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As I prayed a hush settled down over the whole waiting room where more than a hundred people waited for this plane. The girl's sobs could be heard above my praying. When I finished she grasped my hand and said, "Thank you! Thank you!' I heard others saying, "Thank you! Thank you!" When the announcement came that we could get on the plane, the folks all stood back, and I said to the girl, "Come on. Come and sit with me on the plane." I cannot understand why we were the first two to board the plane when we were not the first in line, but she boarded the plane with me and sat next to me. The others then boarded. A woman on the other side of the girl seemed to want to talk to her too, but then I felt I must not let this woman talk to her at all. I could not explain this then. The girl wept and played with a little aluminum cap to a baby bottle. "This is all I have left," she said. I said, "Tell me about yourself. You don't need to tell me your last name." "My name is Dorothy. I have just given birth to a little boy. The father doesn't even know. I didn't want him to know. I didn't want him to feel he had to marry me. His brother is at an air base and he has adopted my baby." "Is the adoption complete?" I asked. "Not for another six months." "Well, maybe in another six months the father of the baby will find out, and you can get your little boy back." "No, I can't. It's against the law." "Are you saved, Dorothy?" "I was baptized when I was four years old." "In what church, dear?" "Church of Christ." Then I knew that I could press the matter of her salvation further. I said, "Dorothy, you've never been born again. You've never been saved, have you?" "No," she said, 'I know I haven't."
"Would you like to be?" "Yes," she said, "I need God." I began to explain to her the way of salvation. The woman on the other side of her kept interfering. I kept praying, "Lord, don't let her say anything." I saw the woman reach into her purse to get out some literature. All I had was a Bible which was enough. 1 began to read some scriptures to her. Then I took her hand and said, "Dorothy, now I'm going to pray for you that you may be saved." That day in a Delta Airlines plane, flying over Arkansas at an altitude of 10,000 feet, this precious girl was saved. When she opened her eyes after prayer, she looked at me and said, "Thank you, I know that Jesus is my Saviour now. I know that I can pray to Him." "Yes, Dorothy," I said, "you can, and I'll be praying for you." "Please pray for Jack, too," she asked wistfully. (Jack was the baby's father.) "Yes," I promised, "I'll pray for Jack. And some way I feel that Jack is going to find out that he fathered a little baby and that rather than to have your son brought up in a home without a father, you are going to give him over for adoption. I feel that God will work and bring you two together." "O," she said, "I love his father so much." "Dorothy," I asked her, "has he been the only man in your life?" "Yes, truly. Believe me," she said. I believed her. She looked like a good girl. "Dorothy," I said, "God knows that someday you will have the privilege of telling other girls of the awful danger into which you have fallen and of warning them of heartaches and the shame and the sorrow that follow." "I've thought of that," she said. home. She held my hand till we reached St. Louis. From there she took another airline to her As we left the plane, the woman who had tried to talk to Dorothy said, "Thank you for talking to her."
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town, and I understand both women a
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I was so happy! When this one took
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cloudless day. There will not be ev
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given His life. Immediately a mirac
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Lord. Adonai -- God, the only Lord.
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