One of our neighbors had twenty-two hogs born the same week as ours. The
day they were brought into town people said, "Susag's hogs are the nicest,
but P----'s hogs will weigh 1,000 pounds more than his." They weighed them
and found that our hogs weighed almost eleven hundred pounds more than
P----'s. They took them off the scales twice to examine the scales to see
whether they were correct, but the hogs held their weight, almost eleven
hundred pounds more than the neighbor's hogs. So once more, the Lord
honored his faithful, humble people. There was enough money for the $500
payment and some to spare.
Two years later we had another $500 payment to meet, and when we started to
seed in the spring, I said to the twins, "Let us kneel down right here in
the field and ask God to give us a large enough crop to pay the notes which
will be due in the fall." That year crops, generally, were very poor,
average wheat being from 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 bushels to the acre (of screenings,
or Number Four, as it is called). But the Lord gave us eighteen bushels to
the acre on one piece and on the other, twenty-two bushels to the acre of
Number One wheat. One old lady said, "I can't understand such a thing--only
a fence between."
* * * * *
One time I had a dream of a scene taking place in the chapel at St. Paul
Park, Minn. Brother Nelson, who had just finished his sermon, was standing
by the pulpit with his left elbow on the pulpit and his hand on his chin,
looking at the audience. Then I saw a woman, about two-thirds down the
aisle, get up and shake her fist toward Bro. Nelson. The Lord said to me,
"Do you see that woman?" I answered, "Yes." "You see she is not right with
me in shaking her fist at my servant?" "Yes," I said, "I can see that."
Then the scene changed in my dream. I was sitting on a chair right between
the dining room and the front room at the Workers' Home of the Scandinavian
Publishing Company, and there was a minister sitting behind me leaning his
hands on the back of my chair. This minister I had met once before, and the
Lord said to me, "You had better look out for that man; he is not right
with me. He will get you into trouble."
Some days later I received a telephone message to come to St. Paul Park,
Minn. at once. I went accordingly. On my arrival I found services were
going on in the Workers' Home and very soon I was sitting exactly as I saw
myself sitting in my dream. All of a sudden I saw the woman I had seen in
my dream coming in from the kitchen. I had never seen her before, nor had I
ever heard of her, but recognized her from the dream. Then I almost got
scared. What if that preacher was sitting behind me resting his hands on
the back of my chair, I thought. What's up, anyhow? I did not dare to look
back to see!
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