That trip proved to be the beginning of a wonderful work of God. Many
people were saved and many healings and miracles were wrought by the Spirit
of the Lord. In our visiting, the first house we entered at eleven a.m. an
elderly sister, ninety years of age, was sanctified and her husband,
ninety-three years old, was saved before twelve o'clock that day. This
shows that Brother Renbeck had laid a good foundation in these places,
preparing the way for the wonderful evangelistic trips that followed.
Neither of us ever went to Whitten.
While at Grafton, N. Dakota, Brother Renbeck and I had the experience of
holding a number of meetings in private homes. Interest increased and so
did our problems.
One day we wanted to telephone to Brother C. H. Tubbs at Grand Forks. We
went to a telephone office and were told that the cost of a message would
be twenty-five cents. We counted up our change and between us found that we
had only twenty-four cents, and so we had to leave the office disappointed.
Out on the side walk we stood facing each other, one of us said, "Wasn't it
too bad that we didn't have another penny?" I was standing with my back to
the street when I heard the Lord say to me, "Turn around, a penny is lying
right behind you." I turned around and there it was. I picked it up and we
sent the message, but Brother Tubbs was not at home.
There was an old retired Methodist minister attending our meetings right
along, declaring that divine healing died away with the departure of the
Apostles. The next Sunday seven women were saved, one of whom was a young
lady which had a stiff arm and crooked to such an extent that she could
neither dress nor undress herself without assistance. She was prayed for
and I asked her if she believed that the Lord would straighten out her arm
and she replied, "Yes," but did not move it. I happened to be looking at
the old minister and it seemed to be written all over his face: "Just as I
expected." At the beginning of the evening service we gave opportunity for
testimony and this young lady was all on fire to testify. She said, "I love
Jesus and Jesus loves me, and He makes my arm well;" and then she raised
her arm and waved it in all directions. The old minister bowed his head to
his knees.
The next day we were called to the home of a young lady who was suffering
from inflamatory rheumatism. Her entire body was stiff; her legs were
crossed below her knees and her arms were crossed over her breast and were
immovable, except that she could move her hands slightly and also her head
a little. The doctor was coming twice every day to give her a morphine
injection to ease the pain or she would make a disturbance by screaming at
the top of her voice.
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