I went back to the tent and shoved three or four planks together. These
planks had been used for seats. I put my suit case down for a pillow and
there I slept that night and during the rest of the meeting. When I would
get a little cold in the night I would get up and walk around a bit. A few
days later Oluf Erickson from Belgrade, Minnesota, who had gotten saved in
one of our meetings at home, asked me where I was sleeping. I said, "I have
a good place; another brother and I have a very fine tent with a bed in
it." "Oh yes," he said, "I know where you sleep; you sleep in the
minister's tent." "Yes," I said, "it's a minister's tent all right." But he
didn't give up until he found out the truth. He then said, "My, my, had no
one offered you a place to stay, and you are one of the evangelists?" I
said, "Yes." Then he said, "Well then, I'll come and sleep with you."
In those days it was: "All for Jesus and souls" and not for personal
comfort. We had a wonderful time together in the Lord. We also had a
wonderful camp meeting in seeing scores of souls saved and many miracles
done by the power of God.
Sister Renbeck, who had been bed fast for a long time, was carried in on a
cot and the prayer of faith was offered. Brother E. E. Byrum took her by
the hand and commanded her to arise in the name of Jesus. She arose and
went running around the tent lifting her hands and praising God. I heard
three men talking about it afterwards saying, "I wonder if that is real!
She surely looked poorly and puny, but you can't tell." Another man said,
"I wish my wife had been here; if it had been her we would have known it
was real." (She had been sick for a long while.)
* * * * *
While my first meeting in Grand Forks was in progress, Brother Renbeck came
to me with the request that I would pray over a matter he had on his mind,
and that was that after the meeting was over he and I might go together to
hold a meeting at Whitten, Minnesota. I promised to pray over the matter
and that at the close of the meeting we would talk it over together. And,
accordingly, at the end of the meeting I prayed earnestly to get the mind
of the Lord as to where He wanted me to go.
When Brother Renbeck asked me what I had gotten from the Lord in regard to
the matter I replied by asking whether there were places in North Dakota by
names of Kelly, Grafton and St. Thomas, "Yes," he said, "there are; what of
it?" I replied that the Lord told me I was going to those places. He told
me that just before the meeting here, he had come from those very places
and there would be no use in going. I told him I was going to follow the
leading of the Lord and go, that he could stay here until I came back when
we would go to Whitten. But he declared if I was going he would go, too.
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