Part 3 (1/2)

Then I got a text I looked at my watch and it was eleven o'clock I knew the pastor had to be hoot all about it, and not a person moved, not even the little children, while I preached When I quit I thought it would be around 12:10 or 12:15, but on looking at my watch it was 3:15 in the afternoon I had preached for four hours and fifteen minutes and the pastor and audience declared therewith our watches! It seemed as if we must have been pretty close to the third heaven!

On one occasion while I was in Europe I visited at my wife's request, a cousin of hers who had been ill and confined to her bed for twenty-one years She had become bedfast when she was nineteen When I first visited her, as she did not understand anything about divine healing, she got quite peeved at the instructions I gave her However her father, ot a letter froain and I went Then she repented and turned to the Lord I prayed for her and the Lord raised her up

Once in a city called Stavanger, Norway, I was asked to coes of tuberculosis of the lungs As some of the people over there teach that it is witchcraft to heal by the word of God and prayer, a athered to stone me, and the folks called ht do me bodily harm I told them that I was not any better than the apostles or any other of God'sto die for the gospel's sake

I anointed and prayed for the woreat astonishment of the people and no bodily harm came to me

I met her twin sister several years later who said she had been well ever since, healthy and strong

In 1916 while in Denmark I contracted tuberculosis of the throat and head

I got so weak that while holding aout fro before the service started I was suffering so intensely that I went out into the cow barn, sat down on auntil I was so weak that I was unable to get up when I tried to do so Ti came, and the folks did not knohat had beco man, went out to look for me When he found e and the saints prayed for et up and preach We closed the services that evening

Brother Forsberg returned to Sweden and I toI went to a specialist and asked him to write me a permit so that I could return to Aive o aboard shi+p in the condition I was in He said, ”You would not live until you got there if you did start” I told him that I would like to be with my folks when I leave this world He replied, ”I don't blaot a letter fro that ”Brother Forsberg had coh with Brother Susag, he was no near gone Wife and I agreed in prayer and the Lord says He is going to heal you and that you are going to preach to us hereSunday we had services in Hjoring at eleven o'clock, although I did not seeo to heaven fro to die anyway After I had been speaking about fifteen ot so intense in my throat I could hardly speak above a whisper, and the audience could not hear me I went up stairs in the chapel where I hadintensely

Outside my door was a tree and a little bird hopped onto a branch and began to sing (I do not know the name of the bird, but the species was like the birds that used to co But I had never before heard one in my travels in Europe) I turned to the bird and said, ”Didfor me when I was so troubled?” And the s and sing and sing until I could forget h aloud It was nearly four o'clock and that was the tiot ready for the service, and when I came into the pulpil to preach, to my surprise, I was perfectly healed and could speak as loud as ever without pain

The nextI went to the specialist and asked hio ho me he said, ”Man, O ero or stay as you please” I told hi, but that the people of God had been praying for reat surprise to the doctor This is the way the Lord deals with his unworthy, huenerally observed a rule of not eatingin Sweden I ate a little fish out of a can that had been standing open for so a little of the fish I re open and did not eat any one to sleep, I woke up feeling deathly sick with pto It seeh the night Brother Forsberg, Sister Bettie Miller and others kept praying foron a thread, but at five o'clock that evening we got the victory and I was perfectly healed, and able to speak in the service that night

So at Anderson, Ind I was poisoned in about the saetting any relief Finally, Brother George Green, now pastor at Hanford, California, a true yoke-fellow of mine who loved me dearly, broke down and wept and had compassion on me and prayed a short prayer of faith and rebuked the devil and the sickness, and I was healed instantly The Bible says of Jesus, ”He had compassion on the people and healed all that came unto hi very well I was on my way to California and stopped in Minneapolis where my three boys live When they saw that I was not well, they were determined to take me to a doctor and have me examined He ordered me to a hospital where five doctors took six x-rays After taking the x-rays, the doctors asked me, ”What do you think you have?” I said, ”The same as you think” They said, ”What do we think?”

”Cancer!” I said ”No,” they said I said, ”Why do you lie, you said it was cancer and a bad one” They said, ”Do you understand Latin?” I said, ”I understand thatthe doctor called my son Clarence and said to him, ”Shall I tell your dad what the matter is with him, or will you?” He answered, ”It doesn't matter who tells him, as he is ready to live or to die; ant to know the worst” The doctor said, ”It is the worst

Bring him to my office to the case over between the to the office the next day the doctor said, ”I have good news for you, Reverend, you have no cancer” I asked him, ”When did you lie to me, yesterday or today?” He said, ”Neither, the picture clearly shows cancer

They forgot to take your food test so you had to go back to the hospital to have it taken and in the food test there was no cancer” The doctor asked, ”What did you do, once a cancer but none now?” I said, ”I did like a little story we ministers have about a little boy and his sister They were out playing, and at eleven o'clock Mary was hungry and went in to ask mother for a slice of bread, but o out and play now, until lunch is ready Then Freddy went in and asked for bread and he came out with a slice of bread with butter on it Then Mary said, 'What did you do to get it?' 'I cried for it,' answered Freddy,” so did I

The Lord et to take the food test at first in order to verify the , since I had asked the boys to let aveand I had stopped and gotten off the gang plow to let the horses rest and stood looking south in the field when I saw six or eight feet beforeat me, just as real as if he were there in the flesh ”Brother Ahrendt is leaving Grand Forks by my orders,” the Lord said tothere, aet on the plohen on the other side of the plow there stood a ladyher as the pastor and that will be the ruination of the work in Grand Forks” (Not because there was anything wrong with her as a minister but because she would not fit in the place) The vision disappeared and I went to plowing

Two or three days later I became so burdened about Grand Forks that I was al rong or anyone sick, for I was so burdened I expected an answer right away, but didn't get it, so wrote again and still no answer The next week I wrote for the third tih Grand Forks on , and would be in Grand Forks and they could arrange a ht, Saturday and Sunday if he wantedher husband ay and that they were leaving Grand Forks