<TITLE>05. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 Well, Billy Graham come in the night before, that I was to start the next morning. Billy had a wonderful meeting there, and a good meeting. But of course, the next day the newspapers picked it up, and I never seen such a bunch of scandal they wrote about the dear brother. They said that he come to the platform like he was going to a bandbox. Said he put a manicure (What is that you put a?... Permanent. Is that right? Permanent?)--permanent wave in his hair. And said that he act like a soap salesman on a box, swinging his arms when he preached. And said, let's see, said the smell of perfume was ten feet wide. I read the paper the next morning; I thought, "Uh, oh, you're in for it, too, boy. I know that." I knowed if they would talking about Billy Graham like that, what was I going to get?
So we all, we went right on in, right back into the stadium, at right where he left off, and I--I got mine then. But Billy preached on the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. That's right. I took right up where he left, went right on the same way. But by the grace of God, we won a hundred thousand in that country to--to the Lord.

L-15 I remember in Germany one night, there was such a... The communists had got up there and was going to start a riot. And when... They threatened to kill me when I come from the place. We had about, oh I guess, forty-thousand, something like that. And we were... I was coming from a place and the German soldiers, was soldiers, had to mill around and around and around me, to get me in a car to keep them from shooting me at a distance, like that is, setting out in bushes and so forth. And they--they ask me if I was afraid to come back. I said, "Never. I come here by the will of God." See?
And I went back the next night. I'd never forget that night as long as I live. I remember we was having a service, 'course inside, once inside then you--you're pretty well safe in there then, when you're like that. It's when you're going in and out, when they set in the dark and do what they're going to do.

L-16 And then, um, and a... and that night, they... Of course there were all gazers looking on everywhere. And they was... And in Germany there's a lot of spiritualism and everything else, you know. So they was all seated around, and they had sent them up to the platform to be prayed for. And how the Holy Spirit would know who they was, I couldn't pronounce them German names, and tell them all, tell them that, and what they had done, and what... And about the fourth or fifth person come, I was turned this way, and the ushers, and I was talking to the interpreter.
I heard somebody screaming. They'd put a little blind girl upon the platform, and she was going off the high, oh much higher than this, like that. And I grabbed her just quick, 'cause she was blind. They'd just turned her loose. And some of them turned around and never noticed, and the little thing was walking off the platform. She was about like my little Rebekah, about this high, a little German girl with little plaits hanging down her back, a very typical German dress. I--I just never forget this.

L-17 And she... I turned her around; the interpreter got to her, and she was feeling again for me, just blind. And she got a hold of me, and she said... 'Course the interpreter, it's through the interpreter, she said, "Is this the man that's going to pray for me?"
I said, "Yes."
And she put her little head over on me, like this, and her little hands around me, and she started snubbing like a little kid, you know, on--on my bosom, with her little head laying up there. I looked down; I thought, "Poor little thing."
And she'd been blind from birth. She'd never seen in her life. Well, as I started to pray for her... How many's ever been in one of my meetings, let's see your hands? Ever been? Well, you understand then, all of you.


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