Brother Edward Ahrendt and I were holding a meeting in Grand Forks, North
Dakota. One evening the call was made, and the altar was filled with
seekers. Brother Ahrendt and I started at opposite ends to pray and
instruct. As I knelt, the first one was a woman and I felt as if I had
knelt by a barrel of devils. I was surprised that she was professing to be
a Christian. Lifting my hand in astonishment, I said, "Sister G--you are
possessed with devils." After the altar service was over, Brother Ahrendt
and I laid our hands on her and commanded the devils to come out in the
name of Jesus, which they did. The next morning we had prayer and testimony
meeting and she arose and testified and in a way she excused herself. I
said, "Sister, be careful or the devils will enter into you again."
Evidently they did, because the other women in the rooming house told me
that in the evening when she arrived at her room to go to bed, the devils
rolled her up like a ball with her heels almost on her shoulders, and her
sufferings were horrible. They prayed and did everything they could to help
her get straightened out, but to no avail. They tried to find Bro. Ahrendt
and I, but we had moved that night to another place. No one seemed to know
where we were. They called up all the saints that had phones, but without
success. Finally, two of the sisters started out going from house to house
among the saints that had no phones, and at four o'clock in the morning
they reached the house where we were stopping. We went over as quickly as
possible, and when we went up onto the porch, she straightened out
instantly. The devil was going to play possum on us. Brother Ahrendt and I
had a consultation, as he had never had any experiences with cases of devil
possession before. He said, "Brother Susag, Saturday night when we prayed
for her, there was no manifestation showing that she was possessed."
"Well," I said, "There is no need of them having to be thrown around by the
devil when you know they are possessed," so I said I would pray and we
would see how it would come out, because I knew there was a need of full
agreement. We phoned Brother Gus Niles and asked if we could come to his
place with Mrs. G----. When we got there, we went into a room and locked
the doors. Brother Ahrendt prayed in one corner and Brother Niles in
another corner. I gave her a chair by the table, and I sat opposite. I
said, "Sister, I have known you for four years and all that time you have
deceived yourself and the saints and the ministry. You have had no
salvation all this time. Now tell me what the devil had you do when you
came home from meetings." She said, "One time when I came home, I went out
to the barn to feed milk to the calf, and he wouldn't drink, and I got
angry and took a small club and struck him. He bawled and broke the rope
and jumped through the window and ran out into the woods." When she was
telling this, her hand flew up and she commenced beating the air with it
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