Then I told her that I could not get the wheel off. After a few minutes she
said, "Uncle Carl [her brother] said to me, 'Martha, why don't you take a
rest? You are always so busy and you don't have to keep going like that,'
so now I am going up stairs to take a rest. You come with me and carry my
Bible and a few other things." So I went with her. After I had tucked her
in bed I asked her if she was resting comfortably now. She said, "Yes," and
looking up at me with a smile, she said, as though she was about to tell me
a secret, "And now..."--and she was dead! I raised my hands and said, "O
Mama, you are not leaving me, are you?" But there she lay smiling.
I called the doctor and in a few minutes the house was full of people. The
first one to come was Sister Hansen. She said, "Brother Susag, Sister Susag
is not dead--she lies there smiling!" But she was gone. She had been
praying for about two years that she might go that way, and her prayer was
answered. (I got a neighbor young man to come and see what he could do with
the car. He had no trouble in turning the bolts and was able to fix it very
easily.) The feeling I had that I could not leave my wife to go to the West
Coast to hold meetings proved to have been quite in order.
* * * * *
On one of my trips I had to change trains at Grand Forks, and having a
little time to spare I walked down a certain street of the city and met
Brother John Sonden who was standing outside of a doctor's office. He was
surprised to see me, but I explained that I was just passing through in
making my train connections. He said he was waiting for his son, Brent, who
was up in the office consulting the doctor about his health. He wished so
much that I could talk to the boy. At his request I went and met him as he
was coming out of the consulting room.
He informed me that the doctor had told him he had heart trouble, but as he
did not know what kind, he wanted him to go to the hospital for a week when
he thought he would be able to locate the ailment. After hearing what he
had to say, I said to him, "I'll tell you what your trouble is and how you
feel when you are sitting on the gang plow, plowing: You feel you are going
to fall off in front of the plow and get killed and that makes you nervous
and sick." He said, "Yes sir, that is exactly how I feel." I then said to
him, "I can tell you the cure for it: Go home, and falling on your knees,
confess your sins to God and call on Him. for salvation. I will be agreed
in prayer and I guarantee you will be well--and now, goodbye, Brent, I must
run to catch my train."
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