<TITLE>23. Par 84-87</TITLE>L-84 ...?... Don't stir around. Set real still. Here stands an aged woman, probably a little old mother, gray-haired. Think about my mother at home, when I think of her. My mother's about that size. But my mother's almost a half Indian; she's... Her hair's coal black. But as like Indians do when they get a little old they get heavy. That may be somebody's mother, wearing a wedding band on her hand. Only God knows what's past through them old hands. They might've smoothed back the tears from a crying baby's eyes a many time. Years ago, maybe as a little girl, a mother might've picked her up and kissed her finger when she hurt it, rock her to sleep. That old mother's crossed over the border long ago. Maybe something's wrong with her today that a mother couldn't kiss away, but there's Somebody here Who can kiss it away.
I don't know her. I've never seen her. Don't even know if she speaks English or not; I don't know. You speak English, lady? You do? But you're really not English; you're German, aren't you? Uh-huh. That's right. Until I see you, "Auf wiedersein."

L-85 Me not knowing you and you not knowing me, I just left your land. Did you hear the story the little blind German girl getting her sight? At Karlsruhe, wonderful meeting, there was around fifty thousand in Germany come to Christ, the same as fifty thousand nearly in Switzerland come to Christ. Your people's all beat down over there. They got enough of Hitler. They want Christ now. They're lovely. They treated me like I was their brother. Thanks, Lord, is right.
You know, mother, me not knowing you, I wouldn't stand here... I'd feel too little as a gentleman to stand before an old person like you, a mother, and try to be a deceiver. I'd be honest enough to take this from around my neck and walk away from this building. I want to help you. I want to do something for you if I can, because you're a Christian. That's right.
You got a wonderful feeling to your spirit. It's already coming to meet me. And I know you're a Christian. And God knows your need, doesn't he? And if God will let me to you, like He did through His Son at the well at Samaria...

L-86 The audience knows that when Jesus went up to Samaria, He set at the well, sent His disciples away, and a woman come out. She was a woman of Samaria. And He said, "Bring Me a drink." Did you ever read that? The audience ever read that? He was trying to get a conversation with her.
She said, "It's not customary for Samaritans--or Jews to ask Samaritans such."
He said, "But if you know Who you was talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
Why, she went on with the conversation, "The well's deep..." Finally He was... What was He doing? Finding her spirit, the same thing I'm doing right here. She's German; I'm Irish. One was a Samaritan, and yet, He let her know they was no dividing lines. God loves all people.
Well, she said...

L-87 He said, "Go, get your husband." He found her trouble. She was living illegally, unmarried. Said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "That's right. You got five."
Why, she said, "I perceive that You are a prophet." Now, listen here. Don't forget this. She said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh (that's Christ)... We're taught that when Messiah cometh, that He will do these things." What? Know the secrets of their heart like He knowed hers, know where her trouble was. That was the sign of the Messiah, is that right? Said, "We know when Messiah cometh, He will know these things, or tell us all these things. But she didn't know Who He was.
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Then she run in, and said, "Come, see a Man..."


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