<TITLE>12. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 Here not long ago there was a little Irish woman coming over on a ship, they said. And about thirty, forty miles out, somewhere out of--of New York harbor, there come a terrible storm. And the little ship didn't think they could make it. They sent out SOS. And so they told them the storm was getting worse and worse. If they could--if they could storm it for thirty minutes, they'd reach the--the--the harbor. But if they couldn't, they'd be in the bottom of the sea. So all the jazz music stopped and they begin to pray and play, "Nearer, my God to Thee," and so forth. But all this little Irish woman, she walked up and down the floor screaming and shouting. "Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah," she said.
The captain said, "Did you understand me?"
Said, "Yes, sir. I understood you."
Said, "Well, why don't you pray?"
She said, "I'm already prayed up." So that--that's it. Be prayed up, ready. That's the way we have to do it. And she said, "I'm so glad." And she started shouting again.
The captain said, "What you shouting about?"
She said, "You said if we held out thirty minutes we'd be in New York. If we didn't we'd be in the bottom of the sea."
Said, "That's right."
Said, "I'm on my road from Ireland to see my daughter in New York. I've got one in glory, and thirty minutes from now I'll see one of them." So that's... If the ship went down, she went up...?... So that's it. You can't lose. See? So she was just shouting anyhow. She knowed in thirty minutes she'd see one of her loved ones. Oh, that's it. Be prayed up.

L-34 "Old Elijah, when he got on the--on the ship, you know, or got on the platform of the little place where that she'd built him, she walked back and forth across the floor. And he walked to and fro, the Bible said, in the room. And then after he felt the Spirit come on him, he went and laid hisself upon the baby, and just laid there with his flesh upon the baby. And then he felt the baby was getting warm, so he got up, walked back and forth again through the room to and fro. Come back and laid hisself on the baby again, and it sneezed seven times and come to life. He picked up the baby and said, 'Call the Shunammite.'" And, oh, how little Bartimaeus liked that.

L-35 He begin to think, "Oh, when I used to hear my mother tell those stories." About that time he heard something clicking, of a little mule coming. Must be kind of a rich man, because most of the travel was on foot or by... Rich people rode a donkey, and the army used chariots. And so he--he said, "This must be a wealthy man that's coming in late." So he raised up, threw aside his garment, run out and said, "Alms for the blind. Alms for the blind, please."
And the little mule stopped, and he heard a real grouchy voice said, "Out of my way, beggar. I am the head of the ministerial association of Jerusalem. They tell me that there's going to be a... I'm the servant of the Lord. They tell me they got one of these here so called prophets coming in down here today, sees visions and so forth. They're going to have a healing service. I'm going to gather the whole council down here today. I've got to get these ministers together to see that we'll have none of that nonsense around here. Out of my way, I'm on the way of the Lord." Down the street went the little donkey. And so Bartimaeus thought, "Well, and that's the servant of the Lord."


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