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where I was scheduled to speak in several churches. We stayed some time in a Catholic convent south of Frankfurt. This is how it came about. My little booklet, Hallelujah, I Have Found Hun, has been printed in many languages. One day I received a letter from the mother superior of a convent, saying she had read the book and if ever I came through Europe, they wanted me to visit them and tell them in person what God had done in my life. This was a glorious experience. We had the privilege of going into East Germany and of seeing the dreaded Berlin Wall. We could not help noting the empty looks on the faces of the alte (old folks) there. While some of our party were looking around in the museum, I saw a group of school girls on their way home. I ran across the street, stopped them, and spoke to them in German. I put my arms around them and drew them down to me at the edge of a fountain. There we sat while I told them about creation. It was a surprise to the girls. They looked at one another and said, "Of these things we have never heard." I continued to tell them about the love of Jesus -- in whispered tones, indeed, for if I had been heard preaching Jesus to them, I might not be here today. We next went to Italy where I had been asked to speak in a church in Naples. From there we went to Israel where God marvelously blessed. One day the Lord said, "I want you and your husband to go down to Eilat." Several Hebrew Christians had asked me to go to Eilat because there were those there who needed to hear the Gospel. We took the bus. It was a trip I dreaded, for it was a journey of over three hundred miles in the hot desert down to this town at the southern most tip of Israel, or had been until 1967. (Now Israel covers much more territory beyond.) The bus stopped at Beersheba, which is quite a capital in the Negev, the desert area of Israel. We waited for another bus to come so that we could take on more passengers for Eilat. Two of the new passengers who boarded our bus were women and they sat directly behind us. One was from New York, the other was her sister whose husband was a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. They were very gracious and friendly. One would have thought we had known each other always. They began to point out to us various places of interest as we went along. They were both very well versed in the Old Testament and we talked about Moses. One of the ladies showed us Solomon's pillars. She showed us just about the path along which Moses had led the children of Israel through the valley of Zin and where he crossed over into Mesopotamia, which is now Jordan. We marvelled at how Moses could lead that multitude of people through that pathless desert. And yet it was not Moses, but God, who did it. We arrived at Eilat and were assigned our places to stay. That night when I went to bed, I realized that I had not witnessed to those two Jewish women and felt very much under conviction about it. I prayed and asked the Lord to forgive me and to give me another chance. The next morning, as we were all sitting in the lobby, the bus driver announced that we would not be leaving until one o'clock. It was then about ten. He said he was sure we all had
ought our swim suits and that we should go ahead and take a dip in the Red Sea while we waited. I said to the women, "I'm sure you women will want to go swimming. Why don't you? I'll just stay here and wait." "Aren't you going?" they asked. "No, I'm not going." "Why aren't you going swimming, Mrs. Hanley?" "Well, I'm just not going. I'll just stay here." I hardly knew what to say. I was waiting for the Lord to help me. Still I had not witnessed to them. "Who are you?" one of the women said. "Why, I'm Mrs. Hanley. You just called me by my name." The other woman said, "That isn't what we mean. What are you?" "I'm a Jew." "Well, we knew that; but what kind of a Jew are you?" "O I'm a Messianic Jew. I believe that Jesus is my Saviour." One said, "Is that why you're not going swimming?" "Yes, the reason I do not put on a swim suit is that I've been saved. I have a conviction about women putting on swim suits and going into the water in the presence of men." They both said, "We knew it! We knew it! Mrs. Hanley, if you had put on a swim suit we would have been disappointed in you. We are not going swimming either. We want to hear all about your Jesus -- why you believe in Him, what He's done for you. . . ." They named many things they wanted me to tell them. I was elated. I felt the glory of God, the help of God, and the Shekinah presence of God, come right down upon me as I began to witness to them in this big, crowded lobby of the Queen of Sheba Hotel there in Eilat. (It is called the Queen of Sheba Hotel because it was at this point that the Queen of Sheba came over from Africa and met King Solomon.) While I was witnessing, I thought that I might as well be preaching to everybody in the lobby, so I raised my voice and people all over the lobby began to listen. It was particularly evident that one man was listening. He was trying to cover his face with a newspaper, but he had it upside down, so I knew he had to be listening.
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Page 93 and 94: Ann, hearing it, said, "Of course s
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