Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. WarnerByers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
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Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner
Byers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) -- History; Warner, D. S. (Daniel Sidney), 1842-1895
=7.= Today we fasted all day. Met in the Bethel at 9 A. M. and held
meeting until after 4 P. M. without intermission. This day I was
the least conscious of a physical nature and my relations with a
corporeal world of any day in all my life. I seemed to be entirely
unconscious of passing time. Only the spirit seemed to live, stir,
feel, and take cognizance. Glory to the God of wonders! Is this
really but the foot-stool of God?
Mother Keller, Sarah, and I went to Brother L----'s for supper. She
(Mrs. L.) very soon began to pour out her bitter railing against
holiness and holy ones; but praise God, he kept our souls in
perfect peace. After my communing with God in secret for some time,
the Lord told me to go immediately to see a poor sick girl near
by. Mother accompanied me. Found her barely able to sit up, having
been suffering for nearly one year. She had exhausted in vain all
available medical aid. We spoke of the Great Physician. She said
she believed that he was able to heal her. We called for oil,
anointed her in the name of the Lord and laid hands on, and prayed
for her present restoration to health. We entreated God with all
the faith and earnestness of our inmost soul and then left her in
the hands of God, with a comfortable degree of faith that God would
raise her up again.
Eve, met at a quarter to eight. Mighty power filled the house. The
altar was filled from one side to the other. Several were seeking
sanctification. Glory to God, this night he began to give me some
of the evidences (besides my hitherto naked faith) that I had got
out of the wilderness into Canaan. Jesus, my blessed Savior, just
cut me off one bunch of the sweet grapes of this "land." Oh, glory
to God, once more I was a little child! I felt the blood of Jesus
flowing through my entire "soul, body, and spirit." Heaven on
earth! Halleluiah, it is done!
=8.= Sabbath. At five this morning a goodly number met in the
Bethel for prayers. The Spirit was with us. Returned to Brother
Bell's; ate a piece for breakfast, as we all felt that bodily wants
were simple and few while the soul was so dearly fed with the bread
of heaven. Met at half-past nine, and after many clear testimonies
were given in for Jesus Brother Dunbar preached the word of life
with great power and sweetness. Text, "For God hath not called us
unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." He read much of the First
Epistle to the Thessalonians, where this glorious second work is
brought out so clear and forcibly. My soul was never before so
wonderfully fed by the gospel in any sermon I ever heard. Oh, how
sweet and glorious the word of life came to my renovated heart!
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