't go for everything. I remember Billy giving prayer cards one time down in Phoenix at a big tent meeting we were at, and we just had a couple days left, and I said, "Billy, give those prayer cards not the people with toothaches and something like that. Give it to people who's dying."


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