Part 9 (1/2)

While there we had a call to go to the insane asyluan who had lost histhe institution ere locked in the cell with him and on bended knees with our hands uplifted toward heaven, we began to pray and all of a sudden he was restored to his right mind We knocked on the door to have the attendant ca out of the door Brother Weegan pushed his head between us and the attendant and said to the ht just as well let me out, too, for I am as rational as these two preachers now, and I will not hurt you any more”

Then I asked the attendant whether there was a , Minnesota, and he told me there was such a man there I told hio in and see hio to the superintendent's office for permission The man lifted his hands and said, ”You can see anyone in this institution since this one ive us information about the one anted to see He said, ”When Mr Lukesen first caot so bad that we had to tie hi but skin and bones; he won't be long for this world”

When he opened the door to the cell, there I sawon his cot and he surely did look like a wild cat, as the man had said! The compassion of the Lord Jesus came upon me and I lifted my hands toward heaven and called aloud to him, ”John Lukesen, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom I serve, makes you well!” And he ell! Shortly after this, he was sent hoo from there to Hereford, Minnesota At Evansville where we had to change trains, we inquired of the station agent when the train for Hereford would be leaving We were infor for that place before Thursday at three o'clock We were told that only two trains a ent fro tio out and pray” After we had prayed we returned to the depot and asked the agent when the train for Hereford would be leaving He answered gruffly, ”I told you Thursday afternoon at three o'clock” ”All right,” said Brother Peterson, ”Let us go out and pray”

After praying ent back the second tient the saruff And he surely infor before Thursday afternoon at three o'clock

Again, Brother Peterson said, ”All right, let us go out and pray”

We went out once rove to pray and Brother Peterson did the praying: ”Lord, the President can get a special pullman train any time he wants it and he is only the president of the United States; and here are we, Brother Susag and I, Thy a Thee for a pullman car--ill be satisfied with an old caboose--the distance is only 30 ent?” We both said AMEN

On returning to the agent for the third time, Brother Peterson said to him, ”When will that train be ready for Hereford?” In a veryabout it and I will shove a few box cars and a caboose together and send you fellows out” And we both said, ”Thank you, sir” And so the Lord answered prayer and sent us hoot saved,to us, and in four years we seldo a letter ca us that my brother had lost his reason and had been sent to the insane asylu o with, I went to a near neighbor and showed him the letter and asked hio to Minneapolis and also to St Peter He told me that he would do that even if I were not able to pay him back The next day I went to Minneapolis to my sister-in-law and her five children

Jeroe, said, ”Uncle, are you going to bring Daddy ho your Daddy ho him home”

My sister-in-law related how it all happened She went for her pastor and e When they came Jerome said to them, ”Won't you pray like Uncle Swen does?” They had evidently talked about our praying even though they did not write to us

After they had gone his wife had to let my brother out-doors and he ran four blocks without a thread of clothing on--until a policeman captured him

I went to St Peter, and Dr Tumbleson, the president of the institution, refused to let me see my brother I told hiospel I had a right to go where a doctor could go But he still refused and called in two other doctors who said to me, ”Your brother is not only insane but is seriously ill and we do not expect him to leave this institution alive” To which I replied, ”Then so much the more do I have to see him; and if you continue to refuse to let s in this institution, for I will stay until you grant , they sent for a man to take me to see my poor brother

As I entered the cell in which he was confinedaround the room more like an animal than like a man I knelt down in the middle of the floor and prayed After a while he came and put his hand on my shoulder and said, ”Swen, how does it come that you are here?” I said, ”I have colad you have coot into my head and I lost my mind How is reetings to hiht me in took hold of me and ordered me out

But I was satisfied This was the 22nd of March and I fasted from one meal every day for seventeen days and so the Lord I had pro the husband and daddy hoive you no rest until you do so”

On the eighth of April duringworshi+p the Spirit of the Lord revealed to me that the Lord had heard our prayer and that my brother was perfectly well! I julory of God Wife thought, ”Here is another crazy Susag,” but Brother Enos Key, of Red Key, Indiana (who had co) ith us and he said, ”Praise God, Brother Susag has the victory!” And three days later I received a letter frohth day of April the nurse went to take food to my brother and found hi bookkeeping for the institution and could come home any time only for the customary red tape it would take a few days before he could come In a short time he was ho a reat stor towns, boats put out to sea at high tide for better fishi+ng conditions; forty-two had gone fro the storm broke and on into the forenoon it beca of a similar storht boats went out and such a storm blew up If I remember correctly, not one boat returned

In those days there were no enerally three asoline motors on the boats and from twelve o'clock until three o'clock one boat after the other returned, so to shore Forturnately the as blowing toward the shore or theyat the home of Brother Morton Petersen He and his crew had not returned as yet It see on the hills looking for his return I heard someone say to his wife, ”Marie, do you expect Morton to return?” She answered, ”He has been out so many tienerally went farther out than any of the fisherer and better

We stood out there for two hours or more About five o'clock someone said, ”I see a dark spot out there” A little later soan to see the spot more and more often, and at last they came safely to land--and not a bucket of water in the boat

On our way ho He said, ”When we realized the stor lines and I ordered e of the rudder My partner was a saved man but we had a boy as not saved