Look, if my baby was sick, and I wanted some man, that could come from…Now, many times, you believe in anointing a cloth. That’s all right; that’s perfectly all right. Anything that God will bless, I’m for it. Aren’t you? That’s right. See? Now, many people anoint the cloth, but if you’ll follow me in the Bible, it was not…Paul didn’t anoint the cloth, “He taken from his body, handkerchiefs and aprons.” Is that right? He never anointed them; he just taken them from his body. Now, I believe he got that from Elijah’s staff. Elijah went and said—said, “Lay the staff on the baby.” See? Elijah knew that what he touched was blessed. But now, whether the Shunammite woman would believe it or not, that’s different. But now, Paul got that from there, that he knew that what he touched was blessed. And the people believed him to be God’s servant and His prophet. So what he touched, he believed was blessed, and he sent the handkerchief, and the people received that.

Who Has Believed Our Report?, 1952-07-20, Hammond, IN, §8