We drove home. Wife went upstairs to change her dress, ready to get lunch.
I sat on a chair meditating on what had taken place. I said to myself, "Are
you stubborn? Why did you come home?" Just then the telephone rang. I
answered and a voice said, "Is this Rev. Susag?" "Yes," I said. "Hold the
line, long distance calling you," he informed me. After a short pause a
voice said, "This is Anna Anderson of Brookings, S. D. Do you remember
promising Grandma H., when you were pastor here, that you would officiate
at her funeral? She died this morning and is to be buried on Tuesday. Can
you come?" I told her I would come. As I turned from the telephone wife
came into the room and I said to her, "Now I know why I had to come home so
quickly, for if they had not gotten in touch with me now, I couldn't reach
there in time for the funeral." She said, "Sometimes you are a little
queer, but I have committed you to the Lord and things always come out all
right."
* * * * *
When Brother August Christofersen of Norway Lake, Minnesota, was down with
double pneumonia I was sent for to come and pray for him. I went and prayed
for him and the Lord raised him up. I stayed for three days, went home and
in three or four days received a phone call to come back. I asked whether
he was sick. They answered, "No, but he wants to see you." I was able to
get a ride almost to his place, and walked the rest of the way. On nearing
his home I turned in to a grove I had to pass and kneeled down to pray for
the brother. The Lord said to me, "You do not need to pray for him now; he
is home with me." On coming toward the house his brother came out to meet
me, and I said to him, "So Brother August is home with the Lord!" He said,
"How did you know?" I said, "The Lord told me over in the grove."
* * * * *
While I was in Denmark I was invited to come to a certain town with which I
was entirely unacquainted. Finally when I found time to go I went without
writing to announce my coming. On arriving in the city I found I had
forgotten both the name and address of my friends. I walked back and forth
on the depot platform, racking my brain, as it were, to come across the
needed address, but I just could not remember it. A man spoke to me and
said, "You seem to be in deep meditation, or in trouble of some kind." I
said, "I surely am." To which he replied, "Sometimes we get into such a
fix; do you suppose I could be of any help to you?" But I answered, "I
don't suppose you can." However, I told him my trouble. He laughed and
said, "Surely you are in bad fix; can't you think of anything?" "The only
thing I can think of," I said, "is that they are the parents of Mrs. Anna
Nelson of Kaas, Denmark." "Well," he said, "you haven't struck it so bad
after all--I am her father!"
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