As for me, I was not acquainted in the city and did not know where to go to
raise a penny. We prayed until two o'clock, then I said to Brother Nelson,
"We do not need to pray any longer; the Lord says He will attend to it." We
went to bed for about an hour and a half. We went to the depot and Brother
Nelson bought his ticket, then I ordered mine and put what money I had in
the window of the ticket office. While the agent was counting the money, a
man came running very fast into the waiting room and stuck his left hand
right in front of my nose through the ticket window and left two dollars
there, then turned and went out so fast that I had no chance to thank him.
Brother Nelson looked at the man, and then asked me whether I knew him, but
I had never seen him before, nor had Brother Nelson. The lesson I learned
from this incident was that it is better to depend upon the Lord than on
well-to-do saints.
* * * * *
On arriving home I told wife of the incident. She at once asked me whether
I was sure it was a man who brought the two dollars. I said, "To me he
looked like an angel, and he would have looked so to you if you had been in
a like fix."
* * * * *
ANSWERS TO PRAYER
Once, when home for two or three days I was suffering pain in the region of
my heart. At every beat it would seem to say, "Kelly, Kelly, Kelly." (Kelly
was a place in North Dakota, about 260 miles from home. There were a few
saints in the community who might be needing help). I was very sick and I
told my wife how badly I was feeling. She said, "Perhaps the Lord wants you
to go to Kelly." The next day the pain was still bothering me, so I sat
down and wrote to O. O. Holman and said, "I am sick; if the pain in my
heart does not soon stop I will be at your station Sunday at ten o'clock."
This was in the month of August, the busy season for farmers. The pain did
not stop, so I started out. When I had gone about one hundred miles from
home the pain left me.
Having to change trains at Grand Forks and there being no train for Kelly
until the next morning, I decided to go and stay over night with Brother C.
H. Tubbs. At the parsonage I met Brother Newell, a minister, Brother Shave
and Brother Niles, deacons of the congregation there, and a sister who was
visiting.
They all exclaimed in surprise at seeing me appear at that time of the year
and wanted to know the reason for my being there. I really felt sheepish
about telling them. Kelly was only fifteen miles from Grand Forks and they
had not heard of there being any serious trouble there.
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