Part 6 (2/2)
Although it inter tih I had been dipped in the river While the struggle was going on all the people ran out of the room
But the man was fully delivered and then he was saved
In another of our ht on baptisirl and her husband wanted to have the child sprinkled, as that was his faith The mother was to carry the baby forward to receive this rite, but she objected and said, ”No, I cannot do that; but if you care to, you may do so, for she is as much yours as she is mine” But the husband would not consent to do that Well, she didn't knohat to do and went to Brother and Sister Anton Nelson for advice Brother Nelson said, ”Let us ask the Lord about it” After they had prayed about it, Brother Nelson said to the sister, ”You go and carry the baby and ill coht”
At the Sunday service that the baby was to receive this rite, there were seven children in all being subjected to this ceremony The minister came to this sister and said, ”What is the name of the child?” The sister answered, ”Anna Marie” Then the minister said, ”Anna Marie, do you forsake the devil and all his works? Do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and will you upon this faith be baptized?” (The mother was supposed to answer, ”Yes”) The sister answered nothing So he read his ritual oncethe question the third time, he said, ”Anna Marie, don't you answer?” At this, the father of the child called out fro his feet, said, ”Co at the beginning of this book I told of how my mother, when I was a child, used to say to me, ”Child, O child! You are ether!” And yet, after I had been away in America for twenty-four years, when I went back ho her notme stories about the most wonderful boy I had ever heard of After about two hours of this pleasant entertainment I smiled and said to her, ”I have recollections of a mother who used to weep over this same boy and say, 'O child, what shall I do with you, you are ether'” ”O Ja,” she said, ”but you were the best boy anyhow” I aood in arithmetic, but that is a problem I have not solved yet
PREACHING ON WORLDLINESS
While conducting a revivalat Grand Forks, North Dakota, I preached one afternoon on the subject of worldliness An attorney and his wife fro in the city to attend thethis sermon the ould not attend the services any more At the close of the Sunday afternoon service, two days later, the attorney ca this afternoon, wasn't He?” I replied that He was, and he continued, ”Every sinner present was saved and so experienced before I cried like a child!”
I asked hi In reply he asked, ”Has Sister Hansen told you anything about us and our hoave a minister twenty-two-hundred pieces ofThis is all Sister Hansen ever toldwhatever about you”
He referred to the sermon on worldliness and said, ”In your talk, you practically, set a price on everything we have in the hoe; and you illustrated it this way: 'Supposing a person could buy a suitable range for 4250 but seeing another, just the sas, for 8200 and he would choose the latter, wouldn't that be called the pride of the eye?' And that is just the kind of range we have! and ht that Sister Hansen had told et that out of her mind and was finally lost, the husband said
I was preaching under the leading of the Holy Spirit and in what I said I had no one into show that such money could be used to better purpose and that sometimes when folks yielded to the teoing beyond theirwhen I was pastor in Grand Forks and had just gotten through preaching a h voice, ”Who told you all about , what is your na and told the I have ever done!” I answered, ”Dear man, I don't know you, nor have I ever heard of you, what is your name?” He looked around, then turned and out he ran! I never saw the o when in Norway, Morris Johnson and I held a e croas out at the first service We knelt down to pray and while ere praying I heard a great commotion and e rose froone The forehas in the audience and he had said when he came out there, that those preachers were too fanatical and if he had had his gun along and had shot theood favor However, I do not think that in his heart he meant as bad as it sounded, for some time later he invited us to his home and treated us with much courtesy and kindness A nuation was raised up at that place
While ere at Sanes, Norway, Brother Morris Johnson was very sick and one evening e arrived at our stopping place he rolled onto the bed with his clothes on, exhausted He had been bleeding froet him home We wept and prayed and finally I said to hiet out of bed and kneel doith ht,” he said, ”but I think the bed is the best place for ot down and said a feords and then rolled back into bed again He wasn't able to undress all night and I was afraid to go to sleep for fear that he ht
In thehe seemed to be somewhat rested and I said to hiet down to Sister Svenson's and get you some meat broth” (Sister S had a delicatessen store, and Morris hadn't eaten anything for a couple of days) but he said, ”I a” ”But,” I said, ”You've got to get down there even if I have to carry you there onto bury you soot up and I put my arm around him and, as luck would have it the road was down hill We had to stop and rest several tiot there and the Lord must have impressed Sister Svenson for she had so to serve it the trouble in his lungs began again and he went to the wash roo to God for help for him Suddenly I realized I had received faith for hi stops, now!” And it did And from that time on he recovered rapidly (When I think of that dear brother and the plight he was in, it brings tears to my eyes, even now)
A WONDERFUL MEETING AT STAVANGER
A telephone call ca the two Aelists to cohter and Bro Fjield ith us How the ministers came to locate us at Sr Svenson's I never knew, as neither of us had ever been at Stavanger The na us were Johnson and Jornsen of the Christian church We called first at Brother Johnson's where armly welcomed They told us that they had heard of us and had been earnestly praying for the Lord to send us to thelad ere there: ”You are here in answer to prayer,” they said, and then opening a door into another room infor roory, co my response was, ”This really seems to me to be like too much of an open door in face of the fact that you do not know us nor do we know you, perhaps we had better go in and have prayer together and some consultation about the :
”We belong to the Christian Church; formerly there were two hundred ues speaker,' an ex-Baptist minister, came to this city and as he see a single opportunity to speak, so decided to give hie to speak once in our chapel, and that was once too often! At theon the platforhed two hundred and sixty pounds, was standing in the aisle holding on to the back of a chair on which a , as the chapel was packed After the preacher had spoken ten or fifteenon the floor in a trance
”We took a stand against the spirit that orking and, talk about power!
The chapel wall on one side cracked (the evidence of which was still to be seen)” Brother Jornsen said, ”I took a stand against it with all my soul but nevertheless my feet went from under me and I was thrown to the floor and ht days and nights until we finally got the victory over it and the preacher took over two hundred of the congregation with hi us but nine persons, o o with us to the service tonight there will be thirteen of us and ill have services, Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and” they added, ”you ht fifteen Don't let any women testify nor any pentecostals!
”Now,” I said, ”I will give you our proposition, ill go with you tonight and tomorrow you can advertize in the two city daily papers that two Aht including Saturday and three services on Sunday, all next week until Friday and then ill see how things go” ”That will not do,” they said, ”No one will cohts” ”Well,” I said, ”you can let us have the key and if no one coo inside and have prayer Upon this condition we can stay, and if not, ill take our grips and go”