<TITLE>18. Par 79-83</TITLE>L-79 And friends, up to that time, I'd been on the road then about six months. And you know how I am about taking money. I don't like that. And I never even taken up an offering for myself. And when I went away from home, I didn't have the clothes to wear. That's true. I'm thanking God tonight I got clothes. And...
But my brother, younger than I, he was out on a date. And they had a wreck. And he--he cut his suit up. He cut the legs in it and the pocket was all tore down. And he gave me that, when I started on my first healing campaign.
And my wife and I went down to the ten cent store and got some of them patches you iron on with a hot iron (you know?) and put it on there. And this pocket was tore. And I'm not very good at sewing up. But I took and sewed it up with--with my hand like that, sewed it up, and it made a great big place.

L-80 And I have to meet ministers. And they'd be dressed so nice. I'd look at them. And I--I felt ashamed of my old raggedy coat. So I'd would hold my right hand over it and shake hands with left my hand and say, "Excuse, my left hand is closer to my heart." I'd say like that, because I didn't want them to see that old raggedy coat. But, brother, that night them people were pressing through that crowd to touch that old ragged coat and they were getting healed.
Let me tell you, brother. The same God was there that night is here tonight too. It don't take a ragged coat. It takes your faith in God if you'll just believe the Gospel truth. The same Lord Jesus that was there that night is right in this auditorium tonight to do the same things He done there. That's right.

L-81 God be merciful. I get to thinking of those things that happen like that, and I wonder what it'll be someday when we cross over tide on the other side and see those dear people that God has healed. And so many things has been done. Our time is away from us. Shall we pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for Thy loving kindness. For all that Thou hast done for us, Lord, we just praise Thee with all of our heart. And I ask You to be with us tonight. Come, Lord Jesus. When I think back there of that... That night when those poor people, them dragging me over the top of them, little mothers trying to let their babies touch the... your hand or your coat and clothes. They'd jump up off of cots, and scream and run through the building, just be near. Not because of Your servant, Lord, but because that they knew You were there. And it was the truth that I was trying to tell them, that You had died for them to heal them and save them.

L-82 Oh, dear Father, to these fine people here in this lovely, wonderful state of New York... Tonight many of them are seated here in this little auditorium. And I pray tonight, Father, that there won't be a feeble person in our midst when we leave. May we feel like those who came from Emmaus, in meeting, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within us?"
Do something tonight, Lord, like You did for them, a little different from the ordinary run of ministry. Do something that we'll know that You've raised from the dead and are here and alive tonight, proving to the people that we're telling them the truth, that You heal them and You want them to believe it and accept You as their Saviour and as their Healer. Grant it, Father through the humble prayer of Thy servant. I ask in the Name of Thy beloved Child, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

L-83 May the Lord God of heaven bless each and every one of you, make the blessing you all... I don't mean to be a baby. I'm forty-five years old. I'm an old man. But when I think of those things, of those experiences of those lovely people and things, I just can't keep from, in my heart crying out, something in me. I'm not a baby. No, sir. I'm not. But I--I just get sentimental, I suppose when I think of it.
I think when we've crossed the line over there, you'll hear some crying over there too, and rejoicing when we all meet together on the other side.


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