In one of my meetings while I was pastor at Grand Forks I felt impressed to
speak to a young man, Tom Perkins, a World War I veteran. I went down into
the audience to speak to him, and told him he ought to seek the Lord that
night as something was going to happen. He said, "Do you think so?" I said,
"No, I don't think so, I know so." But he said, "Not tonight." That was
Sunday, and on Wednesday afternoon as I was going down DeMeres Avenue he
came out of a clothing store with a friend of his, I said, "How do you do"
to him and passed on in front of him, but as I was passing him the Lord
said to me, "Go back and speak to Tom." I at once turned back to him and
said, "Tom, listen to me; you ought to seek the Lord. Let us go back in the
store and settle it with the Lord." But he said, "No." I said, "It is very
important." He said as before, "Do you think so?" And again I answered, "I
don't think so, I know so." He took it very nicely but refused to make any
move toward seeking the Lord. Two days later, the following Friday, he went
to Minneapolis and on Sunday afternoon he was crushed to death between two
street cars. Would it not be well for people to heed the warnings of God's
servants and His Spirit?
The pastor of the Scandinavian Free church at Brookings, South Dakota, one
time sent for me to come to pray for a sister who was a member of his
congregation and had been sick in bed for some six months. I preached there
several times and then announced that I was going to pray for the sick
sister at three o'clock the next day, and asked all those who had faith to
be present and those who did not have faith to stay away, preachers and
all. Only one person was there--an elderly Baptist sister from Huron-Sister
Shall. The prayer of faith was offered and Sister Johnson was healed and
was present at the service that evening.
One Sunday morning wife and I with two sisters drove to Westlake for the
forenoon service which was held in the home of Brother and Sister Hans
Myhre. After service wife came to me and said that Sister Myhre wanted us
to stay for lunch. But I said, "No, we cannot stay for lunch, the Lord
wants us to go home right away." On hearing this, Sister Myhre came to me
and said, "You have got to stay for lunch." I answered, "Sister, we can't
stay for the Lord told me to go home." She said, "And then the sisters will
not get anything to eat either. Why do you have to go?" I said, "I don't
know, only that the Lord says, go home." "Brother Susag, you are stubborn,"
the sister insisted.
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