<TITLE>03. Par 18-31</TITLE>L-18 And these Russian soldiers standing there that night, I come into a little vestibule and into a little hall. And this little girl, I'll never forget her, she was--she was little ragged hair and little skirts ragged. And she had come out of the--the ladies' room. And they were told not to bother me.

L-19   I'd get out on the street and buy candy. I--I have children, myself, and I--I like children. I think anybody that doesn't like children, there is something wrong with them. And so these little fellows, I'd have a string a half a block long, following me. I'd give them candy. They would give me some of that money there, and it was no good here, great big bills like that, and I'd buy candy. I don't know what I was buying, but I give it to them. And then they asked them on the streets, you know, if I walked around, just kind of go ahead and ignore me, I guess, so get a little exercise.

L-20 And then when I come in that night, that little girl thought she had done something wrong, and I know she had ducked her little head. And she looked up out of her little blue eyes, and she was going to see what I was going to say.

L-21   And the two soldiers in front of me, had went on to the door. And they were singing Only Believe. Two more was behind me. I motioned to them, "stop."

L-22 I wanted to see what that child would do. She was about, I guess, about eight years old, ten. I learned later, she was a little, Finnish, war orphan. Her father and mother had been killed in the Russian war. And so I--I looked at the little fellow, and--and she had these crutches. And she thought that I'd... she had done something wrong, you know.

L-23   And I looked at her. I said, "You want to see me?" And, course, she couldn't understand English. And I motioned my finger to her, come over there. And she raised up her head and looked kind of childish like. She put these little crutches out, and raised her little limb up, kind of like that. And here she come, walking over.

L-24 I thought, "I'll just see what the child does." And I just stood there like that. And she got real close to me, and she looked at me; and looked up like that, and looked down. I thought, "I'll just see what she does." And she picked up my coat, looked at it in her hand, and kissed my coat pocket, and put her hand down.

L-25   I was going to say to her, "my little sister," I didn't know how to talk. And I looked out in front, I seen her running down the street, just as normally as any child. And I said now, I couldn't talk to her, I said, "Honey, Jesus Christ makes you well."

L-26 And she pulled her little skirt out, typical little Finnish, and said, "Kiitos." That means, "thank you," see, for kissing the pocket. I--I believe, if I'd have been the biggest hypocrite in the world, God would have honored that child's faith.

L-27 And so she, I thought, "Well, she'll find it out, after a while, anyhow. See, it'll go on, she'll be all right, 'cause I done seen her in the vision." It has to be! What I tell, it just it has to be.

L-28   So that night, there had been so many things the Lord had did, and I was just about ready to leave. And I said, "Well, just call a few more."

L-29 And my brother said, "No," said, "you're..." And Brother Baxter said, "You're worn out now, Brother Branham." Said, "Now, you just--you just quit now, come on, 'cause we got to go somewhere else." And said, "You just..."

L-30 I said, "Well, I just feel maybe to have about four or five more, there is so many here."

L-31 And so the next one in the prayer line was that little girl. The Lord just knows how to work things just right. So I said, "Mrs. Isaacson..." She may be here now. She was my voice of Finland. And so I said, "Now you just say the words that I say." She said, "All right."


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