Our taking this stand made things look as though we would be without a
place to stay. But that evening the Lord changed the situation. The
two-year-old child of this couple was suddenly taken violently ill. The
mother asked us to pray for the boy. Bro. Tubbs plainly told her that the
Lord would not heal her boy as long as she had those books in the house.
When we were just starting to go to the service that evening, the father,
who was holding the child in a blanket in his arms, said to us, "Will you
guarantee healing to my child if I place it in your hands? Otherwise I
shall have to get a doctor before it is too late." Bro. Tubbs answered, "We
can guarantee nothing," and we started for the service.
Bro. Tubbs was already outside the door of the house when the mother of the
child said pleadingly, "Won't you pray?" The Holy Ghost came upon me and I
said, "Yes, on one condition, if you will promise to take all those books
over to the meeting place tomorrow and burn them up before the eyes of the
audience, I'll pray and guarantee healing for your child." She said, "I
won't do that; they are good books and cost $100." "All right," I said, and
stepped out of the door. The father said, "Just a minute," and then to his
wife he said, "Isn't the life of our child worth more than one hundred
dollars?" She said, "But they are good books." He replied, "The ministers
say they are no good. I know nothing about them, whether they are good or
not, but I do know one thing that my child's life is worth more than one
hundred dollars." "All right, then, I'll do it," she said.
I stepped back in the room, threw my hat on the floor, went over and laid
my hands on the child and prayed the prayer of faith and the Lord healed
the child instantly, and the books went up in smoke the next day.
I have seen bookcases and book shelves in many homes that need just such a
purge in order that the glory of God may dwell in the home, and sometimes
even in the churches.
* * * * *
In the years 1915-16 I spent almost thirteen months in Denmark helping the
few faithful workers there to raise up eight congregations and many books
were burned during the time.
One old mother in Israel, when she heard of the books being burned, said,
"I've got only one book and it's a good one." She brought it to me and
said, "If you say this is not good, my salvation goes too." I asked her if
I might mark with a pencil in her book and she said I could. After reading
it a while I laid it aside having marked it here and there. She asked me
what I thought of her book. Not to discourage her, I said, "There are some
good things in that book." She took it and began to find the places which I
had marked, finally closed the book and said, "This book is no good; the
Bible says thus and so and the book speaks to the contrary." Then she said,
"Why have I been blessed many times when reading this book?" I answered,
"Because you were honest and did not know any better."
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