Part 7 (1/2)

To which they replied, ”You can't go, for the Lord has shown us that you are to hold a ht there were about two hundred in the congregation and soet ready to leave; I was still speaking, so paused and said, ”Just a minute, please: We have just co as the Lord would lead, until nine or ten o'clock Now if you have to go hoo, but if it's si at a certain ti to pray the Lord to break up such a custoain and two left Saturday night the chapel was full and Sunday night quite a nu continued al

One day we had a baptizing service between two boat houses in the North sea and after I had baptized all the candidates, a fisherman, ned one of the boat houses, came out and asked me whether I would not baptize hi saved, he told o but have never before , but today as I witnessed this service I was convinced that the Holy Ghost ith you folks” I baptized hiain

After that ere not allowed to baptize from the shore but had to take the folks out in a boat and baptize the that incident ere invited to a sea Captain's ho The house was the most finely finished house I had even been in When we arrived in thewe found it was full of people of the upper class, the men with their silk hats and the women equally distinctive in their dress Some of the co

The lady of the house and her six sisters had a brother as an old sea captain and was sick We were told he was an infidel and would have nothing to do with preachers, that if any happened to come into his house he ordered the earnestly for him and they felt that we could be a help to hio and visit him and if the weather was fine ere to co to hi on the other side of the street and when they saw us they were to call ”Good ” and invite us over and introduce us to their brother, he was not to know that ere preachers The plan was successful and after talking awhile Captain Parsons invited us into the house

On co with pictures of shi+ps, thirty-eight steamers He said he had been seaman on each one of them and captain on several So he took us for a trip around the world

Finally he cae shi+p, but it looked, like a rusty, broken-to-pieces tin can, its es had evidently been blown or swept off We were awed by the sight and said, ”This looks bad” ”Yes,” he said, ”that was the trying hour of my life, it was in a typhoon off the coast of Sidney, Australia This is how it looked ere towed in” Then I looked atfor two hours and feeling that it was tienerally e , read soe here?” He said, ”I see no reason why you should not do so”

We, accordingly, sang, read a Scripture lesson and had prayer, after which we said to our host, ”We have certainly had a pleasant visit and enjoyed the trip around the world with you i trip left for you to take For all these other trips no doubt you made suitable preparation What about this one; are you ready to meet your Maker in peace?” ”No,” he said, ”The Lord doesn't have such bad men as me” But we told him that was just the kind He came to save He said, ”Boys, boys, you don't knohat bad men seamen are” We tried to talk to him, but to no avail So we thanked him and said Goodbye As we left he said, ”Boys, boys, come back soon”

The next day we heard that he was poorly and the Board of Health had ordered that no one shake hands with hinosed

We continued to visit hi with hiood lish said, ”I love this man's soul like etting saved; I would like to shake his hand, but may not” ”As far as I am concerned,” I said, ”I wouldn't be afraid to take his hand in both mine, but for the sake of the public we cannot do it; but he is a o and explain to hiht” Later, as ere leaving, he said, ”Be sure to come back soon”

The next day I was called out to an Island and Brother Morris went over alone to see him He was up and apparently pretty well and he said to Morris, ”Young lish better than I do your Norwegian” Now you can see that the loriously saved and the next day he was up and around happy and praising the Lord, at two o'clock in the afternoon he lay down to rest and went holory On account of his salvation ere asked to speak to the students at the ation was raised up and Brother Mortensen became pastor, he was a tailor by trade and also was the owner of a fine clothing store They got the chapel the revival was held in, in 1911, in 1922 I went through and they expectedto preach on Church of God doctrine I was supposed to be there on Sunday, but did not arrive until Monday They had advertised for three services for Sunday, and between fifteen hundred and two thousand were present for each service I was unable to reh on a special mission for the Missionary Board and the boat left the next reatest opportunity that Norill have for years to come and perhaps ever

Brother Mortensen said, ”O how sad--this all happened because of a crooked preacher that Brother Susag had to take back to Aations on the West coast, and in 1937 the old chapel at Stavanger was razed and a new and larger chapel was erected in its place

MY WIFE HEALED OF CANCER

Soan examined it and pronounced it cancer She was prayed for and the third day after there was no sign of cancer

A little later a growth started on her right side just above the hip It grew until it enty-two inches long, sixteen inches by the body and fourteen inches around at the end of it It finally developed into cancer

She was prayed for often but seely was not helped, the odor fro On the day especially set apart for the healing of the sick, and seats at that particular ed that for each sick person there were three preachers to pray for him or her My wife came up and sat down on the chair next to the one where I was offering prayer, and after prayer had been offered for her, I heard one of the , do you believe the Lord heals you?” She answered, ”By faith I aht” Froan to fall to pieces

On the way ho She said, ”I don't knohen I went onto the platform I wanted Brother and Sister Byrutn to pray for otten on their chair, but there caht be in the last stages of tuberculosis, to such an extent was she affected that she had to be supported by a sister, one on each side of her when she attereater need than I was, and, too, she was a young wo for anyone to pray for ht” I replied, ”that is where you gained the victory”

This happened in the latter part of June and around the first of October there was nothing left but a red spot about the size of a dollar to shohere the cancer had been Just before ent to Anderson, a neighbor lady wanted to see the cancer and the sight of it h it allof ain Whittier, California, ame of a sick lady anted me to come and pray for her I consented to do so but told thevery soon to takeat the bedside of the sick woman I asked her what her trouble was She told me she had a cancer on her left breast and side, and that having to lie on the one side all the time she became very sick and sore I prayed the prayer of faith for her and left immediately