<TITLE>22. Par 248-259</TITLE>L-248   But Micaiah knew. When he seen his vision was exactly with the Word of God, then he knew it was right. And he was persistent, whether it took his life or not. He said, "You'll find out, when all this happens that I've said, comes to pass, then you'll know where It's at."

L-249 Same way, the blind man, he couldn't argue their theology; but he knowed his eyes was opened, so he was very persistent about it. Like Philip, and like Nathanael, woman at the well, they were all persistent after they got a hold of God.

L-250   Now in closing, we're going to start the prayer line just now in a minute, just something comes on my mind just now to say.

L-251 Not long ago, I was in Mexico, down. The Lord had sent me down to Mexico City, that big ring there. Oh, people were by the thousands times thousands. And the night before, there had been an old blind man come on the platform, and, now, it was one of the most horrible sights. There was a...

L-252 How many knows Brother Espinoza? See, there is many. Sure. Well, now, he was my interpreter. He can tell you this. And there had been a blind man come up on the platform, poor old Mexican.

L-253   And their economics are so poorly balanced there. For instance, maybe a--a brick mason will get so many pesos a day, maybe say five pesos a day. I don't know what it would. And that's Pedro, and he gets... He is a brick mason, so he gets five pesos a day, but he has to work five days to buy himself a pair of shoes, see, in their economics. And what about little Pancho then, Chico, the little one that has to work out here and only gets two pesos a day, and got five children to feed? But they have to save enough out of that, to burn a grease candle on a million-dollar gold altar, for his sins, you see. That's what burnt me up, and so then see them doing penitence to dead women, and crawling on their knees, and things like that.

L-254   So, one night, this old man come across the platform, he didn't have no shoes on. His hair was gray. He had an old hat tied up with strings. He was coming across the platform. I looked at the old fellow. And here I was standing with a nice pair of shoes and a good suit. He was blind. He was walking like this. And he said, and he kept saying something. Course, I can't speak just a few words of Spanish. He come across this way. And I got to him, I put... I thought nobody would see me; I--I put my foot out like this, to see if my foot, if my shoe would fit him. If it was, I was going to slip them off and let him have them. And, then, his foot was much bigger. And so I--I kind of... I said, "Bless you, dad."

L-255   And I put my shoulders up, see if my coat would fit him. And it wouldn't fit him, and much bigger. Didn't have no shirt, just an old coat on. And I thought, "Poor old fellow, maybe never had a good decent meal in his life." His old trousers, ragged, and dust all over him. And here the Devil had even blinded him. And there he was, walking across there, saying something. And I thought, "If my daddy would have lived, he'd been about the age of that old man." I thought, "O God!"

L-256 And I put my arms around him. You have to feel for the people. If you don't feel for them, there is no need of praying, you don't have compassion. And I put my arm around him.

L-257 I said, "Don't say this, Brother Espinoza." They don't interpret the prayer, anyhow.

L-258 So I said, "Heavenly Father, be merciful to him." I had my hands laid on him on like that.

L-259 He hollered, "Gloria de Dios!" That means, "Glory to God." See? He looked around like that, and the old man could see as good as I could. There he went, walking off the platform.


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