<TITLE>21. Par 69-72</TITLE>L-69 And there was a little Finnish girl stepped out. She had a--a brace on her leg, 'cause she couldn't move her leg. And it was a great big thing around her, and a belt over her, and hitched in her toe. And the way she'd move with her two crutches, they'd set her out and pull her little shoulder and that strap would pull her foot out, then she didn't have no use of that limb, so the brace around her would catch her, and she would walk that way. Poor little ragged thing, her little skirt's hanging ragged, her little hair all chopped up. And I come to find out, she was a little Finnish war orphan; her mother and father had been killed in the war.
And when she come out of the ladies dormitory there, she looked and she thought she'd done something wrong. The child bowed her little head and looked up through that little ragged hair. And I thought, "That little thing wants to come to me." And I stood there a little bit, and the soldiers tried to push me on. I just stood there. And they--I couldn't speak to them, 'cause all Finnish.

L-70 And that little girl, I knew she wanted to come. So I looked over at her and I motioned to her like this. And as she come over there, these little crutches under her arm (they picture of it's in the book), and so she started putting her own crutches out. Now, to get that child coming. I just stood and she come like this, till she got right up to where I was. Then she reached down and got a hold of my coat and kissed the pocket of my coat. She backed off of these little crutches and pulled her little skirt out and said, "Kiitos" That means thank you in Finnish, like that.
She looked up, her little lips a quivering like that, the tears running out of her little baby blue eyes, and she said, "Kiitos." Oh, my, my heart would break nearly. And I looked and I thought... I said, "God bless you, honey. You can't hear what I'm saying, but may He heal your little body." And as I looked up like that... Now, her respects, not to me, but to God...

L-71 See you can only approach God through... Well, they approached it through the brass serpent. They approached it through the prophets. They approached it through the apostles. They approached it through preachers, and (See?) through an instrument. So he...
That little girl, while I was looking at her, trying to talk to her, I looked and I seen a vision coming this way. And there the child was without a brace or anything, going walking.
Now, I couldn't get it to her: I couldn't tell her. And the soldiers pushed me on, and Brother Baxter come and got me. You was there, I believe, that night, Brother Moore. And when we went on the stage... and so we begin to pray for the sick and the Holy Spirit speak to the people back in there, couldn't even talk--talk their language... Tell who they was, where they was from, what was wrong, just a two or three things like that, and they just piled up braces, and crutches, and things, and walked away. Just simple believers.

L-72 Then they started taking me out of the line; I said, "Let me have just a few more." And by God's providence, that child was the next one to come up on the platform. And when she come, I said to the Mrs. Isaacson, the interpreter, "Now, you just say what I say." And I said, "Sweetheart, God rewarded your faith out there. He healed you out there. You go back over here and have them take the braces off of you. Come back and show us."
And I begin to pray for another one. In a few minutes, when the man got the braces off of her, and the big shoe and all of these braces, here she come across the platform running just as hard as she could, the braces up over her head, just rejoicing. Why? Did I heal her? No, sir. What healed her? Her reverence and reproach to the Word of God that was just exactly. See? If I'd have been the biggest hypocrite in the world, God would've honored that child's faith anyhow. But she's seen so many things done, the poor little thing, till believed if she could get that close to you it would be done.


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