<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Now, there's many--sometimes there's thousands of these a week. And the other night, about two weeks ago, a little more, in Old Mexico, is a pathetic sight. Three nights service. And after a little baby had been brought back from the dead... When I went in that night... The poor people didn't have handkerchiefs. A good first class brick mason has to work eight days straight, save every penny, to get himself a pair of shoes. Gets about sixteen pesos a day, and there's about twelve and a half pesos to a dollar. That's poncho. But little Pedro that works out in the street, he has, well, perhaps eight pesos a day. He's got six children to feed. Little tortilla, he get about two for a peso. So he can't get any shoes, he just goes barefooted, to feed his children. Oh, it's pathetic.
If you'd only see, dear Christian friends, to see how happy we are to be an American. It's a saying, "It's great to be an American." That's more than just a saying; that's a truth. This is a blessed nation. We should appreciate it more than what we do. See the people well fed and clothed, and intelligent people. Go in some of those countries where they lay by the tens of thousands, and not even dressed, and starving. And many of them die from starvation right on the grounds, waiting to be prayed for. And you can just imagine what a pathetic sight it is. So, I trusting to God that somehow that... Well, I--I can't do nothing about it, only pray and minister.

L-6 And now, with these handkerchiefs, I pray over them now, if you will bow your head just a moment with us, so that they go out.
Now, kind heavenly Father, these handkerchiefs here represent poor, sick mortals. I'm so thankful that they believe in You, Lord. And even though, after their doctor maybe, has give them up, they still believe that there's hopes if they will ask You. Maybe Thou knowest, maybe some poor old blind daddy, somewhere out here in the rural, setting, little dark place tonight, waiting for a handkerchief to come home. A mother with her baby that's just at the point of death, couldn't bring it, waiting for the handkerchief to come home...
Dear Father, we pray that You'll watch over each of those. And we're taught in the Bible that they taken off of the body of Saint Paul, handkerchiefs and aprons; they were laid on the sick, and unclean spirits left them and diseases. Father, we know we're not Saint Paul, but we know that You're still Jesus, and it was You that did the work.

L-7 And so now in this Scripture, it was taught that when Israel was cut off from the promised land by the Red Sea... One writer said, "That God looked down through that Pillar of Fire with angry eyes. And the sea got scared and opened up a way for God's people to cross over."
And Father, when these handkerchiefs are placed on the sick tonight, may those eyes look back through the Blood of Jesus, to Who died for this purpose. And may the diseases, the enemy that's got the people bound, be scared and move back off of the people, and let them cross to the promise of good health and strength. For it's this purpose that we send them in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
You can get them just as soon as the services is over. Now, because of the congestion and people standing...


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