And now, remember, these handkerchiefs, you’ve wondered about them. “Now, Brother Branham, what about them?” Your letter might be a form letter. Your answer to your letter might be a—from the secretary, but your ribbon has been personally prayed over by myself. Now, if you’ll notice, many people anoint letter—anoint handkerchiefs. But if you’ll examine the Bible, they wasn’t anointed, they taken from the body of Paul (Is that right?) handkerchiefs or aprons. Now, what that is, is a blessing. Just like Elijah. He took his staff and told Gehazi, “Go, lay it upon the child.” For he knew what he touched was blessed. You say, “Well, Brother Branham, how do you ever do that?” Well, when I’m in meetings, I go down, and they send me hundreds of yards of half inch white ribbon. And I take those and go to myself in the daytime, take each one of them in my hands and pray for them, and pray that God will heal the person. And then send them back to the secretary and the different offices, and they rush those right out to the sick. The letter is a form letter, but the—the ribbon has been individually prayed over, praying with all the sincerity that I know to pray. For I think, “What if my baby was sick and I sent for some man to pray for it, I’d expect him to do it.” Wouldn’t you? And I try…?…as I can. And likewise, with your prayers tonight.

Experiences, 1947-12-21, Phoenix, AZ, §16