During the meeting at Greenwood I went out inviting folks to the services.
One day I came to a farm house where the man of the house was ill in bed
with tuberculosis of the spine. I told him that I was a minister and also,
that I believed in Divine healing. When he heard this, he said, "You are
the very man the Lord has sent to me that I may be healed." I said, "I do
not know about that; however, I will pray for you. I am impressed of the
Lord not to anoint you. I will be back on Friday afternoon, and in the
meantime will pray the Lord to show me what to do." With this arrangement
the sick man was satisfied. It was now dusk, and on reaching my room in the
house where I stayed, I knelt down beside a chair to pray for him. As I did
so, a cow and three sheep stood right before me. I did this four times, and
as soon as I would get on my knees here were the cow and three sheep
between me and God, so to speak. So I gave up trying for that time, but the
next day at ten o'clock I went in to pray for him again in broad daylight.
But as I did so, the cow and the sheep were there before me.
On the appointed Friday I went to see him again. He inquired at once what
the Lord had made known to me about him. I told him the Lord had shown me
something but that I did not understand what it meant. He was anxious to
hear what it was, and I related the vision I had had. He said, "I perceive
that the Lord has sent you to be a help to me," and continuing, went on to
say, "We used to live in Iowa on a good sized farm and we were well-to-do
financially. I was very much interested in spiritual work, even to printing
and sending out a number of tracts. But it seemed that my poor soul was
clinging to the worldly thing too much. I was troubled about it, off and
on. However, your vision means that if I only had a cow and three
sheep--which we have--if my soul is clinging to them I can never enter
heaven." "Surely," he said, "the Lord has sent you to help me. Please pray
that I get right with God; that is the main thing." The dear man bitterly
repented and became very happy. The third day following this event he went
home to glory.
* * * * *
I had promised that after this meeting I would go to hold a meeting at
Dallas, Wisconsin, but the Lord impressed me to go home. Knowing no reason
for going home, I bought my ticket only to a certain station where I would
have to change if I went to Dallas, thinking that maybe my feelings would
change before I got there. But there was no change in my feelings when we
got there, so I bought a ticket to St. Paul and from there got a ticket to
Hawick, Minnesota, which is just three miles from my home.
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