The second day following, the Lord gave me another message. My text was the
last clause of the second verse of Proverbs 16: "... the Lord weigheth the
spirits." After I had spoken a few minutes Brother Cole spoke up and said,
"Please stop a minute, Bro. Susag, do not talk so fast; we do not
understand a word you say." I said, "Please pray for me." Then again,
realizing I was going quite fast, I stopped, when Sister Cole said, "Do not
stop now, go ahead, Bro. Susag, we can understand you well enough." I
seemed to be full of the Holy Ghost which seemed to be pressing me on. When
I said, "Amen" there were forty-two at the altar crying for mercy.
Listen folks, this was not because of my good preaching, for they could not
understand me, but they understood when the Holy Ghost spoke. When I went
to the altar to pray with the seekers a man came running on his hands and
feet, barking like a dog. He was taken out to another room to be prayed
for. He was helped, and the devils were cast out.
After the altar service was over I asked Brothers Reardon and Ebel to go
with me to the basement. As soon as we got there I fell on my face to the
floor weeping, and saying to the brothers, "I need help, I am in serious
trouble. It seems as though devils were tearing my very body to pieces."
Thank God for good brothers who are able to help a person in time of need.
Brother Reardon said to me, "Get up quick, Bro. Susag, don't lie there and
cry for the devil." But I said, "You don't know what trouble I am in." But
they said to me, "There is nothing the matter with you. Get up and rebuke
the devil, get up and sit on that chair and we will talk to you." Then Bro.
Reardon said, "The Lord used you to break the spell in the meeting and
there were seven possessed with devils at the altar. The devil became
enraged at you and was determined to ruin you." Then I resisted the devil
and was free.
We will soon find out when we let the Holy Ghost have His way with us there
are seemingly two equally great powers in the world. But thank God, we also
find that He is the Omnipotent Ruler over all things.
Brother Tubbs and I once held a meeting at Portland, North Dakota. The wife
of the man with whom we stayed professed to be saved and one of the saints.
Her husband, as far as I knew, made no profession but was a very fine man
and one of the leading business men of the town.
One day, as we were looking through the bookcase, we found a lot of fine
looking books of Russellite teaching. We asked the sister who had bought
them. She told us that she had bought them--"had bought over a hundred
dollars' worth of those good books." We informed her that they were
unsound, that they taught erroneous doctrine and should not be read nor
handed to anyone.
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