<TITLE>12. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 They were hopeless and helpless. Everything that they had tried had failed. There wasn't nothing left but chaos and ruin. Their wives were going; their children were going; their nation were going. They... Everything they had was going. Nothing could stop them.
And here the army had backed a final little handful of Swiss up into a place. And here this great army like a stone wall, marching with these big spears, and well-trained... And they had the little Swiss army surrounded, nothing they could do.
Then Arnold von Winkelried stepped out and said, "Men of Switzerland, this day I'll give my life for Switzerland." He said, "Everything that we have tried has failed, but over in yonder valley is a little home where my wife and children are waiting for me to return." But said, "I'll never see them again in this world, for this day I shall die for Switzerland."
They said, "What will you do, Arnold von Winkelried?"
He said, "You just follow me and fight as best you can with what you have."
And he threw down his missile he had in his hand, raised up his arms to heaven, and screamed, "Make way for liberty." And he ran towards the thickest of the spears, screaming to the top of his voice, "Make way for liberty."

L-41 And as he got to the very thickest and dense of the spears, he reached and got a great armload of them and throwed them into his breast. As all those spears were reaching to catch him, as he made his charge, and into his bosom he plunged all these spears. And such a gallant heroic blood beating in every Swiss soldier, when they seen that, they come behind him. And it routed the army of the aliens. They broke rank; they didn't know what to do when they seen this gallant act of this Arnold von Winkelried. And they run in with what they had and beat the armies out as the nation and saved their homeland.

L-42 And as far as I know, they've never had a war from that day to this. No wonder their faces flash, and their eyes color, and the tears stream down their cheeks when you speak of Arnold von Winkelried to those mountain people.
What he did as a hero, but, oh, my friends, that was a little thing; that was a little thing. One day when Adam's race was backed into a corner, where the law, and the judgments, and the prophets, and everything that had been sent had failed, nothing could be done, human race was doomed, the great armies of hell was marching on, well-trained and in their ranks, every man to his place... They'd backed Adam's children into the corner where they could go no farther. They sent the law; they couldn't keep it. They sent judgments; they wouldn't listen to it. They plunged right on. They sent the prophets; they stoned those. And nothing could be done. They were backed into a corner.

L-43 But in glory one day the most precious thing of heaven stepped out before the Angels of God and said, "This day will I give My life for the sons of Adam. This day will I do something that'll break the ranks of the enemy."
The Angels all said, "What will You do? What will You do?"
He came to the earth as a virgin. And at Calvary, when He went to Calvary, stood on this earth, and preached the Gospel, He said, "I'm going to give you some material. I want you to go up to the city of Jerusalem. I want you to wait there, for I'm going to dress you. I'm going to make you soldiers to fight against the wiles of the enemy. But first, before you go into the battle front, go up to Jerusalem and wait there. And what I give you, you follow Me and fight as best as you can."


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