A lady brought her sister who was in the last stages of tuberculosis to the
camp meeting at Saint Paul Park, Minn. Wife and I prayed for the sick woman
and she was instantly healed. So they insisted that I go to their place and
hold them a meeting. I was very busy, so it was sometime before I could go.
Finally they wrote asking how much I wanted to hold the meeting. I wrote
that my carfare round trip was to be $26.50, and I thought I ought to have
that much. They answered that they would give me that much, and that much
more. I went and started the meeting on Friday evening. The folks I was to
stay with lived six miles in the country and we secured the Methodist
Church in town for the services. We had two services on Saturday, three on
Sunday, two Monday and two Tuesday. Tuesday night they left me in the
church. I had coal enough to keep me warm. As I had no money to go to the
hotel, the next morning I walked out to their place in the loose snow,
arriving about dinner time. I had dinner and that evening they took me to
the meeting and left me again. I have no recollection of how I got away
from there. It seems to me a family in town, who knew some of my relatives,
kept me for a day or two. My carfare, which I still have coming from them
as well as the rest, is the only meeting I had held in 52 years on which I
had set a price. A brother belonging to another denomination who often
attended the services and who was an agent for the Furges Kalls Woolen
Mills, Minnesota, whom I met some years later, asked me, "Did you ever get
any money from that meeting?" I replied, "I have it all coming," so he gave
me five dollars and a pair of seven dollar trousers. That experience was
one of the "all things." This was the only time I ever set any price on my
ministry.
PRAYER CHANGES THINGS
Brother Masters and I were holding meeting in Hereford, Minnesota. Brother
Masters was doing most of the preaching, and I was exhorting and giving the
invitations. One evening after he finished preaching, I dismissed the
meeting immediately. As we were going to our room between eleven and
twelve, he asked, "Why did you not give the altar call tonight?" Then he
added, "You did right, but what was the reason?" I answered, "Too much
Masters." He replied, "The Lord help me!" and on his knees he went. He
stayed there until between three and four o'clock in the morning. The next
night I did not need to give an altar call, for the people flocked to the
altar of their own accord.
* * * * *
MY FIRST PREACHING TRIP
I was standing in a wagon driving home from Hawick, Minnesota. The Lord
spoke to me and said, "I want you to go to Belgrade next Sunday and
preach." I replied, "I do not know what to preach." The Lord answered, "You
go and open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." I argued that I did not
have the money to go. He answered, "I'll tend to that."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account