<TITLE>17. Par 183-198</TITLE>L-183   I know there is a lot of fanaticism in the world. I'm not responsible for other men's testimonies. I only have to answer for mine. I'm on the witness stand, in a defense for God and His Word, that I know It's true. And His Word, when I heard Him tell me that, I would not have believed it if He hadn't a-showed me in the Bible that it's promised for this day.

L-184 How many remembers I told you it'd come to pass, He said, that, "You'd know the very secret of their heart"? Raise up your hand. See? And did it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] It's thirty-three years later. It didn't happen right then. It come into it, like a seed growing. It's come up, like His Word. And, today, I am a witness that He lives. I am a witness that He heals.

L-185   Listen. We haven't got much time left; just for the prayer line.

L-186 Remember, I'm going to close the case, and just leave it like this. If... You can believe any witnesses you want to, but, remember, your mind is your jury. In every case there has to be a jury. And then the way you act, hereafter, will pronounce your verdict.

L-187 Now we're going to do just what the Bible said, "Lay hands upon the sick, and they shall recover." That is, the believers. "These signs shall follow them that believe." Now if you believe it, we believe it; hundreds here could stand, around over the nation.

L-188 Florence Nightingale, the late Florence Nightingale's great-granddaughter in London, England. Laying, you seen her picture there, nothing but a shadow. Cancer had eat her up. You see her picture on the next page?

L-189   Look at Congressman Upshaw, in the wheel chair, sixty-six years. Stood there at California that night. And come in, I walked to the platform, was standing there. And they started the prayer line.

L-190 I said, "I see a--a--a--a colored lady here before me, and she has got a little old baby. There is a doctor standing, that's--that's operated on that baby and has paralyzed it. The doctor was thin. He was wearing tortoise-shell glasses. And it paralyzed the baby."

L-191 Way down on the outside there, a typical old aunt Jemima weighted about two hundred and fifty pounds, here she come, knocking ushers every way, pulling that stretcher her baby was on. Said, "Lordy, mercy, that was my baby."

L-192 And the usher said, "You can't come in the line, you haven't a prayer card, lady." Well, I said, "Lady..."

L-193 She said, "I is going up there." And they couldn't hold her. She was too big for them, so she was pushing right on through the line. She went on up.

L-194 And when she got there, almost there, I said, "Just a minute, lady. If the Lord God could know what you was out there..." I said, "That's the baby, all right." I said, "I cannot tell you nothing about it." I said, "Only thing I know is just pray for the baby, and I'll do that from right here." I said, "But the only thing I can say is what I seen."

L-195 She said, "That was about two years ago, sir." And she said, "My baby, when they removed the tonsils, it paralyzed the baby." And said, "It's been paralyzed ever since."

L-196 I said, "Well, if your faith could touch Him, to bring that down, why don't you just set there and pray?"

L-197 I turned around. I said, "As I was saying, in my message..." And I looked, and I seen going down through the street, looked like an alley, a little, colored girl, the same one, with a doll on her arm, rocking it as she went along.

L-198 I said, "Auntie, God has heard your prayer. The baby is healed." Up got the baby. And I had to quieten it, with like a militia, and take that baby down through the crowd like that.


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