In 1942 as I was coming from the West coast to Wolf Point, Montana, I took
the bus thirty-eight miles from there where another road turns off to go to
my son's place, a mile and a half off the highway. It had snowed quite a
bit and was somewhat stormy, but I thought I could make it. However, I had
not walked far until I had to throw my grips into the ditch and tried to go
on, but the snow was so deep I could not make it walking. My only way was
to lie down in the road and roll. I kept that up quite a while, and when I
got tired I would just lie and rest. After I had gotten a quarter of a mile
I was so worn out that it seemed as though there was no hope for me. I
rolled over to a fence post and stood up and tied myself to it, thinking
that if I did freeze to death folks would be able to find my body. After I
had been standing quite a while praying, I felt as though I was getting my
strength again, so I loosened myself from the fence post and started to
roll again and then tried to walk on my knees, but that would not do. The
snow was too loose--I went down. Toward evening I had reached the highest
spot from which I could be seen from my son's house. He was coming from the
barn and happened to see me, and then quickly came to meet me and very soon
led me safely to his home. So the Lord had mercy on me once more.
* * * * *
One time I received a telegram from Brother Fortner of Brookings, S. Dakota
asking me to come at once. I arrived there late in the evening and found
that their son, Clarence, was seriously ill at the hospital in Huron,
eighty-three miles from Brookings. The folks thought we had better wait
until the following morning to go. Brother and Sister Fortner, another son,
and the pastor all went with me in my car.
Clarence had been saved but had gotten away from the Lord. On our trip from
Brookings, on the highway we drove eighty miles an hour and the pastor
said, "Brother Susag, you do not need to go so fast." I thought that I
would slacken down but the car was still going eighty miles; the pastor
called again, "Brother Susag, you need not go so fast." I said nothing but
felt rather sad that I was hurting the pastor's feelings, but still I was
going eighty. Finally the pastor spoke sternly, "Brother Susag, you don't
need to go that fast." I felt sad, but said nothing, yet in spite of myself
and the pastor, I was still going eighty miles an hour.
On arriving at the hospital the young man said, "I have gotten back to the
Lord and this morning at three o'clock He said to me that at nine o'clock
Brother Susag would be here to take you home." He had the clock standing on
the chair and it was just nine o'clock when we arrived! The pastor walked
out. (This occurred before the laws governing speed went into effect, but
law or no law, the Lord wanted me there at nine o'clock.)
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GETTING IN TROUBLE FOR OBEYING THE WORD OF GOD
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