Then a brother came along and he said, "Praise the Lord. Wasn't it
wonderful how the Lord restored Brother Krutz?" That was another reproof.
Then a sister came by and said, "Have you heard about Sister Johnson?" We
asked, which Johnson, and she said, "Brother Morris Johnson's mother. She
fell and broke her leg just above the ankle and they took her on the train
to St. Paul and while waiting in the Union Depot for a train for home,
saints came on their way to the camp meeting and seeing her suffering they
had compassion on her, and prayed the prayer of faith, and she was
instantly healed, insomuch that she went back to the camp meeting." After
she left, Brother Nelson started one direction for the timber and I the
other. We felt the Lord had been grieved because of our discouragement and
had reproved us in this way.
* * * * *
On Sunday morning while I was holding a meeting at Rice Lake, I was
preaching on the Joy of the Lord. After speaking a few minutes, the Lord
spoke to me and said, "Your theme today will be trials and
discouragements," so I announced to the congregation that the Lord had
changed my subject, and in my talk, I related some of the worse trials and
discouragements I had passed through. After I was through speaking, a
brother came up to the pulpit and said, "Shame on you, Brother Susag." I
said, "Say that again." He did a little stronger than before, so I said,
"Say it again, for 'all good things are three.'" Then he did say it strong.
He said, "Here you have been standing here telling that preachers get tried
and tempted and discouraged like that--" and he turned and went out.
When he had gone, a young lady came up and asked me for dinner and said
that Brother and Sister ---- were coming to dinner, too. On arriving at
their home, they all sat down to visit. They didn't take off their wraps,
nor ask me to either. They said to me, "Do you know why the Lord changed
your subject today?" I told them it must have been for somebody. "Yes,"
they said, "It was for the four of us." (These four had gotten saved in the
revival I had held the year before.) "We have been tempted and tried so
much," they said, "so we came near giving up." Then they'd said to one
another, "Look at Brother Susag. He is happy all the time. He is not tried
and tempted like we are." But when they heard of my experiences, they said,
"The shame is on us." They were much encouraged and went on in the service
of God. They finally moved somewhere to the northwest and I am told that
one of the brothers became a minister, and the other three Sunday School
workers.
Many people do not realize that ministers pass through much suffering both
spiritual and physical for the sake of others, but they are glad to do so
for Christ's sake and for the sake of others.
While pastoring in Grand Forks, North Dakota a lady called on the phone one
day and asked to speak to The Rev.
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