One year when I was the evangelist at the S. Dakota State camp meeting, I
mentioned one day in my sermon that I was very busy and had received enough
calls since I had come to the camp meeting to keep me going for two years.
After the service Brother Geselbeck, the elder of the church, came to me
and said, "Let us go down to the car," which we did. He began by saying,
"I've always had confidence in you, Brother Susag, but today in something
you said, I thought you went too far, so I decided to speak to you at once
as I did not want to lose my confidence in you." I said, "Thank you, that's
fine, brother; what was it I said?" "You said that you had received enough
calls since you had been at the meeting to keep you going for two years,
and this is only the third day!" "Did I say that?" I asked. "Maybe I said
too much, but we will see I have the letters here in my pocket and they are
addressed to Arlington, Route 1, South Dakota." So we took the letters and
read them and found that if I were to hold meetings at each place as long
as they stated in the letters it would have taken me twenty-six months.
Bro. Geselbeck then said, "I knew you were a busy man, but I never knew you
were that busy, and I am glad that I spoke to you!" Yes, if we would all do
that way when something is in question it would avoid a whole lot of
misunderstanding.
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I once had a cancer on my upper lip and one day I met Dr. Sandven on the
street of my home town. He stopped and said to me, "You had better come
over to the hospital and we will burn that thing out or else you will have
something." I replied, "I've got something already." "Yes," he said, "but
we may be able to burn it out yet." "Well," I said, "I believe I will wait
on my own Doctor a little while yet." "All right," he said, "if you don't
get rid of it, come over and we will try to help you."
A few days after this I went to Erie, North Dakota to hold a tent meeting
for Sister Bertha Gaulke who was the pastor of the church there. We had
prayer often, but for two nights the pain was so intense it seemed as
though the roots of the cancer were going into my nose and up into my left
eye. The third night I was weeping and praying and finally I went to sleep,
and in my sleep the Lord said to me, "Wake up and take hold of the cancer;
I have heard your prayers and it will come out." I woke up and did as the
Lord directed, and out it came, roots and all!
I have had (and still do have) many dreams. The Bible says, that "... old
men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." (Joel 2:28).
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