<TITLE>04. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13 And over a year from then, the Durban paper packed an article about the meeting, and said that one tribe, the Swazis up there, that they taken, I forget how many truck loads of firearms, and watches, and things that they had stole. They absolutely sold out. They wanted no more to do with sin.
And you didn't have to tell the people who's setting there as naked as they could be, men, women, and all... You didn't have to tell them to put on clothes; just let them find Christ. It'll put on...
Looks like their kind of losing sight of them in America, doesn't it? That's right. But it was so heathen.

L-14 This sounds awful flat. I s... A lady setting not as far hardly as this lady in a wheelchair setting, gave birth to her baby, just setting right there, and just picked him up. And that was all of it. See? And they don't notice that. And... Up in the tribes...
But those simple people, they never question. They don't question. They see something done; that settles them, every one of them. Just tell them, and they'll ever one get up and leave it. Some might maybe can't walk, and he's trying to make his step. And first thing you know, there he goes running. And here come another one this a way. And he sees that one going, and away he goes. And then, first thing you know, it's just a--just one great big conglomeration. That's all of it. That's all you have to say. It's all over then.
And then I made my altar call and thirty thousand raw heathens that had never knowed anything about Jesus Christ, accepted Him at one time and broke their idols on the ground till it looked like a dust storm around where they had been.
But the Americans, we in America, oh, we wonder, "Now, it isn't just exactly... He don't belong to my church. And I--I don't know about that. Now, I tell you. I--I'm pretty smart person. I've got an education." You'd be better off if you didn't have it, if that's the way you're doing it. That's right.
Well, we just have to put up with those things. We're a great civilization, but I'm afraid we're at the end.

L-15 All right. In the Book in the 18th chapter of Saint Luke, and the 35th verse, just for a reading, and just a few moments talk. And I'm going to watch my clock here, and as soon as it says nine o'clock we're just going to quit and start the prayer line so we can be away by nine-thirty, if possible: 35th verse now of the 18th chapter of Saint Luke.
And it came to pass, as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging:
May the Lord add His blessings to His Word.

L-16 We're all acquainted with this Scripture. And at nighttime like this, you don't try to preach, because it... the anointing... I been all in the afternoon praying just for anointing to see the visions are near. And then--then when I come in here and I get all to preaching, then the first thing you know, that leaves away. And then I'm... you have an awful time.
So I just have to talk a little while, to kind of get the feel of the crowd and get them all settled down, and every spirit. Not the people so much as it is the spirit, quieten down. Then you can start the prayer line. See?

L-17 And now, let's be thinking on this scene tonight. Back, this was just at the ending of Jesus' ministry.
Last night we were talking of the beginning, how that God had give him a vision to leave and go away. Then because his friend was going to die, and God was going to show His power through His Son, Christ, to raise this man up...
Now, tonight we're going to approach from another angle, at the end of His ministry. And He had done many miracles around over the country, though it was then like it is today. No matter how many miracles would be done, there's still people who would not believe.
And so, our scene opens tonight on a very sad affair. It's a blind man. And he's setting, crunched over.


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