<TITLE>05. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 They turned out all the schools that day, and they give each one of them, the little children, a British flag to wave at the king to display their loyalty. And when the king had passed by, well, all the little children returned in a certain school, but one little girl. And they wondered what become of the little tot; she's just a little bitty fellow. And the teacher, when she called the roll, the child was missing. Hysterically, she ran into the streets, looking everywhere. And by herself, standing behind a telegraph pole, with her little hands up, just weeping her little heart out... And so the teacher run to her, she said, "Darling, what's the matter? Did you not get to see the king?"
She said, "Yes, I saw him."
She said, "Then, did you wave your flag at him?"
She said, "Yes, I waved my flag at him."
She said, "Then, why are you crying?"
She said, "I saw the king, but I'm so little, the king didn't see me." It was breaking her little heart.

L-19 But that's not the way with Jesus. No matter how little you are, or how little you do, He records everything you do. He knows all about you, whether you are big or whether you are little. He knows all about it, and it's all recorded on His books. And sometimes, it's the little things that sets us up to the big things. We got to have all the body of Christ working together.

L-20 "Hear Ye Him," that is a word of salvation to everyone that will believe it. That will pass the sinner from death until Life, if he will believe it. That'll take a--that'll take a man seeking the Holy Ghost, and give him the Holy Spirit. That'll take a cancer ridden patient, that our beloved doctors has turned down, says must die, it'll raise him back to a perfect, normal, well man again, or a woman. It'll open blinded eyes, that has never seen daylight. It'll unstop deaf ears. It'll deliver from the insane institution. Oh, it's all powerful, if you will receive it as God's Word.

L-21 Here, during the time of the revolutionary, it was said that a man in the--the army committed a crime, a federal offense, and he was tried in a army court, and was found guilty for running away during a time of battle, and the--the charges was that he must be shot by a firing squad.
And he was in the prison, and his--a determined day what he was to die by a firing squad... Some good friend of his said, "I'll go, and I will go to the highest ranking officer that there is." Which in that time was our loving President Abraham Lincoln, the great Christian, great American.

L-22 And so the man met Mr. Lincoln getting out of the carriage, and he said, "Sir, I know that you are a righteous man, a God fearing man, and you would not take a man's life, but yet, a certain man has been found guilty of--of running, shirking his duty, or his place in time of battle. And he's found guilty, and's got to die. Sir, just one word from you will pardon the man." Said, "Won't you please pardon him, sir?" And he fell on his knees, said, "The man is nervous, and he got scared, and I've knowed him since he was a little boy." And said, "He--he really didn't mean to do that, but he's a nervous, and the guns, and cannons firing, he run."
Mr. Lincoln, in his gentleman and Christian way, took a piece of paper and wrote on there, "I pardon this certain man. Abraham Lincoln." and signed his name.


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