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1 Let's read out of the--of the Book of Saint Mark, I believe I would--have chosen to read a little while and talk about, and the 46th verse of the--of the 10th chapter. Let us stand in respects of the Word while we read. The Word is God. We all know that. So you stand, pledge allegiance, which you should do; you stand to salute the flag when it goes by; why not the Word of God when It's being read?
And he--they came to Jericho: and as they went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, set by the highway side begging.
And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more the great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him,
Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee. And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, What will thou that I should do to thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
... Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith has made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
2 Let us pray. Great Holy Spirit, quicken this Word to us tonight in this little drama. And may we see this scene lived over, and by doing so, take faith that God still lives, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. We ask it in Jesus' Name, His beloved Son, our Saviour. Amen. (May be seated.)
3 Our subject tonight is: "God Has A Provided Lamb."
And now, this morning we had such a great time, as we seen Jesus enter Jericho. And we found out that there's a little fellow there by the name of Zacchaeus, he--he climbed up in a sycamore tree and camouflaged hisself, because he didn't believe Jesus was a prophet. But his wife was a disciple of Jesus, and she'd been praying for him. And when Jesus came right under the tree, He stopped, looked up and called him by name, and said, "Come down; I'm going home with you today." I thought it would be a good thing tonight to--while we're here, that we'd just continue with Jesus. We asked Him this morning to go with us, and we wanted to go with Him, and let's just continue with Him through Jericho.
5 Now, tonight our scene opens at the same place, at Jericho again, and Jesus is in the house of Zacchaeus now, having His--His meal. And it's a cold October day, and it's still quite early in the morning yet, and the wind's coming down off of the--the mountain. Up around in Judaea, she gets pretty cold up there, early of a morning, especially in that time of year.
And the country at that time, even like it is over in the old country now, it's full of beggars. They get around on the street corners and beg. I... Down in those countries yet, the street sets full of beggars. India and, oh, Africa, and many places, they still have the beggars: lame, halt, blind, withered. And sometimes the people who can't make a living for them--theirselves, they just beg, and set there sometimes and starve.
7 I, in India, I've just went down through the streets, with some money that they'd been giving me by these people, and I changed it from dollars to rupees. And trying to--to pass it out, why, they had to get a militia to get me out of the street; they was stampeding me. And there was poor little women laying there starving to death. A little baby, and it done starved till the meat was cleaving to the bones, and where you see the little skull put together. And hand you the baby, trying to get you to take the baby so it won't die. If you take this one, what about that one, what about this one, what about... Oh, my, it's, you--you... If you'd see what we rake off in the garbage can here, would feed them people almost. You just don't realize how well off this country is, when you see the rest of the world starving.
8 And it's full of beggars. And this day, as our scene opens, there was a... We find that all these beggars come down, usually, in Jericho at the north gate, which come down from Jerusalem. Jericho wasn't too rich a city. But Jerusalem, the great self-styled, famous place of the temple, and--and the rich all moved to Jerusalem, and it was a great glamorous city. And the people who came from there were rather wealthy. And the merchants, and so forth, when they would come in, in the daytime, these beggars had their stalls; it's the unwritten law, they knowed just where each one would lay for his--begging for his bread, his alms.
And they had to get there early when the merchants came in, because maybe the man only helped one beggar a day, had a coin he'd put in his pocket before he left. And, of course, that time, Rome was ruling Palestine, and the currency was Roman denarii. And so they had a--a little coin; he'd pitch it to the first beggar, maybe, and that did it for the day. He couldn't afford to--to give to every beggar. So the one that met him first, of course, got the coin. So they had their places outside the gates, even before the people got into the city, the tourists, and so forth. And they laid out for that north gate, especially, getting the tourists coming down from there.
10 And as we see this morning that we're talking about, the sun's beginning to rise up now, about nine o'clock, there was one blind beggar that arrived kinda late.
He'd had a bad night. He was blind. He'd been blind since he was a little boy. And he had arrived late. He didn't... He overslept that morning, because all night long he had been dreaming that he could see again. And he had tossed in his bed. And--and he could see, he thought he could see, and to wake up with this disappointment, that he couldn't see, really, it was only just a dream...
12 And he'd made his way down to his place. And when he got there... (And now, this is a drama now, to get to my point.) there was no one there. There was something strange had happened. Yet no more than about nine-thirty or ten o'clock, and--and there was no more beggars there. Usually, every person was at their place. He didn't know what had happened in the city, that we had in our morning breakfast this morning, and talked about. Jesus had entered from the gate, and had went into the city, and--and many people had went in to find out what it was all about, there--and the beggars had gone. And he didn't know this, arriving late. So we could see him as he begins to call different names, and there's--there's nobody there: kind of a lonesome affair. He wondered, well, maybe the--the Roman officers might've run them off of the place or something. So he heard nobody, so he... It was kind of chilly, and he was ragged, and his clothes was pretty well worn out.
And he fumbled around till he found him a rock that was out in the sun, that had probably fell off the walls when God had shook the old wall down, the days of Joshua. He set down on this rock, and was trying to think about his dream the night before, how real it would be if he really could see. But he--he couldn't see. He was blind. And he begin to think about these things, and his mind drifted back to boyhood.
You know, I--I like to do that, set and think about things that's gone by, pleasant things, of victories I've seen the Lord win, and--and the times.
15 And Bartimaeus, as we know him by name, dreaming that night that he received his sight, he begin to think about how real it would be if he really could see. He thought, "Oh, I've been blind so long, I don't know where I'd even know how to get around again." So he begin to think about many years back when he was a little boy. He used to play out there on the hill, the side; it's on the bank where the Jordan comes down; and the valley's down there, which they raise grain. And he lived up on the side of the hill, we'll say. And he remember how pretty it was, and in the Springtime to--to watch the--the little flowers as they growed; how he would pick little handfuls of them, and set down, and look at the pretty blue skies.
You know, blindness is a horrible thing. When I see a man, blind, my heart goes out for him. But, yet, I--I know of a blindness that's worse: spiritual blindness; how God made man to--to visualize Him, and they--they can't do it.
17 One time, the Cincinnati zoo, I was down there, my little daughter and we were... I'm a great lover of outdoors, as you know. And I seen they caught an eagle and--and put him in a cage, and that poor fellow... I heard a noise; and I was holding little Sarah by the hand, and we--we went down to the cage. And there this great big bird, bloody all over his face, feathers all beat off of him. I thought, "What a pitiful sight."
He got down. He walked back across the cage. He got a start, and here he come, flopping his wings again to--to burst his head against the side of the--of the cage, flopping his wings up-and-down, trying to get out of the cage, and beating the feathers off. But he was captured. He fell back on the floor and laid there, and his eyes rolled around; he looked up and seen the blue skies which he was born for. He's a heavenly bird, you know. But, you see, some wise achievement of man had put him in a cage.
19 I stood there looking at it. I thought, "I'd give anything if I could buy him. If I could buy him, I'd turn him loose, say, 'Go ahead, old fellow, you'll--you'll like that. I do too. Be free and go on up there. You belong up there. You were born for that.'" I thought, "That's the most pitiful sight I ever seen."
I picked up Sarah, held her on my arm. I said, "Honey, there's one of the worst sights your eyes will ever look at."
And I stood there, thinking. I thought, "No, I--I know a worse sight than that. Look up on the hill there; them men with a can of beer in their hand, women with shorts on, and a cigarette." When they were actually born to be sons and daughters of God, and there they are in a cage of sin that Satan's put them in. Pitiful, spiritually blind, caged up; maybe belong to some church, sing in a choir, but yet caged in sin.
22 And as Bartimaeus tried to think back of the time when he was a little boy, how that along about two o'clock in the evening his pretty, little Jewish mother would call him, "Bartimaeus." He could almost hear her voice again, as it echoed around the hills, and he'd come running up. And she'd get out on the front porch, and get the old rocking chair, and get him up in her arms. And he remembered how he'd look at her pretty eyes, and what a pretty mother he had. And how she used to rock him to sleep, for his taking his evening rest. And how she did that, she would tell him stories, stories of their people, and of the great mighty prophets of God that had been among them. And how that he loved that, he loved to hear it.
23 It's too bad that--that mothers set their kids down to a--a television program of some scandal of Hollywood; instead of doing the same thing, telling them Bible stories.
But she was a genuine Hebrew mother, and she would tell the little fellow stories. She'd say, tell him about God sending the great, mighty Moses when they were slaves down in Egypt. God had promised father Abraham that he would deliver them. And He appeared to a--a--a great prophet that God had raised up among them, called Moses. And He come in the form of a Pillar of Fire, and sent Moses down in Egypt, and the great, mighty signs and wonders He'd brought them out. And how that in the wilderness, with no bread or nothing to eat, yet they were walking in the line of obedience, and God rained bread down out of the sky.
25 And I can hear little Bartimaeus say, "Mother, just a moment. God must have all of His Angels working up there, and He's got great big ovens all up through the skies, and the Angels work overtime, getting the bread ready, and push it out on the..."
"No, honey, you're too young to understand. You see, Jehovah don't have to do that. Jehovah don't have to have ovens. He's a creator. He just speaks it, and it's so."
Then what we going to say about Jesus, when we seen Him take the same thing? There must be something godly about Him. He must be some relation to Jehovah. Somebody today trying to make Him just a prophet, or an ordinary man, or a philosopher, a good teacher. He was nothing less than God manifested in flesh.
28 There as she would speak to him and tell him about how that the coming across the--the--the great wilderness, to which was just beyond the Jordan then, and how that--that in the springtime, when the month of April, when the snow was melting, up in Judaea, and all the mountain waters coming down, and all Jordan was--was just filled with water, the great backwaters in the river bottoms. It looked like Jehovah was a poor guide to bring His people up to that time that the rivers was flooded at their worst. How would they ever be able to build a bridge across it? And little Joshua, or little--not Joshua, but little Bartimaeus might say, "Mama, how did He do it?"
Said, "Honey, remember, Jehovah is still the Creator. He just spoke, and the..."
30 God likes to get things in a--when it's in a muddle, and show Himself God. Right in spring when... Summertime, you could probably cross the Jordan pretty easy there, there's a ford from the city, know that, by the spies going over and coming to this. But God let the whole valleys get filled up with water, and then He come and pulled His great power down from heaven and made a dry road across it. There stood the rocks just below, where Joshua had had them to pile up, as a memorial to Jehovah, how that their people was cared for. And he a...
31 Another one he--he liked real well was about the--the Shunammite woman. He remembered that. And his mother used to tell him the story of the Shunammite, and of the great prophet Elijah in his day, and how that this woman was kind to this prophet. Yet, she wasn't exactly an Israelite. She was a Shunammite.
So she believed that Elijah was a prophet, a great prophet of the Lord. So when... One day she said to her husband, "Let's build him a little room on the side of our house and show him kindness, because he's a--he's a great man.
33 And how that one day when Elijah and Gehazi his servant came up and they seen all this kindness, he said to Gehazi, "Go in and--and--and ask, 'What can we do? Can I speak to the king or the chief captain?'"
She said, "No, I just dwell among my people. It's all right."
But Gehazi said, "She's barren. She's old; her husband's old, and they have no children." And said...
And Elijah must've saw a vision. He said, "Go, tell her, THUS SAITH THE LORD, she's going to have a little boy." And in nine months the little boy come along.
37 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... old, he was with his father, out in the field, in harvest, and he must've had a sunstroke. He kept crying, "My head. My head." And the father sent him into the house. The mother held him on her laps, and rocked him, and perhaps give him all the remedies there was to give him. And the little boy got worse until finally about noon, he died.
And how that that little mother wasn't going to be defeated... When the father come in, and the neighbors all come in, and they were wailing and screaming, the little fellow dead, but she still had faith in this prophet, a Hebrew prophet: her, a Gentile. She said, "Saddle me a mule, and--and don't--don't--don't stop, but let me go to that cave where this prophet lives up at Mount Carmel."
And her husband said, "It's neither new moon or sabbath, and he won't be there."
She said, "All will be well."
Said, "Go on."
40 And when Elijah saw her coming, he and Gehazi come out of the cave, and looked, standing out there. And here she come. He said, "Here comes the Shunammite, and she's troubled, but God has kept it a secret to my heart."
You know, God don't tell His prophets everything, just what He wants them to know.
So he--he looked, and he said, "She's..." Said, "Go, meet her, and say, 'Is all well with thee? Is all well with the husband? Is all well with the child?'"
And this is the part I like too.
When Gehazi met her, he said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the child?"
She said, "All is well." A baby laying dead, a husband screaming, tears dropping down her heart, but, "All is well." She had come before the man that could tell her and bless her, and she had the baby, surely God would reveal why He took him. "The Lord gave; the Lord taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord." She wanted to know why.
45 And then how that she come up and fell down at Elijah's feet, and Gehazi jerked her up; that wasn't becoming around his master. And she revealed what was wrong. And Elijah went down and raised up the little boy, by laying his body upon the little fellow.
And I want you to notice the mother's faith too. She laid the baby upon the bed that Elijah had been laying on. I want you to...
I want to clear up Paul's idea here to my way of thinking. You know, Paul put handkerchiefs upon the sick and the afflicted, and aprons. I don't believe Paul was unscriptural. I think here's where he got it. You remember what the first thing Elijah said to the--to the Gehazi? "Take my staff and go lay it upon the baby." He knowed everything he touched was blessed. And so, you remember, Paul didn't pray over the handkerchiefs. They just took off of his body. That was the people's faith.
So, you see, he said, "Take my staff and (if anybody salutes you, don't salute back) lay it on the baby."
But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. And she said, "I'll not leave you till... Sure as your soul lives, I--I'm not going to leave you."
So Elijah, to get rid of her, had to go with her. So he went in and laid his body upon the little, dead baby, and it sneezed seven times and come to life.
51 My, what a--what a great story that was to this little Barti--Bartimaeus, when he was a--a--a little boy. How he used to like that little story, because it was a resurrection of a little boy. That was one of his favorite.
"But that was in the days gone by," the priest tells him now. "Alas, that was days when Israel had great, mighty men; great, mighty prophets walked the land." But the priests said, "You know, Jehovah don't need prophets anymore." Not only priests say that... But--but they did then, "Jehovah don't need prophets anymore. He gave us the law, and we built a church, a temple, and that's all we need." And it's just about the same way they believe it today, but still Jehovah remains Jehovah and He cannot change His way; He's God and change not. Now, they believed that that's--that's all they--they needed.
53 And so while he was setting there in this daydream, as it was, thinking about it, and his blinded eyes turned up towards the warm sun; all at once, he hears the clicking of a little mule's feet coming down the--the rocky road, coming down from Jerusalem: cobblestones, coming in as... And he listened close, and there was somebody with sandal feet running in front of the little mule. And he knowed that must be a rich man, because his travel was by mule and he also had a servant to lead the mule.
So he rises, knowing that he had to get some money in order to--to live. So he rises and puts his robe around him, and a little ragged robe, and runs out towards the street, and he said, "I would like an alm. I was late this morning; I... Would you please give me an alm? I'm blind."
55 And we hear a real rough voice coming, "Out of the way, beggar. I am the servant of Jehovah. I'm a priest. I'm coming down from Jerusalem, sent by the association, to stop that healing meeting that's going to be down here this morning in--in Jericho. I got to meet the brethren down here and see that that thing doesn't go on, get the people. There's a false prophet in the land. See? We're... We hear He's in Jericho this morning, and I'm on my road. Out of my way." Priest. "And, all right, servant, on your way." And the little mule trotted off again.
56 Then the beggar feels his way back till he finds the rock, set down and continued his dreaming, and when he begin to think, "Out there at that little road where I was standing; not too long ago, the great mighty prophet Elijah and Elisha come arm in arm, walking down that same road, arm in arm, going down to the Jordan. And Jordan was going to open again. And on the other side, for this tired old prophet, Elijah, there was a chariot of Fire and horses of Fire hitched to some limb over there, to take him home. And he was to see this young Elijah. Elisha was to look back and see the ministry before him, what was set before him. He had to keep his eyes on this prophet."
57 And I'd imagine Bartimaeus said, "If I could've only lived in that day and been setting here, I'd have run out to those prophets, fell upon my face, and said, "Oh, prophet of God, pray for me, and Jehovah will give me back my sight." But the priest says, 'That's... There's no such a thing no more. We don't have that. Jehovah doesn't heal by His power no more. We have doctors and things that does that. And we don't need that no more, so Jehovah doesn't heal. That was of the day gone by. We just keep the law. And we get sick, and die and go to heaven, and that's all. That's all we need.'"
58 Then as he begin to think, then he remembered. Not five hundred yards from where he was setting; after Israel had crossed and camped, and all setting in order, all the tents all in places, waiting for orders to march up to Jericho, and probably the very rock he was sitting on was one that Jehovah had blasted off of the--of the walls.
And said, "Just think of it. Not too long ago, a mighty warrior Joshua, great mighty servant of God, crossed the river in the springtime, set up the tents right in front of the enemy. One day while studying his a strategy for the attack upon Jericho, one evening while walking out--or one morning, looking the gates all over, and how great it was. They could run chariot races on top of it, horses, several abreast, around the gate. How Joshua was looking. He looked standing over against the wall, and there stood a Man with His sword drawed. Joshua drew his sword and went to meet Him. Joshua screamed out, said, 'Are You with us or are You one of our enemies?' He said, 'Nay, I'm the Captain of the host of the Lord.' The mighty Joshua throwed his sword on the ground, and took off his helmet and fell at His feet."
60 Blind Bartimaeus thinking, "That wasn't five hundred yards from where I'm sitting right now, where the mighty host of the Lord, the Captain of the host, and Joshua bowed at His feet. Oh, if I'd only been there in them tents, blind then, I'd have asked the mighty Captain of the Lord's host if He'd give me my sight, and He would done it." Little did he know that that same Captain was less than a hundred yards from him.
That's what we make our failures tonight. We try to place all the glory and Christ way back in another age. The Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's just as much here in this building tonight, as He ever walked in Galilee or Jerusalem.
62 That great Captain was coming out of Zacchaeus' home, and the people were--were waiting for Him on the outside. In a few minutes he hears a noise, and the noise has a mixed voice. One is saying, "Hosanna to the Prophet that comes in the Name of the Lord. Blessed is the Prophet of Galilee, the Servant of Jehovah."
Others said, "Away with such a person. We'll have none of this around this city here." And as they come forth, and some of them throwing overripe fruit at Him, as He moved through the gate...
And he--he'd never heard anything like that, so he said, "What's going on? What's all this noise about? What's happening around here?" And people pressing...
67 After while he heard the voice of that same priest that went down to get the association not to have the meeting. He heard him say, "They tell me that you raise the dead. Now, we've got a whole graveyard full of them up here on the hill; let's see you come up and raise some before us."
But, you know, He was headed for Jerusalem, going up to be crucified. All the sins of the world was upon Him, and He was going to Jerusalem to be offered up as a sacrifice. And they mocked and made fun of Him; and some of them blessing Him, and some of them cursing Him, just like there is in practically every meeting where He's at; some's for Him, some's against Him. But he never seemed to bother Him. He had His face set towards finishing His course. And on He walks, steadily, as He went on, looking towards Jerusalem. And twelve little men had Him garrisoned there, trying to hold the crowds back. And some trying to touch Him, and some screaming and making fun of Him, and--and so forth.
69 And the crowd kind of run over the old blind man, as we have as our character tonight, and they had pushed him down. And let's think that there was some nice, young lady came by, perhaps maybe a--might have been a sister to Rebekah in our story this morning, or it was a--a believer in Christ. And she seen the--them pushing the old man along, and seeing that he was... They was unkind to him. But being that she was a believer in Jesus, it made her kind. It always does. It makes it considerate to the old and to those who are needy. And the old fellow had been pushed down, and she stooped to pick him up. She...
70 He might've said to her, something like this, "Young lady, I can tell by your voice, you're a young lady."
"Yes, I am. Would you stand up, old man. I believe they might hurt you?"
He said, "What's all of the--the racket about? What's all the confusing--confusion out here? What's it all about?"
"Why," she said, "have you not understood that Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David, is in the city? That's Him going by, the Prophet of Galilee. Do you mean you don't know?"
"No, I--I--I have never heard of Him."
"Well, let me tell you what happened this morning in the city. You know Zacchaeus, the restaurant man?"
"He's always been kind of a critic. His wife was a believer. And this morning, Zacchaeus up in a tree to watch Jesus come by... And we all know that He's the Prophet. And when He came by, He stopped, and looked up, and called Zacchaeus by his name: never was in Jericho before."
76 The old beggar lightened up. He said, "Then that's the fulfilling of Deuteronomy 18:15, 'The Lord our God shall raise up a prophet liken unto Moses.' That must be Him. If He is, where is He at now?"
"He's just about a hundred yards down the road."
Done passed him by, he thought. So he begin to cry out, "Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. Have mercy upon me, O Son of David. While You're passing by, have mercy."
Now, physically, He could've never heard his voice, because of all of the commotion. Some praising Him and some blessing Him, and some cursing Him, and the commotion, He could've never of--of heard Him.
79 But He was the Word. And when a soul is crying out; like that woman with the blood issue, that touched His garment, the Bible said He stood still. It stopped Him. Think of it; just think of it, that the--the call of a--that one blind, insignificant old beggar, and with the sins of the world and the burden upon Him, going to Jerusalem to become a sin offering, yet the call of one human soul made Him stop and stand still.
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. One call tonight will bring Him on the scene, just the same as it did then. How He remains the same...
81 I remember, one night coming from Dallas, Texas. It's been several years ago. I was grounded at--at Memphis. And now, they put me up there in that famous hotel, the airlines did, Peabody Hotel. And I--they told me they'd call me the next morning in time to catch the limousine to go back to the plane.
And I'd slept good through the night, and got up the next morning, had written some letters, was going down to the post office to mail them. I went out and started down the street. And all of a sudden, I felt Something said, "Stop, and go back."
Well, you know how people gets impressions. And I thought, "Well, that was probably what it was."
84 Went a little further, and It kept saying again, "Stop, and go back."
Well, I--I got up in a corner; there's a big Irish cop out there on the corner, and I didn't... I was looking at fishing reels and things in a window. And I might've stood a little too long, and he might get suspicious that I was trying to get one of those reels, so I just turned around and started walking back. And as I walked back, faster, faster, and I passed right on by the hotel and went down towards the river, way down. I don't know, I guess I could find the place tonight. And I thought, "Here it's getting late, but Something..."
86 You believe being led of God? And as I went on down along, I--I... It was getting late and I knowed I had to hurry, but Something just kept saying, "Go on, go on."
And as I got almost too late to go back and catch my plane, I thought, "Well, I--I must follow this leading." And I happened to be singing this little song, I just met up with you Pentecostal people, about:
They were gathered in the upper room,
And all praying in His Name,
And baptized in the Holy Ghost,
And power for service came.
You ever hear that song? "And I'm glad I can say I'm one of them." I was trying to repeat that over, saying:
Come, my brother, seek this blessing
That'll cleanse your heart from sin.
89 And as I went along down the street, I looked, and there was an old typical Aunt Jemima leaning out over her little fence, and a little, colored house there, a little, whitewashed cabin like, leaning out over the fence. She had a man's shirt tied around her head.
And I just quit singing and started walking on. I didn't know where I was going; He just said, "Keep, just keep walking." And so when I got pretty close to her, I seen she was kind of smiling. And I looked over at her, and turned my head, and walked on.
She said, "Good morning, parson." Now, in the south, "parson" means "minister."
And I--I said, "Good morning, auntie."
92 I looked back, and I thought, "How did she know I was a parson?" And I didn't have a Bible or nothing.
I turned back. I said, "How did you know I was a parson?"
She said, "I knowed you was coming."
And I said, "Kinda strange to me."
And--and she said, "Did you ever read in the Bible about the Shunammite woman?"
I said, "Oh, yes, ma'am."
She said, "You know, she didn't--was barren, she couldn't have children."
I said, "Yes, ma'am, I remember the story."
Said, "And she promised the Lord, and she was going to raise that baby to the Lord, of course." And said, "You know, I was that kind of a woman." She said, "I couldn't have no children, the husband and I." And said, "I promised the Lord, if He'd give me a baby, that I would raise it for Him." And said, "He gave me a baby." And said, "I raised that boy the best I could, to serve the Lord." She said, "But, you know," she said, "he got in the wrong company, and he got a--a--a disease in his body." And said, "The doctor man has done give him all the shots that he can give him. And it's done went in," said, "his blood is four-plus, social disease," syphilis. And so said, "The--the part of his blood drops back through his heart. His heart's got holes in it." And said, "He's laying in there unconscious." And said, "A doctor man was here two days ago, and said he'll never wake up no more; he's gone."
96 And said, "I just can't stand to see my baby die like that." And she said, "I--I--I prayed all night, 'Lord, if You're going to take him... You give him to me; but I--I--I want to hear him say he's saved, so I know I'd meet him again.'" And said, "I--I prayed, and I prayed the prayer like about mentioned the Shunammite woman."
And said, "I--I went to sleep, and I dreamed a dream." She said, "And I said to the Lord, said, 'You give me the baby.' And said, 'I was like the Shunammite woman, but where is Your prophet?' And said I... He said, 'Look, coming here.' And I seen a man with a little hat setting on the side of his head, wearing that gray suit, coming down the street."
And said, "That was about four o'clock this morning." She said, "I've been standing here ever since."
He's still God. He answers on both ends.
99 I said, "My name is Branham. I pray for the sick. Did you ever hear of my ministry?"
She said, "No, sir, Parson Branham, I never did hear of you." And she said, "Won't you come in?"
And when I went to open the gate, it had a little old fence there, and the gate had a plow point hanging on it, the--like back in Arkansas. It was just across the river from it, anyhow, so you know what that was. So I pulled back the gate and went in.
When I went in that home... I've have been in kings' palaces, three or four different kings; king of England, King Gustav of Sweden, many places, going in and praying with them. And I've been in some of the finest homes, I guess, in Hollywood. But I never was any more welcome than I was in that one. Just a plain little old room, two rooms, little kitchen on the back, little bedroom here, and a little old poster bed. There was no pinups on the wall. But there was a sign there, said, "God bless our home."
103 I looked, laying there, and a great big Negro boy, looked to be about eighteen years old, great, strong, healthy-looking boy, and he had the blanket in his hand, and he was going, "Uh. Uh."
And I said, "What's the matter with him?"
She said, "He--he thinks he's out on a dark sea lost. And says, he keeps saying he's lost out on the sea, and he can't find his way. He thinks he's oaring a boat." Said, "He's been doing that for two or three days." And said, "I--I just can't let him die like that." Said, "Will you pray for him?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
I got to talking about healing. She wasn't interested in that. She wanted only to hear him say he was saved. That's all she was interested in, that he was saved. And I--I said he is...
106 She walked over and took him by the head, and pulled him back, kissed him on the cheek, and she said, "God bless mama's baby."
Me standing there looking at that, and I thought, "Yeah, yeah, that's it. No matter how much disgrace he's brought to the family, how far away he is, no matter what trouble he's in, he's still mama's baby."
And I thought, "The Bible said, 'A mother can forget her suckling babe, but I can't forget you. You're...' How much love there is. 'Your names are engraved on the palms of My hand.'"
She kissed him. We knelt down. I set at the foot of the bed. I put my hands upon his feet; they were hot, sticky.
110 And I--I said, "Auntie, will you pray first?" And, my friend, I knowed she'd talked to Him before. Oh, what a prayer she made to God.
Then she said, "Will you pray?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am."
I said, "Heavenly Father, I'm at least a hour late for the plane. You told me to--to come down here, and just keep coming. And then I don't know whether this is where You wanted me, or not, but this is where I've stopped. If You sent me to pray for this boy..."
And about that time, he said, "Oh, mama!"
She said, "What does mama's baby want?"
Said, "It's getting light in the room." About five minutes, he was setting up on the bed.
114 I rushed out, went on down. I thought, "Well, I can just only get a cab; that's all; and wait over a day, or whenever I can get another plane."
Just as I was going into the gate, two hours and something late, I heard him say, "Last call for flight number sixty-seven, to Louisville, Kentucky."
What? What? The sovereignty of God! See? The prayer and faith of that poor, little, insignificant Negro woman, grounded that plane and held it there. He's the same God that could stop and turn around to a blind beggar at the--at the walls of Jericho. He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever. It's faith that does it. He wants you to believe it.
117 By the way, about two years later I was going through there on a train, going, coming back to Phoenix. And, you know, they charge you so much for them sandwiches, I usually try to get off at a station and get me some hamburgers, a sack full of them, to do me till I get off, 'cause they charge you seventy-five cents for a little old sandwich that's sliced so thin it's only got one side to it. And--and it, now, it's awful. And I--I jumped off at Memphis. And if anybody was ever at Memphis, and know how the train pulls up on the turntable here. I jumped off and run down there to a hamburger stand.
I heard somebody say, "Hello there, Parson Branham."
I looked around, here's this little redcap standing over there, head up. I said, "Hello, sonny," started back.
Said, "You, you don't know me, do you?"
I said, "No, I don't believe I do."
Said, "You know, one day you come to my house." And said, "My mama had been standing out, and you patted her on the back, wet."
I said, "You're not that boy?"
Said, "Yes, I is." He said, "Yeah, I--I's that boy." He said, "I--I'm not only healed," but said, "I--I--I've got saved since then too." So that, that was it.
Oh, amazing grace. The same God, that a blind beggar could stop Him, a insignificant little Negro woman could ground a plane. Her prayers and faith in God... She was believing it.
122 Jesus stood still. That blind beggar's face stopped Him right in His track. I'd like to have a few nights to preach that subject, "And then Jesus stood still." But there He stood, said, "Bring him here." Amen.
I was reading a story about blind Bartimaeus, here some time ago, when I was taking Bible history. It's probably a legend, but it said that he always believed in healing. No matter what the priests said, he still believed in it. Said he was a married man, had a wife, and a little girl that he'd never seen. She was about that age then, about sixteen years old. He'd never seen her. Said what he did for a--a...
124 You know, you have to have something a little different from the other fellow when you're begging, or you can't attract the attention of the people. In India, they--they let one of these little mongoose kill a cobra, and something another that they can do to attract attention. I seen a--a monkey take a stick and just beat the ball over the street, something another, to get the attention, then they give them money.
And said Bartimaeus had two little turtledoves that would make, do tumbles, like little--over each other, and that entertained the--the people, the tourists, and they'd give him money.
126 And said that one night his--his wife got real sick. And they'd had the doctor, and the doctor said, "Bartimaeus, there's nothing I can do. She's--I can't break that fever."
And said he felt his way around the wall, and got outside of the house, and said, "Jehovah, I love You. I believe You. And I have nothing I can offer You. I got two little turtledoves here, that I make my living by. But if You'll just let my dear wife stay with me to help raise my child; and I'm blind, and I can't see; if You'll just let my wife get well so she can help me around, I promise You, tomorrow I'll make a great sacrifice. I will take my little turtledoves up, and offering for my offering."
128 Well, they say his wife got all right. He took the turtledoves and offered them.
Sometime after that, his little girl got sick. She also was at point of death, so he went out to pray again. He said, "Jehovah, I don't have nothing left, but I've got my lamb." And in them days a lamb led the blind like the seeing-eye dog does now; they were trained to lead the blind. And he had a lamb that led him to his post where he begged. He said, "The only thing I've got left, Jehovah, is this lamb." And said, "If You'll just let my little girl live, yet I've never seen her, but she's such a comfort when I stroke her hair with my hands..." And said, "She loves me, and I love her." And said, "Jehovah, if You'll let her live, I'll--I'll give You my lamb for a sacrifice."
130 And his girl got all right. And here he was, going down to the temple with the lamb. And the priest come out and stand upon the balcony, and said, "Blind Bartimaeus, where goest thou, this morning?"
He said, "I'm going to the temple to offer this lamb for a sacrifice."
"Oh," he said, "blind Bartimaeus, thou cannot do that." Said, "I'll give you some money, and you go to the--the stalls, and you buy a lamb and offer it."
He said, "I never promised God a lamb. I promised God this lamb."
He said, "But, blind Bartimaeus, thou cannot give that lamb, for that lamb is your eyes."
He said, "If I'll obey my promise to Jehovah, He will provide a lamb for my eyes."
He had, this cold October morning, a Lamb had been provided for blind Bartimaeus' eyes. Said, "Bring him here." He laid His hands upon his eyes, and that provided Lamb of God opened his eyes.
137 Friends, you know, could be a lot more said to this story about Him going on to the crucifixion, but we'll pick that up some time later. Do you know, that same Lamb is provided tonight for your eyes too? That same Lamb is here tonight. God provided. He has no other, never will have another. That's God's provided Lamb. Do you believe that?
I looked at my watch, I'm already about twenty minutes until ten, and I was going to try to stop at nine o'clock, get out at nine-thirty, at regular time.
But let's bow our heads just a moment. I want every eye closed now, and your heads bowed. Be real reverent for a moment.
140 "O Jesus, Thou Son of David," cried the beggar, "have mercy on me." And he would not keep still. He--he must... He--he must attract His attention. And don't you believe tonight that our same cry will bring Him on the scene again? It did then. Why wouldn't it do it again?
Now, as you bow your heads and your heart, I want you to cry out to Him, "Jesus..." Don't call Him Son of David, because He's not Son of David to you. He's Lord. "Jesus, Lord, have mercy on me. Open my blinded eyes. I have heard this minister that's with us tonight say that You promised to manifest Yourself to the seed of Abraham in the last days the way You did to Abraham and his seed of that day. You promised it, that You are the Word.
"In the last few nights I--I've been noticing strange things. He said, in Saint John, I know, 14:12, 'He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also.' And the woman touched His garment, and He knew what her trouble was, and because that--that she exercised that much faith, why, to believe that He was, His faith in what she had done, He pronounced her well, said, 'Thy faith has saved thee.' And a blind man at the gate of Jericho, the same thing. A man in a tree, this morning, his sins was forgiven him."
"Open my blinded eyes, Lamb. That I might recognize that I'm in His Presence, that He's here. You said, 'Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I--I'm in their midst.' Open my blinded eyes, and be merciful to me, O Lamb of God."
144 And while you pray that, just if there's any doubt in your mind, there's been any doubt anywhere along... We're just now on the eve of a great healing service. If there's been any doubt about it, won't you ask Him to roll away all the scales from your eyes, that you might understand clearly?
These few nights that I've been trying with all my heart to get you to see something, that He's giving His last sign to the church before He turns to the Jews. The Gentile Bride is to be called.
146 [Tongues and interpretation are given--Ed.] Amen. Now, if I understand right, while you're praying, the Holy Spirit speaking and then giving the interpretation, God giving you an invitation.
How many in here would like for God's provided Lamb to open your eyes, so you can see Him here now, present? Would you raise your hand, say, "God, open my blinded eyes. Let me have my veil took off of my heart, Lord, that I might understand."
And now, how will He be known? How will we know Him? By His nature, what He does, His works. He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the branch bears the fruit, not the vine. The vine energizes the branch. And if the branch ever brings forth--or a vine brings forth a branch, it has grapes on it; the next vine comes out, or branch out of that vine, will have grapes on it. If the first church that come off of that vine, was a Pentecostal church, with all the gifts, if that ever really puts out another branch, they'll write another Book of Acts behind it. And that's what they had in the days of the apostles, and the apostolic age never ended.
149 Peter said, on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." And as long as God's still calling, the apostolic age still goes on. "For the promise," the promise like it was then, "is to you, and to your children, them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
150 Lord, open our eyes, and let us see that provided Lamb. You promised that the--that You would reveal Yourself in the last days, like You did at Sodom, when the Son of man was being revealed. We pray, God, that You'll grant it now. We are Your subjects, Lord. We are Your vines.
We're not worthy; we're not worthy to ask for anything; but if we'd think about that, then we would be so little, we would be so no good. But, Lord, when I look up there and see there's a Lamb provided for me, there's a Lamb provided, then God doesn't see me, He sees my Lamb. And I know there's nothing wrong with that Lamb. It's already received.
Now, Lord, let the Word of God manifest Itself in our midst tonight, that the faith of this Bartimaeus that's in here, every one of them, and the women with the blood issues and whatever it was, and the Simon Peter's, and the different ones that's in here, that's needy, the Zacchaeuses in the tree. Manifest Yourself, Lord, through human flesh. Let Your Word become alive among us, tonight, that we'll know and see that Thou art God. And may every blinded eye be opened to the understanding, Lord, that when this great healing service shall start, may every one of them be healed. All these little children, and--and people on crutches, and--and whatever's wrong with them, with the white canes, may they be able to walk out of here like blind Bartimaeus did. He received his sight. Grant it, Father. We ask it in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
153 Now, we have prayed. And I... Now, solemnly now, quietly, believe. Now, what I... This little drama, what it is, it's either the truth or it isn't the truth. And Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now how would you know Him?
What if some man walked out here now with a robe on, and beard and hair like the artist paints Him, nail scars in His hand, and blood running out of His face? That wouldn't be Jesus. No. He sets at the right hand of the Majesty; when He comes, every knee'll bow and every tongue shall confess. So, but how would you know Him? Just any hypocrite could paint themselves up like that and act like that. Sure.
But how will you know Him? He's... When you see His nature, His Word being manifested and doing just exactly what It's always done, then you know that's Him. Is that right? "The works that I do..."
156 Now, see, you just let yourself believe Him now. Come. Don't let your mind go dormant, as people says. Don't do that. You don't come to God haphazardly. You come to Him intelligently with His Word. You bring the Word before you, and say, "Lord, You made the promise. I've asked You to open my eyes. Let my faith stop the Lord Jesus tonight. May He turn to me, and tell me like He--the woman that did many years ago." And you believe with all your heart.
Now, as far as I can see, in the audience, there's not a person that I see that I know. You're all strangers. And sometimes you think it's just these people up here in front get it. No, no. Way... I don't care where you are, you just believe. I don't care, anywhere in the building. He knows who you are and where you are.
Now, see if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, if your faith can stop Him, like Bartimaeus' did. You don't have to be a beggar. You don't have to scream out like he did. The scream didn't stop Him. He didn't hear that. It's the faith that stopped Him. "Thy faith..." He didn't say "thy scream has saved thee." "Thy faith has saved thee." See, "Thy faith has saved thee." All right. The Lord be blessed.
160 I wonder if that minister setting there, the elder brother that's been preaching for sixty-five years, would do me a favor? Will you do it, sir? Lay your hand on that woman setting next to you, and the heart trouble will leave her. All right, that's it. You believe it, sister? All right, that's all.
What did she touch? I've never seen her, but it happened. "If thou canst believe..." Do you believe now?
Does that identify Him? Is your eyes open? Then look at Him, He's wonderful, the mighty Conqueror. There's nothing, no creed, no denomination, no scientist, or nothing, can stop Him. He's God. Amen. I challenge any person in here to believe it, that He's present now.
163 How many ever seen that picture of the Angel of the Lord on the paper, that they got in Washington? He's standing right here at this platform right now. I--I know It's here. I know it. I'm not a fanatic. I'm far from that. I'm telling you the Scriptural Truth. You believe it and see what happens.
Here, here It is again. This little colored lady setting out there on the end, looking around. Really, she's wanting a favor from God. She's a minister, and she's praying for God to help her in her ministry. Is that right, lady? Raise up your hand, if that's right. I never seen her, she's just as much stranger to me as that little, colored woman was down in Tennessee that time.
165 There's a man, colored man, setting there looking at you, kind of overjoyed by it. Do you believe me to be God's servant, sir? You do? That woman touched you just like they did, say, "Be of a good cheer." Not me calling you, but He's calling you. If you believe that with all your heart, that sugar diabetes will leave you. Do you believe it? Amen. All right, then you can have it. Amen. Praise the Lord. That's it. What did he touch? He never touched me. He touched Him.
Here, here sits a young white boy, setting here looking at me, a deep desire in his heart: I never knew you, but you're seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Right, you. You believe it; you will receive It. You believe it, young man? All right, you can receive It if you'll believe it.
167 Here's a little woman way back here. She's suffering. It's her left arm. She's had it broke. It's got a knot on it, the left arm. In her right arm she's got neuritis and rheumatism. She's going to miss it. Mrs. Council, you believe with all your heart? You believe that God will make... You're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well.
I never seen the woman or heard of her in my life. Jehovah knows that to be true. Amen.
Here's a little colored lady setting here. She's suffering with--with complications, many things. One thing, you got trouble with your eyes. Not because you're wearing glasses; but your eyes are going bad anyhow. You have arthritis. If that's right, wave your hand. You have pains in your chest. That right? Wave your hand. You have a stomach trouble. If that's right, wave your hand. You believe that He'll make you well? You believe God can tell me who you are? Edna Gerald. You believe it with all your heart, believe it, and you can have your healing. Amen.
You believe He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
171 What about this woman setting here on the end, the second row here, looking right at me? She's got trouble with her feet. You believe that God will heal your feet? If you do, raise up your hand. I don't know her, never seen her.
What about the lady setting next to her? Do you... Look this a way, sister. Do you believe me to be God's servant, with all your heart? You have neuritis that you're bothered with. If that's right, wave your hand. Now, you can be healed.
The lady setting next to her, do you believe it, with all your heart? You're suffering too. You believe God can tell me what's your trouble? Kidney trouble. If that's right, wave your hand.
Lady setting next to her, you believe? You suffer with a nervous trouble and with your eyes. If that's right, wave your hand.
Lady setting next to her, do you believe, sister? You're shadowed. You got stomach trouble; it's cancer in the stomach. Do you believe God healed you? Amen.
176 Do you believe? Can your eyes come open and believe that He's the Son of God? Then, if you do, stand on your feet and accept Him, and believe it with all your heart, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. "O Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me."
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Thou the Stream of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside thee?
Or whom in heaven but Thee?
177 What's happened? Your faith, just like that blind beggar, has called Him on the scene. Amen. Do you believe it? Oh, there's no need for a healing line. How many believes you're healed, anyhow? Raise your hand; praise Him. Amen. You are healed.
Jesus Christ is in the--our midst, the same One that walked through Jericho, that knowed Zacchaeus by name, that knowed Bartimaeus. The same Lord Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit, is here tonight, doing the same things He done, infallibly proving that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Don't let creeds, and the theologies, and cold spells, choke you out. You're in the Presence of Jesus Christ, Who's made manifest among you. Amen. I believe it with all my heart. Amen.
Accept your healing, say, "Praise the Lord. I accept it."
180 Let's sing the praises to Him then. "I love Him, I love Him." Do you love Him? Because He first loved me. Do you love Him?
I love Him... (Worship Him now in His Presence. You know He's got to be here.)... love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation (That's healing too. That's part of your salvation. Where'd He do it? On Calvary, Calvary's tree. All of our hearts.)
I love Him, I love Him, (Really mean it. Worship Him.)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
183 Oh, don't you love Him? Shake hands with somebody, saying, "Praise the Lord." You love one another, you love Him. Just turn around, shake hands with somebody, saying, "Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We're glad to be here, brother, glad that we're in the Presence of the Lord Jesus." Amen. Amen. Now, wonderful. Oh.
Paul said, "If I sing, I sing in the Spirit." Let's worship in the Spirit again. Let's sing in the Spirit.
I love Him, I love Him, (Hallelujah)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Oh, don't you love Him? Isn't He wonderful? Sing.
O wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me,
A Counselor, Prince of Peace,
Mighty God is He;
O saving me, keeping me from all sin and shame,
Wonderful is my Redeemer, praise His Name!
O wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to me,
He's the Counselor, the Prince of Peace,
the Mighty God is He;
O saving me, oh, keeping me from all sin and shame,
O wonderful is my Redeemer, praise His Name!
What could happen right now in the Presence of God, like this?
I once was lost, now I'm found, free from condemnation,
Jesus gives liberty and a full salvation;
Saving me, O keeping me from all sin and shame,
O wonderful is my Redeemer, praise His Name!
Oh, let's sing it like we mean it!
... derful, wonderful, Jesus is to me,
The Counselor, Prince of Peace,
Mighty God is He;
O saving me, keeping me, oh, from all sin and shame,
O wonderful is my Redeemer, praise His Name!
187 Oh, don't it just do something to you, it scours you out on the inside? Fellowship, oh, what a feeling. I wouldn't trade this for all the money that you could pile all the everything else. Throw it away, but give me Jesus. Oh, my. Yes, sir. Fellowship.
Oh, how sweet it is to walk in this pilgrim way, leaning on the everlasting arm, know that here He is. Oh, love at the first sight, something within us that calls out, oh, something like a--a--the lid took off of a--an artesian well, just spurting out the water; and the more it spurts out, the cooler and fresher it gets. Amen. Oh, He's wonderful, isn't He? I love Him. Don't you? Oh, my.
189 Don't you love one another? Now, all you Methodists shake hands with the Pentecostals, and you Baptists, and just be real friendly. If you can't do that, you don't love Him. That's right. 'Cause they love Him, you love Him; He took you with your peculiar ways; He did the other one; so let's just agree now. Oh, isn't He wonderful? We believe it with all of our hearts.
Oh, let's sing it again, this wonderful old hymn of the church, "I love Him, I love Him."
I just can't get enough of saying that, because He first loved me. He loved me, a poor, deliberately blinded, sin-loving, wretched drunkard's son in the gutters, and He stooped down by His grace. I had nothing to do with it. He chose me. Yeah. How can it be? How can a cocklebur be changed to a wheat? It takes the power of God. Amen. I love Him. Oh, I--I feel kind of religious right now myself. I--I--I feel good.
192 I know He's here. It's Him. He promised it. He--He's here in our midst. How I love Him. He's wonderful. It makes you feel good to know that--that we don't have to guess about it. Here He is, identifying Himself right in the Word, like He always has, making it Him; not some creed, not some mythical something; but the living God Himself. How did He make Hisself known? Not down in Sodom, but to Abraham; and now to Abraham's Seed, after Him, shows we're Abraham's Seed, Amen. Oh, my. I feel really good, right now.
I love Him, (Oh, what a shower of blessing.) I love Him,
Because He... (Just think; before you loved Him, He loved you.)
Lord Jesus, grant the healing of these people, Father, that they may be healed, each and every one of them. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Lord, for Your glory. Amen.
... Calvary's tree.
194 Oh, let's bow our heads now, sweetly, quietly. You know, we're just children anyhow. We're God's children. Did you ever see how free a child was around his parent? His parent's watching him. See? Let's hum it. [Brother Branham begins humming "I Love Him"--Ed.]
Just see Him standing here, great Pillar of Fire. He said, "I come from God; I go to God." He was the Logos that was with Moses in the wilderness, the Pillar of Fire. He died on Calvary, raised again. And when Saul was on his road down to Damascus, that same Pillar of Fire struck him down; he said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus."
He came from God; He went to God. Identified with us by scientific proof, by the proof of the church, by everything.
Bringing forth His same thing, declaring His Word. He's the interpreter. [Brother Branham hums "I Love Him"--Ed.]
Wouldn't it be a wonderful time for Him to come right now, look around and see everybody being changed, going away? He will sometime. [Brother Branham hums "I Love Him"--Ed.]
Now, with our heads bowed, real slowly. [Brother Branham hums "I Love Him"--Ed.]
Remember, services in the morning. If you're a stranger here, and you don't have a church, these fine pastors, they believe this same Gospel or they wouldn't have had me here. They're welcome to go to their church. Have a good service tomorrow, a good night's rest tonight, and then come back tomorrow afternoon for the healing service.
[Brother Branham hums "I Love Him"--Ed.] All right. God bless you, brother.

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Youth Guidance receives grant from Bank of America to support workforce development programs
To strengthen our community in the Treasure Coast, Bank of America is helping address barriers to basic needs, workforce development, and education by directing grant funding to Youth Guidance Mentoring Academy.
Bank of America recently awarded Youth Guidance Mentoring Academy a grant for $10,000. These funds will enable Youth Guidance to continue its workforce development and pre-apprenticeship programs for youth ages 12-24 living with limited resources in Indian River County.
Youth Guidance serves approximately 250 children, teenagers, and young adults every year. Through Bank of America’s grant and partnership, the grant will be used to provide youth ages 12-24 group mentoring programs that teach various life skills, including: culinary arts, sewing, bicycle repair, boat mechanics, and gardening.
The grant will also support the Youth Guidance Pre-Apprenticeship, the only pre-apprenticeship in Indian River County. Over eight months, youth ages 16-24 will learn five trades, including HVAC, welding, carpentry, electric, and plumbing. Those who complete the entire course will receive six professional certifications that will help them start a career in the trades.
“We are thrilled to partner with Bank of America to help prepare our youth for careers and explore the trades industry,” said Phil Barnes, Executive Director of Youth Guidance Mentoring Academy. “This partnership will play a key role in our efforts to provide local children and young adults with hands-on experience while earning professional certifications.”
Youth Guidance implemented the pre-apprenticeship for the first time from October 2021 to May 2022. Out of the 15 students who participated, 14 received professional certifications. Upon graduation, one student started his career as an apprentice electrician.
The pre-apprenticeship will start again in Fall 2022 in partnership with the Indian River County School District. Youth Guidance anticipates serving 20 students this coming year.
This grant is aligned with the bank’s broader efforts to advance economic opportunity and equity through health, jobs and reskilling, affordable housing, and small business. As part of those efforts, the bank has granted a total of $150,000 to 14 Treasure Coast nonprofits so far this year.
“Investing in this partnership is part of our approach to driving economic opportunity and social progress in Indian River County,” said Susan Rabinowitz, president, Bank of America Treasure Coast. “This grant is just one way we are deploying resources locally to help remove barriers to economic success and build a more sustainable community.”
In addition to its grant funding, Bank of America’s 243 Treasure Coast teammates pitch in roughly 2,900 volunteer hours yearly. With the constantly changing landscape, charitable grants and fundraising are critical to support the important work of our nonprofit partners.
Youth Guidance Mentoring Academy is dedicated to enriching the lives of Indian River County youth through mentoring relationships that inspire trust, self-esteem, and positive futures. Founded in 1973, Youth Guidance provides daily meals as well as one-on-one and group mentoring programs to children and young adults ages 5-24 with limited resources.
After school, students complete their homework under the supervision of trained Youth Guidance staff. Then they participate in group mentoring programs that include vocational training, life skills, and STEAM (Science, technology, engineering, arts, and math). All programs and meals are provided free of charge thanks to the generosity of the local community.
If you are interested in learning more about Youth Guidance Mentoring Academy or making a donation, please call 772.492.3933, or visit our website at www.youthguidanceprogram.org.

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A seam of superb Japanese detective novels and short stories have crossed the language barrier in recent years, teaching even the most culturally ignorant of us to tell our honkaku from our shin honkaku. And here to give us a sense of the work involved in making that happen is literary translator Louise Heal Kawai.
After years of occasional titles like The Tattoo Murder Case (1948) by Akimitsu Takagi trickling through the East-West translation gap, it seems English-speaking audiences might be getting more classic Eastern honkaku. The shinhonkaku translations brought to us by Locked Room International have highlighted the ingenuity in works coming out of Japan, China, and surrounds during the 1980s and 1990s, an era when the Western crime novel was rather more focussed on character and procedure, and so the puzzle-rich seam of GAD-era honkaku titles might finally get more attention. And the first non-LRI novel to come across is one that was greeted with much excitement.
Disclosure: I proof-read this book for Locked Room International in March/April 2017.
After two wonderful shin honkaku novels in The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji and The Moai Island Puzzle by Alice Arisugawa, John Pugmire’s Locked Room International now brings you this honkaku story collection from early pioneer Keikichi Ōsaka. The introduction by Ashibe Taku, author of Murder in the Red Chamber (2004), does a great job of putting Ōsaka in context, since this was a nascent form of mystery writing that allows a fascinating and at times hugely inventive take on a genre we thought we’d seen everything in already — no mean feat when some of the best here are over 80 years old. And some of these solutions have to be read to be believed… (in a good way, that is).
Since Soji Shimada’s The Tokyo Zodiac Murders was republished by Pushkin Vertigo, I’ve found myself reading increasing amounts of Japanese detective fiction: the shin honkaku of The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji and The Moai Island Puzzle by Alice Arisugawa from Locked Room International, The Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino (yes, The Devotion of Suspect X will follow in due course…), and I’ve recently started Gosho Aoyama’s Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan) manga. And authors such as Seicho Matsumoto and Kyotaro Nishimura are climbing ever-higher up by TBB list as I encounter more of the high-quality work that has been translated for our pleasure. And, of course, the proliferation of impossible crimes in these stories doesn’t hurt, with the added cross-cultural glimpses also offered simply making them an even more attractive proposition.

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J.R. is firmly rooted in Precinct 5. He was born at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital and attended Walnut Bend Elementary, Paul Revere Middle School, and graduated from Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in 1995. After earning his B.A. in Government & History at the University of Texas at Austin, J.R. taught World, Texas, and U.S. History at Sharpstown Middle School. He then attended South Texas College of Law, where he received his Juris Doctorate in 2005. J.R. and his wife, Renee, live in Maplewood, near Meyerland, with their three beautiful children, Maxwell (9), Goldie (7), and Woody (5) who all attend St. Thomas More Parish School.
J.R. has been working for you in Harris County government since 2005. Appointed as an Assistant County Attorney by former Harris County Attorney Mike Stafford, J.R. represented the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in hundreds of child protective cases in the Honorable Judge John F. Phillip's court. He later directly advised the Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector's office on policies and procedures related to ad valorem property tax assessment/collection and motor vehicle registration. From 2009 through 2011, J.R. represented the Harris County Appraisal Review Board, a quasi-judicial body that is a separate and distinct entity from the Harris County Appraisal District. In 2013, he joined the Office of Mike Sullivan, Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar, as the Director of Compliance and was later designated as the Chief Deputy. With Mr. Sullivan's leadership and a great team of Directors and staff, J.R. was able to dramatically improve operations throughout the office and had many accomplishments, including:
- Implementation of credit and debit card services for all motor vehicle transactions.
- Dismissal of federal voting rights lawsuit, LULAC v. Harris County, 4:12-CV-03035.
- Successful verification of a countywide petition containing over 150,000 signatures within 9 days.
- Legislative changes to permit online tax foreclosure sales and to require bidder registration.
- Redrew over 300 voting precinct boundaries to ensure compliance with population requirements.
- Record increase in the number of registered voters from 2013 to 2016 (1.92 to 2.25 million).
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MIAMI – State legislators are being called back to Tallahassee for a special session to address skyrocketing insurance rates throughout the Sunshine State, though exactly what lawmakers will do is still up in the air.
No specific bills have been filed, but the priorities are clear: stopping runaway property insurance costs.
Making property insurance affordable and available is a category 5-sized dilemma.
“I don’t think anyone is safe. I think everyone’s gonna get looked at. You’re talking about attorneys,” Rep. Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said. “Yes. You’re talking about insurance companies, too. You’re talking about public adjusters, and you’re talking about the consumer.”
It’s a complicated puzzle.
The two major headlines: Keeping insurers in Florida and in business and looking at lawsuits and attorneys’ fees.
Half a dozen Florida insurers have recently failed or bailed.
“Can we, since we have such massive budget reserves right now, could we provide a bridge on re-insurance as the rest of our market starts to get better?” Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
“We have to look at capitalization of some of these insurance companies,” Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-northeast Miami-Dade, said. “They’re able to open up with 15 million, open up a shop and carry all kinds of exposure that they really, in good faith, cannot pay if there really is a catastrophic event.”
Lawmakers say tackling litigation will be a priority.
“The repealing of one-way attorneys’ fees is going to be a tremendous step in the right direction,” Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez, R-Miami-Dade/Keys, said.
Rodriguez represents the areas with some of the priciest insurance in the state.
She describes companies offering free new roofs to homeowners, courtesy of their insurance companies.
“There is no such thing as free roof, by the way,” she said. “It involves tremendous litigation and whatnot and that’s really what drives up cost of insurance for all Floridians.”
Lawmakers expect blowback from insurers, attorneys and property owners, but know that failure is not an option.
Regardless of what happens, lawmakers said no matter what they do, any relief will take time.


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Limoneira Co. works magic with Santa Paula residents
Like Roswell or Area 51, East Area One has a name that implies mystery, controversy and drama.
Fitting for a roughly 500-acre expanse of mostly undeveloped agricultural land that – despite its location off of Ventura County’s beaten path – has been a hot topic of discussion for years … especially now that East Area One has made history.
On June 3, Santa Paula voters approved an initiative to include the site proposed for Limoneira’s 1,500-unit housing development within the boundaries of Santa Paula’s City Urban Restriction Boundary, or CURB. It’s a feat that several developers have failed to achieve since CURB was passed in 2000, requiring voter approval for development of areas outside of the set perimeter.
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Last week my daughter Gillian, her husband Jesse and their three kids made their annual autumn orchard visit and then baked a spectacular Pear Brown Betty with some of the pickings.
When I read the post on her blog it brought forth a rush of memories. This is a dish I cooked when I was a young mother and my daughters were still living at home. Except I always made it with apples. Everyone in the family loved it.
It was a dish my mother made. Everyone in our family loved it.
Brown Betty. So simple. The fragrance, the warmth in the kitchen, the memories of my girls waiting patiently for a bite of dessert while they watched Mr. Rogers. Of my Dad humming with every forkful.
This is more than dessert. It’s a feeling of security. That all is well.
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Apple Brown Betty
2 tablespoons lemon juice
4 cups diced homestyle bread
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon grated fresh nutmeg
pinch of salt
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Peel the apples and remove the cores. Cut the apples into bite sized pieces. Squeeze the lemon juice over the apples. Place the apples in a baking dish. Combine the bread dice, brown sugar, melted butter, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a bowl. Toss the ingredients to coat the bread completely. Put the coated bread on top of the apples. Bake for about 45 minutes or until the top is golden brown and crusty. Let cool slightly, but serve warm, preferably topped with vanilla ice cream. Makes 6 servings
*Note here: my husband likes this COLD, doused with sweet cream

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Gladbach 1 Hertha 0
On Friday night, to kick off the Bundesliga weekend, We saw Hertha Berlin travel to Borussia Park in Gladbach to take on Daniel Farke’s side. Berlin has the thinnest squad in the league with a high probability of getting relegated this upcoming season. However, they did manage to get a point on their previous match day, but there was a sense that this particular meeting was going to be more difficult. Gladbach picked up three points against Hoffenheim before having to settle for a point later on following conceding a late penalty against the royal blues. It was a fairly competitive match between two teams that are on completely different spectrums when it comes to ability. Berlin did some nice things and should overall be pleased with the performance, but. It didn’t exactly go their way in the end. A first-half penalty from Alexander Plea gave Gladbach The first-half lead. They struggled in front of goal like they did much of last season, but it turned out to be enough. They got a second penalty in the second half but failed to convert. Nonetheless, Gladbach picks up another three points giving them seven on the season as they are fighting near the top of the league in the early parts of this campaign.
Hoffenheim 3 Leverkusen 0
Leverkusen hosted Hoffenheim at the Bay arena, potentially trying to avoid sticking to the bottom of the table. After two decent performances that were overcome by goalkeeping brilliance, they still don’t have a point on the season. Meanwhile, Hoffenheim has already shown their willingness to hit back and come from the dead. As they erased a two-goal deficit the week before, that resulted in a late winner. Hoffenheim has the potential to have a special campaign as they have the squad balance and the talent to do so. As they’re going up against a Leverkusen team that started the season poorly but does have the pieces to return to the Champions League. Hoffenheim went into the Bay arena and ripped their head off. It was a performance of true dominance as Christopher Baumgarner scored a back heel that could be one of the goals of the season to kick things off. Not long after, Andrej Kramaric follow through on a header, and then late in the second half, Georginio Rutter scored an absolute scorcher in what was a routine 3–0 victory as they dominate in Leverkusen. Meanwhile, the team that finished third in the Bundesliga last season is in big trouble and may be time to panic. Still, plenty of time to make it up, but they sit with no points on the season being spun around and turned inside out in their own backyard. The Leverkusen goalkeeper talked to the ultras after the game as they exchanged words of frustration with one another as they could not have started the season worse than a half. Meanwhile, Hoffenheim looks like a special team and has erased the mistakes from the opener after filling. David Raum position. They’ve looked much sharper and through three grains. Christopher Baumgarner, to me, has been the Bundesliga’s best player, and their majestic performance with Leverkusen left something to be desired.
Freiburg 1 Stuttgart 0
Freiburg coming off. A disappointing result at home against Dortmund the previous Friday came into the Mercedes-Benz arena determined to get themselves back on the right track with a step forward as Stuttgart welcomed them into their house for what was expected to be a tightly contested affair. Stuttgart may have almost got relegated last year, but they’re healthy and raring to go as they’ve looked much better. This campaign with relegation is probably not something they really need to worry about. It was a very close game, with a moment of brilliance separating the result. The most disrespected Italian in the world, My man Vincenzo Grifo makes it two goals out of three to start the season as they take an early lead in the first half. Stuttgart went for it. Trying to put as much pressure on the Friedberg defense that still looks as sharp as ever. Despite being an end-to-end affair, the early goal from the Italian separated the distance as Freiburg collect another three points in an impressive victory for Christian Streich as they look tough so far this season. Stuttgart showed the qualities that they lacked last season but just had a bit too much to deal with in a very tightly contested game.
Wolfsburg 0 Schalke 0
Schalke’s return to the Bundesliga has been somewhat worrying as they go back on the road, meeting up with Wolfsburg at the Volkswagen arena. It wasn’t the most pragmatic and exciting match as it was a bit of an eyesore, but despite that, it certainly had its moments. Occasionally. It was really hard to say which of the two teams was the more impressive. Wolfsburg looked a little bit sharper but needs to get much stronger. If they’re going to push for the top half of the table. They have the squad and the town to do so but still haven’t put together the performance that they would like to ideally; they would like to avoid the type of season they had a year ago. Meanwhile, the Royal blues, who have struggled in many capacities this season, want to avoid the embarrassment of going down to the second division a year after their promotion. As one of the most historic clubs in Germany, they want to avoid that possibility at all costs. There wasn’t a lot in this game until late, in the second half. It looked like Schalke were going to put themselves in front. Winning a penalty, however, Conan Casteels came up with the save. However, it had to be retaken. It was hard to figure out exactly what happened, whether another penalty occurred in the box or he was off his line. Regardless, the result would be the same as the Belgium goalkeeper saved another, and he has been one of the best shot-stoppers coming from penalties in German football. Both teams battled in the second half but couldn’t find a winner ending goalless.
Bremen 3 Dortmund 2
The wildest Bundesliga match in a long time and up there with potentially one of the best of all time. However, it didn’t exactly start that way. It was a very competitive match throughout the first half. Bremen did seem to be the ones with the momentum. Obviously, Dortmund has started the season well in terms of results but not performances, while Bremen has been a bit of a surprise. How good they have been this early. As the newly promoted side looks like they could climb into a higher position than originally speculated. Bremen, despite looking like the better side, concede to Dortmund at the very end of the first half through Julian Brandt to give Dortmund a 1-0 lead. Bremen, throughout the second half, even looked like the more aggressive team, The team that was on the verge of a breakthrough, but then Dortmund doubled their lead through Raphael Guerrero, making it 2–0. Once again, it wasn’t an incredible performance, but they were on the verge of getting the result. Anyway, remaining perfect. However, Bremen was going to fight until the very end, as we saw in their draw was Stuttgart last week. The manager made three changes, and they struck gold in the 89th minute. Buchanan got a Goal back. There was still a mountain to climb until they scored again in the 93rd minute with Schmidt as they erased the two-goal deficit in a manner of minutes. Totally and completely shambolic from Dortmund, as this is the main reason most of us don’t believe in them as a contender. In the 95th minute, with mutually the last kick at the ball, Oliver Burke comes up and converts, beating the keeper at the near post. Scoring three goals in 6 minutes as Dortmund hold their head in Shame getting punked at Signal Iduna Park.
Union Berlin 2 RB Leipzig 1
RB Leipzig has had a challenging start to the season with only two points from their first three games. It is difficult to understand, considering the depth of options that they have, especially in attacking positions. However, only two draws to show for it. The hope was against Union Berlin even in Berlin will be a platform to show everyone who they are as most people see RB Leipzig as the team to put the most pressure on Munich. However, just like Leverkusen, it might be time to press the panic button so early in the season. Union Berlin coming off a goalless draw. Got on the counter twice and made them pay despite opportunities and chances from RB Leipzig; it wasn’t their day. Jordan peak fork converts on a counter-attack and converts, and then Benson does mutually the same thing as they build a two-goal lead at the break. RB Leipzig has their moments but found it difficult to break them down. A corner kick less than 10 minutes ago by Willie Oban sees them minimize the deficit, but it was too little too late as they taste defeat in Berlin as RB Leipzig still are searching for the first victory of the season while Union Berlin is climbing near the top of the pile in a 2–1 victory.
Mainz 2 Ausburg 1
Following the heroics of goalkeeping brilliance from Augsburg that saw them collect maximum points against Leverkusen last weekend, They look to try to keep that momentum pushing against FSV Mainz. They were at home As Jonathan Burkhart returns for the opposition. Their star striker from last season was dealing with a thigh injury but has since returned and was expected to be a fantastic introduction. It turned out to be a very tightly contested game with not much to be separated between them. Oniswo hits the mark again. Breaking the deadlock a few minutes past the half hour mark. However, the lead didn’t last for long as Augsburg got themselves level within a few minutes with an unbelievable backheel goal. FSV Mainz in the second half had a chance to break through from the penalty spot, but the performance of the Ausberg goalkeeper continues making a big save in a crucial moment. However, it winded down to the death, and in the 93rd minute, FSV found a winner through Lee Jae Sang with a terrific header; as they win at the last possible moment as they are near the top of the pile with another late victory of their seven points, both of their victories have come very late on. Meanwhile, Augsburg can hang their hat on the fact they played well, even if they lose it in the end.
Bayern Munich 7 Bochum 0
Bochum had the unbelievable challenge of taking on Bayern Munich after losing their two previous games. It is a difficult situation to go into, especially for a team that needs points and doesn’t want to dig their grave even further. Two of their defeats have come very late on, as it must be demoralizing to try to adapt to that after playing reasonably well, and they’re opening two games but still sit with 0 points. Now having to deal with the best team in the world. Bayern Munich cut them open regularly and often as it wasn’t much of a contest. Leroy Sane Just minutes into it. Rips things open with a thunderous strike. Matthias Deligt scores his first goal in his new colors with a header coming off a set piece. A brilliant finish from Kingsley Coman sees them get another, then sadio mané scores a goal, has it disallowed, and then minutes later scores again as they ran out to a 4–0 goal lead at the break. Bayern Munich then in the second half when the penalty sadio mané converts to make it five and then an own goal by the hosts and then Serge Gnabry makes it seven in a hugely humiliating victory as Bochum might be in a bit of trouble mentally. Demoralized from their first two matches and then humiliated at home as Munich continues to charge on.
Frankfurt 1 Koln 1
We saw two teams that are having a very different types of seasons. Throw down on Sunday. Frankfurt has been dreadful throughout this campaign so far and doesn’t really seem to have any momentum or energy about them. Meanwhile, Koln beats Schalke on the opening match day of the season and manages to scrap a point against RB Leipzig, one of the favorites. Koln is a very physical and brute type of team that can create a lot of problems, especially for a team like Frankfurt that is so low on confidence. They battled throughout; neither team looked all that strong, and it was a bit of a dry game at times. However, late in the second half, both teams put their best foot forward and found a way in with two absolutely stunning strikes. From a free kick Kamada hits an absolute scorcher into the top corner, taking a slight deflection, and then cologne hits back with a strike of their own. Not too long after, with a long ranger from deep, both teams go head to head, leaving with a point of peace with cologne. Undoubtedly the more satisfied of the two sides as Frankfort having just two points from three games.

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The Federal Government has introduced an excise duty of N10 per litre on all non-alcoholic, carbonated, and sweetened beverages.
Excise duty refers to the taxes levied on the manufacture of goods within the country.
Speaking during the public presentation of the 2022 budget on Wednesday in Abuja, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said the new policy introduced is in the Finance Act signed into law by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on December 31, 2021.
She said, “There’s now an excise duty of N10 per litre imposed on all non-alcoholic and sweetened beverages. And this is to discourage excessive consumption of sugar in beverages which contributes to a number of health conditions including diabetes and obesity. But it is also used to raise excise duties and revenues for health-related and other critical expenditures. This is in line also with the 2022 budget priorities.”
Also, Ahmed said the government had introduced a law requiring foreign companies providing digital services in the country to collect and remit Value Added Tax to the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
According to her, the new policy is also contained in Section 30 of the Finance Act which amended the provisions of Section 10, 31 and 14 on VAT obligations for non-resident digital companies.
She said “Section 30 of the Finance Act is designed to amend Section 10, 31 and 14 of VAT is in relations to VAT obligations for non-resident digital companies and the mechanism that will be used is to restrict VAT obligations mainly to digital non-resident companies who supply individuals in Nigeria who can’t themselves self-account for VAT.
“So if you visit Amazon, we are expecting Amazon to add VAT charge to whatever transaction you are paying for. I am using Amazon as an example. We are going to be working with Amazon to be agreed to be registered as a tax agent for the FIRS.
“So Amazon will now collect this payment and remit to FIRS and this is in line with global best practices, we have been missing out on this stream of revenue.”
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For the Internet of Things to fully take off, we don’t just need to work on the automation of machines and their processes; but rather the full autonomy of machines. By giving machines a wallet, they are able to transact monetary values in exchange for data, resources and/or services with each other – creating a flourishing Machine Economy. Get ready for a close and intimate talk with Dominik Schiener, Co-Founder of IOTA, where we will explore what all this truly means for IoT and our society, the current applications that are being worked on, and the limitations we need to overcome to reach full potential.
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Last week, vegans across the country rejoiced when the Great British Bake Off went plant based. As the authority on cake, GBBO’s butter ban proved that you really can have your cake and shove your whole vegan face in it. All it takes is a few ingredients swaps, a bit of ingenuity and lashings of aquafaba.
As Berkshire is a long way for Wimbledon vegans to trek, South West Londoner has put together a handy list of the six best places for vegan cake in your area. And you don’t even have to fight Prue over the final forkful.
American waffles at Wafflemeister
Brunch has finally gone eggless with these king sized American waffles. Made from almond milk, baking powder, flour and vegetable oil, these waffles cost £6.25 and can be topped with fruit, dark chocolate or a variety of sorbets.
Blueberry muffin at Le Pain Quotidien
Fluffy and fruity, this individual muffin is priced at £1.65 and has a nuttiness offsetting the berries. Vegans wanting something a little more continental can opt for the hazelnut flute pastry or the extra rich chocolate cake.
Dark Chocolate and almond butter cookie at Pret a Manger
Not technically a cake, but this sumptuously squidgy cookie is just the thing for a mid-morning treat. At £1.45 it’s the perfect accompaniment to a soya latte.
Raspberry and almond frangipane at Creams
The creamy texture of almonds atop a crumbly gluten-free base make for an incredibly moist morsel. Best known for its ice cream, this particular branch also boasts a decadent chocolate orange torte, both priced at £2.50. It’s always worth asking the staff if anything is vegan friendly; these cakes weren’t labelled vegan as the manager Sunni Patel found that it put omnivores off. All the more for us then!
Sticky toffee and pecan cookie at Costa
Break through the crisp outer shell and this nutty cookie oozes a sweet caramel centre. Costing £1.85 this hearty biscuit adds an indulgent sparkle to a dull, October day.
Plum tart at Carluccio’s
A life without pastry is not something that bears thinking about. Luckily Carluccio’s plum tart offers the wonderstuff in all its puffy glory, filled with succulent chunks of stewed fruit. At £3.50, this treat is gorgeously jammy without being too sweet.


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A Seattle native named Richard Swanson was killed yesterday morning in Lincoln City, Oregon, not long after he started on an epic trek:
The 42-year old graphic designer was trying to dribble a soccer ball from Washington to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup.
Law enforcement officials report that Swanson was struck
around 10 a.m. by a pickup truck along U.S. Highway 101. He was declared dead at the hospital shortly afterward.
Swanson had started breakwaybrazil.com and had engaged on the walk to promote One World Futbol Project, which donates durable blue soccer balls to people in developing countries.
Said Lisa Tarver, COO of that organization, in response to the sad news:
"We are deeply saddened to learn about Richard's death. He was a very inspiring man who in a very short time walked his way into many lives. Our thoughts are with his family."
According to his website, Swanson left Seattle on May 1 and planned to go through 11 countries before making it to Brazil.
Friends are considering a foundation in Swanson's memory that will send his two sons to Sao Paolo for the World Cup, which will be held next summer.