When we first visited her, Brother Renbeck began immediately to talk to her
about salvation, for he thought that she must be saved before she could be
healed. However, we did not seem able to get any spiritual help to her at
all. So the next day before going to see her I asked Brother Renbeck
whether people have to be saved before they can be healed. He said that he
did not know. I then mentioned the fact of the ten lepers being healed and
that only one returned to give glory to God; and, moreover, that I believe
if we would pray for her the Lord would heal her and that God would get
glory out of it some way. "All right," he said, "you talk to her today."
We went in to her room and I said to her "Martha, do you believe that God
will heal you if we pray for you?" "Yes, the Lord healed Miss B. all
right." I then said, "Are you willing to throw out all your medicine
bottles and never go back to them again, even if the pain should return?"
She called her father in and asked him to take the medicine bottles and
smash them up. He went out and brought in a bushel basket and gathering
them up, took them out and smashed them into pieces. Then we anointed her
and prayed and while we were still praying she stretched out her hands and
her feet. When we removed our hands she wrapped the sheet around her,
jumped out of bed and ran around the house.
About six or eight months later while I was holding a meeting in Grand
Forks, one evening a young lady of about nineteen years of age came into
the service carrying her younger sister, nine years of age, who could not
walk. I went right to them and asked where they were from and why they had
come. The young lady told me they were from Grafton. She said, "I have not
been well for a year, and about two years ago my sister, with some other
children, was playing on the roof of an old shed and she either jumped or
fell down, her heel struck a stone and her limb became withered. We have
been to many specialists and none of them could help her. We heard that the
two healers that healed Martha Gaulbright were here and we have come to be
healed." I told her those men were no healers; that it was the Lord who
healed Martha. "Well," she said, "the ministers, then." I asked her if Miss
Gaulbright was still well? She answered, "She has never been sick since."
I told the young lady that only one of the ministers was here. The next day
Brother Emil Krutz came and we prayed for a large number of the sick, (39
in all), however, before we got through praying the two girls were gone. On
inquiring whether anyone knew where they had gone, I was told they had
either gone to the Hotel or to the Great Northern Railway station. I rushed
to the station two blocks away as I was anxious to find out whether they
had been healed, but I knew neither their names nor their address. When I
got to the station I inquired about the train to Grafton to find the train
was just pulling out.
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