<TITLE>02. Par 3-4</TITLE>L-3 I can imagine every once in a while, to see one man leave go of his oar, and wave back, and someone on the bank waving, and their handkerchiefs and so forth, as the little ship begin to get on it's way across the sea.
After while, perhaps, they were plumb out of sight from the shore, as the multitudes begin to wander back towards their homes. Let's think, it was quite awhile of silence; no one said anything. Twilight set in. It must have been the young John, being the younger of the group, that stopped oaring, and wiped the perspiration from his face, and said, "Children of Abraham, and brethren, we can rest assure, now, that we are not following some kind of a fanatic, that this Man is just what He says He is. He is not no fanatic, as many of our people believe today, neither is He a false prophet."
"I can remember" and he'd say, "when I was just a little boy, when my pretty Hebrew mother used to take me on her lap, and tell me the stories of the Old Testament, how our ancient people was brought to this land, and of the great prophets of old." How he liked to hear the story of Elijah, and the Shunammite woman, with bringing the little baby back to life. "How my mother would tell me, 'Darling, one time, God was with His people, and they lacked for nothing.' Then one of the great stories, that she used to tell me, that was breathtaking, was how that God fed His ancient people, when they come to the place they had no bread, yet standing in the line of duty, on their way from Pal--from Egypt to Palestine. And when they had no bread for their children, they had nothing to travel by, no more food, that God, Jehovah, rained bread out of the heavens, already cooked, and politely, by His Angels, laid it up on the ground every night. And how our people would go out and get this, and it was--had been dipped in honey, and how it would--tasted, and for forty years without ceasing, great Jehovah God fed our people, because they were in the line of duty."

L-4 "And now, brethren," he must have said this, "that didn't it bring that story anew to me today. This Man is associated somewhere with Jehovah, for when He stood there, and I climbed up on that rock behind Him, and seen Him take those five biscuits, still feed His hungry people. There's something about Him that's associated with God, the Creator, 'cause only God... I've wondered and say to mother, 'How could God get all that flour up in heaven to feed the people for forty years? Where could He find enough bees to make honey to dip all that manna in honey.' And my mother would say, 'Sonny, God is a Creator.' And brethren didn't that make your hearts burn today, when we seen that same God with human hands, take biscuits? I climbed up and looked at Him as He broke one, handed it out. I never seen it happen only one time; I seen it happen more than five thousand times this afternoon, when two mortal hands created bread and cooked fish, and fed more than five thousand people. I wouldn't be as sure today that this Man is from God."


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