Part 8 (1/2)

The Lord ton She arrived thefor Texas When she discovered the circumstances, and that as sick, she said, ”Now I knohy the Lord sentis well”

So I went to San Antonio This was in the year 1902 At one place where I had to change trains on the way, I took rip and walked out on the platforet on the train, and the train pulled out without ent asked me whether I had intended to take that train and why I did not get on it I simply told him I didn't knohy ”Well,” he said, ”you fool, you will now have to wait four hours and take a slow train” (I understood a little later why I was held back fro that train

Only forty-five ers were seriously injured and, if my memory is correct, so was over at San Antonio, Bro Nelson left with ston, Mo to hold some services As we came closer to the first place Bro Nelson said, ”Here the saints are well-to-do people” So, I thought, if they are well-to-do ill not need to spend our ti God for our car fare, for they well know that preachers need car fare The congregation rented a room for us about a couple of blocks from the depot and we ate ourhad closed and we had gone to our room at eleven p m, Brother Nelson asked me whether I had received ht he had received it all, since he had been there before But he hadn't received any We then decided we had better see whether we had enough money to take us to the next place

Brother Nelson had enough for his fare and eight cents over; I was lacking two dollars We were to leave on the four-thirty train in the et us the two dollars!

As for me, I was not acquainted in the city and did not knohere to go to raise a penny We prayed until two o'clock, then I said to Brother Nelson, ”We do not need to pray any longer; the Lord says He will attend to it” We went to bed for about an hour and a half We went to the depot and Brother Nelson bought his ticket, then I ordered mine and put what ent was counting therooh the ticketand left two dollars there, then turned and went out so fast that I had no chance to thank him

Brother Nelson looked at the man, and then asked me whether I knew him, but I had never seen him before, nor had Brother Nelson The lesson I learned from this incident was that it is better to depend upon the Lord than on well-to-do saints

On arriving home I told wife of the incident She at once asked ht the two dollars I said, ”To el, and he would have looked so to you if you had been in a like fix”

ANSWERS TO PRAYER

Once, when hoion of my heart At every beat it would seem to say, ”Kelly, Kelly, Kelly” (Kelly was a place in North Dakota, about 260 miles froht be needing help) I was very sick and I toldShe said, ”Perhaps the Lord wants you to go to Kelly” The next day the pain was still bothering me, so I sat down and wrote to O O Holman and said, ”I am sick; if the pain in my heart does not soon stop I will be at your station Sunday at ten o'clock”

This was in the ust, the busy season for farone about one hundred e trains at Grand Forks and there being no train for Kelly until the next ht with Brother C

H Tubbs At the parsonage I met Brother Newell, a regation there, and a sister as visiting

They all exclai me appear at that ti there I really felt sheepish about telling them Kelly was only fifteenany serious trouble there

After I had told the to Kelly, Brother Tubbs turned to his wife and said, ”Mary, you preach tooing on” His wife said, ”Charles, I a, too” Then to Bro Newell he said, ”You take theservice too with us

And Bro Shave o to Kelly But when Bro

Niles was asked to preach at the e In theI started out for Kelly with threeenerally quite talkative, but I did not dowhat the people would think if, when getting there, we should find nothing unusual the matter When the train stopped at the station I waited for all the folks to get off first As I looked out of theI saw Brother Hol at the people as they got off the train Then I ca He said, ”We have been praying the Lord to send you to us and today I started for the station, confident that I would eitherthe letter fro it up, said, ”and here I have both!” Then he told , and that they had been praying the Lord to send me to them

It was three miles out to their hoy, so the two sisters drove and we preachers walked

The good Lord heard prayer and healed Sister Hole was baptized at this time

On another occasion I was asked to co Ontrouble with his eyes so that he had to stay at hoht and it seeation had become cooled off This was made clear to ht and two on Saturday But it looked as though the condition greorse instead of better as a result of ht I had a dreaather the sheep back that had wandered into a rain down Then I picked up one stone and threw it at theet them back I picked up another stone, and then threw the third one They seeed me and I said to the Lord, ”What shall I do?” He said, ”Speak gently to them”

Then I went into the field ather together and it wasn't long before I had a nice bunch of sheep up on the highway I asked the Lord why it was I couldn't get the into the field myself, for I preached His word to them ”Yes,” He said, ”you preached My Word to them, but it was the way you preached it” So Sunday I , asked their forgiveness, and every one was brought back to the Lord, and a few sinners ere in the audience were also saved

Through the week of services thirty-eight persons ca--and there were soht before the day we had set apart for the praying for the sick, I prayed fro in a dark rooot up from my knees the Lord stood beforeto heal every one of those who had been prayed for