After a while the sister asked me to come out into the kitchen. She gave me
a chair and I sat down. She at once began to unburden her mind and said,
"Did you understand when I spoke to you at the campmeeting at St. Paul Park
three or four years ago that I was intending to give you some money for
your trip to Europe?" I answered, "Yes, I thought so." "But" she said, "you
said you had the fare." "Yes," I answered, "I had it by faith." Then in
surprise, she asked, "But didn't you have the money in your possession?
Weren't you then already on your way to Europe?"
"I was on my way to Europe," I answered, "but did not have all my
fare--only by faith."
She then told me that she had been sick for about two years. She said, "I
have been prayed for often, and have received some help, yet I gradually
got worse. Finally," she said, "I got desperate about it and said to the
Lord, 'What's the matter with me anyway; I cannot get well and I cannot
die?' Then the Lord said, 'Do you know the Brother you intended to give
some money before he went to Europe?' I said, 'Yes, in a way, but he's back
now.' The Lord said, 'That does not make any difference; how much was it?'
'Fifteen dollars,' was my answer. 'That's right,' the Lord said, 'but there
is ten dollars interest on that now.' 'I'll give it to him the first time I
see him,' I said. Then I was prayed for and healed at once." Having said
this, she handed me the money, "Here it is," and it was four bills! I took
it and commenced to shout the glory of God. In came Bro. Ahrendt and I held
up the four bills for him to see. He shouted, "The fur coat, the fur coat!"
Then I related my experience to her of my praying for a fur coat and said
to her, "If you had given me the money when I came back from Europe I would
not have had to suffer cold for about a winter and a half." The sister was
healed and blessed, and I was kept warm for many a day inside that fur
coat.
* * * * *
A number of years ago I was called to go to Wales, North Dakota, to hold a
meeting at Brother Paul Garber's home, which was a Great Northern box car.
The weather was very cold, the temperature being twenty degrees below zero.
After the first evening service a woman came to me and said, "I am the
sheriff's wife and I want you to come home with me. I cannot allow you to
stay here." I went with her and the next day we got the Methodist church in
which to hold our services.
More than half the people who attended the services were Catholics. On the
last evening as I was going out of the church, the butcher of the town
shook hands with me, putting three silver dollars in my hand and said, "You
come back soon."
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