<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Going in that night, there was a little girl come out. You've read the story; you... Brother Gordon, never wrote it in details; he just kindy told it. She was--come out of a ladies dormitory, such as it was. And we started out walking this way and there was soldiers. And that little girl, when she stepped out, she had... One leg was about that much shorter than the other. And then she had a--a big belt around her, and a--a--a brace that went down (homemade), like that, and she had two crutches. She had a strap in the end of her toe that went over her shoulder and hooked back there in the back of this belt. And when she started to walk, she had to put her braces out... crutches out, then take her little shoulder and tip that little leg up and set it out like that, then make her step. And so, she seen me.

L-21 And we'd warned them, you know. I like kids, and I'd get on the street with some of that old Finnish money and buy big bunches of that candy, you know. And brother, I'd just give it out to kids. I had a string from here two city blocks, that followed me everywhere, 'cause I--I love children. And so...
When I looked at her, she dropped her little head like that; she was afraid she'd done something wrong. And I looked at that child and I started to walk on, and Something said, "Speak to that child; she wants to speak to you."
I stopped. And the soldiers kept... They couldn't talk English, so they kept going on. I could hear them singing, "Only Believe." And so I started on in that just... Them soldiers just standing there... And I said, "Just a minute here." Them other soldiers looked back. And I said, "Just a minute." See?

L-22 And so, that little girl, I looked at her, and I said, "Come on over here, honey." She couldn't understand; she looked to be about nine or ten years old. And I said, "Come on over, honey." And she dropped her little head down; 'course she didn't understand what I was saying. And I--I... She looked up at me again, and put her little head down real quick, kindly childlike. And I motioned to her like this. See? And she put her little crutches out, and raised that leg up and here she come. And I just stood still, and the soldiers stood there just watching what was going on.
She got right up close to me where I was at like that. She just stopped, held her little head down, and her little old ragged skirts hanging down, her little old hair over her face. I learned later she was a little Finnish war orphan; her mother and father was killed. She was living in a tent. And--and I looked, and she looked at me like that. She looked up at me, and great big tears running out of her little eyes, running down her face like that.

L-23 She reached over and got a hold of my coat, and just kissed me on the pocket of my coat. And she pulled her little skirt out like this, her little ragged skirt. She said, "Kiitos." That means thank you. My heart was just up in my mouth; you know how you feel like that. That little kid... And I looked out this way, and I seen her standing out there with no crutches or braces, just praising God.
I said... I believe if I'd have been the biggest hypocrite in the world, God would've honored that child's faith. He sure will; He would have honored it.
And I said, "Sweetheart, I'm going... How can I tell you?" I said, "You are healed, honey. God has made you well."
"Jesus," she said, "Kiitos, Jesus." (That's "Thank you, Jesus.")
I said, "Make you..."
I couldn't know the other words, and so I said, "Make you well. Kiitos, Jesus make you well." She couldn't understand that. And then they...
Here come Brother Baxter at the door, and said, "Come on, come on."
And I--I thought, "Well, God will let her know sometime, so I just went on in. She'd...?... be all right."


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