Reviving Prayers Answered Blend — Bertha Smith

Years ago this summer, when I was getting ready to sail for China, in fact I was ready to sail, at a farewell service for me, a sweet singer sang to me what we've heard this morning. And the dear Lord only knows what that meant to me afterwards.

And I learned to sing because I was happy, and I also learned to sing if I wasn't happy. And I knew that the Lord was always with me. And I learned to sing it in my devotions every morning. And I can sing all day without the book, which has been a great blessing all the years.

And I thank that sweet singer this morning for reminding me to praise the Lord for all that that hymn has meant in my life. And dear Lord, we lift our hearts to thee in praise and gratitude for the good hand of our God upon us.

And now we come to thank you for this Church and for this congregation, and to thank you for your blessed presence here. You are here because we are here, because your word tells us that when even two or three meet you are already there.

And we are not asking you to do something you are already doing, we just praise you for your presence. And we not only praise you for your presence here, but we enthrone you here to take over and speak through thine handmaid, and get lowered to yourself in this hour, for we pray in Jesus' name and for his sake.

Praying for Revival in North China

At the first service this morning, I spoke of praying for reviving, and I laid a foundation for the service which I am to give to you. I hope some of you were here at the first service, and that God answered our prayers for reviving in North China, where there were 50 missionaries, and I think they had 80 churches at that time, and that many preaching chapels, and numbers of schools with many, many students where they were hearing the gospel.

But we were not pleased with our work, and we prayed and we prayed and we prayed for reviving. We prayed the prayer of Habakkuk in 3 .2, Revive, O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years. And then the Lord led us to that method for bringing revival, and that was his purpose.

After years of praying for reviving, he let the missionaries be called away from their work and packed up in a fort out in Shifu, where there was nothing we could do but pray. So much communism in the Chinese city, we couldn't do any work.

And we just met together and started out to pray an hour, and in a little while we were praying 3 hours, 4 hours, not from 8 to 9 as we had begun, but from 8 to 12. Anyway, the Lord sent a revival in our souls first, and that's why he hadn't been able to answer our prayer and send reviving to the Chinese churches.

He had to begin with us, and he had to get us away from our work. We were so busy working with the Chinese and praying for the Chinese to be revived, we didn't have time to think about ourselves. The Lord just let us get packed up out in a fort in Shifu, and friends, we prayed until the Lord showed us what it meant to be revived in our own souls.

And because we were forced to pray for the physical healing of the eye of one of our own numbers, see or go blind, when the best specialist that we knew in the world had diagnosed it and told her she would lose her sight in 3 months, and no doubt the good eye would soon follow, we had to get holy enough to call upon the Holy God to send a reviving into our own souls and prepare us to pray for that eye to be healed.

And the day we prayed, we all knew that it was healed. And the Lord filled us with such a sense of having anything at all in our hearts that would be unholy, that would hinder our praying, that I'll tell you, we went back to our work with a new sense of the awful tragedy in the heart and life of a saved person.

The Holy Spirit comes inside of us when we are saved, and he'll never leave us, but we can just crowd him back into our hearts and grieve him so that he just has to do the best he can through us and not what he'd like to do through us.

Now he wanted to answer that prayer for reviving in those churches before we ever asked him, in those 80 churches and another 80 congregations perhaps meeting in chapels where there were not churches.

He wanted to send a reviving, but he had to do something in us first. And he couldn't answer our prayers until he got us cleansed. And when we got holy enough to call upon him to heal a physical eye of one of our number, and we saw the Lord do it and knew right there that it was done because we'd united our hearts in asking him.

And we knew it was done. He gave us the assurance in our souls that she would never lose that eye, that she'd never have another attack, and of course she never has. They're retired. Her husband is working in the Mid-American Seminary at Memphis teaching missions, and she's there and has been seeing with both eyes.

She was wearing special glasses. She said she didn't suppose they were doing any good, but anyway she was wearing them. She took them off when we got through praying, and she says, I'll never put these on again unless the Lord tells me to.

Well, she never did put those on again. After she became an old lady, she put on glasses for old age, but that's all. Friends, we were brought low before the Lord as he showed us our dedicated self, so busy, some of us doing 15 hours at work a day doing jobs for God.

And when we went back, cleansed, cleansed, cleansed, and no more living dedicated self doing jobs for God, but human personalities filled up with the Lord, with the Lord himself expressing himself through our personalities, I want you to know revival began.

Holiness, Confession, and Revival Among the Churches

And it began with the Chinese just like it did with the missionaries. He couldn't suddenly send down a great outpouring of joy upon them. They had to go the way he led the missionaries. They had to face up to sin in their hearts and minds.

And when we went back preaching the tragedy of sin in the life of a saved person where the Holy Spirit dwells, first our pastors began to see all kinds of things in their hearts and lives that was not holy.

We have a scale for pastors out there and preachers, and not according to the size of the church, but every pastor got the same, whether it was a big church or a little one. I put the pastors in city churches, the pastor in the little church was supposed to be just as busy as the one in the big church.

You wouldn't have that many members to look after, but you'd have that many lost souls to bring in to become members. So there was no difference in the amount of time they were to put in. They were to put it all in, all they had, so they all got the same salaries.

But in the city churches, the church members shared with the pastors and gave them many presents and they had a great deal more. Sometimes they would be a bit jealous in their hearts, and maybe they themselves wouldn't realize it, but the Lord made them realize it, and the Lord showed it to them.

Those pastors began to get right with each other first and get all the jealousy that they didn't even know they had in their hearts toward people that had more than they had. They came down before the Lord and humbled themselves and made confessions to each other, and then we had a great many preachers who were not pastors, preached out over the country to the villages.

They were not capable of guiding a church, but they could proclaim the gospel. I mean, they were not educationally qualified, and they could provide the gospel, and then we had some who were just capable of being what we called car porters.

They just went from village to village and to markets selling gospels and selling Bibles and giving out free tracts, and they would always be a testimony and a witness for the Lord. Well, all those what we called, they had no opportunity to go to school.

They had families to support, maybe, and couldn't go to school to get educated to be full-time preachers. But they got the profit for what they made on the books and gospels that they sold, Christian books and Bibles, so they were a great asset to the work, laying the foundation for preachers to come along later and organize churches and preach so they could get people saved.

Well, all those preachers got right, got their sins forgiven up-to-date, and then next it was deacons. When pastors had to make confession to deacons, that brought conviction to deacons' hearts. And deacons humbled themselves and got their sins forgiven up-to-date, and then it spread to church members.

And for two years, all over Shantone Province, church members were just getting right with God, getting their sins forgiven up-to-date. And we made the discovery that a great many of our church members had never been born of the Spirit.

They had been convinced of the truth in their minds and had come and joined the Church in all sincerity. And no wonder. They were trying outwardly to live up to standards of Christians, but they just had no passion for people that were lost.

They were interested in making their own living. And they came to church, but all they lacked was eternal life, and that was lacking everything. And when the church members began to get saved and they began to come to the Lord and declare that they had never come to the cross of Christ before as lost sinners, that was something else.

And we saw women trying to feed Christians. And one day a woman said to me, a missionary, said, Miss Smith, I spent 14 years teaching the Bible to dead church members, and dead church members can't eat.

And after she had a new experience with the Lord herself and she got her sins forgiven and went up to date and put herself so completely in the hands of the Lord she could just fill her up. And when he filled her up, he enabled her to discern that those church members that she had been teaching all the time were not saved.

And then she began to preach sin and the Savior, and they saw themselves lost sinners and came to the cross of Christ and received the living Lord into their hearts. And she said, I just wish you could see how the people in that community just ate up the word of God.

They just wanted Bible classes day and night. They couldn't get enough of the word of God. Well, after about two years, oh, I will have to tell you, some of the church members didn't want to be saved.

Why? They said, well, people began to confess their sins all the way back, and we didn't know when we went out there to tell people that they would have to get right with people as well as with the Lord.

So we just gave what we had been taught, that you see yourself a sinner and you come and bring your sins to the cross, and said, I'm going to join without even bringing them. The cross was just a fear in their minds.

And some said, well, now if you're going to have to confess all your sins to people and get right with people you have sinned against all the way back down there to be a Christian, I don't want to be a Christian any longer, just take my name off.

Well, of course you can't be a Christian and not be a Christian. You can't be born into a human family and not be a son or daughter of those parents. Well, they never had been saved, they never had been Christians.

And those Christian leaders didn't try to persuade them. They said, now, we'll have to take your name off if you're not ready to repent and let the Lord save you. And you can't be right with God and be right with wrong people.

An evidence that you're saved is you want to get right with everybody you've sinned against. And if you have no desire to get right with people, that means you've never tasted of the Lord coming into your heart and you being right with God because you stood before God and his Son.

So that's just an evidence you've never been saved. But now we'll have to take your name off, but we're going to pray that you'll let the Lord save you and come back. Well we got rid of that group that was unsaved.

Well another group in the churches knew they were not saved and acknowledged they were not saved, yet they wouldn't leave. Now what would you do with people like that? Well we might elect a rich one among them as Treasurer of the Church, and then that would make everybody feel good and you'd all feel good and go on together, and you'd just hope they'd be saved sometime.

Well not those people. Do you know what those Chinese brethren said? Why, it's the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the head of it, it's not our church. The Lord Jesus Christ is head of the Church, and they call everybody brother in the Church.

And if we should call you brother when you know you are not a brother, you know you haven't been born into the family of God, we'd be sinning against the head of the Church, and then where would we be as a Church if we sinned against the head of the Church?

We would just have to declare that you are not one of us, but we are going to pray that you will become one of us, that you will come to the cross of Christ as our lost sinner and let the Lord save you, and then come and we will be so happy to receive you.

Church Members Transformed Into Active Disciples

Well friends, in about two years' time we had churches of saved people, whole churches of saved people. Now if that wasn't something else, well you didn't have to get in, nobody had to wear a shoe letter to go and invite church members to come to church.

They were there bringing other people, they were bringing other people. And they started a Bible class and prayer meeting at 6 o 'clock in the morning. And in the winter in North China, that's a good while before day.

Well, even before that, people would get up early because they had no places to pray at home, no quiet place. They began to come early to the church and go down into Sunday school rooms and choose a place to pray in.

They would come and do their own private praying, and at 6 o 'clock when the church bell would ring they would come together and for 30 minutes they would make their request for prayer and pray for each other's dear ones and the various ones who were trying to lead to the Lord.

And then they would have their Bible study. And when we left there, some of those churches had gone through the Bible four times, taking a chapter every morning. Well, I had carried a very heavy schedule, and I had to be rung out of the bed by the alarm clock at 5 .30 every morning to have my own quiet time, and then be ready to be at school at 8 o 'clock.

And I always had worship by the lamp for about 9 months in the year, with the school servant and I serving at home, and there wasn't any other time to have that except in the early morning. And I had a good deal to do before I was at school, about 15 minutes before 8 every morning.

Well, I thought they could have let people sleep Sunday morning when we were going to Sunday school at 9 .30, and we were going to have morning services and evening and afternoon services, and everybody going out in the afternoon.

We had 24 preaching bands that went out every Sunday afternoon. At 2 .30, each one had a banner with a name on it that had a name and a captain, and we all met at the church at 2 o 'clock and got the tracts we wanted to take, different from what we had carried last Sunday, and decided where we would all go.

We had 24 places in the city where we went to witness every Sunday afternoon. And people would come and crowd around and stand just to hear about the Savior. And so it was a pretty full day, but, you know, there was no more sleep until breakfast time after that.

When everybody else was getting up to go pray, I couldn't stay over there in bed. I had to get up and go pray with them, Sunday morning, same as any other morning in the week. But it was, people began to get right, and to get right, and to get right, and to get right, until it was just astounding.

And it surely brings you down and makes you realize what kind of a person you have been. When so many people come to tell you that they have had evil thoughts about you, beg you to forgive them. And someone tells you they told things about you that were not true, well, it just wonders, oh, what kind of an impression was I making on them back there, that they would want to tell things against me, think so little of me, they wanted to not only tell what they knew that wasn't good, but make up something extra.

That was the kind of commentary on the impression we had made on them. And when we got right first and then they got right, and I'll tell you, we quit being dedicated self, doing jobs for God, and the Lord began to express himself through us.

I'll tell you, literally, rivers of living water began to flow, rivers. And we saw the Lord do all kinds of things that we never would have seen before. In many sections, they had no doctors. Now we had three hospitals in North China, mission hospitals and mission doctors.

Healing Testimonies and the Power of Prayer

I happened to live in one city that had a doctor, I'm glad I never did need him, but he was there if I did. Many people live three days travel, and two days travel from a mission hospital. And then sometimes people get sick when the doctors can't do anything about it.

And we found when there was no doctor present, or just something the doctors couldn't do anything about, that the Lord could. Now that didn't mean that he did always, but he could if it pleased him to do it.

And we learned from Miss Culpepper's Eye being healed, which you can read about in my first book, Go Home and Tell, now that's not a commercial, I just want you to read it, you'll find out that we missionaries prayed and Miss Culpepper's Eye was healed.

And that let us know that if people were holy enough, and if it pleased the Lord more to heal that person than it does to leave them sick, that we could expect him to heal people that were sick, or when it was something the doctor couldn't do, or if there's no doctor present.

And we just saw the Chinese heal all kinds of diseases. And many of it was, missionaries had nothing to do with it. It was Chinese. Miss Lottie Moon started the mission work, as UWMU women know, in Pindu, three days travel from where, from her base over on the coast of Tung Chau.

And she traveled by mule litter, that three days, she was starting to the big city where I later worked, called the Fu City. You see so many cities in China where the name ends in Fu. Now there's a reason for that.

That means that that city, that official, is the official over five counties. That was the way their work was divided, the officials. You see the officials were all appointed by the Emperor, and it was one government.

And of course, that's the way he appointed. And then he appointed even, he passed on the men that were appointed officials on down, even to the villagers. Well, Miss Moon started two days journey to that Fu City in her mule litter, and when she got there, the city officials had, before that, all gotten together, what they called the gentry, the leading citizens together.

And they'd all made a vow that under no condition should they or any of their descendants ever believe that foreign religion. That's what they called Christianity, and that's the way they spoke about the Lord.

And the watchman on the city wall saw that mule litter coming, and it was so hot, they have a bow frame of them like a covered wagon on two poles between two mules. And the shaft of the pole, the front shaft is the shaft of the front mule, and then they're long poles long enough for two mules and then for the vehicle in between them up on the poles.

And it had a bow frame on it like a covered wagon with a straw mat. Well, it was so hot out there that missionaries couldn't use, couldn't go in the winter with just a straw mat. It's so hot in the summer and so cold in winter.

So we all made quilted covers, made like a bed quilt to fit them, and we could get in and button them up at the front and keep much warmer. And everybody raised in to go, and you've got the people who wore plain white cloth, and we got plain white cloth.

We shipped in from the cotton mills in South Carolina when I first got there, and then we got so smart, we could raise in cotton, and the Japanese took it over. And I left there, just before I left, I paid a dollar a yard for one yard of white domestic made over in Japan to make my cooker cook in April.

That's what we paid for it, a dollar of U .S. money. No wonder Japan could be progressive. Well, anyway, they saw that blue cover, and everybody had the same. And they knew a foreigner, a missionary, was in that litter.

And the official sent his soldiers out to forbid those people coming in. And you couldn't turn those things around very easily. It took about an acre of land to turn them around, and you just had to keep going.

And Mrs. Moon said to her driver, just keep going. She went on a day's journey to Pingdu and got out at an inn. And, of course, when people saw that mule, that blue cover, know the foreigner, they just followed to see where it was going.

When they went into the inn, they were all there to see her. They'd never seen a white face. And she got out of that inn, that mule litter. They were all there, and she just started smiling and talking Chinese to them, and they were just charmed with her.

And she stayed there at that inn several weeks at that time. And she was just so well-received by the people that she went back, of course, again and again and started the first church there. Well, and was always entertained in a well-to-do home.

And we're just one son, I think, in the family. It was only one son. And, of course, he and his wife lived in the home with the grown folks, old folks. And later his wife became the old folks and the head of the house, so far as the women went.

And that woman had just one son. And she'd heard, after the revival came, she hadn't walked since that child was born. And when they were having a meeting up in Pingu County, she lived about six miles up from the county seat.

She heard about that great revival, and a man of God, a Chinese man up there, preaching in such power that people began to go to him to be healed. And a woman that hadn't walked in 12 years was carried on a stretcher to the church, and they prayed for her, and she went home walking.

Well, this woman out there that Miss Moon, whose people Miss Moon had run to the Lord, Mrs. Lo King Tong, husband, had been to school and up as a result of his people becoming Christians, that he'd become a Christian and was teaching English over in our institution, the college over in Huangshan, a two-day's journey from there.

And that woman had that 18-year-old son. Remember, she hadn't walked since his birth, 18 years. And she had him in the hired van hitched up the mules to a field cart that didn't have a spring in it.

The body rested right down on the axles, and they went bumping in over the stones. They always fill up the mud holes with stones in the roads. And she got there, and it was noontime, just after lunch.

But the people were in the church, but the preacher wasn't there. Well, she wanted the preacher. Well, the preacher was a visitor, didn't live in the community, and invited to lead a special meeting, Dr. John Sohn.

And she finally was sent over to the missionary's home, and she had those two men take her over there. And they made a pack saddle, as they used to call it when they were children, and rode on each other's arms, put one arm around the neck of one, one around the other, and they carried her on their arms.

And they carried her into the missionary's home, Brother Parker from Alabama, and set her down on the rug in the living room. Dr. Sohn knelt down beside her and prayed and asked the Lord if it would be his will to heal her.

He talked with her a while first and saw that she was a saved woman in tune with the Lord, and she wanted to be healed so she could tell her neighbors about the Lord and serve her family. And he prayed for her, and she jumped up and went down those steps, went down two flights of steps and walked up two flights of stone steps, about eight steps each, about 50 yards up to the church.

Bonnie Ray, our missionary from Georgia, was there, and she was a country evangelistic worker and went out to that church at least once a year to teach, to have Bible classes for the women. And she stayed in that home.

And she told me when she saw me, and they have their own, the churches have a wing over here for the women with their door, and then the men sit in the main auditorium. The preacher stands there and preaches to the men, and the women get what they can get on the side, from the side of this faith.

That was the old custom in China. And Bonnie Ray told me that when she saw Miss Laura King-Tong come in at that door and pass by her, sitting here in this wing, and just walk right on up to the pulpit and give a testimony to the congregation, even though the pastor hadn't come, they don't waste any time talking.

They just go out and stay out long enough feet and all come back, and they sing and testify and sing and testify until the preacher comes. I prayed for the meeting. They redeem the time when they go to church.

They stay there all day. Well, that woman just walked up to the pulpit, and Bonnie Ray said, when that woman walked up on the pulpit and gave that testimony, she said, Bertha, I broke out in goose bumps all over.

And I tell you, it was enough to make her break out in something. Well, that news just spread everywhere. And so that woman, Mrs. Laura King-Tong, heard it, and she said, Well, if the Lord will heal that Miss Wong, she'll heal me.

He'll heal me. He'll heal me. And then she got in that cart and started. No, no, this is the second one, isn't it? She'd already heard of the first one. She'd heard before that of a woman that hadn't walked in 12 years that had been carried to the church and healed.

Well, she went back home, and she just started going everywhere to see her neighbors, and she had a neighbor, 28 years old, hadn't walked in 12 years, to heal you. And there, the church that Miss Latimone had started was still there, but that old lady had never been.

Well, Mr. Parker and Miss Pearl Carwell, in fact, was the one missionary, the two missionaries that went to 35 churches. Of course, they helped develop them, and those 35 churches, and helped organize them, I mean, get the people ready to be church members.

So they went down about the next week to lead their, on their annual trip there for weeks meetings. Brother Parker was an old-time preacher with a big voice and preaches like the preachers used to when I was a child, and he was revived and preaching in the power of the Lord, and he started preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching.

Well, that old lady sent out and got a pair of shoes. She hadn't had any shoes in 28 years, hadn't needed any, sat on that brick platform, which they used for beds, and she just, and their stockings are made out of cloth, just the shape of a shoe, so she didn't need anything but her stockings.

Well, she sent out and bought a new pair of shoes. She expected to walk home. And lo, when she got to the church, the church was just packed. Her son carried her on his back. The church was just packed, and they brought her into that women's wing at the women's door.

Well, they brought an old, awkward, high Chinese chair that the Chinese teachers write. They have a high desk to write those characters, and they have to sit up in there as high as the desk is, and they put her in that.

But she didn't know the priest at church. Well, they sang a while, and then Brother Parker started preaching, and he preached and he preached and he preached and he preached, and she didn't know the priest, and she didn't know you couldn't talk at church.

She'd never been before. And she just kept saying, well, why doesn't he hush? Why doesn't he quit talking? He must have been into the fifth chapter of Romans with his soul revived. Well, anyway, he couldn't stop, of course.

And the people didn't want him to stop. When you preach an hour in China, they'll say, is that all you can say on this subject? Give us another hour. They call that the preacher's paradise. China, the preacher's paradise.

Well, the women kept trying to get her to keep quiet and keep quiet. Well, he just went on preaching, and she just, well, I want to be healed. I came here for the Christian's God to heal me. I want to walk.

I want to walk. But finally, the women saw that they just couldn't keep her quiet. And that was, and so those simple-hearted village women just got up, and a group of them went and knelt around their chair and called upon their Lord to stretch forth his hand and touch that woman.

And he did just what they asked him. She jumped down from that high chair and went running out at the door, and the whole congregation, all the women out there went rushing out. And they started just praising the Lord at the top of the voices.

Well, the men in the congregation didn't want Brother Parker's good sermon. So the people on the back seats, the men went out to quiet them, and they just joined in the hallelujah. Well, more men went out to quiet them, and they joined in the hallelujah.

And Brother Parker and Miss Caldwell both described this situation, what happened to me. And Brother Parker said, finally, I had to quit before he preached his sermon. Of course, he wasn't counting it a good sermon.

I know it was, because he's a wonderful preacher. And finally, everybody went out, and Brother Parker said when he got up there, there went Grandmother, Grandmother, Grandmother what? Suddenly I've forgotten her name.

But anyway, there's the old lady. Grandmother Cat, Grandmother Cat was going way up the hill in her new shoes as fast as she could go, and the congregation out there just wowed with excitement. Well, those three paralytic stories just went all over North Carolina, and the people began to say to their non-Christian neighbors who knew about it and heard about it, now we've told you all the time that our God is alive.

We've told you all the time he's alive and your God's dead, and you wouldn't believe us now. Here's proof of it. Here's evidence of it. But we had up in the city where I work, one day during the South, a man who, his father had been the head official in our city, well, head official over those five counties back in his day.

This man was highly educated and became the teacher for the missionaries as we went. He had about 10 or 12 children, and one little boy had developed a tubercular lower limb. And of course, they'd come on in the days after people didn't have much money.

He didn't get much for his teaching. That was all the income for a family that size. And Dr. Bell, Jeanette Bell, was the woman doctor for the Kathleen Mallory Hospital. In those early days, they had to have a men's hospital and a woman's hospital separate.

And she'd take the little fella in. She treated women and children. She'd take the little fella in and treat him and keep him awhile. And all they knew to do then was just feed him nourishing food and put him to sunshine.

And they'd send the little fella in and gave him good food. Sometimes he'd stay several months and he'd get homesick to go home. And they'd take him home awhile. And after awhile, he'd be losing ground for the lack of proper food.

Dr. Bell would take him back again. That went on for years. Everybody loved Joseph. Everybody knew about him. Well, his father heard about that meeting over in Pingdue where those three women were healed, and he wrote him a letter and asked him to just one day's journey from our place out a third three miles, and speed limit was three miles an hour, and I assure you, he never did break it, and asked him to pray for Joseph.

And Dr. Soane just read the letter to the congregation. Remember, that congregation was that they were in tune with the Lord. They wouldn't have been there if they hadn't have been. They'd have been too uncomfortable in a crowd like that.

And he put the letter on the Bible and put his hand on it and said, Now we'll all unite our hearts, and usually say our cleansed hearts, and we'll ask the Lord to heal Joseph. Well, I was on furlough the year that those three paralytics were healed, and missed the immediate excitement.

I got plenty of it later on when I got back. And so when I went back, the Depression had come, and the school that I had charge of had been cut to an eighth grade school. We didn't leave a missionary with an eighth grade school.

And while I was at home, the mission had transferred me out to the western part of the province. And I just went from Shanghai by train up. I usually went up by boat to the coast and to the new place.

Well, the next summer we went over that way for our annual mission meeting, and I went early to stop to get some of the things I wanted to move over there. And Dr. Bell and I were out walking one day, and there was a little boy who came along leading a mule.

And I said to Dr. Bell, Well, that boy looks like Joseph. She said, It is Joseph. I said, Joseph walking? She said, Didn't you hear about Joseph? And then she told me about him praying for him. And Dr. Bell said after that, now he wasn't suddenly healed.

He just suddenly began to get better. And she told me that pieces of bone worked out through the skin. And that boy was walking perfectly all right, except with a slight limb. That limb was just a little short in the other.