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by ORAL ROBERTS
MONUMENT TO A LITTLE BOY'S FAITH
In a glass enclosure in our
Abundant Life Building in Tul-
sa, Oklahoma, is a monument to
the faith of a little boy. Here
are displayed his built-up shoe
and a pair of crutches—no
longer needed because God
healed the little crippled lad.
This ten-year-old boy's faith
brought healing from God. Let
me tell you about it.
Willie's hipbone was flat. One
leg was 2-1/2 inches shorter
than the other. For four years
he walked in a built-up shoe and
with the aid of crutches. He
could not run and play like
other boys and girls. Many
times his little playmates took
Willie's .crutches away from
him, leaving him standing at
their mercy.
For four years, during Willie's
school life in the state of Vir-
ginia, the only way the school
children had ever seen him was
on crutches and wearing that
built-up shoe.
Willie's parents heard about
our crusade in Roanoke, They
told him that if he had faith
when Oral Roberts prayed for
him, God would completely heal
him. Willie believed it. Before
they came to the meeting Wil-
lie made his parents promise
that if God healed him through
prayer, they would go down the
next day and buy him a new
pair of shoes.
The prayer line was so long
that night that Willie could not
find a place to stand. After I
had finished praying for the
sick, I was on my way out of
the building, tired, exhausted
and wanting to get to my room
for some rest. As I was passing
by the room where little Willie
was standing on his crutches
and built-up shoe, I looked into
it. Why? I don't know.
I saw the little fellow looking
so lost and helpless. Something
got hold of me and 1 went in.
"Son," I said, "do you want to
be healed?" Little Willie said,
"Yes, sir." I was too tired to
pray a formal prayer, so 1 just
reached out and touched his
forehead and asked God to heal
Willie's leg, in the name of Je-
sus. I then left the building.
A year and a half passed. I
had not heard that Willie had
been healed instantly by God.
I was amazed as anyone to see
him standing on the platform
at another Roanoke Crusade!
Willie said that when 1
touched' him, he felt his faith
go, and God healed him. Im-
mediately his leg, 2-1 /2 inches
shorter than the other, was
lengthened.
He couldn't walk in his built-
up shoe because it made his leg
too long! His parents had to buy
those new shoes before he could
go to school.
Today Willie is healthy and
normal. His built-up shoe and
pair of crutches, under glass in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, bear mute
testimony to the power of a lit-
tle boy's faith in God.
moments in
meditation...
by Frednu VV. llsimetl
than those of pre-war Germany; (Israel 55) (Ez. 38:11).
and we seem powerless to do And the purpose of this action
anything about it. of God — this compulsion of the
The world would appear to be agressor — is a God-directed drive
drifting toward disaster, but what toward the grand sequel:
if that which seems to be an "Thus will I magnify myself,
inevitable drift is, in reality, in and sanctify myself; and I will be
fulfillment of a forseen purpose known in the eyes of many na-
Wherefore laying aside all mal- Qf God for the working out of tions ,and they shall know that
ice, and all guile, and hypocricies, His eternai p]an f0r the nations I am the Lord." (Ez. 38:23.)
and envies, and all evil speakings, Qver which Jesus Christ is ulti- "So the House of Israel shall
as new bom babes, desire the mately to reign on His return to know that I am the Lord their
sincere milk of the word, that ye the earth? This has been demon- God from that day and for-
may grow thereby: if so be ye strated many times in the past, ward." ( Ez. 29:22.)
have tasted that the Lord is as the unf0iding of history have Here, then, is the drive toward
precious. I Peter 2:1-3. been seen to satisfy the require- a Divinely-purposed issue of e-
Before the incorruptible seed of ments of prophecy. What oftimes vents, in contradistinction to that
the word of God can have its have seemed to be the happenings which would appear to be a
full effect upon our hearts and of blind chance, or the will of "world-drift to disastei, biing-
lives, Peter tells us that we must man, are seen to be in reality ing to a head tiie age-long in-
put away or lay aside all our the sure unfolding of the guid- tent against Gods Seivant Na-
evil tendencies. ing hand of God. tion Israel (US) "to cut them off
Do Christians need to be warn- Men and nations are blindly from being a nation .that the
ed against such sins as malice, pursuing their schemes, with no name ot Isiael may be no more
hypocrisy, and envy? Yes! Be- apparent sense of spiritual di- in remeinbeiance (Ps. 8.J.4). In-
cause as long as we are on this rection, but there is One — who stead .through Divine interven-
earth, we are subject to temp- is in control and who alone tion, they will be pieserved and
tations. Now let's notice that the knows the course and is most prepared for that work, under
sins Peter warns us against are surely steering the vessel. Jesus Christ as King of kings
sins against our fellow man. And This Controlling Hand is the and Lord of loids, for which they
central fact of all prophecies re- were chosen of God and destined
lating to events which are to to accomplish.
take place in "the latter days."
The prophets Joel, Amos and
aside Zephaniah .among others, tell of
wise a time of trouble and distress
if we are not conscientious in our
duty to our fellow man, we can-
not receive the word of God as
we ought to.
Having told us to lay
these sins, Peter, like a
physician, directs us to seek for which would come upon the whole
wholesome food so that we may earth. They refer to this time
grow spiritually. "As new born as "the Day of the Lord" and de-
babes, desire the sincere milk of scribe it as a period of unpre-
the word." Now if our desire and cedented darkness and desola-
love for the word of God is like tion. "A day of darkness and
a babes' urgent sincere desire for gloominess," says Joel, "a day
food, isn't it a good sign that we of clouds and of thick darkness
are new-born spiritually? To grow . . . there hath not been ever the
and to improve in wisdom and like, neither shall be any more
grace ought to be the desire of after it, even to the years of
every one of us. And the word of many generations" (Joel 2:2).
God will help us to grow in wis- Zephaniah corroborates all that
dom and grace when used in the Joel foretells:
right way. "That day is a day of wrath,
Finally, 'If we have tasted that a day of trouble and distress, a
the Lord is gracious," we will lay day of wasteness and destruction,
aside the sins that so easily beset a day of darkness and gloomi-
us, and we will desire the word of ness ,a day of clouds and thick
God so that we may "grow there- darkness." (Zeb. 1:15.)
by". And we all know that the So, too, the Prophet Amos
more we feed upon the sincere warns of a time of distress as
milk of -the word the more we "even very dark and no bright-
will learn of God's wonderful ness in it" (Amos 5:16-20).
grace! * But behind all this darkness and
distress among the nations is re-
| • vealed the "Controlling Hand of
dptfltllV Almighty God," bringing to pass
J • * * His unalterable purpose. This
gathering of the nations ,with all
the accompanying terribleness, is
God:
"For my determination is to
gather the nations that I may
assemble the kingdoms to pour
There appears to be a "world UP011 them mine indignation, ev-
drift to disaster" as Russia's pol- en my fierce anger." (Zeph.
icy would seem to be that there 3:8,>
should be no progress toward This will be to the end that
unity; no agreement to anything their agressive designs may be
that does not definitely advance broken, "that they (the nations)
Soviet interests. The late Bevan, may a'l caM upon the name of
Rev. Robert H. Harper
CHRISTMAS
A WORKMAN at a sugarhouse
in South Louisiana once asked
a young fellow workman which
comes first, Christmas or New
Year? The young man, with
thoughts of the approaching Yule-
tide in mind and without "second
thought" said that Christmas
would come first. The smile of
amusement on the face of the
older man brought to the young
man the fact that New Year
comes a long time before Christ-
mas, and it had already come a
long time since.
Howard B. Hand, Editor
Merrimac, Mass.
Drift or drive
by Rev. L. B. Phillips
JUST A THOUGHT:
Christmas is a time of joy
and happiness; a time of gath-
ering together with the fam-
ily, with friends and neighbors.
But how much more we might
appreeiate the true meaning
of this great holiday if we were
but to find time to escape from
the caroling, from the ex-
change of gifts, and the glitter-
ing deeorations for a few mo-
ments of silent meditation and
reflection.
But notwithstanding the calen-
when Foreign Secretary .spoke the ^ord to serve Him with one dar, Christmas really comes first.
Could there be a New Year of
blessing for mankind if Christmas
did not come first? How could
hope spring anew in the hearts of
men but for the blessed fact that
nearly 2000 years ago the herald
truly when he said he believed consent" (Zeph. 3:8-9).
that Russia was sincere when she From these and other prophe-
said that she wanted to colla- c*es which relate to "the latter
borate with the United States, days (°r "Day of the Lord") it
and Britain. "But here comes the *s c*ear that there can be no
rub," he added, "while Russia Devil-inspired action or insti-
wants this collaboration, she ap- Bation that is beyond the range angels sang of the coming of the
pears to want it only on her own °t Gods permission and control, new-born King?
terms. Sooner or later that must Throughout the detailed setting May the latest birthday of our
land us into difficulties. It can- forth of the final aggression Lord be His indeed. May we re-
not be acceptable to the Allies aSainst God's people in the 38th member whose birthday we cele-
that she should just repeat that 39th chapter of Ezekiel there is brate and in our gratitude may
formula about the need for unity this recurring reference to the we devote ourselves the more to
as a sort of 'Abracadaba' and directing hand of God behind him as the Prince of Peace who
then pursue any policy she likes anything the agressor may de- f°mes to'nake his blessing known
regardless of those who have once termine to do: "I (the Lord God) ar as e curse 1S ounc •
been her allies." against the, O Gog — I will
Certain it is that the leaders turn thee back — I will bring
of that vast nation, and her thee forth, all thine army, horses
satellites, who decide issues at anc* horsemen — I will bring
the Kremlin, live for Russia and thee against my land" (Ez. 38:3,
Communism, and for nothing else. It is all directed by God,
Russia's conduct is alarmingly *n fulfillment of a foreseen plan
comparable to the events pre- of which the Lord God had spok-
ceding the last war, with this en "in °ld time by the prophets
difference — the pace has become of Israel which prophlsed in those
faster. In some ways the actions days many years that I would
of Russia are even more subtle bring thee (Gog) against them"
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Waggoner, William J. B. & Waggoner, Cecil O. The Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1960, newspaper, December 15, 1960; Claude, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353726/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Richard S. and Leah Morris Memorial Library.