"Now," I said, "I will give you our proposition, we will go with you
tonight and tomorrow you can advertize in the two city daily papers that
two American evangelists are here to hold services every night including
Saturday and three services on Sunday, all next week until Friday and then
we will see how things go." "That will not do," they said, "No one will
come out Saturday night nor Monday or Tuesday nights." "Well," I said, "you
can let us have the key and if no one comes Brother Johnson and I can go
inside and have prayer. Upon this condition we can stay, and if not, we
will take our grips and go."
To which they replied, "You can't go, for the Lord has shown us that you
are to hold a meeting for us." The next night there were about two hundred
in the congregation and some ten minutes before nine o'clock eight persons
started to get ready to leave; I was still speaking, so paused and said,
"Just a minute, please: We have just come from Denmark where we preached as
long as the Lord would lead, until nine or ten o'clock. Now if you have to
go home you are welcome to go, but if it's simply your custom to leave a
meeting at a certain time whether or not the service is over, we are going
to pray the Lord to break up such a custom." Six of the persons sat down
again and two left. Saturday night the chapel was full and Sunday night
quite a number were saved. The meeting continued almost four weeks and
souls were getting saved right along.
One day we had a baptizing service between two boat houses in the North sea
and after I had baptized all the candidates, a fisherman, who owned one of
the boat houses, came out and asked me whether I would not baptize him. On
my inquiry as to his being saved, he told me this: "I was saved three years
ago but have never before met folks with whom I believed the Lord was
working, but today as I witnessed this service I was convinced that the
Holy Ghost was with you folks." I baptized him and never saw him again.
After that we were not allowed to baptize from the shore but had to take
the folks out in a boat and baptize them from a rock in the North sea.
Following that incident we were invited to a sea Captain's home, to be
there at 9:30, the next morning. The house was the most finely finished
house I had even been in. When we arrived in the morning we found it was
full of people of the upper class, the men with their silk hats and the
women equally distinctive in their dress. Some of the company were saved
and some fifteen more were saved that morning.
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