The next summer on coming to the North Dakota State Camp meeting at Grand
Forks, I was two days late having come from the South Dakota camp meeting,
a little girl came running toward me as I was coming on the grounds,
saying, "Praise the Lord, Brother Susag." I said, "Amen, who are you?" She
said, "Don't you know me?" I said, "No, I see so many little girls and they
all look alike to me." She said, "I'm the little girl who came to Grand
Forks last winter and could not walk." I set my grip down and wept for joy,
and said, "Please tell me, sister, when you commenced to walk." She
replied, "My sister carried me to the train in Grand Forks; when we got to
Grafton my short, dried up leg was just as long and as natural as the other
one, so I walked home. Now mother is here at the meeting to get saved."
* * * * *
At one of the camp meetings at St. Paul Park as I was coming back from the
baptismal service that we had in the river, I saw a young lady across the
street walking with crutches, one limb seemingly, just hanging helpless. I
felt sorry for her and went across the street and spoke to her. I asked her
if she had been hurt or had had an accident.
She did not answer me at all. I said, "Do not be afraid of me. I am a
minister; I am sorry for you and am anxious to know what your trouble is."
Then she said, "I have tuberculosis of the leg, there are seven holes in
it. I am just out of the Sanitarium at Saint Paul. They tell me that they
can do nothing for me." I said, "Too bad, I am sorry for you." Then I asked
her if she were a Christian; she broke down and wept. "Indeed, too bad," I
said, "A young lady in that condition and yet not a Christian." Then I
said, looking toward the camp grounds, "Do you see that tent over there? We
are holding services in it and if you will come to the service tonight and
get saved, God will heal you." She then left me and I went over to the
tent.
She came to the service that night and when the altar call was given she
went forward to seek salvation. When the altar service was over she was
still there on her knees. Brother C. H. Tubbs had been instructing her and
he said to her, "You can go and sit down now." But she pointed at me and
said, "That man said that if I got saved that I could get healed too."
Brother Tubbs said "alright" and went over to her with his oil vial and let
a drop fall on her forehead. She dropped her crutches and ran down the
aisles before we could pray, but the strength of her limb did not seem to
hold out. So she came back to the altar and prayer was offered, but she was
unable to use her limb.
Her mother was there. They lived in St. Paul and as it was some little
distance to the station and the time was drawing near for the departure of
the train, the mother said to her, "Take your crutches and let us go." But
she answered, "Mother, I'll never touch those crutches anymore." "But if
you can not walk, what are you going to do?"
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