I know of other cases of that same kind, both with other ministers and
myself. Once in a camp meeting a young minister was the evangelist, whom
the Lord used mightily. One evening they were going to take up the love
offering for the evangelist. A nice offering came in, not any too large,
and they gave the evangelist seventy percent.
* * * * *
Once at the Grand Forks, North Dakota Camp Meeting, Brother P. Pederson of
Hoboken, New Jersey was to preach. He read his text and related some of his
experiences and the Holy Ghost began to bring the people to the altar. He
then closed his Bible and said, "A greater preacher than I is now
speaking."
* * * * *
During the depression it looked as though we were going to lose the state
camp grounds at Grand Forks. At the camp meeting the Board said there is no
other way than to let it go. I said, "No." "Well," they said, "Then you
will have to raise the money because we cannot." I said, "If you will give
me a free hand, to go at it when the Lord says to, I will." They said O. K.
One evening the Lord said, "Now is the time," so I said to Brother Monk,
"Let me have a few minutes?" Within a few minutes we had the amount to the
cent. Brother Monk said, "This time the devil was licked and the depression
also." It pays to pray.
* * * * *
The first Camp Meeting I attended at Grand Forks, I generally got up at 3
or 4 a.m. and went to the woods to pray. At that time you could hardly find
a place to pray.
There were two or three members praying behind every tree before I got
there.
The first Camp Meeting I attended in Anderson, I went out early in the
cemetery and here they were praying every where.
The pioneer ministers knew how to pray, because they had no sermon outline
book to take it from. Their converts knew how, too, for they were taught by
the Holy Ghost.
* * * * *
Once Brother Renbeck and I were holding a meeting in Erskine, Minn. It was
42 degrees below zero every day, and we had to stand the bread by the
heating stove and a number of times it froze so hard on the table, before
we got through with our meal, that we could not eat it. When we went to
bed, we could see the stars twinkling through the cracks of the roof. We
took off our shoes and coats and lay down on the bed, and pulled our fur
caps down over our ears and put our fur coats over us. Often through the
night we would have to turn over because the side that was down got cold.
This may seem ridiculous to some, but God knows it is true.
* * * * *
In 1911 Brother Morris Johnson and I held a meeting on the west coast of
Denmark. At the place where we stayed and slept, we had to climb up a
ladder through a hole into the room to sleep. The bed was too short for
Bro. Johnson and too narrow for two, and the bed clothes accordingly.
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