In response to an urgent call to come to St. Paul Park I forthwith prepared
to go, although not knowing the reason I was summoned. When ready to start,
at the request of my wife, I consented to take along a rag carpet which she
had made for the Old People's Home out there. I put the carpet into a sack
and checked it to St. Paul, rechecking it from there to St. Paul Park. The
baggage man asked me whether I had a trunk or a grip. I informed him I had
a sack. In answer to his inquiry as to what was in it, I told him,
"Clothing." While riding on the next train the devil said to me, "You're a
pretty nice preacher; you lied to the baggage man; instead of telling him
clothing was in the sack you should have said it was cloth or rag carpet."
"Well," I said, "I can make that right on my return trip." On my arrival at
the Park I found that Brother Krutz had lost his mind. When I met him he
did not know me. I went to praying and tried to talk to him and after a
while he knew me. He said, "Brother Susag, Brother Susag, you are pure
gold, pure gold." Then looking at me intently, pointing his finger at my
heart, he said, "What do I see, a tiny spot?" No--doubt the enemy wanted to
hinder me in praying for him. The incident bothered me a little bit, so I
went out into the woods and the Lord showed me that it was just an
imposition of the devil to bother me. Brother Krutz was prayed for and the
Lord healed him and the next Sunday he preached.
* * * * *
PRAYING FOR EGGS AND KEROSENE
Brother Ahrendt and I were holding some meetings in the locality between
Bertha and Hewitt, Minnesota. We were staying in a log house--just the two
of us. We ran out of kerosene, and were also out of money. Brother A----
took the can and started to walk to Hewitt--a distance of six or seven
miles--in the snow, hoping to meet some brethren who would ask him why he
was carrying that can--but he met no one. He went to the post office, got
the mail and concluded that he would have to go back without the kerosene;
however, on opening one of the letters a dime dropped out. He immediately
went to the store, bought the kerosene and returned home.
One evening Brother Ahrendt said to me, "Brother Susag, I'm hungry for some
eggs; let's pray the Lord to send us some eggs." I replied, "How can we
expect to get eggs out here? I haven't seen any chickens around here, nor
in the bush where I have been." "Well," he said, "the Lord can bring them
from somewhere." That evening on our returning from service we found
something setting on the table covered with a newspaper. Brother Ahrendt
lifted the paper and found a tiny basket with five eggs in it! I said, "You
get three of them; you prayed and had faith while I only said, amen."
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