<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>59-0408, Blind Bartimaeus, Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, CA, 76 min
L-1 Remain standing just a moment while we offer a word of prayer. Let's bow our heads.
Dear God, it's with grateful hearts that we bow our heads in Thy Presence tonight to give thanks to Thee for what Thou has done for us in the times gone by. And we would ask, Lord, that You would pardon us of all of our trespasses, and forgive all of our iniquity, and we would ask that You would bless us in exceedingly, abundantly way tonight, insomuch that You would save every lost person that's in Divine Presence, or that's listening in on the air. And we would pray also, Lord, that You would heal every one tonight of their afflictions. So happy to see You each night doing these great wonders here before for us. And we're indeed grateful to You, Lord. And we pray that You'll bless this place called the Angelus Temple, its pastors, its workers, and the school and all that it stands for, and those who are working hard together for the Kingdom of God's sake, all the churches throughout the country.
Give us of Thy Presence tonight, Father, that we might lead those who are strayed out of the way back to the old path again. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
May be seated.

L-2 It certainly is one grand privilege to be back again this evening to speak again about the One that I love so well. And I'm sure that's the feeling of each individual here, thinking the One that we love so well, the Lord Jesus.
Tomorrow night now, little Ricky is to be here in testimony. Many of you that's heard his--of the great miracle that God performed on--for him. His father and mother is to bring him tomorrow night.

L-3 And now tonight, for a Scripture reading, I wish to read over in the book of Saint Luke, 19th chapter and the 37th and 38th verse.
 And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passed by.
 And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

L-4 Our scene opens tonight at the city of Jericho. It's located just at the foot of the mountains, from Jerusalem being on the mountains and Jericho is down at--in the valley. It sets kinda in the plains of the Jordan. And it's... I think it's supposed to be one of the lowest cities that there is in the... all Palestine.
And it must've been on a cold morning, something say, about October.
There was many beggars in the land in that day. And there was... The doctors were not able to help them; many of them were sick and afflicted in such ways that the doctors could not help them. And again, if they were beggars, they perhaps didn't have money enough to have the operations performed that could've been done.
And we're opening the scene now of this cold morning. We look and can see such a beggar (as we have read about just now) fumbling his way around some rocks that laid out a piece from the city wall, where it had fallen down in the days of Joshua by the trumpet sounding, and the promise that God was going to break the walls down.
And the one beggar that we're speaking about now, he was a blind man. His name was Bartimaeus. And he'd come late that morning to take his place which was at the gate, just something like it is today, that each man has his own place to beg or sell. And Bartimaeus had come late. Almost all the people had done gone into the city, the merchants and so forth. And it was going to be hard for him to get a coin for the day, because usually, the men, not being too rich a city, they just had, perhaps, one coin each day that they could throw to a beggar. And the first they seen perhaps was the first one who got the coin.


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