<TITLE>24. Par 77-78</TITLE>L-77 Oh, my, you go down at the restaurant and get a bowl of soup, and there'd be a spider in it, you'd sue the restaurant. Then you'll let the devil cram the cigarettes and tobacco, and sin down your throat to damn that soul that's worth ten thousand worlds. And then talk about civilization... Oh, my. We're... The wheel's turned backwards again. Yes, sir.
Them boys standing there looked at that; and one looked at the other and said, "Jack, we're not worth very much, are we? Eighty-four cents..."
I said, "Wait a minute, boys. You've got a soul in there that's worth ten thousand worlds. That's right." He never value...
 Dust thou art, to dust returneth,
 Was not spoken of the soul.
 Lives of great men all remind us
 And we can make our lives sublime,
 With partings, we leave behind us
 Footprints on the sands of time.
 Footprints that perhaps another,
 While sailing over life's solemn main,
 A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
 In seeing, shall take heart again.
Oh, I like that so well, this Longfellow's "Psalm of Life."

L-78 Little Mary when she was coming up there (back to my text), and the little cheeks was blushing, her eyes; she knowed she was close to the house. Right up along the road, testifying to everybody she was going to have a baby...
Here come Elisabeth out with her little shawl on her and said, "Mary."
And she said, "Elisabeth."
And they begin to hug one another. Oh, my. And she said, "I am so glad to see you, Mary."
She said, "Yes, I'm glad."
She said, "I see."
She said, "Yes, that is right." She said, I'm to be mother." She said, "My husband, Zacharias, is all dumb." Said, "He can't speak. He met an Angel."
She said, "I understand." Amen. She knowed what it was all about.
She said, "But you know, Mary?" She said, "I'm just a little bit worried."
Said, "Why?"
Said, "It's six months with me as a woman with--to be mother, and there's never no life yet." She said, "I'm just a little bit worried."
And I can see Mary with them little eyes. She said, "But you know, I'm going to be mother, too."
"Oh, you and Joseph got married?"
"No, me and Joseph isn't married. No."
"Mary, my cousin, you're going to have a baby before you and Joseph gets married?"
"Yes." Amen.
"Oh, how's it going to be?"
"The Holy Ghost is going to overshadow me. He's already done it. Oh, and in my womb is going to be a baby which is going to little Emmanuel. And he said I shall call His Name Jesus when He's born."
And as soon as she said, "Jesus," little John begin to shout and jump, jump up-and-down, hard as he could go, up-and-down. Oh, my. And the Holy Ghost come up on Elisabeth; and John, the Bible said, he was filled with the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb. Oh, my, yes. God keeps His Word.
And listen, if the first time that the Name of Jesus was ever spoke through human lips, made a dead baby come to life and jump for joy in his mother's womb, what ought it do for a church that claims to be borned again of the Spirit? Amen.
How can a killer cancer stay there, how can a killer cataract? How can a deaf or dumb spirit bind you, when "In My Name they shall cast out devils?" Hallelujah!
Just don't doubt. Take His Word like Mary did and start rejoicing. Will you do that? You that's going to be prayed for tonight, will you, as soon as the Name of Jesus is called on you, will you begin to leap for joy saying, "Praise God? It's all over now. Hallelujah, it's all gone now."?
Go out of here, and anybody that says, "How you feeling?"
"Wonderful, wonderful, just fine and dandy."
"Why? How do you know you're healed?"
"God said so. That's all."


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