About eighteen months later I held another meeting in this same community
and the attendance was very good. A number of the same people who had
claimed that they wanted to cut me to pieces were also there. Eight souls
had gotten saved and the attendance was increasing. All of a sudden, as I
was closing the service, the Spirit of the Lord said to me, "This is your
last service here. You will leave in the morning on the 4 o'clock train for
Grand Meadows, Minn." Saint and sinner alike, said, "You can't close now;
look at the manifest interest and the growing attendance!" "But," I said,
"the Lord tells me to close." They insisted that it could not be that they
all were wrong and I the only one that was right. So I consented to stay,
but had I but left on that morning train I would have escaped the terrible
storm that swept over that part of the country. As it was, I could neither
get away nor continue the meeting. On the farm where I was staying they had
to have a rope extended between the house and the barn for two days in
order to find the way from one building to the other.
* * * * *
I had held a number of revivals for Brother Millar of Racine, Wisconsin.
One time, in this connection, I had a dream that I saw a pasture with green
grass and beautiful sparkling water running through it and as nice a flock
of sheep as I ever saw were feeding in it. But in this beautiful pasture
that should have been utilized for good pasture. I felt impressed to tell
Bro. Millar of my experience so wrote him of what I had seen in my dream.
In his prompt reply he said, "You had better come with your 'stump-pulling
machine' and pull them out."
Some time later, on a very hot Sunday at noon I arrived in Racine, all
tired and worked out. I asked Bro. Millar whether there was to be an
afternoon service. I understood him to say, "No, there would not be." I
said to him, "I want no lunch so please take me to my room." And this he
did. I undressed immediately and was soon fast asleep, but before long I
felt my bed being shaken and heard someone speaking to me but it seemed I
just could not wake up. The shaking increased and I heard a voice saying,
"Brother Susag, Brother Susag." I looked up and there was Brother Millar!
He said, "Why, Brother Susag, have you undressed? The chapel is full of
people who are waiting for you to come and preach." I told him I had
understood him to say that there would be no afternoon service, that he
should go back and that I would follow as quickly as possible.
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