<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>54-0402, Blind Bartimeaus, The Church Of The Open Door, Louisville, KY, no tape
L-1 Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight again, serving the Lord, trusting with all my heart for a great outpouring of His Divine blessings tonight on us all. I just did get here. I was just coming in in the back, and they were waiting out there for me, one of the ushers and my boy. Just as then I heard, "Only Believe," and we just had to hurry to get in. And so we're--are sorry to be just a little late.
Brother Cauble was standing at the door and told me to remember tonight about the praying over the handkerchiefs. And that's very fine. We like to do that, because we've had a great lot of blessings for the people. We send out many handkerchiefs each day around the world for sick and afflicted people, and have a great success in doing so. And I'm sure that it'll be a great blessing to all even if you don't need it at the present time--to carry around your house, some little symbol of--of that.

L-2 Here, some time ago, I was--I have a testimony that... Now this is... I never seen this, so I--I wouldn't know. But I have no right to doubt it, because it was a minister, and I believe a very good Christian man. And he was--had one of those handkerchiefs in his Bible, keeping it on Acts 19, and as I usual, ask them to do it. And his boy was struck down by a car. And the... Now, they tell me that they taken him to the hospital, put him under x-rays; and the bones were so broken that they had to handle him lightly. And in his arms and legs and his back was out of place. Now, this is his story. And he--they went and got the handkerchief and laid it on the boy, and the next morning when they went to x-ray to see how to set the bones, there wasn't a broken bone in his body. That's right. Now, I--I never seen it. I only know the man. That's the testimony.

L-3 I know this testimony. Sometime ago, it just seemed to be so remarkable to me. There was a... It happened in, I believe, at Fayetteville, Arkansas, or near there. They was--I was having services, and I'd ask the people with handkerchief... I'd pray over them and had them put them in their Bible. And--and so I was at Jonesboro at the time. And a little lady had had a handkerchief prayed over and she put it in the Bible. And so they... She... One day, about two or three weeks later she was washing--or cleaning a lamp chimney.
Did any of you ever clean a lamp chimney? I used to have to do it at home, 'cause I had the smallest hand. My mother, setting there looking at me; she remembers that. We used to have a big old lamp chimney that had the--a moon and owl on it. You remember them old chimneys? I'd get my hand up in there and clean the chimney out. Did you ever run out of--of coal oil, lamp oil, kerosene, or what you call it, and have to put some water in the bottom of the thing to make the wick reach the kerosene? Did you ever do that to make it burn? Say, I'm right at home tonight amongst country folks, sure enough, ain't I? So we just live here in the city; we're still country folks, aren't we?


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