The next morning I went to the specialist and asked him to examine me again
to see if I could go home if I wanted to. After examining me he said, "Man,
O man, what have you done? There is not a T. B. germ about you--you can go
or stay as you please." I told him I had done nothing, but that the people
of God had been praying for me, the results of which was a great surprise
to the doctor. This is the way the Lord deals with his unworthy, humble
children that trust and obey Him.
* * * * *
I have generally observed a rule of not eating my evening meal until after
the evening service. One evening in Sweden I ate a little fish out of a can
that had been standing open for some time. After eating a little of the
fish I remembered that the can had been standing open and did not eat any
more. About a half an hour after I had retired and gone to sleep, I woke up
feeling deathly sick with ptomaine poisoning. It seemed as if I was to be
taken out of this world. All through the night Brother Forsberg, Sister
Bettie Miller and others kept praying for me and the next day my life
seemed to hang on a thread, but at five o'clock that evening we got the
victory and I was perfectly healed, and able to speak in the service that
night.
Some years afterwards while at Camp meeting at Anderson, Ind. I was
poisoned in about the same manner. A number of brethren prayed for me
without my getting any relief. Finally, Brother George Green, now pastor at
Hanford, California, a true yoke-fellow of mine who loved me dearly, broke
down and wept and had compassion on me and prayed a short prayer of faith
and rebuked the devil and the sickness, and I was healed instantly. The
Bible says of Jesus, "He had compassion on the people and healed all that
came unto him."
* * * * *
On one ocassion in 1933 I was not feeling very well. I was on my way to
California and stopped in Minneapolis where my three boys live. When they
saw that I was not well, they were determined to take me to a doctor and
have me examined. He ordered me to a hospital where five doctors took six
x-rays. After taking the x-rays, the doctors asked me, "What do you think
you have?" I said, "The same as you think." They said, "What do we think?"
"Cancer!" I said. "No," they said. I said, "Why do you lie, you said it was
cancer and a bad one." They said, "Do you understand Latin?" I said, "I
understand that much." In the evening the doctor called my son Clarence and
said to him, "Shall I tell your dad what the matter is with him, or will
you?" He answered, "It doesn't matter who tells him, as he is ready to live
or to die; we want to know the worst." The doctor said, "It is the worst.
Bring him to my office tomorrow at three o'clock." I heard the five doctors
talking the case over between themselves, stating the position of the
cancer.
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