On the eighth of April during morning worship the Spirit of the Lord
revealed to me that the Lord had heard our prayer and that my brother was
perfectly well! I jumped up from my knees and ran around the house shouting
the glory of God. Wife thought, "Here is another crazy Susag," but Brother
Enos Key, of Red Key, Indiana (who had come to hold a meeting) was with us
and he said, "Praise God, Brother Susag has the victory!" And three days
later I received a letter from Doctor Tumbleson giving us the good news
that on the eighth day of April the nurse went to take food to my brother
and found him perfectly well in mind and body. And that he was doing
bookkeeping for the institution and could come home any time only for the
customary red tape it would take a few days before he could come. In a
short time he was home and well.
* * * * *
On one occasion when I was holding a meeting at the fishing town of
Sookden, Denmark, a great storm arose. As is the custom in fishing towns,
boats put out to sea at high tide for better fishing conditions; forty-two
had gone from here about two o'clock in the night. Toward morning the storm
broke and on into the forenoon it became very fierce. Some of the older
people were telling of a similar storm they remembered of some forty years
before when thirty-eight boats went out and such a storm blew up. If I
remember correctly, not one boat returned.
In those days there were no motor boats. They were all sailboats, generally
three men to a boat. This time, however, they had gasoline motors on the
boats and from twelve o'clock until three o'clock one boat after the other
returned, some of them full of water, barely getting to shore. Forturnately
the wind was blowing toward the shore or they might not have made a safe
landing.
I was staying at the home of Brother Morton Petersen. He and his crew had
not returned as yet. It seemed that most of the population of the town was
standing on the hills looking for his return. I heard someone say to his
wife, "Marie, do you expect Morton to return?" She answered, "He has been
out so many times and has come back, and I expect him back this time." He
generally went farther out than any of the fishermen because the farther
out the fish were supposed to be larger and better.
We stood out there for two hours or more. About five o'clock someone said,
"I see a dark spot out there." A little later someone else shouted, "I see
a spot, too!" And then we began to see the spot more and more often, and at
last they came safely to land--and not a bucket of water in the boat.
On our way home I asked Brother Petersen how he had gotten along. He said,
"When we realized the storm was on hand we packed up our fishing lines and
I ordered my partner to take care of the motor and I myself took charge of
the rudder. My partner was a saved man but we had a boy who was not saved.
I ordered him to be ready to dip out the water if any got in the boat."
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