Then he went on to say, "We live six miles from town, and this morning as I
was working around the barn the Lord said to me, 'You go to town and get
your car.' My wife said, 'John, leave that car alone; don't go to town.'
But I told her that the Lord said, 'You go and get the car.' And I came as
fast as I could get here."
He took me to the service. Bro. E. G. Masters was preaching, and when he
had finished speaking he asked me to come to the pulpit and tell how the
Lord had healed me and how it was that I managed to get to the service. I
related the whole story, telling how I had prayed for someone to meet me
who had a. car having a top to it and side curtains to keep out the cold. I
then added that I was so glad the Lord had lots of cars; that as for me, I
never expected to have a car of my own for I did not think that I would
ever be able to afford anything like that. That settled the car difficulty
in the congregation--and I was entirely ignorant of the fact of there
having been any trouble! Today I am using my ninth car.
That meeting was a real success. Brother Masters, for a number of evenings,
had offered a brand new eighteen dollar Bible to any preacher, professor,
presiding elder or bishop that could come into the pulpit and prove that we
were not preaching the Bible. He gave them five minutes to come to the
front. One family belonging to a certain denomination sent for their bishop
and he came. After the service was over and the family had taken the bishop
to their home, they asked him why he did not get up and prove that we were
not preaching the truth so as to get the Bible. The good man answered,
"After those two men were finished speaking there was nothing to say. They
preached the Bible." Brother Masters spoke on the "White Horse of Calvary"
and used the blackboard to illustrate his meaning.
* * * * *
Brother Peter Peterson of Hoboken, New Jersey and I held some meetings
together up in a newly settled district of northern Minnesota. Our offering
for two weeks services was one round fifty-cent piece.
While there we had a call to go to the insane asylum, at Fergus Falls,
Minnesota to pray for a Brother Weegan who had lost his mind. After
entering the institution we were locked in the cell with him and on bended
knees with our hands uplifted toward heaven, we began to pray and all of a
sudden he was restored to his right mind. We knocked on the door to have
the attendant came and let us out. As we were going out of the door Brother
Weegan pushed his head between us and the attendant and said to the man,
"You might just as well let me out, too, for I am as rational as these two
preachers now, and I will not hurt you any more."
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