Riches of grace : $b A compilation of experiences in the Christian life; a narration of trials and victories along the wayByrum, E. E. (Enoch Edwin)
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Riches of grace : $b A compilation of experiences in the Christian life; a narration of trials and victories along the way
Byrum, E. E. (Enoch Edwin)
Christian life
A week passed and the man returned for some of his belongings. It was
dark when he passed, and he was drunk. My husband went out and talked,
and no doubt smoothed it over about the sweet potatoes. When he came
back, he said to me, "I told you it was all right about those potatoes."
I did not say anything, but did not feel right about it. The next
morning before daylight, he wanted me to cook those potatoes. I refused
and told him I could not cook them. Then the battle was on worse than
ever. He struck me and wanted me to leave the house, and followed me
with a club until I was outside the yard, and then told me to move on. I
went out into the timber and remained there, and the children brought me
some wraps and something to eat. Then he ordered the sister who was with
us to leave, and she packed a few clothes in a suit-case and came down
the timber to see me. We parted in good courage. This sister had, before
this happened, received many calls to go elsewhere. One call was from
her brother, who offered her a good home and support during the rest of
her life.
She went to a neighbor who had given her an invitation and stayed two
days, and from there to another place, where she stayed a few days and
worked for her board. While she was on the way, the Lord gave her this
assurance: "Trust in the Lord, and thou shalt be fed." While she was
there, not knowing what to do next, and being taunted by the enemy
because she had not accepted her brother's offer, the Lord seemed
sweetly to whisper to her, these words: "This is the way; walk ye
in it."
She heard of a place where they might need some one. It was very muddy
and there was a drizzling rain, but she went. When she arrived at that
place, she found they did not need her, but the telephone rang, and a
lady who had been one of our opposers asked that she come and stay with
her for a while. The scripture had come to her, "Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto
me." The woman turned friend, opened the way for her to communicate with
us and to get mail from the people of God. She remained there about a
week, when an old lady desired some one to stay with her and gave her
a home until the Lord was through with her in Arkansas.
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