I surely had a fine stay with the sheriff and his wife, and the day I was
leaving the sheriff was at the depot with a delegation representing the
business men of the town saying to me, "We wish you would come back soon."
I said to them, "What's your reason for wanting me to come back soon, since
the butcher was the only business man of the city who came out to my
meeting?" "When you come back," they said, "we will all come to your
services, because many people have come and paid up their old bills and
made good their outlawed notes since you have been here." I am sorry that I
never had the opportunity of going back there again.
A number of the saints at Wales moved to Grand Forks, N. Dakota, and were a
great blessing and an asset to that congregation. Later on, sixty-three
adults and children moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan, and I understand that
an English and a German congregation was started at that place through
their efforts.
* * * * *
One time Brother Renbeck and I went to Bro. Bahr's to pray for Willie, a
son of theirs, who had the scarlet fever, and after we had prayed I felt
that I should stay a little longer. I lay down on the lounge and fell
asleep. All of a sudden Sister Bahr called and said, "I believe Willie is
dying," and when I laid my hands on him he was so hot that the heat seemed
to go right through my whole body. I kept on rebuking the sickness and the
devil, but it didn't seem to help any.
I prayed, "Lord, heal this boy to Thy glory. If no other way, I am willing
to take this sickness upon myself, just so you get the glory of healing the
boy." In a few minutes he was sound asleep, perfectly healed! But I felt as
though I was sore all over my body. When I went out into the cold winter
weather the cold would smart what seemed to be sores on my face, and when I
got to the chapel to preach I felt ashamed to get up before the audience
because I thought the folks would see the sores on my face, although I knew
it was an imposition of the devil. When I got into the pulpit I told the
people how I felt, and asked them to pray, and immediately the feeling left
me. I learned the lesson not to be willing to take a devil's sickness in
order to get people healed.
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