<TITLE>04. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 So one day, she become very ill with the flu. It went from the flu into pneumonia, and both lungs became congested. And she sent a telegram to her preacher son some two thousand miles away, and said, "Stand by, if I'm not better by morning, the doctor says you must come home at once, if you wish to see your mother alive."
Way down in the city, they were having a little prayer meeting in a little store front, a little mission. And there, while they were in this little mission preaching, some of them got a revelation from the Lord that there was a sick woman. A lady come up, knocked on her door, and she said, "Madam, while we were in prayer meeting, the Holy Spirit told us that someone was sick up at this house. And I wonder if that be true, if you would care if our pastor would come, pray for you."
And she said, "Not at all, dear. The doctor says that he can do no more."

L-14 So they went and got the pastor and brought him up. He anointed the woman in oil, and read James 5:14. And anointed her with oil, and then he got through reading the Scripture of the anointing, he turned back to Mark 16, where I just read. And he read that to her, "These signs shall follow them that believe, if they lay their hands on the sick; they shall recover." And this--that faithful, little mission preacher laid his hands upon the woman, and commanded the disease to leave her body, because that God had give the commission. And the next morning, she was up cooking her breakfast.

L-15 About a year later, her son came home. After greeting his lovely mother, and he said to mother, "There's been one thing that's been on my heart. I want to ask you something. When you sent me that telegram and told me that, 'Stand by,' that you were going to die with pneumonia, if you wasn't better the next morning, and I never heard from you for about a week, and I got a lovely letter that said that you were well. Tell me just what drug did the doctor give you?"
Said, "Why, he didn't give me any." Said...?... "He was going to put me under a oxygen tent, and when he come back the next morning, the Lord had healed me."
"Oh," he said, "Mother."
Said, "Yes," said, "Honey, you know down at--there by the corner of the alley, where that little mission is, the little Pentecostal mission?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "They come up here with a story, and read to me out of the Bible, that--that people were supposed to pray for the sick and lay hands on them, and they'd get well." And said, "You know that pastor prayed for me, and the next morning I was completely healed."
And he said, "Now, look mother," he said, "That's awful nice." He said, "But that couldn't heal you." Said, "God doesn't heal any more, like that."
"Oh," she said, "Son, you're too late to tell me that. He's already done it."
And a... "Oh," he said, "Mother," said, "That--that was in the past day."
"Oh," she said, "Son, the pastor read me some Scripture out of the Bible."
Said, "Mother, did he read from Mark 16?"
Said, "Yes, that's where he read."
"Oh," he said, "I tell you, mother, down at the seminary, we learned that Mark 16, from the 9th verse on is not inspired."
The mother said, "Well, hallelujah."
"Oh," he said, "Mother, you're begin to act like that mission bunch." Said, "You--you shouldn't act like that."
She said, "Well, honey, I was just thinking of something." Said, "Do you mean to tell me that the Scripture from Mark 16 from the 9th verse on, is not inspired?"
Said, "That's right."
She said, "Well, glory to God."
Said, "Mother, what's the matter with you?"
Said, "I was just thinking, if God could heal me with uninspired Scripture, what could He do if that really was inspired?"


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