,,personal ,,experiences    of    ,s4   
,o4 ,,susag    ,by ,s4 ,o4 ,,susag      
,minneapolis1 ,minnesota ,illustration3 
7,s4 ,o4 ,susag1 his wife and children1 
taken about #ahih7        ,,foreword    
,this book of a few of my experiences is
 written to show how the pioneer        
ministers worked1 and how the ,lord     
worked with them through his ,holy      
,spirit4 ,one outstanding fact in those 
days1 when even though their training   
was limited1 was their burning passion  
for souls shown in labors1 fasting  and 
prayer1 and a heaven-born conviction and
 zeal for the truth4 ,the ,holy  ,spirit
 had revealed to them an unshaken faith 
in the ,word of ,god2 a faith  that     
would not waver in the most trying and1 
to man1 surprisingly  unreasonable      
cases4 ,my prayers are that this book   
will bring faith and  encouragement to  
many a soul who is seeking ,god for help
 when all other  help has failed4    ,i 
should not have waited so long before   
doing this writing1 for because of  that

 waiting the incidents are not written  
in the order which they should  have    
been1 and so many have been forgotten4  
,since many have indicated an  interest 
in my experiences1 may this book as it  
goes forth in ,jesus' name  bring honor 
and glory to ,god4    --,the ,author    
,year #aidh        ,,publisher',s       
,,preface    ,ever since this book was  
first published for the author1 ,s4 ,o4 
,susag1 by  the ,standard ,printing     
,company1 ,guthrie1 ,oklahoma1 in the   
year of #aidh1 it  has been in steady   
demand4 ,these many testimonies of      
outstanding answers to  prayer have been
 an inspiration of faith to many people1
 and they will  continue to be an       
encouragement to every earnest and      
honest seeker for an  increase of faith 
in ,god's precious promises4 ,jesus     
,christ the same  yesterday1 and to day1
 and for ever4 ,hebrews #ac3h4    ,in   
contemplation of printing this fourth   
edition1 the undersigned publisher      
contacted ,s4 ,o4 ,susag's daughter1    

,mrs4 ,art ,rustand 7,goldie ,susag71   
and  requested further information about
 her late father4 ,in ,february1 #aigf1 
she  relayed the following notes of     
interest to the reader3    ,my father   
was born in ,steinkjer1 ,norway1 on     
,march #bh1 #ahfb4 ,he came from        
,norway to ,minneapolis1 ,minnesota1 and
 was in the store business for a  while4
 ,in #ahib1 they moved to ,paynesville1 
,minnesota1 where they engaged in       
farming4 ,after they moved to the farm  
he was converted1 and in the year of    
#ahie he received his call from ,god to 
the ministry of the ,word4 ,he traveled 
as a missionary to the ,scandinavian    
countries for many years4 ,he also      
served as pastor in ,grand ,forks1 ,n4  
,d41 and as an evangelist for years4 ,in
  fact1 at the time of his death1 which 
was in ,culbertson1 ,montana1 when he   
was #ij years of age1 he was traveling  
around holding services4 ,his death  was
 attributed to his age4 ,he was up and  
around until three days prior to  his   

passing4 ,at the time of his death he   
made his home with his second wife  in  
,medicine ,lake1 ,montana4 ,he died on  
,july #h1 #aieb1 and was buried beside  
his first wife 7my mother7 at the       
,church of ,god ,cemetery near ,wendell1
  ,minnesota4    --,lawrence ,d4 ,pruitt
 ,guthrie1 ,oklahoma1 ,march #h1 #aigf  
,and ,i will bring the blind by a way   
that they knew not2 ,i will lead them   
in paths that they have not known2 ,i   
will make darkness light before them1   
and crooked things straight4 ,these     
things will ,i do unto them and not     
forsake them4 7,isa4 #db3af74 ,this     
,scripture seems to fit into my life's  
experiences4    ,i was born in ,norway4 
,my parents were ,lutherans4 ,when ,i   
was two years of  age an incident       
occurred which ,i have never forgotten4 
,it was this3 ,my  ,grandmother on my   
mother's side--a very godly woman--used 
to visit us at  least once a month4     
,on the occasion to which ,i refer1 as  
she was about to leave us1 ,grandmother 

said to my mother1 ,ellen1 ,i would like
 to speak to you 'under four eyes'      
7that is to say1 privately74 ,does the  
child understand anything that is  said8
 ,her reply was1 ,no1 he doesn't        
understand4 ,then ,grandmother          
proceeded to say1 ,i have been wondering
 what would be the best way to pass  out
 of this world without being a trouble  
to anyone1 and the ,lord has shown  me  
that someday ,i shall lie down as usual 
to go to sleep and wake up in  glory and
 this may be the last time that ,i shall
 see you2 so now1 my  daughter1 ,i feel 
constrained to urge you to seek the     
,lord4 ,again she said1  ,i am sure the 
,lord has shown me that ,i shall go that
 way4 ,four years  later she went to    
glory just that way4    ,my parents had 
not given their hearts to ,god1 yet they
 taught us to live  right4 ,the only    
religious services we ever attended were
 those held once a  month in a country  
chapel4 ,other ,sundays we would sing   
together in our home  and father would  

read a sermon to us out of a book4      
,we would then repeat the ,lord's prayer
 and sing another song4    ,one         
afternoon1 when ,i was two and a half   
years old1 a number of we children  were
 invited to a neighbor's for lunch and  
play4 ,as we passed the pantry  window  
on our way in1 we saw a number of dishes
 filled with nice red  berries4 ,one    
youngster suggested that we help        
ourselves to the berries1 and  this we  
did4 ,after a few mouthfuls ,i began to 
scream and ran home4 ,mother1  hearing  
my screams1 rushed out to meet me and1  
picking me up in her arms1  asked me    
where ,i was hurt4 ,i couldn't tell her 
but kept screaming4 ,finally  mother    
began to chide and shaking me1 said1    
,tell me where you are hurt4  ,still ,i 
could not speak1 then mother fell upon  
her knees and cried1 ,lord1  my child is
 dying in my arms and ,i cannot find    
what is the matter with  him4 ,i was    
then able to speak and tell her the     
cause of my trouble4  ,putting my hand  

over my heart ,i said that ,i was having
 pain there and not  in my stomach4     
,mother questioned me as to whether the 
lady had given us the  berries1 and ,i  
told her1 ,no1 that we had helped       
ourselves to them4 ,she  said1 ,i will  
tell you how to get rid of your pain3   
,go and tell the lady  what you have    
done and giving her your hand ask her to
 forgive you1 and ,i  am sure the pain  
will leave you4 ,mother went with me and
 when ,i confessed  to the lady she took
 me up in her arms and wept with me4    
,after confessing  the pain all         
disappeared4           99       99      
99       99       99    ,when ,i was    
about eleven years of age it seemed that
 a voice was continually  speaking to me
 and saying1 ,you ought to be a better  
boy2 ,i want you for a  preacher4 ,i did
 not understand at the time that it was 
the ,holy ,ghost  speaking to me4       
,mother often wept over me and said1    
,child1 ,o child1 what  shall ,i do with
 you6 ,you make me more trouble than all

 the other eight  children put together4
    ,at the age of fifteen ,i was       
confirmed and at the following preaching
  service ,i was supposed to participate
 in taking the ,lord's supper 7as was   
the custom of the church74 ,before that 
service ,i went out into the woods to   
pray4 ,i asked the ,lord to forgive me  
for partaking of the ,lord's supper1    
for to refrain from taking it would     
bring disgrace upon my family4    ,from 
that time on1 the ,lord continued to    
talk to me1 saying1 ,you ought to  be a 
better young man4 ,it seemed as though  
,i could not be better at home  in      
,norway so ,i determined to sail for    
,america4    ,i had been in ,america    
about a year and a half when ,i met a   
distant relative  who was thought to be 
lost in this country1 because his family
 had not  heard from him for two or     
three years4 ,he invited me to go into a
 saloon  with him and have a glass of   
beer4 ,we went in1 and also played      
several  games of pool4    ,in the      

meantime ,i took off my coat and hung it
 on the back of a chair4 ,in  the inside
 pocket of my coat ,i had my billfold   
containing about one hundred  dollars1  
all the money ,i had1 and also my       
valuable papers4 ,when ,i went to  reach
 for my money my billfold was gone4 ,the
 saloon keeper seemed to know  what had 
taken place and handed me five dollars4 
,i had no work as there was  none to be 
found4 ,it was the custom in those days 
for the saloons to give a  free lunch   
with a glass of beer4 ,i went at noon   
every day and bought a  glass of beer so
 ,i could have the free lunch that went 
with it4 ,i lived  that way for about   
two months4    ,during the late winter  
,i got a job at night work1 which       
consisted of  pushing loads of stone in 
a wheelbarrow for the building of the   
,stone ,arch  ,bridge over the ,st4     
,anthony ,falls on the ,mississippi     
,river for the ,great  ,northern        
,railway ,company4 ,the planks upon     
which we had to walk became very        

slippery and on one trip the man ahead  
of me slipped back in the wheel of  my  
wheelbarrow upon which ,i had a large   
stone4 ,the force of his fall threw     
both stone and wheelbarrow into the     
river4 ,the man behind me1 seeing what  
was happening1 flung himself face down  
over his wheelbarrow1 and in the  dark1 
grabbed me as ,i was going over the     
plank into the river4 ,he caught me  by 
one of my arms and held me until help   
came and ,i was pulled out4 ,i was      
hanging from his hands about fifty to   
seventy-five feet above the river4      
,after that experience ,i could not make
 myself walk those planks anymore1 so   
,i was again out of work and so terribly
 discouraged4 ,a few nights later ,i    
walked onto the ,tenth ,avenue bridge   
intending to jump off into the river to 
end it all4 ,as ,i took hold of the     
railing someone from behind me called   
out  and said1 ,when you jump1 your     
troubles will begin4 ,i looked1 to see  
the  man who had spoken but there was no

 one on the bridge4 ,the way he spoke   
had  sent a chill through me4 ,it was   
after eleven o'clock at night and ,i    
seemed  to realize that it was the ,lord
 who had spoken to me4    ,after        
sometime in ,america ,i found that ,i   
was still the the same young man  as    
before in ,norway4 ,it seemed that ,i   
was unable to do better4 ,thinking to   
improve matters1 ,i decided to go to    
school and study for the ministry4      
,after two semesters in the college     
certain things happened which turned me 
into an infidel4 ,i quit school1 went   
into business and got married4 ,soon    
after ,i contracted tuberculosis of the 
lungs1 and the doctor said there was  no
 help for me1 as both my lungs were like
 soup4 ,during the depression of  #ahib 
,i lost all ,i had4 ,in my sinful       
condition ,i called on ,god and ,he     
healed  me4    ,we then moved to the    
farm and one afternoon a young man came 
to our home  and asked me to attend a   
service with him that evening4 ,in      

answer to my  query as to what kind of  
service it was to be1 he informed me    
that two  women evangelists were        
conducting the meeting4 ,i replied that 
,i was not in  favor of women preachers 
but ,i would go with him as ,i was not  
afraid the  women would hurt me4 ,as a  
matter of fact1 it was through these    
women that ,i  was partly awakened      
spiritually1 but did not yet give up my 
infidelity4    ,one evening ,i was very 
tired and sleepy and went to bed at     
precisely nine  o'clock4 ,i went to     
sleep at once and had a dream4 ,i       
dreamed that ,i had  become a minister  
of the gospel and that ,i was traveling 
all over the  ,united ,states and       
,canada1 as well as in a number of      
,european countries4  ,hundreds of souls
 were turning to the ,lord in the       
meetings and many  healings and miracles
 were performed4 ,it would take a long  
life to  accomplish all that ,i saw done
 in my dream4 ,i awakened and felt so   
refreshed and rested1 that ,i thought it

 was morning and put on the light  but  
found ,i had been in bed ,,just ,,ten   
,,minutes6 ,i did not sleep anymore that
  night but spent the time in meditating
 on my dream which convinced me that    
there must be within the human body a   
positive something that would  continue 
to live forever and my infidelity       
vanished4    ,a few months later 7,march
 #ab1 #ahie71 the ,lord spoke peace to  
my wife and me  at the same time in our 
own home1 and called us into the        
ministry4 ,he  brought us out of        
darkness through three visions and      
showed us the evil of  all sectarian    
division4 ,all this was giving us light 
on the beautiful  ,church of ,god       
without our having heard any preaching  
on the subject1 nor  did we know anyone 
who believed as we did4    ,we commenced
 preaching at once and our first convert
 was a lady who was  saved in our home4 
7,sister ,hendricks1 now ,myhre1 who is 
a minister74 ,our  first case of healing
 was when the ,lord healed me of blood  

poisoning in my  left arm1 caused from  
the scratch of a rusty nail4 ,i caught  
cold in it and  it swelled so fast that 
when ,i got into the house ,i could not 
get my  clothes off and they had to be  
cut off with scissors4 ,my wife and a   
young  brother prayed for me1 but ,i did
 not get immediate relief4 ,my entire   
arm  turned blue and yellow and soon my 
sides began to turn the same way4 ,i had
  read in the ,bible that the sick were 
to be anointed with oil4 ,the young     
brother anointed me accordingly1 and the
 swelling began to go down  immediately1
 insomuch that the next morning there   
was no symptom of any  thing wrong      
whatever4           99       99       99
       99       99    ,the next         
experience of healing was of the        
restoring of my hearing to my  right    
ear4 ,my wife had gone to services and  
,i stayed home to take care of  the     
children4 ,i had laid down beside them  
to get them to sleep and had  dropped   
off to sleep myself1 and dreamed that ,i

 saw ,jesus standing beside  the bed4   
,he said to me1 ,do you know ,john      
,pederson8 ,yes1 ,i replied1 he  is my  
neighbor4 ,and ,jesus said1 ,isn't he a 
blacksmith and does he not  make        
sleighs8 ,and1 he continued1 if he were 
to make one for you and you  were to    
break it1 wouldn't he fix it for you8   
,why1 certainly1 ,i replied4  ,well1    
,jesus continued1 ,i made your ear in   
the first place and don't you  think ,i 
can fix it8 ,yes1 ,i said4 ,then ,he    
stepped up to me and touched my  ear    
with two fingers and ,i jumped out of   
bed and ,,my ,,hearing ,,was ,,perfect6 
,i  shouted glory to ,god4           99 
99       99       99       99    ,the   
youngest of our twin boys1 who was      
nearly five years of age1 was taken     
with double pneumonia and suddenly      
passed away4 ,my mother-in-law prepared 
him for burial4 ,as ,i was preparing to 
drive to town to get a permit from  the 
doctor to bury the little one1 the ,lord
 said to me as ,i was on my way  to the 

barn to get the team1 ,why do you not go
 back and pray again8 ,i  immediately   
turned around and went to the little    
corpse and laying my hands  on him      
prayed and wept1 and after a little     
while he came to life4 ,he was  not only
 alive1 but also perfectly well4 ,when  
,i knelt down to pray my  family did not
 dare to speak to me2 they thought ,i   
had lost my mind4    ,about three years 
later our baby daughter1 some ten months
 old1 was sick  and ,i was planning to  
leave home on ,friday expecting to be   
gone over  ,sunday4 ,the little one grew
 steadily worse and at eleven o'clock on
 ,sunday  night she passed away4 ,there 
was great consternation in the family4  
,the  oldest boy fainted when his       
grandmother laid her out4 ,after        
everything had  quieted down and all had
 retired1 except my wife who remained   
up1 she went  to the little body1 held  
it in her arms as she knelt beside the  
bed until  she was tired1 then1 laying  
the baby on the bed and laying her hands

 on it1  prayed until life came back    
into it4 ,when ,i returned ,monday the  
child was  as well as ever4 ,in both    
cases grandmother prepared them for     
burial4    ,a little while after this   
experience the twins were out in the    
barn feeding  the horses4 ,somehow in   
their actions one boy accidently stuck  
the tine of  the pitchfork right into   
the eyeball of the other boy4 ,wife     
hearing their  screams1 ran out and     
brought them into the house4 ,she washed
 the blood from  the injured eye and    
laid the boy on the bed2 then she and   
the twin brother  laid their hands on   
him and prayed the prayer of faith4 ,he 
went to sleep  and slept untill morning1
 and all that remained on the eyeball   
was a small  white spot in the center   
which disappeared after a day or two1   
and his  sight was not in the least     
impaired4           99       99       99
       99       99    ,a similar case   
happened at ,bruce1 ,south ,dakota1     
while ,i was pastor at  ,brookings and  

,white4 ,the little three year old      
daughter of ,brother and  ,sister ,hi   
,tellinghuisen was playing in the yard  
with an old rusty sewing  machine oil   
can4 ,she fell on it1 the spout striking
 right into the center  of one eyeball4 
,she was taken at once to a physician   
who ordered her to be  taken without    
delay to a specialist to have the       
eyeball removed4 ,the  parents then     
called me over the telephone to come at 
once4 ,when ,i arrived  and saw the eye1
 it looked to me like a dried up prune  
stone4 ,i anointed  the child1 but could
 find no words to utter in prayer4 ,i   
could only groan1  but the ,lord        
witnessed to the healing4 7,i think this
 took place on ,saturday  at #aa o'clock
 a4m4 and the next day1 ,sunday1 she was
 brought to the  services perfectly     
well47 7,at this writing she is teaching
 school74           99       99       99
       99       99    ,on ,march the    
#bjth1 #aijd1 wife was taken with quick 
consumption4 ,her fever  was so high    

that she was delirious4 ,as long as ,i  
remained beside her  praying1 she would 
be rational but as soon as ,i ceased    
praying her mind  would wander4 ,over a 
week later1 on ,saturday1 ,brothers ,o4 
,t4 ,ring and ,carl  ,forsberg came to  
visit us4 ,we then had agreement in     
prayer for the healing  of my wife1 and 
from that time on her mind was clear1   
yet she continued to  go down4 ,a number
 prayed for her but she grew weaker and 
weaker1 until in  the month of ,august4 
,when the neighbors would come in to    
visit her1 they  would say to me on     
leaving1 outside of the house1 ,we are  
sorry to say it1  but we do not expect  
to see your wife alive again4    ,one   
day she said to me1 ,we have done       
everything we know to do except to  send
 to ,brother ,e4 ,e4 ,byrum for an      
anointed handkerchief4 ,i asked1 ,do you
  want me to send for one8 to which she 
assented1 and ,i sent for one4 ,we      
received it by mail ,august the #bcrd at
 #a o'clock4 ,i placed the handkerchief 

upon her and kneeling beside her laid my
 hands on her and prayed4 ,she was  so  
weak that it seemd as if she would pass 
away before ,i could remove my  hands1  
so ,i soon said ,amen4 ,she remarked1   
,this does not look very  encouraging1  
does it8 ,i answered1 ,no1 it does not4 
,then she drew one of  her hands from   
under the covers and said1 ,do you      
believe that any flesh is  ever coming  
to these hands8 ,dear1 ,i answered1 ,i  
do not know4 ,then she  said1 ,i believe
 that it will happen4 ,i asked1 ,why do 
you believe it8  ,she told me that a    
scripture had come to her while ,i was  
praying4 ,she said  that it was the one 
about ,naaman3 ,his flesh came again    
like the flesh of a  little child and he
 was clean4 #b ,kings #e3ad4    ,two    
hours later she was perfectly well1 but 
weak1 of course4           99       99  
99       99       99    ,on one occasion
 ,i received an urgent call to come to  
,norway ,lake to pray  for ,mrs4 ,john  
,evenson who was ill with tuberculosis4 

,while on my way there  ,i battled with 
devils1 it seemed as though my buggy was
 full of devils1  whispering to me and  
saying1 ,you are going to be arrested   
and put in  jail4 ,however1 after       
driving sixteen miles1 the ,lord assured
 me that ,he  was going to raise ,sister
 ,everson up1 even if she were dead when
 ,i got  there4    ,as ,i drove into the
 driveway ,i saw a number of men by the 
barn4 ,it was the  ,constable and       
others4 ,jumping out of the buggy1 ,i   
proceeded to unhook my  team when ,mr4  
,everson appeared1 and said1 ,the hired 
man will take the  team2 come along with
 me4 ,we went into the house and into   
the room where  the sick woman was4 ,mr4
 ,everson sat down in a chair beside the
 bed1 taking  his watch out1 he then    
took his wife's hand in his to count the
 pulse4 ,she  was unconscious4 ,i spoke 
to her two or three times but she did   
not hear me4  ,i knelt down and asked   
the ,lord to restore her to             
consciousness4 ,then ,i  arose and spoke

 to her again4 ,after a bit she opened  
her eyes and ,i said1  ,brother ,susag  
is here4 ,what do you want him to do for
 you8 ,she replied1  ,i want you to     
anoint me and pray for me4 ,i           
immediately proceeded to do as  she     
requested1 following which she sat up in
 bed and asked for something to  eat4   
,the constable1 with others1 was waiting
 outside the house to arrest me if  the 
woman had died4 ,mr4 ,everson went out  
to them and they asked him how  things  
were going4 ,he told them that before ,i
 prayed for her1 her pulse was  #abd1   
and when ,i took my hands off1 her pulse
 was #hb--which is normal6    ,thirteen 
years later she was taken sick again4   
,mr4 ,everson1 not being  saved1 called 
for the doctor they had previously      
employed4 ,the doctor  refused to come1 
saying that ,mrs4 ,everson had lived for
 thirteen years on  something more than 
human4 ,i can do nothing for her4 ,if   
she has faith1 she  can live another    
thirteen years4 ,then they telephoned   

me4 ,i drove two  miles in my automobile
 and was taken seriously ill and had to 
return home  and go to bed4 ,i was very 
sick for two days4 ,mrs4 ,everson died  
in the  meantime1 and ,i was well4      
,on one occasion ,brother ,c4,h4 ,tubbs 
and myself held a meeting at ,bowbells1 
,n4 ,dakota and a number of people were 
saved4 ,we were to have a baptismal     
service4 ,it was the month of ,february 
and we would have to go three miles  to 
the nearest lake in which to baptize the
 candidates4 ,there was no place  there 
for the changing of clothes and it was  
slow traveling as we rode in a  lumber  
wagon4 ,sister ,stolsy1 who wanted to be
 baptized1 had been in poor  health for 
five years and had a baby five weeks    
old4 ,the ,constable1 on  hearing of it1
 came to us and said1 ,if you put that  
woman through that  hole in the ice1    
,i'll be there with a warrant for your  
arrest4 ,so ,bro4  ,tubbs said1 ,we     
better go see ,sister ,stolsy1 which we 
did4 ,he said1  ,sister1 it does not    

look reasonable for you in your         
condition to be  baptized4 ,she wept and
 said1 ,i have wanted to be baptized for
 some time  and now that ,i have the    
opportunity ,i am denied the privilege4 
,then ,i said  to her1 ,sister ,stolsy1 
save your tears for something else4 ,i  
will baptize  you if ,i have to spend   
the remainder of my life behind the     
bars1 and she  was baptized4 ,the       
constable witnessed the baptizing and   
saw that when she  came out of the water
 she looked the very picture of health4 
,three days  later the constable and his
 wife were baptized in the self-same    
place4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,i have baptized hundreds
 of people from ,canada to ,san         
,antonio1 ,texas2 from  the ,atlantic   
coast to the ,pacific1 in every month of
 the year1 in the lakes  of ,norway1    
,sweden and ,denmark as well as in the  
,north ,sea1 in all kinds of            
weather--once in the ,red ,river at     
,grand ,forks1 ,n4 ,dakota1 in a snow   

storm  in zero weather1 and ,i have     
never yet heard of one person having    
taken cold  from being baptized1 but on 
the other hand1 ,,many ,,have ,,been    
,,healed6    ,it pays to obey the       
commandments of the ,lord4 ,while ,i was
 pastor in ,grand  ,forks1 ,n4 ,d41 from
 ,december1 #aiai to ,november1 #aibe1  
,i baptized over two  hundred persons4  
99       99       99       99       99  
,once in company with ,thomas ,nelson1  
,c4,h4 ,tubbs and my wife1 we held a    
tent  meeting in the country northwest  
of ,colfax1 ,wisconsin4 ,several people 
were  saved and some were healed4 ,this 
stirred up great opposition so that on a
  couple of nights an angry mob was on  
the spot throwing stones1 sticks and    
lumber and bottles on the tent1         
demanding that we come out and they     
would  cut me to pieces4 ,one night a   
minister of that community was in the   
tent1  and as he saw the stones come    
rolling through the tent1 he became     
badly  frightened and said to me1 ,this 

is worse than in a heathen land4 ,yes1  
,i  replied1 but are they not your      
people8 ,he said1 ,yes1 and then getting
  down on his hands and knees crawled   
out the back way from under the tent    
and escaped to the woods4    ,the reason
 for this unseemly tumult was because ,i
 had preached that baptism  was by      
immersion and other truths4 ,the        
situation was that two grown young      
people1 the son and daughter of a       
minister in the community1 were among   
those who were to be baptized4 ,but the 
fact that there was no water nearby  in 
which they could be immersed seemed to  
give the opposing element great         
satisfaction4 ,however1 we continued to 
advertise that there would be  baptismal
 services on the coming ,saturday       
afternoon4 ,friday night it rained      
heavily and near the tent there was a   
low place covered with green grass      
where the water settled and the water   
was deep enough in which to baptize  the
 new converts4    ,this goes to prove   

that the ,lord's resources are          
limitless4 ,the next ,sunday  night1    
being the last night of the meeting1    
after all had left the tent  except     
,bro4 ,tubbs and myself1 and as ,i was  
not making any move towards  leaving the
 tent ,brother ,tubbs asked me whether  
,i was not going home4 ,i  answered1    
,no1 those people who threatened to cut 
me to pieces are coming  back to pull   
the tent down and ,i want to be here    
when they come1 but you go  on home2 ,i 
want to be here alone4 ,but he said1    
,no1 ,i will not leave you4    ,it was  
about a hundred rods or more to the     
house where we were staying and  there  
was no other house near by4 ,we put out 
the lights and sat waiting4 ,a  number  
of times ,bro4 ,tubbs urged that we go  
home1 declaring that no one  would come1
 but at almost midnight a plank was     
thrown on the tent and out  ran ,brother
 ,tubbs for home2 and then just as ,i   
was coming out of the tent a  big plank 
was thrown on me1 striking my right     

shoulder and also hit my  head4 ,it     
might have been quite serious but that  
,i was wearing a stiff derby  hat at the
 time4 ,as it was1 ,i was almost knocked
 out4    ,i said to them--there were    
between fifty and seventy of them1 ,just
 a  minute men1 ,i am alone here2 please
 do not destroy the tent2 it has no     
feelings4 ,take me and cut me in pieces 
as you said you wanted to do4 ,if ,i    
have done anything wrong ,i am willing  
to suffer for it4 ,this ,i said as ,i   
walked slowly toward them1 ,but if it is
 because ,i have preached the ,word  of 
,god to you folks and you do not receive
 it1 you will meet it at the  judgment  
bar of ,god1 and ,i continued to walk   
toward them4 ,they said1 ,do  not come  
so near4 ,are you afraid of me8 ,i asked
 as ,i continued preaching  to them4    
,then they commenced backing up4        
,finally1 it seemed ,i had no more  to  
say4 ,one man said1 ,give us more of    
that4 ,at this point ,brother ,tubbs    
appeared with eight of the brethren1    

whereupon the crowd turned and ran for  
their rigs and vanished into the        
darkness4    ,about eighteen months     
later ,i held another meeting in this   
same community  and the attendance was  
very good4 ,a number of the same people 
who had  claimed that they wanted to cut
 me to pieces were also there4 ,eight   
souls  had gotten saved and the         
attendance was increasing4 ,all of a    
sudden1 as ,i  was closing the service1 
the ,spirit of the ,lord said to me1    
,this is your  last service here4 ,you  
will leave in the morning on the #d     
o'clock train for  ,grand ,meadows1     
,minn4 ,saint and sinner alike1 said1   
,you can't close now2  look at the      
manifest interest and the growing       
attendance6 ,but1 ,i said1  the ,lord   
tells me to close4 ,they insisted that  
it could not be that they  all were     
wrong and ,i the only one that was      
right4 ,so ,i consented to stay1  but   
had ,i but left on that morning train ,i
 would have escaped the terrible  storm 

that swept over that part of the        
country4 ,as it was1 ,i could neither   
get away nor continue the meeting4 ,on  
the farm where ,i was staying they had  
to have a rope extended between the     
house and the barn for two days in      
order to find the way from one building 
to the other4           99       99     
99       99       99    ,i had held a   
number of revivals for ,brother ,millar 
of ,racine1 ,wisconsin4  ,one time1 in  
this connection1 ,i had a dream that ,i 
saw a pasture with green  grass and     
beautiful sparkling water running       
through it and as nice a flock  of sheep
 as ,i ever saw were feeding in it4 ,but
 in this beautiful pasture  that should 
have been utilized for good pasture4 ,i 
felt impressed to tell  ,bro4 ,millar of
 my experience so wrote him of what ,i  
had seen in my dream4  ,in his prompt   
reply he said1 ,you had better come with
 your 'stump-pulling  machine' and pull 
them out4    ,some time later1 on a very
 hot ,sunday at noon ,i arrived in      

,racine1 all  tired and worked out4 ,i  
asked ,bro4 ,millar whether there was to
 be an  afternoon service4 ,i understood
 him to say1 ,no1 there would not be4 ,i
  said to him1 ,i want no lunch so      
please take me to my room4 ,and this he 
did4 ,i undressed immediately and was   
soon fast asleep1 but before long ,i    
felt my bed being shaken and heard      
someone speaking to me but it seemed ,i 
just could not wake up4 ,the shaking    
increased and ,i heard a voice saying1  
,brother ,susag1 ,brother ,susag4 ,i    
looked up and there was ,brother        
,millar6  ,he said1 ,why1 ,brother      
,susag1 have you undressed8 ,the chapel 
is full of  people who are waiting for  
you to come and preach4 ,i told him ,i  
had  understood him to say that there   
would be no afternoon service1 that he  
should go back and that ,i would follow 
as quickly as possible4    ,i had no    
message4 ,i opened my ,bible and from   
,genesis to ,revelation the  ,scriptures
 did not seem to mean anything to me4 ,i

 prayed and still no  message4 ,then    
coming down stairs ,i met ,sister ,anna 
,hanson who was just  starting for the  
service4 ,i said to her1 ,please give me
 a text to preach  on4 ,she said1 ,o you
 will have a text4 ,i told her ,i was in
 earnest1 that  ,i could not think of a 
single text in the whole ,bible that    
meant anything  to me1 that ,i was too  
worn out to think4 ,sister ,hanson then 
said1 ,i have  often wished ,i might    
hear you preach on the first text ,i    
ever heard you  preach on and that was  
in ,chicago4 ,the text was1 ',the ,lord 
weigheth the  spirits4' ,then the ,lord 
opened my understanding and ,i had a    
text4 ,at the  close of the service     
,sister ,hanson walked ahead of me to   
the parsonage and  into the kitchen     
where ,sister ,millar was4 ,she asked1  
,how was the service8  ,sister ,hanson  
answered1 ,the right message for the    
right people at the  right time4 ,sister
 ,millar said1 ,well1 praise the ,lord6 
and when ,bro4  ,millar came in he said1

 ,praise the ,lord1 and jumped and      
shouted and said  that every stump had  
been pulled--twenty-two of them6        
,while this meeting was in progress     
,brother ,tiffany ,flint from ,milwaukee
  came down and asked me to come and    
hold a two weeks' meeting for him1 but  
,i  had no open dates4 ,in those days ,i
 was1 at times1 booked ahead as many as 
forty-two meetings1 so ,i had to refuse 
him4 ,but he urged1 ,won't you come     
just a few days8 ,so ,i promised to go  
for three nights4 ,when ,i arrived he   
said1 ,i have something to tell you3 ,i 
have three persons here needing         
spiritual help4 ,i replied1 ,tell me    
nothing1 on the train the ,lord gave me 
three texts1 one for each night1        
,tuesday1 ,wednesday and ,thursday1     
which ,i  am going to preach on4 ,it    
happened that each text fitted each one 
of the  three mentioned persons and each
 one came to service on the very night  
his  particular text was preached on1   
and received his special benefit4    ,i 

am relating all these incidents because 
,i have always believed in the          
leadership of the ,holy ,spirit2 and    
now1 after these fifty years of work in 
the ministry ,i am more firmly grounded 
in that belief than ever4    ,some time 
later ,i held another meeting for       
,brother ,millar4 ,one afternoon1  as ,i
 sat studying1 the ,lord said to me1    
,here is your text2 you go down to      
street so and so1 such and such a number
 and preach at #b3cj this  afternoon4   
,after lunch ,i said to ,brother        
,millar1 ,let us take a walk4 ,on       
coming out ,i said1 ,is there a street  
in the city of such a name1 stating  the
 name the ,lord had given me8 ,he said1 
,i think so2 what of it8 ,i told  him   
that the ,lord had given me a text to go
 down there and preach at #b3cj4  ,bro4 
,millar then said1 ,we will take a      
street car and go down there and  see1  
but ,i will tell you that if there is a 
chapel at that number you will  not get 
an opporunity to preach there4 ,we      

boarded the street car and the          
motor-man directed us to the street1 and
 as we approached the given number  we  
found a chapel and a meeting in         
progress4 ,we went in and sat in the    
back  seat4 ,the singing had just       
stopped and the evangelist took his     
,bible and  went to the pulpit4 ,bro4   
,millar smiled and hung his head1       
looking at me out  of the corner of his 
eye1 as much as to say1 ,i thought so4  
,but ,i was  pretty sober4 ,i took my   
watch out of my pocket and held it in my
 hand and  after the evangelist had     
given out his text and had spoken just  
seven  minutes1 he closed his ,bible and
 said1 ,this is queer2 ,i cannot speak  
this  afternoon1 and turning to the     
pastor1 asked him whether he had the    
message4 ,the pastor replied1 ,why no1  
,i haven't even my ,bible with me4      
,then1 looking over the audience1 the   
evangelist said1 ,there must be  someone
 here who has the message4 ,pointing to 
me1 he said1 ,haven't you  got the      

message8 ,i answered1 ,yes4 ,then come  
on up here1 he rejoined1  and take the  
pulpit4    ,on taking the pulpit ,i     
promptly explained just how it was we   
happened to be  there at that particular
 time and proceeded to preach the sermon
 the ,lord  had given me to preach4 ,i  
announced our services and everybody    
seemed to be  well pleased with the     
sermon4 ,i was not acquainted with any  
person in the  audience1 nor did any one
 know me as far as ,i knew4 ,a little   
later a number  of them attended our    
services and eight of them were saved   
and took their  stand for the truth4    
99       99       99       99       99  
,at one time ,i received a series of    
letters from a leader in a certain      
,church of ,god congregation in which   
the writer earnestly pleaded that ,i    
come and hold a meeting for him4    ,he 
said that the ,lord had revealed to him 
that ,i could be a great blessing  to   
him and his congregation4 ,i had never  
been to the place nor did ,i know       

anyone in the congregation that ,i was  
aware of4 ,after giving the matter due  
consideration ,i felt that ,i should go1
 and wrote the pastor to that effect4   
,on the day ,i was planning to leave ,i 
received a letter from the brother1     
upon the reading of which ,i began to   
tremble like a leaf--something ,i had   
never experienced before4 ,i was        
standing on the floor reading the       
letter4  ,wife ran up to me and asked me
 if ,i was sick or whether there was    
anything  wrong4 ,she took the letter   
and read it1 and said1 ,there is nothing
 wrong  with that letter4 ,no1 ,i said1 
but ,i have a feeling that if ,i go ,i  
will  meet something ,i have never met  
before4 ,wife answered1 ,don't let the  
devil scare you now2 you go1 and ,i will
 pray for you4    ,on arriving in the   
city1 as ,i stepped off the train1 a man
 came up to me  and said1 ,are you      
,brother ,susag8 ,i am ,brother ,x--2 ,i
 have come to meet  you4 ,we certainly  
are glad that you have come1 but ,i am  

sorry to have to  tell you that our     
group is split into two congregations4  
,i quickly reached  to take my suitcase 
out of his hand1 and said to him1 ,i'm  
going right back  home2 ,i'm too small a
 man to attempt to tackle anything like 
that4 ,but he  said1 ,no1 you cannot go1
 for we have been praying for you to    
come and the  ,lord has shown us that   
you are the man to help us out4 ,all    
right1 ,i  said1 on one condition ,i'll 
stay4 ,take me to a hotel1 and you      
inform both  parties that ,i will only  
stay on condition that all meet together
 in one  chapel and that no one tell me 
anything about the trouble1 for if the  
,word  of ,god will not make you one1 ,i
 surely cannot do so4 ,but1 said he1 you
  surely need to know something about   
how matters stand4 ,no1 ,i replied1  the
 ,lord knows it all and ,he also knows  
what messages to give me from time  to  
time4 ,very well1 he said1 ,i'll take   
you out in the country three  miles to  
an old couple who knows nothing of the  

trouble4    ,three days later at three  
o'clock in the afternoon1 the brother   
came to see  me and informed me that my 
proposition had been accepted2 the group
 had  agreed to the conditions4 ,i      
preached for eleven days and let them do
 their  own altar work and the eleventh 
night there was but one congregation and
  all was peace and harmony4 ,for the   
first eleven days of the meeting there  
was not one outsider in any of the      
services but on the very next night the 
chapel was filled1 and there were seven 
ministers of the city present in  the   
audience4           99       99       99
       99       99    ,an ,assembly     
meeting was being planned1 soon to be   
held in ,chicago1 at the  #gdth ,street 
,church of ,god and the brethren in     
charge wrote to the ministers  of the   
,scandinavian ,publishing work in ,st4  
,paul ,park1 ,minnesota1 requesting     
them to provide an evangelist who should
 preach in the ,scandinavian            
languages--either ,thomas ,nelson1 ,emil

 ,krutz or ,s4 ,o4 ,susag4 ,brother     
,krutz  and ,i were holding a meeting at
 ,hereford1 ,minn4 at the time4 ,we     
received a  letter from ,st4 ,paul ,park
 asking us to pray to find out which one
 of the  three of us was to go4 ,then   
,brother ,krutz said to me1 ,i know you 
know who  is to go2 tell me who it is4  
,but ,i answered him1 that he should go 
find  out from the same source from     
which ,i had found out4 ,he left me and 
after  two hours returned and said1 ,it 
was a little hard for me to find out    
because ,i wanted to go so badly myself1
 but the ,lord showed me that you  were 
the one to go4    ,on my way ,i stopped 
at ,st4 ,paul ,park and met ,brother ,d4
 ,o4 ,teasley from ,new  ,york4 ,he said
 to me1 ,so you are on your way to the  
,assembly in ,chicago4 ,i  said1 ,yes1  
if ,brother ,nelson is not going4 ,why1 
he said1 he is not  going4 ,when ,i     
stopped in ,chicago the congregation was
 praying the ,lord to  send you4 ,god   
works at both ends4    ,we held the     

,scandinavian services at the ,assembly 
up stairs in the  ,missionary ,home4    
,after five days' meeting1 quite a few  
were saved1 while  down in the ,english 
services in the chapel where there were 
thirty-three  ministers1 none were being
 saved4 ,brother ,reardon1 hearing of   
our good  services1 asked me whether ,i 
preached in ,english1 ,yes1 ,i replied1 
in my  broken way4 ,why1 then1 he said1 
do you not ask the ,lord for a message  
to preach down in the chapel8 ,i        
answered1 telling him the ,lord had     
already  given me three messages but    
someone else gets to the pulpit before  
me4  7,this was the time for the        
free-for-all in the pulpit74 ,brother   
,reardon  said1 ,come with me1 and he   
took me upstairs into a room where a    
group of  the leading ministers were    
assembled and said to them1 ,here is the
 man who  is holding up the success of  
the meeting4 ,i said1 ,how is that      
possible  when ,i cannot even get into  
the pulpit8 ,somebody rushes in ahead of

 me1 and  one who did so was not saved4 
,to this they said1 ,we have already    
attended  to that person1 and told me   
that ,i had better get another message  
from the  ,lord1 but ,i said1 ,no4 ,then
 they said1 ,will you preach it if the  
,lord  gives you another message8 ,i    
said1 ,i will1 if ,i can get into the   
pulpit  and you will pray for me4       
,the second day following1 the ,lord    
gave me another message4 ,my text was   
the  last clause of the second verse of 
,proverbs #af3 444 the ,lord weigheth   
the  spirits4 ,after ,i had spoken a few
 minutes ,brother ,cole spoke up and    
said1  ,please stop a minute1 ,bro4     
,susag1 do not talk so fast2 we do not  
understand a word you say4 ,i said1     
,please pray for me4 ,then again1       
realizing ,i was going quite fast1 ,i   
stopped1 when ,sister ,cole said1 ,do   
not  stop now1 go ahead1 ,bro4 ,susag1  
we can understand you well enough4 ,i   
seemed to be full of the ,holy ,ghost   
which seemed to be pressing me on4 ,when

  ,i said1 ,amen there were forty-two at
 the altar crying for mercy4    ,listen 
folks1 this was not because of my good  
preaching1 for they could not           
understand me1 but they understood when 
the ,holy ,ghost spoke4 ,when ,i went   
to the altar to pray with the seekers a 
man came running on his hands and  feet1
 barking like a dog4 ,he was taken out  
to another room to be prayed  for4 ,he  
was helped1 and the devils were cast    
out4    ,after the altar service was    
over ,i asked ,brothers ,reardon and    
,ebel to go  with me to the basement4   
,as soon as we got there ,i fell on my  
face to the  floor weeping1 and saying  
to the brothers1 ,i need help1 ,i am in 
serious  trouble4 ,it seems as though   
devils were tearing my very body to     
pieces4  ,thank ,god for good brothers  
who are able to help a person in time of
 need4  ,brother ,reardon said to me1   
,get up quick1 ,bro4 ,susag1 don't lie  
there and  cry for the devil4 ,but ,i   
said1 ,you don't know what trouble ,i am

 in4 ,but  they said to me1 ,there is   
nothing the matter with you4 ,get up and
 rebuke  the devil1 get up and sit on   
that chair and we will talk to you4     
,then ,bro4  ,reardon said1 ,the ,lord  
used you to break the spell in the      
meeting and  there were seven possessed 
with devils at the altar4 ,the devil    
became  enraged at you and was          
determined to ruin you4 ,then ,i        
resisted the devil  and was free4    ,we
 will soon find out when we let the     
,holy ,ghost have ,his way with us there
  are seemingly two equally great powers
 in the world4 ,but thank ,god1 we also 
find that ,he is the ,omnipotent ,ruler 
over all things4    ,brother ,tubbs and 
,i once held a meeting at ,portland1    
,north ,dakota4 ,the wife  of the man   
with whom we stayed professed to be     
saved and one of the saints4  ,her      
husband1 as far as ,i knew1 made no     
profession but was a very fine man  and 
one of the leading business men of the  
town4    ,one day1 as we were looking   

through the bookcase1 we found a lot of 
fine  looking books of ,russellite      
teaching4 ,we asked the sister who had  
bought  them4 ,she told us that she had 
bought them--had bought over a hundred  
dollars' worth of those good books4 ,we 
informed her that they were  unsound1   
that they taught erroneous doctrine and 
should not be read nor  handed to       
anyone4    ,our taking this stand made  
things look as though we would be       
without a  place to stay4 ,but that     
evening the ,lord changed the situation4
 ,the  two-year-old child of this couple
 was suddenly taken violently ill4 ,the 
mother asked us to pray for the boy4    
,bro4 ,tubbs plainly told her that the  
,lord would not heal her boy as long as 
she had those books in the house4  ,when
 we were just starting to go to the     
service that evening1 the father1  who  
was holding the child in a blanket in   
his arms1 said to us1 ,will you         
guarantee healing to my child if ,i     
place it in your hands8 ,otherwise ,i   

shall have to get a doctor before it is 
too late4 ,bro4 ,tubbs answered1 ,we    
can guarantee nothing1 and we started   
for the service4    ,bro4 ,tubbs was    
already outside the door of the house   
when the mother of the  child said      
pleadingly1 ,won't you pray8 ,the ,holy 
,ghost came upon me and ,i  said1 ,yes1 
on one condition1 if you will promise to
 take all those books  over to the      
meeting place tomorrow and burn them up 
before the eyes of the  audience1 ,i'll 
pray and guarantee healing for your     
child4 ,she said1 ,i  won't do that2    
they are good books and cost #ajj4 ,all 
right1 ,i said1 and  stepped out of the 
door4 ,the father said1 ,just a minute1 
and then to his  wife he said1 ,isn't   
the life of our child worth more than   
one hundred  dollars8 ,she said1 ,but   
they are good books4 ,he replied1 ,the  
ministers  say they are no good4 ,i know
 nothing about them1 whether they are   
good or  not1 but ,i do know one thing  
that my child's life is worth more than 

one  hundred dollars4 ,all right1 then1 
,i'll do it1 she said4    ,i stepped    
back in the room1 threw my hat on the   
floor1 went over and laid  my hands on  
the child and prayed the prayer of faith
 and the ,lord healed  the child        
instantly1 and the books went up in     
smoke the next day4    ,i have seen     
bookcases and book shelves in many homes
 that need just such a  purge in order  
that the glory of ,god may dwell in the 
home1 and sometimes  even in the        
churches4           99       99       99
       99       99    ,in the years     
#aiae-af ,i spent almost thirteen months
 in ,denmark helping the  few faithful  
workers there to raise up eight         
congregations and many books  were      
burned during the time4    ,one old     
mother in ,israel1 when she heard of the
 books being burned1 said1  ,i've got   
only one book and it's a good one4 ,she 
brought it to me and  said1 ,if you say 
this is not good1 my salvation goes too4
 ,i asked her if  ,i might mark with a  

pencil in her book and she said ,i      
could4 ,after reading  it a while ,i    
laid it aside having marked it here and 
there4 ,she asked me  what ,i thought of
 her book4 ,not to discourage her1 ,i   
said1 ,there are some  good things in   
that book4 ,she took it and began to    
find the places which ,i  had marked1   
finally closed the book and said1 ,this 
book is no good2 the  ,bible says thus  
and so and the book speaks to the       
contrary4 ,then she said1  ,why have ,i 
been blessed many times when reading    
this book8 ,i answered1  ,because you   
were honest and did not know any better4
    ,we pioneer ministers had many      
things to meet4 ,on getting home one    
time1 ,i  found that a runaway team had 
pulled our windmill down so that we had 
to  have a new one4 ,the well was #bjd  
feet and was hard to pump4 ,after we got
  the new one1 a neighbor came over and 
said to my son1 ,oswald1 ,see1 your     
father has been out preaching and so you
 are able to have a new windmill4  ,yes1

 he had been gone seven weeks and he was
 eleven cents short on his  expenses4   
,the following year ,i was gone nine    
months and five days and ,i  fared real 
well--,i had #gf4gf above my expenses   
that time4           99       99        
99       99       99    ,sometimes ,i   
got to thinking about little ,charlie   
,brown1 who ,i believe was  about eleven
 years old at the time4 ,when his father
 asked him if he got  tired1 he said1   
,yes1 ,i get tired of this walking      
preaching4 ,so they went  into a grove  
and prayed and his father said to him1  
,we will go to the next  town and you   
preach on some street corner and if no  
one gets saved1 we will  quit and if    
some get saved we will keep on4 ,what do
 you think of that8  ,young ,charlie    
agreed to that and a number of souls did
 get saved4 ,now  young ,charlie is     
,editor in ,chief of the ,gospel        
,trumpet4    ,then it was empty         
pocketbooks1 empty stomachs and sore    
feet1 but that did  not stop the        

preaching4 ,yes1 in those days it was   
souls we were after1 and  not money and 
honor4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,i did not have a new    
suit for sixteen years2 wife had only   
one new dress in  eighteen years4       
,although we lived on a farm we could   
not eat butter4 ,we had  to sell that in
 order to be able to buy more necessary 
things4    ,one year wife and the       
children were raising twenty-two hogs   
while ,i was out  preaching in the      
gospel field1 and we had a payment of   
#ejj to make on our  home1 or move4     
,when ,i arrived home in the fall wife  
met me with tears in  her eyes as she   
told me that the hogs were all ready for
 the market when  the price dropped from
 #f4jj per hundred weight to #b4ge4     
,and1 she  continued1 the only reason ,i
 can find for it is that we have not    
given  enough4 ,but1 ,i replied1 ,i feel
 that we have given enough3 ,our gross  
income has been a little over #ejj4jj4  
,she then brought two pencils and  two  

pieces of paper and said to me1 ,come   
on4 ,we knelt down and asked the  ,lord 
to bring to our minds what we had given1
 and in our check-up we found  we had   
given #beb4ej4 ,then1 almost scaring me1
 my wife1 with tears  streaming down her
 face1 lifted her hand toward heaven1   
and said1 ,lord1 we  have done our duty 
and you will have to pay our bills4     
,two days later the cattle buyer came   
back and said that if he could get our  
hogs he would have enough for two       
railroad carloads4 ,i told him he could 
not have them at that price4 ,he said1  
,they are the nicest looking hogs ,i    
ever saw and if ,i can get them to mix  
in with the others ,i may get top  price
 for all4 ,and1 he added1 ,i will give  
you the old price3 ,six  dollars 7#f4jj7
 per hundred weight4 ,to which ,i       
replied1 ,they are yours4    ,one of our
 neighbors had twenty-two hogs born the 
same week as ours4 ,the  day they were  
brought into town people said1 ,susag's 
hogs are the nicest1  but ,p----'s hogs 

will weigh #a1jjj pounds more than his4 
,they weighed them  and found that our  
hogs weighed almost eleven hundred      
pounds more than  ,p----'s4 ,they took  
them off the scales twice to examine the
 scales to see  whether they were       
correct1 but the hogs held their weight1
 almost eleven  hundred pounds more than
 the neighbor's hogs4 ,so once more1 the
 ,lord  honored his faithful1 humble    
people4 ,there was enough money for the 
#ejj  payment and some to spare4    ,two
 years later we had another #ejj payment
 to meet1 and when we started to  seed  
in the spring1 ,i said to the twins1    
,let us kneel down right here in  the   
field and ask ,god to give us a large   
enough crop to pay the notes which  will
 be due in the fall4 ,that year crops1  
generally1 were very poor1  average     
wheat being from #b-a_/b to #c-a_/b     
bushels to the acre 7of screenings1  or 
,number ,four1 as it is called74 ,but   
the ,lord gave us eighteen bushels to   
the acre on one piece and on the other1 

twenty-two bushels to the acre of       
,number ,one wheat4 ,one old lady said1 
,i can't understand such a thing--only  
a fence between4           99       99  
99       99       99    ,one time ,i had
 a dream of a scene taking place in the 
chapel at ,st4 ,paul  ,park1 ,minn4     
,brother ,nelson1 who had just finished 
his sermon1 was standing  by the pulpit 
with his left elbow on the pulpit and   
his hand on his chin1  looking at the   
audience4 ,then ,i saw a woman1 about   
two-thirds down the  aisle1 get up and  
shake her fist toward ,bro4 ,nelson4    
,the ,lord said to me1  ,do you see that
 woman8 ,i answered1 ,yes4 ,you see she 
is not right with  me in shaking her    
fist at my servant8 ,yes1 ,i said1 ,i   
can see that4  ,then the scene changed  
in my dream4 ,i was sitting on a chair  
right between  the dining room and the  
front room at the ,workers' ,home of the
 ,scandinavian  ,publishing ,company1   
and there was a minister sitting behind 
me leaning his  hands on the back of my 

chair4 ,this minister ,i had met once   
before1 and the  ,lord said to me1 ,you 
had better look out for that man2 he is 
not right  with me4 ,he will get you    
into trouble4    ,some days later ,i    
received a telephone message to come to 
,st4 ,paul ,park1  ,minn4 at once4 ,i   
went accordingly4 ,on my arrival ,i     
found services were  going on in the    
,workers' ,home and very soon ,i was    
sitting exactly as ,i saw  myself       
sitting in my dream4 ,all of a sudden ,i
 saw the woman ,i had seen in  my dream 
coming in from the kitchen4 ,i had never
 seen her before1 nor had ,i  ever heard
 of her1 but recognized her from the    
dream4 ,then ,i almost got  scared4     
,what if that preacher was sitting      
behind me resting his hands on  the back
 of my chair1 ,i thought4 ,what's up1   
anyhow8 ,i did not dare to look  back to
 see6    ,the brethren asked me to      
preach1 and when ,i got up and faced the
 audience1  sure enough1 there sat the  
very minister ,i had seen in my dream6  

,i spoke on  the twenty-third ,psalm4   
,i'm generally long winded in the pulpit
 but this  time ,i cut it short4 ,when  
,i closed1 ,bro4 ,nelson said1 ,is that 
all you are  going to give us8 ,and ,i  
said1 ,yes4    ,old men shall have      
dreams and young men shall see visions4 
,when the service was over1 ,brother ,o4
 ,t4 ,ring came to me and said1 ,please 
come into our room2 we want to see you a
 little4 ,on going into the room ,i     
found that the ministry were there1     
along with this minister and woman1     
also some of the leading workers4       
,brother ,nelson said1 ,we are having a 
little difficulty and we felt that we   
should call for you4 ,you have had a    
lot of experience and we thought that   
possibly you could be a help to us4     
,then ,i got up and asked whether ,i    
might tell my dream4 ,after ,i had told 
it  ,i said1 ,if this fits1 then you let
 me out4 ,yes1 it fits1 he said4    ,a  
number of years later ,brother ,j4 ,s4  
,lane was to be the evangelist at the   

,south ,dakota ,state ,camp ,meeting4   
,we met and introduced ourselves4       
,brother  ,lane said1    ,brother       
,susag1 ,i stopped at ,clinton1 ,iowa1  
and a sister said to me1 are  you going 
up to ,south ,dakota and ,minnesota8    
,then you'll meet a minister  that ,i am
 afraid of4 ,his name is ,susag2 the    
,lord speaks to him whether he  is      
asleep or awake1 but ,i have forgotten  
her name4 ,i said1 her name is so  and  
so4 ,yes1 he said4 ,that was about      
twenty years after the dream4           
99       99       99       99       99  
,it was a wonderful experience the ,lord
 gave me after the baptism of ,sister   
,swenvorg and the wonderful healing of  
her eyes1 and also the wonderful  glory 
the ,lord sent upon her with the        
persecution that came with it4 ,that    
evening in the service the ,lord blessed
 me so much ,i had to put both hands    
over my heart and had to ask the ,lord  
to stop1 as my human body could not     
stand any more pressure4 ,this happened 

in ,lukken1 ,denmark4           99      
99       99       99       99    ,i once
 went to hold a meeting in ,bro4        
,william ,gustafson's grove three miles 
north of ,belgrade1 ,minnesota4 ,the    
brother met me at the station and said  
he  had quite a lot of business to do in
 town so ,i could stay at that station  
until he got through and then he would  
come and get me4 ,but as quite a long   
time passed and he did not come ,i      
walked over to a store and asked them if
  they knew ,mr4 ,gustafson and they    
said they did4 ,then ,i asked if they   
knew  whether he was still in town4 ,to 
which they replied that he had gone home
  quite a while ago4 ,so ,i had to take 
my grips and walk out to his place1 as  
the meeting was set and ,i was to stay  
in his home4 ,i held the meeting and    
some souls were saved1 but ,i never said
 a word to ,mr4 ,gustafson about his    
leaving me in town4 ,i thought that the 
good ,lord could speak to him better    
than ,i could4 ,the ,lord gave me grace 

to treat him as nicely as though        
nothing had happened4 ,when the meeting 
ended ,i had to walk back to town       
again4    ,at the next year's state camp
 meeting he came to me and said1 ,can we
 go  over into the timber8 ,of course ,i
 said1 ,yes4 ,on our way over he told me
  that a would-be preacher had talked to
 him about me1 accusing me of many      
things but that he had found out that   
they were not true4 ,then he asked me   
to forgive him and he also asked the    
,lord to forgive him1 as he had lied to 
me4    ,it is too bad that such things  
happen1 as a finer brother than ,brother
  ,gustafson there never was4    ,then  
,brother ,gustafson told me that the    
,lord spoke to him telling him he       
should have given ten dollars to me for 
that meeting1 but now the ,lord  tells  
him it is to be fifty1 and he wrote me  
out a check for that amount4            
99       99       99       99       99  
,a ,,wonderful ,,incident    ,father    
,brewster1 as he was commonly called1 of

 ,hereford1 ,minnesota1 was  taken sick 
and was sick for some time4 ,if ,i am   
correctly informed1 he was  #hi years of
 age4 ,for a number of days it was      
thought that he was dead but  the doctor
 said that he was still living1 but he  
might go almost any time1  and the      
family sent for me to come and conduct  
the funeral services4 ,he had  been in a
 coma for eight days4 ,on arriving ,i   
found that the doctors had not  yet     
pronounced him dead4 ,i went into the   
bedroom where he lay and stood  looking 
at him for a few minutes1 meditating on 
the many good times we had  had together
 in the ,lord4 ,finally ,i fell on my   
knees and began to pray4  ,suddenly he  
called out in a loud voice1 ,praise the 
,lord1 ,brother ,susag4  ,he never moved
 a hand or a finger1 all that he moved  
was his lips and the  next day he passed
 away4 ,he had not spoken a word for    
eight days4           99       99       
99       99       99    ,one year when  
,i was the evangelist at the ,s4 ,dakota

 ,state camp meeting1 ,i  mentioned one 
day in my sermon that ,i was very busy  
and had received enough  calls since ,i 
had come to the camp meeting to keep me 
going for two years4  ,after the service
 ,brother ,geselbeck1 the elder of the  
church1 came to me  and said1 ,let us go
 down to the car1 which we did4 ,he     
began by saying1  ,i've always had      
confidence in you1 ,brother ,susag1 but 
today in something  you said1 ,i thought
 you went too far1 so ,i decided to     
speak to you at once  as ,i did not want
 to lose my confidence in you4 ,i said1 
,thank you1 that's  fine1 brother2 what 
was it ,i said8 ,you said that you had  
received enough  calls since you had    
been at the meeting to keep you going   
for two years1  and this is only the    
third day6 ,did ,i say that8 ,i asked4  
,maybe ,i said  too much1 but we will   
see ,i have the letters here in my      
pocket and they are  addressed to       
,arlington1 ,route #a1 ,south ,dakota4  
,so we took the letters and  read them  

and found that if ,i were to hold       
meetings at each place as long  as they 
stated in the letters it would have     
taken me twenty-six months4  ,bro4      
,geselbeck then said1 ,i knew you were a
 busy man1 but ,i never knew you  were  
that busy1 and ,i am glad that ,i spoke 
to you6 ,yes1 if we would all do  that  
way when something is in question it    
would avoid a whole lot of              
misunderstanding4           99       99 
99       99       99    ,i once had a   
cancer on my upper lip and one day ,i   
met ,dr4 ,sandven on the  street of my  
home town4 ,he stopped and said to me1  
,you had better come  over to the       
hospital and we will burn that thing out
 or else you will have  something4 ,i   
replied1 ,i've got something already4   
,yes1 he said1 but  we may be able to   
burn it out yet4 ,well1 ,i said1 ,i     
believe ,i will wait  on my own ,doctor 
a little while yet4 ,all right1 he said1
 if you don't  get rid of it1 come over 
and we will try to help you4    ,a few  

days after this ,i went to ,erie1 ,north
 ,dakota to hold a tent meeting  for    
,sister ,bertha ,gaulke who was the     
pastor of the church there4 ,we had     
prayer often1 but for two nights the    
pain was so intense it seemed as  though
 the roots of the cancer were going into
 my nose and up into my left  eye4 ,the 
third night ,i was weeping and praying  
and finally ,i went to sleep1  and in my
 sleep the ,lord said to me1 ,wake up   
and take hold of the cancer2  ,i have   
heard your prayers and it will come out4
 ,i woke up and did as the  ,lord       
directed1 and out it came1 roots and    
all6    ,i have had 7and still do have7 
many dreams4 ,the ,bible says1 that 444 
old  men shall dream dreams1 your young 
men shall see visions4 7,joel #b3bh74   
99       99       99       99       99  
,during the time ,i was pastor in ,grand
 ,forks ,i needed a fountain pen4       
,sisters ,hulda and ,louise ,werstlein  
gave me five dollars to get a pen1 to be
  my ,christmas present4 ,i sent to my  

son1 who was agent for such things1 and 
he got me a #g4ej ,waterman pen for the 
five dollars4 ,after the ,minnesota     
,state camp meeting1 ,sister ,moon of   
,canbee1 ,minnesota asked me to take her
  and her two children home4 ,on        
reaching ,montevideo ,i met ,brother    
,thomas  ,nelson who said he would like 
to have a long talk with me4 ,i told him
 that  he could take ,sister ,moon and  
the children and myself and we could    
talk  then as we went back and forth1   
which we did1 but when ,i arrived home  
my  pen was gone6    ,i wrote to the    
pastor at ,montevideo asking him to look
 in ,brother ,nelson's  car and around  
in the grass where the car had stood1   
thinking the pen might  have fallen out 
of his car when ,i took my coat out of  
his car and put in in  mine4 ,about a   
week later ,i got a card saying there   
was no pen to be found  anywhere4    ,a 
few nights later ,i had a dream4 ,i saw 
my pen4 ,it was standing up against  a  
small willow in a bunch of grass in the 

road ditch2 it was very dusty4    ,some 
days after this1 as ,i was on my way to 
town going north1 ,i passed the  road   
going west which ,i had been on when ,i 
lost my pen4 ,the ,lord said1 ,why      
don't you go and get your pen8 ,i       
laughed to myself1 but kept on driving  
and again the ,lord said1 ,why don't you
 get your pen2 why don't you get  your  
pen8 ,finally ,i had to turn back1 and  
as ,i did so ,i said to myself1  ,this  
is a trip that ,i'll never tell anyone  
about1 starting out for #acf  miles to  
look for a pen in a road ditch6         
,after going a mile and three quarters  
,i saw to my left a little willow       
sticking up just like the one ,i saw in 
my dream4 ,i stopped the car and went   
to look1 and there stood my pen just as 
it was in my dream4    ,we might ask how
 it got there4 ,the only answer ,i can  
give is that ,i must  have had my coat  
over the front seat of the car and the  
coat must have  fallen down1 and when ,i
 reached for it while the car was going 

the pen must  have fallen out of my coat
 pocket in the dark4           99       
99       99       99       99    ,a     
,,wonderful ,,incident    ,i had arrived
 home on ,saturday1 and ,sunday ,i went 
to the service4 ,the  pastor said1 ,now 
,i know why ,i haven't a message today1 
and turning to me  he said1 ,you speak  
for me4 ,but ,i said1 ,no1 ,i did not   
bring my ,bible  along4 ,well1 someone  
said1 we can let you have a ,bible4 ,i  
said1  ,soneone else must have the      
message4 ,there were two other ministers
 there1  but neither had a message4     
,finally wife said1 ,husband1 ,i get a  
number of  letters and here's one that  
reads like this1 ',dear ,sister ,susag3 
,you should  have been in our service   
last night4 ,we had a wonderful message 
and a  wonderful service4 ,several were 
saved1 and do you know who preached for 
us8  ,your husband preached for us4'    
,then she said1 ,why don't you give us a
  message like that at home8 ,and they  
all said1 ,that's right4    ,then ,i got

 a text4 ,i looked at my watch and it   
was eleven o'clock4 ,i knew  the pastor 
had to be home at #ab3cj1 but ,i forgot 
all about it1 and not a  person moved1  
not even the little children1 while ,i  
preached4 ,when ,i quit ,i  thought it  
would be around #ab3aj or #ab3ae1 but on
 looking at my watch it  was #c3ae in   
the afternoon4 ,i had preached for four 
hours and fifteen  minutes and the      
pastor and audience declared there must 
be something wrong  with our watches6   
,it seemed as if we must have been      
pretty close to the  third heaven6      
99       99       99       99       99  
,on one occasion while ,i was in ,europe
 ,i visited at my wife's request1 a     
cousin of hers who had been ill and     
confined to her bed for twenty-one      
years4 ,she had become bedfast when she 
was nineteen4 ,when ,i first visited    
her1 as she did not understand anything 
about divine healing1 she got quite     
peeved at the instructions ,i gave her4 
,however her father1 my wife's uncle1   

got gloriously saved4 ,two weeks later  
,i got a letter from the woman asking   
me to come again and ,i went4 ,then she 
repented and turned to the ,lord4 ,i    
prayed for her and the ,lord raised her 
up4           99       99       99      
99       99    ,once in a city called   
,stavanger1 ,norway1 ,i was asked to    
come and pray for a  sister who was in  
the last stages of tuberculosis of the  
lungs4 ,as some of  the people over     
there teach that it is witchcraft to    
heal by the word of  ,god and prayer1 a 
mob had gathered to stone me1 and the   
folks called me and  asked me not to    
anoint and pray for fear the people     
might do me bodily  harm4 ,i told them  
that ,i was not any better than the     
apostles or any other  of ,god's        
ministers1 and if that was to be my lot 
,i would be willing to die  for the     
gospel's sake4    ,i anointed and prayed
 for the woman and the ,lord raised her 
up to the great  astonishment of the    
people and no bodily harm came to me4   

,i met her twin sister several years    
later who said she had been well ever   
since1 healthy and strong4           99 
99       99       99       99    ,in    
#aiaf while in ,denmark ,i contracted   
tuberculosis of the throat and head4  ,i
 got so weak that while holding a       
meeting in company with ,brother ,carl  
,forsberg out from ,pandrup1 ,denmark1  
one evening before the service started  
,i was suffering so intensely that ,i   
went out into the cow barn1 sat down on 
a milk stool coughing and spitting1     
praying and weeping until ,i was so weak
  that ,i was unable to get up when ,i  
tried to do so4 ,time for meeting came1 
and the folks did not know what had     
become of me1 so a ,brother ,madson1 a  
big strong man1 went out to look for me4
 ,when he found me he picked me up  and 
carried me in1 laid me on the lounge and
 the saints prayed for me1 and  ,i got  
strength to get up and preach4 ,we      
closed the services that evening4       
,brother ,forsberg returned to ,sweden  

and ,i to my headquarters at ,hjoring4  
,i  went to a specialist and asked him  
to write me a permit so that ,i could   
return to ,america4 ,after he had       
examined me he said that he could not   
give  me the permit as ,i would not be  
permitted to go aboard ship in the      
condition ,i was in4 ,he said1 ,you     
would not live until you got there if   
you  did start4 ,i told him that ,i     
would like to be with my folks when ,i  
leave  this world4 ,he replied1 ,i don't
 blame you but it can't be done4        
,then ,i got a letter from ,brother and 
,sister ,johnson of ,jotta1 ,sweden1    
saying that ,brother ,forsberg had come 
home saying that it looked as though    
the ,lord was through with ,brother     
,susag1 he was no near gone4 ,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 here many    
times4    ,the following ,sunday we had 
services in ,hjoring at eleven o'clock1 
although  ,i did not seem to be able to 

stand up1 but ,i thought ,i might just  
as well  go to heaven from the pulpit as
 to go from the bed1 if ,i was going to 
die  anyway4 ,after ,i had been speaking
 about fifteen minutes ,i quit1 as the  
pain  got so intense in my throat ,i    
could hardly speak above a whisper1 and 
the  audience could not hear me4 ,i went
 up stairs in the chapel where ,i had my
  room1 and ,i lay down on the bed      
suffering intensely4    ,outside my door
 was a tree and a little bird hopped    
onto a branch and began  to sing4 7,i do
 not know the name of the bird1 but the 
species was like the  birds that used to
 come to our grove at home in ,minnesota
 and sing4 ,but ,i  had never before    
heard one in my travels in ,europe74 ,i 
turned to the bird  and said1 ,did my   
heavenly ,father send you from          
,minnesota to ,denmark to  sing for me  
when ,i was so troubled8 ,and the more  
,i would speak to him the  more he would
 flap his wings and sing and sing until 
,i could forget my pain  and had to     

laugh aloud4 ,it was nearly four o'clock
 and that was the time  for the next    
service4 ,i got up and got ready for the
 service1 and when ,i  came into the    
pulpil to preach1 to my surprise1 ,i was
 perfectly healed and  could speak as   
loud as ever without pain4    ,the next 
morning ,i went to the specialist and   
asked him to examine me again  to see if
 ,i could go home if ,i wanted to4      
,after examining me he said1 ,man1  ,o  
man1 what have you done8 ,there is not a
 ,t4 ,b4 germ about you--you can go  or 
stay as you please4 ,i told him ,i had  
done nothing1 but that the people  of   
,god had been praying for me1 the       
results of which was a great surprise   
to the doctor4 ,this is the way the     
,lord deals with his unworthy1 humble   
children that trust and obey ,him4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,i have generally observed a rule of not
 eating my evening meal until after  the
 evening service4 ,one evening in       
,sweden ,i ate a little fish out of a   

can  that had been standing open for    
some time4 ,after eating a little of the
  fish ,i remembered that the can had   
been standing open and did not eat any  
more4 ,about a half an hour after ,i had
 retired and gone to sleep1 ,i woke up  
feeling deathly sick with ptomaine      
poisoning4 ,it seemed as if ,i was to be
  taken out of this world4 ,all through 
the night ,brother ,forsberg1 ,sister   
,bettie ,miller and others kept praying 
for me and the next day my life  seemed 
to hang on a thread1 but at five o'clock
 that evening we got the  victory and ,i
 was perfectly healed1 and able to speak
 in the service that  night4    ,some   
years afterwards while at ,camp meeting 
at ,anderson1 ,ind4 ,i was  poisoned in 
about the same manner4 ,a number of     
brethren prayed for me  without my      
getting any relief4 ,finally1 ,brother  
,george ,green1 now pastor at  ,hanford1
 ,california1 a true yoke-fellow of mine
 who loved me dearly1 broke  down and   
wept and had compassion on me and prayed

 a short prayer of faith  and rebuked   
the devil and the sickness1 and ,i was  
healed instantly4 ,the  ,bible says of  
,jesus1 ,he had compassion on the people
 and healed all that  came unto him4    
99       99       99       99       99  
,on one ocassion in #aicc ,i was not    
feeling very well4 ,i was on my way to  
,california and stopped in ,minneapolis 
where my three boys live4 ,when they    
saw that ,i was not well1 they were     
determined to take me to a doctor and   
have me examined4 ,he ordered me to a   
hospital where five doctors took six    
x-rays4 ,after taking the x-rays1 the   
doctors asked me1 ,what do you think    
you have8 ,i said1 ,the same as you     
think4 ,they said1 ,what do we think8   
,cancer6 ,i said4 ,no1 they said4 ,i    
said1 ,why do you lie1 you said it was  
cancer and a bad one4 ,they said1 ,do   
you understand ,latin8 ,i said1 ,i      
understand that much4 ,in the evening   
the doctor called my son ,clarence and  
said to him1 ,shall ,i tell your dad    

what the matter is with him1 or will    
you8 ,he answered1 ,it doesn't matter   
who tells him1 as he is ready to live   
or to die2 we want to know the worst4   
,the doctor said1 ,it is the worst4     
,bring him to my office tomorrow at     
three o'clock4 ,i heard the five doctors
  talking the case over between         
themselves1 stating the position of the 
cancer4    ,on coming to the office the 
next day the doctor said1 ,i have good  
news for  you1 ,reverend1 you have no   
cancer4 ,i asked him1 ,when did you lie 
to me1  yesterday or today8 ,he said1   
,neither1 the picture clearly shows     
cancer4  ,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 cancer4 ,the     
doctor asked1  ,what did you do1 once a 
cancer but none now8 ,i said1 ,i did    
like a little  story we ministers have  
about a little boy and his sister4 ,they
 were out  playing1 and at eleven       
o'clock ,mary was hungry and went in to 

ask mother  for a slice of bread1 but   
mother said1 it is soon time for lunch1 
go out  and play now1 until lunch is    
ready4 ,then ,freddy went in and asked  
for bread  and he came out with a slice 
of bread with butter on it4 ,then ,mary 
said1  ',what did you do to get it8' ',i
 cried for it1' answered ,freddy1 so did
 ,i4    ,the ,lord made them forget to  
take the food test at first in order to 
verify  the miracle4           99       
99       99       99       99    ,one   
day ,i was plowing1 since ,i had asked  
the boys to let me plow for the         
exercise it gave me4 ,it was about ten  
o'clock in the morning and ,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 before me dear  ,brother ,a4 
,g4 ,ahrendt standing and smiling at me1
 just as real as if he  were there in   
the flesh4 ,brother ,ahrendt is leaving 
,grand ,forks by my  orders1 the ,lord  
said to me4 ,if by your orders he is    

leaving there1  amen1 ,i replied4 ,i    
then turned to get on the plow when on  
the other side  of the plow there stood 
a lady minister and the ,lord said1     
,some are  contemplating getting her as 
the pastor and that will be the         
ruination of  the work in ,grand ,forks4
 7,not because there was anything wrong 
with her as  a minister but because she 
would not fit in the place74 ,the vision
  disappeared and ,i went to plowing4   
,two or three days later ,i became so   
burdened about ,grand ,forks that ,i was
  almost sick1 so ,i wrote to ,brother  
,ahrendt and asked if anything was wrong
  or anyone sick1 for ,i was so         
burdened4 ,i expected an answer right   
away1 but  didn't get it1 so wrote again
 and still no answer4 ,the next week ,i 
wrote  for the third time telling them  
that ,i was going through ,grand ,forks 
on my  way to ,raab for a meeting1 and  
would be in ,grand ,forks and they could
  arrange a meeting for me over ,friday 
night1 ,saturday and ,sunday if he      

wanted me4 ,then a letter came from     
,sister ,ahrendt saying her husband was 
away and that they were leaving ,grand  
,forks4    ,sunday afternoon1 when in   
,grand ,forks1 ,i went by invitation to 
,brother ,lars  ,olson's home and there 
met the four leaders of the             
congregation3 ,august  ,shave1 ,bertha  
,gaulke1 ,lars ,olson and ,sister       
,johnstone4 ,they told me that  they had
 been talking of sending for me2 ,bro4  
,shave had proposed sending me  the     
money for carfare1 but ,bro4 ,olson     
said1 ,no1 we won't do that2 we will    
ask the ,lord to send him here and we   
will pay his expenses when he comes4    
,these prayers going up from the dear   
ones in ,grand ,forks was what made the 
,lord burden my heart before ,i went    
there4    ,they then begged me to be    
their pastor1 and ,i finally consented  
to come and  stay with them for a month 
or three months or until they could get 
a  pastor4 ,i stayed with them for      
almost five years4           99       99

       99       99       99    ,while   
holding a meeting in company with       
,brother ,renbeck in a school house  out
 in the country between ,kelly and      
,manville1 ,n4 ,dakota and staying in   
the  home of ,bro4 and ,sister ,holman1 
one afternoon as ,i was praying the     
,lord  gave me a message on the         
judgments of ,god1 and what would       
happen1 even in  this world1 if people  
reject the ,word of ,god4 ,the ,lord    
said to me1 ,they  will close the school
 house4 ,then ,i asked ,brother ,holman 
if we should  close the services        
tonight1 where shall we go if we        
continue them8 ,he said1  ,we surely are
 not going to close the services        
tonight2 we will continue at  the school
 house4 ,i said1 ,the school house will 
be closed to us tonight4  ,to which he  
answered1 ,who said so8 ,i told him that
 the ,lord had told me4  ,brother       
,holman then said1 ,you are a good      
,brother1 but this time you are         
mistaken1 for they would not dare close 

the school house because three of  the  
saints' families are the biggest        
taxpayers in the district4    ,at the   
beginning of the service that evening1  
,brother ,renbeck got up and  commenced 
to preach on the subject1 ,the ,church  
as a ,house4 ,after speaking  for about 
ten minutes1 he sat down and said1 ,this
 is not the message for  tonight4 ,we   
knelt down and prayed asking the ,lord  
to give a message1 and  the ,lord said1 
,i have given you a message4 ,i said1   
,lord1 that is too  strong1 but the     
,lord answered1 ,it is the message for  
this people4    ,the school house was   
large and it was filled4 ,it was said   
that there were  two or three           
congressmen in the crowd4 ,i got up and 
spoke for an hour and  fifteen minutes  
on the message the ,lord had given me   
and when ,i was through  ,i said1 ,shall
 we close the services now1 or has      
anyone a place to offer so  we can      
continue the meeting1 as ,i understand  
that the school house is  closed against

 us8 ,the clerk of the school board 7who
 with his family were  professors of    
religion7 went over to ,bro4 ,holman and
 asked him who had told  ,susag that the
 school house was to be closed4 ,the    
,board had only met just  before meeting
 and decided to close4 ,brother ,holman 
replied that ,brother  ,susag told him  
that afternoon that the ,lord had told  
him that they were  going to close4 ,the
 man went back to his seat4 ,then ,i    
said1 ,is it true or  not that the      
school house is to be closed8 ,brother  
,holman answered1 ,it is  true4    ,one 
man in the audience sat on the front    
edge of the bench so deeply  interested 
in the service that his mouth would be  
wide open1 and after the  meeting was   
over he stuck a five dollar bill in my  
hand and said that the  meeting had been
 worth that to him4    ,a man in the    
audience1 who was an infidel1 said1 ,i  
own a store building in  ,mechinoch1 a  
few miles away1 that these two preachers
 may have as long as  they please1 if   

some one can furnish a stove and wood to
 warm up the  building4 ,the stove and  
wood were promptly furnished1 and we    
went there  accordingly1 and continued  
our services4    ,i am sorry to say that
 many who heard the ,word of ,god       
preached in that  school house rejected 
it and became real outlaws4 ,the family 
of the school  board clerk lost their   
salvation and two of their sons1 who had
 previously  professed salvation1 became
 bootleggers4    ,at the store building 
a number of people got saved4 ,one man  
sat in the back  seat every evening and 
left as soon as the preaching was over4 
,i saw that  he was under conviction and
 one evening ,i got to him before he had
 left1  and ,i asked him if he did not  
want to get saved and he told me1 ,yes4 
,while praying with him ,i felt a hand  
on my shoulder and a man said to me1    
,brother ,susag1 ,brother ,susag1 never 
mind this man2 there are thirty-three   
at the altar and this man has not been  
sober in fourteen years4 ,i said1  ,if  

he has not been sober for fourteen years
 he surely needs salvation and  ,i will 
stay with him until he gets saved4 ,and 
,i did2 and as far as ,i know  he       
remained a true ,christian and lived the
 life4    ,the first revival meeting we 
ever had in our neighborhood was held in
 our  own house4 ,the house #af x #bd1  
two rooms down stairs and one room      
upstairs4  ,as many as thirty-eight     
slept in the house2 the women and       
children slept  upstairs and the men    
downstairs4 ,there was one bed in which 
the children  slept and the women slept 
on the floor as did the men downstairs4 
,people  were saved1 sanctified and     
healed4 ,it was salvation the people    
wanted in  those days4           99     
99       99       99       99    ,our   
first camp meeting was held in a tent a 
mile and three-quarters from  our home4 
,warning was sent around the            
neighborhood for the people to lock     
their chicken coops as the camp meeting 
was being financed only by two poor     

men1 who were giving free meals to all  
who came4    ,we had a wonderful        
meeting2 many souls were saved and      
sanctified and devils  were cast out1   
some were healed4 ,we had some very     
straight preaching as we  had some very 
fiery ministers who preached2 such as1  
,brother and ,sister ,c4  ,m4 ,tubbs and
 the ,brothers ,enos and ,elihu ,key1   
,brother ,thomas ,nelson and  ,brother  
,tilgut4    ,the country around was     
stirred and people tried everything in  
their power  to hinder the meeting4     
,some business men of our own home town 
7,paynesville7  hired a team and        
borrowed a three or four-seated platform
 buggy from the  implement ,company and 
placed a small cannon on it1 drove to   
within a few  rods of the gospel tent   
and fired the cannon4 ,the chairman of  
the town  ,board came to me and wanted  
me to have them arrested4 ,but ,i said1 
,no1 let  them go4    ,the ,lord fined  
them for us3 ,as they were shooting off 
the cannon the  horses took fright and  

ran away into the timber1 smashing up   
the new buggy  and tearing the harness  
to pieces4 ,that saved us the court     
proceedings4           99       99      
99       99       99    ,the second camp
 meeting ,i was in1 among the saints1   
was at ,grand ,forks1 ,n4  ,dakota4 ,i  
was called there especially to preach in
 the ,scandinavian  language as well as 
to help in the ,english preaching4 ,when
 the first  evening service was over    
every one who had no place to sleep was 
to stand  outside the tabernacle near   
the big oak tree4 ,one by one they got  
their  place to sleep4 ,finally ,i was  
left standing all alone in the dark4 ,no
 one  offered me a place so ,i walked   
around among the trees4 ,the camp       
meeting was  held in the timber along   
the banks of the ,red ,river4 ,while ,i 
was looking  for a place to lie down and
 rest1 a man came running toward me and 
said1  ,don't you have a place to sleep8
 ,i said1 ,no4 ,he said1 ,you go to that
  covered wagon over there and you'll   

find a place4 ,as ,i approached the     
wagon ,i saw six feet sticking out of   
the wagon1 almost to the knees1 so      
there was no room for me4    ,i went    
back to the tent and shoved three or    
four planks together4 ,these  planks had
 been used for seats4 ,i put my suit    
case down for a pillow and  there ,i    
slept that night and during the rest of 
the meeting4 ,when ,i would  get a      
little cold in the night ,i would get up
 and walk around a bit4 ,a few  days    
later ,oluf ,erickson from ,belgrade1   
,minnesota1 who had gotten saved in  one
 of our meetings at home1 asked me where
 ,i was sleeping4 ,i said1 ,i have  a   
good place2 another brother and ,i have 
a very fine tent with a bed in  it4 ,oh 
yes1 he said1 ,i know where you sleep2  
you sleep in the  minister's tent4 ,yes1
 ,i said1 it's a minister's tent all    
right4 ,but he  didn't give up until he 
found out the truth4 ,he then said1 ,my1
 my1 had no  one offered you a place to 
stay1 and you are one of the            

evangelists8 ,i  said1 ,yes4 ,then he   
said1 ,well then1 ,i'll come and sleep  
with you4    ,in those days it was3 ,all
 for ,jesus and souls and not for       
personal  comfort4 ,we had a wonderful  
time together in the ,lord4 ,we also had
 a  wonderful camp meeting in seeing    
scores of souls saved and many miracles 
done by the power of ,god4    ,sister   
,renbeck1 who had been bed fast for a   
long time1 was carried in on a  cot and 
the prayer of faith was offered4        
,brother ,e4 ,e4 ,byrum took her by  the
 hand and commanded her to arise in the 
name of ,jesus4 ,she arose and  went    
running around the tent lifting her     
hands and praising ,god4 ,i heard  three
 men talking about it afterwards saying1
 ,i wonder if that is real6  ,she surely
 looked poorly and puny1 but you can't  
tell4 ,another man said1  ,i wish my    
wife had been here2 if it had been her  
we would have known it  was real4 7,she 
had been sick for a long while47        
99       99       99       99       99  

,while my first meeting in ,grand ,forks
 was in progress1 ,brother ,renbeck came
  to me with the request that ,i would  
pray over a matter he had on his mind1  
and that was that after the meeting was 
over he and ,i might go together to     
hold a meeting at ,whitten1 ,minnesota4 
,i promised to pray over the matter  and
 that at the close of the meeting we    
would talk it over together4 ,and1      
accordingly1 at the end of the meeting  
,i prayed earnestly to get the mind  of 
the ,lord as to where ,he wanted me to  
go4    ,when ,brother ,renbeck asked me 
what ,i had gotten from the ,lord in    
regard to  the matter ,i replied by     
asking whether there were places in     
,north ,dakota by  names of ,kelly1     
,grafton and ,st4 ,thomas1 ,yes1 he     
said1 there are2 what of  it8 ,i replied
 that the ,lord told me ,i was going to 
those places4 ,he told  me that just    
before the meeting here1 he had come    
from those very places  and there would 
be no use in going4 ,i told him ,i was  

going to follow the  leading of the     
,lord and go1 that he could stay here   
until ,i came back when  we would go to 
,whitten4 ,but he declared if ,i was    
going he would go1 too4    ,that trip   
proved to be the beginning of a         
wonderful work of ,god4 ,many  people   
were saved and many healings and        
miracles were wrought by the ,spirit  of
 the ,lord4 ,in our visiting1 the first 
house we entered at eleven a4m4 an      
elderly sister1 ninety years of age1 was
 sanctified and her husband1            
ninety-three years old1 was saved before
 twelve o'clock that day4 ,this  shows  
that ,brother ,renbeck had laid a good  
foundation in these places1  preparing  
the way for the wonderful evangelistic  
trips that followed4  ,neither of us    
ever went to ,whitten4    ,while at     
,grafton1 ,n4 ,dakota1 ,brother ,renbeck
 and ,i had the experience of  holding a
 number of meetings in private homes4   
,interest increased and so  did our     
problems4    ,one day we wanted to      

telephone to ,brother ,c4 ,h4 ,tubbs at 
,grand ,forks4 ,we  went to a telephone 
office and were told that the cost of a 
message would  be twenty-five cents4 ,we
 counted up our change and between us   
found that we  had only twenty-four     
cents1 and so we had to leave the office
 disappointed4  ,out on the side walk we
 stood facing each other1 one of us     
said1 ,wasn't it  too bad that we didn't
 have another penny8 ,i was standing    
with my back to  the street when ,i     
heard the ,lord say to me1 ,turn around1
 a penny is lying  right behind you4 ,i 
turned around and there it was4 ,i      
picked it up and we  sent the message1  
but ,brother ,tubbs was not at home4    
,there was an old retired ,methodist    
minister attending our meetings right   
along1 declaring that divine healing    
died away with the departure of the     
,apostles4 ,the next ,sunday seven women
 were saved1 one of whom was a young    
lady which had a stiff arm and crooked  
to such an extent that she could        

neither dress nor undress herself       
without assistance4 ,she was prayed for 
and ,i asked her if she believed that   
the ,lord would straighten out her arm  
and she replied1 ,yes1 but did not move 
it4 ,i happened to be looking at  the   
old minister and it seemed to be written
 all over his face3 ,just as ,i         
expected4 ,at the beginning of the      
evening service we gave opportunity for 
testimony and this young lady was all on
 fire to testify4 ,she said1 ,i love    
,jesus and ,jesus loves me1 and ,he     
makes my arm well2 and then she raised  
her arm and waved it in all directions4 
,the old minister bowed his head to  his
 knees4    ,the next day we were called 
to the home of a young lady who was     
suffering  from inflamatory rheumatism4 
,her entire body was stiff2 her legs    
were  crossed below her knees and her   
arms were crossed over her breast and   
were  immovable1 except that she could  
move her hands slightly and also her    
head  a little4 ,the doctor was coming  

twice every day to give her a morphine  
injection to ease the pain or she would 
make a disturbance by screaming at  the 
top of her voice4    ,when we first     
visited her1 ,brother ,renbeck began    
immediately to talk to her  about       
salvation1 for he thought that she must 
be saved before she could be  healed4   
,however1 we did not seem able to get   
any spiritual help to her at  all4 ,so  
the next day before going to see her ,i 
asked ,brother ,renbeck  whether people 
have to be saved before they can be     
healed4 ,he said that he  did not know4 
,i then mentioned the fact of the ten   
lepers being healed and  that only one  
returned to give glory to ,god2 and1    
moreover1 that ,i believe  if we would  
pray for her the ,lord would heal her   
and that ,god would get  glory out of it
 some way4 ,all right1 he said1 you talk
 to her today4    ,we went in to her    
room and ,i said to her ,martha1 do you 
believe that ,god  will heal you if we  
pray for you8 ,yes1 the ,lord healed    

,miss ,b4 all  right4 ,i then said1 ,are
 you willing to throw out all your      
medicine  bottles and never go back to  
them again1 even if the pain should     
return8  ,she called her father in and  
asked him to take the medicine bottles  
and  smash them up4 ,he went out and    
brought in a bushel basket and gathering
  them up1 took them out and smashed    
them into pieces4 ,then we anointed her 
and prayed and while we were still      
praying she stretched out her hands and 
her feet4 ,when we removed our hands she
 wrapped the sheet around her1  jumped  
out of bed and ran around the house4    
,about six or eight months later while  
,i was holding a meeting in ,grand      
,forks1 one evening a young lady of     
about nineteen years of age came into   
the service carrying her younger sister1
 nine years of age1 who could not  walk4
 ,i went right to them and asked where  
they were from and why they had  come4  
,the young lady told me they were from  
,grafton4 ,she said1 ,i have not  been  

well for a year1 and about two years ago
 my sister1 with some other  children1  
was playing on the roof of an old shed  
and she either jumped or  fell down1 her
 heel struck a stone and her limb became
 withered4 ,we have  been to many       
specialists and none of them could help 
her4 ,we heard that the  two healers    
that healed ,martha ,gaulbright were    
here and we have come to be  healed4 ,i 
told her those men were no healers2 that
 it was the ,lord who  healed ,martha4  
,well1 she said1 the ministers1 then4 ,i
 asked her if ,miss  ,gaulbright was    
still well8 ,she answered1 ,she has     
never been sick since4    ,i told the   
young lady that only one of the         
ministers was here4 ,the next day       
,brother ,emil ,krutz came and we prayed
 for a large number of the sick1 7#ci   
in all71 however1 before we got through 
praying the two girls were gone4 ,on    
inquiring whether anyone knew where they
 had gone1 ,i was told they had  either 
gone to the ,hotel or to the ,great     

,northern ,railway station4 ,i rushed   
to the station two blocks away as ,i was
 anxious to find out whether they  had  
been healed1 but ,i knew neither their  
names nor their address4 ,when ,i  got  
to the station ,i inquired about the    
train to ,grafton to find the train  was
 just pulling out4    ,the next summer  
on coming to the ,north ,dakota ,state  
,camp meeting at ,grand  ,forks1 ,i was 
two days late having come from the      
,south ,dakota camp meeting1  a little  
girl came running toward me as ,i was   
coming on the grounds1  saying1 ,praise 
the ,lord1 ,brother ,susag4 ,i said1    
,amen1 who are you8 ,she  said1 ,don't  
you know me8 ,i said1 ,no1 ,i see so    
many little girls and they  all look    
alike to me4 ,she said1 ,i'm the little 
girl who came to ,grand  ,forks last    
winter and could not walk4 ,i set my    
grip down and wept for joy1  and said1  
,please tell me1 sister1 when you       
commenced to walk4 ,she  replied1 ,my   
sister carried me to the train in ,grand

 ,forks2 when we got to  ,grafton my    
short1 dried up leg was just as long and
 as natural as the other  one1 so ,i    
walked home4 ,now mother is here at the 
meeting to get saved4           99      
99       99       99       99    ,at one
 of the camp meetings at ,st4 ,paul     
,park as ,i was coming back from the    
baptismal service that we had in the    
river1 ,i saw a young lady across the   
street walking with crutches1 one limb  
seemingly1 just hanging helpless4 ,i    
felt sorry for her and went across the  
street and spoke to her4 ,i asked her   
if she had been hurt or had had an      
accident4    ,she did not answer me at  
all4 ,i said1 ,do not be afraid of me4  
,i am a  minister2 ,i am sorry for you  
and am anxious to know what your trouble
 is4  ,then she said1 ,i have           
tuberculosis of the leg1 there are seven
 holes in  it4 ,i am just out of the    
,sanitarium at ,saint ,paul4 ,they tell 
me that they  can do nothing for me4 ,i 
said1 ,too bad1 ,i am sorry for you4    

,then ,i asked  her if she were a       
,christian2 she broke down and wept4    
,indeed1 too bad1 ,i  said1 ,a young    
lady in that condition and yet not a    
,christian4 ,then ,i  said1 looking     
toward the camp grounds1 ,do you see    
that tent over there8 ,we  are holding  
services in it and if you will come to  
the service tonight and  get saved1 ,god
 will heal you4 ,she then left me and ,i
 went over to the  tent4    ,she came to
 the service that night and when the    
altar call was given she  went forward  
to seek salvation4 ,when the altar      
service was over she was  still there on
 her knees4 ,brother ,c4 ,h4 ,tubbs had 
been instructing her and  he said to    
her1 ,you can go and sit down now4 ,but 
she pointed at me and  said1 ,that man  
said that if ,i got saved that ,i could 
get healed too4  ,brother ,tubbs said   
alright and went over to her with his   
oil vial and let  a drop fall on her    
forehead4 ,she dropped her crutches and 
ran down the  aisles before we could    

pray1 but the strength of her limb did  
not seem to  hold out4 ,so she came back
 to the altar and prayer was offered1   
but she was  unable to use her limb4    
,her mother was there4 ,they lived in   
,st4 ,paul and as it was some little    
distance to the station and the time was
 drawing near for the departure of  the 
train1 the mother said to her1 ,take    
your crutches and let us go4 ,but  she  
answered1 ,mother1 ,i'll never touch    
those crutches anymore4 ,but if  you can
 not walk1 what are you going to do8    
,two young ladies helped her to the     
station and her mother carried the      
crutches4 ,two months after the camp    
meeting ,i went to ,saint ,paul ,park   
and ,i  met this same young lady1       
,sister ,davis1 as she came walking     
along as spry  as any young lady4 ,i    
said to her1 ,when did you get your     
healing and start  walking8 ,she        
answered1 ,when we got to ,saint ,paul  
,i got up and walked home  and was well6
           99       99       99       99

       99    ,brother ,emil ,krutz and  
,i were called to pray for ,grandma     
,dahl who was ill  with double          
pneumonia4 ,there were eight saints in  
the room and ,i heard one  ask another1 
,how old is ,grandma8 ,the reply was1   
,seventy-seven years  old1 to which     
someone answered1 ,if ,i were that old  
,i would not care to  get well4    ,we  
anointed and prayed for the sick woman  
but she showed no signs of life  or of  
getting any help4 ,brother ,krutz looked
 at me and said1 ,the ,lord  heard      
prayer4 ,we went into another room and  
closed the door1 ,brother ,krutz  said  
to me1 ,you go in there and send the    
folks out4 ,we went back into the  room 
and asked visitors to kindly step out of
 the room2 then locking the  door we    
again offered prayer4 ,when we took our 
hands off this time the  sister sat up  
in bed and said1 ,call my daughter1     
,mrs4 ,umden1 and tell her  to bring me 
something to eat1 ,i am so hungry4 ,she 
was perfectly well and  lived several   

years longer4           99       99     
99       99       99    ,for a year or  
more ,i was having pain in my liver4 ,i 
was prayed for a number  of times but   
did not even get relief and my body kept
 swelling up until ,i  could hardly wear
 my clothes4 ,the ,ministry advised me  
to go to a specialist  and find out what
 the trouble was and said then if ,i    
were healed ,god would  get more glory  
out of it1 so ,i went to the specialist4
    ,the doctor said that it was not    
cancer1 but worse still1 it was         
enlargement  of the spleen4 ,he then    
said1 ,dear man1 there is no remedy for 
your  trouble2 ,i can only make a       
harness that you can wear suspended from
 your  shoulders to help support your   
stomach1 which will be some relief4     
,when ,i got home ,i told wife what the 
doctor had said and that ,i had made my 
last trip in the ministry4 ,she looked  
at me and said1 ,no1 you are not  going 
to die4 ,well1 ,i replied1 ,i have been 
in this world fifty-six  years and that 

is a long time1 so if the ,lord sees fit
 to take me ,i will be  satisfied4 ,she 
went out of the room and when she       
returned ,i saw she was  crying and     
lifting her right hand' she said1 ,you  
are not going to die4  ,how do you know1
 ,i asked8 ,the saints will not give you
 up1 she  answered4    ,a short while   
after this ,i was thinking that ,i would
 like to go to  ,arlington1 ,south      
,dakota1 now called ,badger1 before ,i  
died4 ,i had raised up  that            
congregation and they were very kind and
 dear to me4 ,so ,i dropped  ,brother   
,gesselbeck a card asking him to meet me
 at ,estaline on a certain  date4       
,estaline was thirteen miles from       
,brother ,gesselbeck's home4 ,i arrived 
at ,estaline about #f a4m41 but there   
was no ,brother ,gesselbeck there6 ,i   
walked to a restaurant across the street
 and asked if any one knew ,brother     
,gesselbeck4 ,yes1 they knew him and why
 was ,i inquiring8 ,i then told them my 
plight1 that ,i was expecting him to be 

there to meet me4 ,well1 the man  said1 
,mr4 ,gesselbeck is an honest man and if
 he had gotten your card he  would have 
been here1 but yesterday was            
,washington's birthday1 a holiday1  and 
he will not get your card until after   
five o'clock this evening6    ,well1    
here ,i was in a bad predicament--no    
money to go back home1 no  telephone out
 there and so ill that ,i could not walk
 over a block or two at  one time4 ,i   
was wearing my heavy winter clothes     
beside a heavy dog-skin fur  coat4 ,i   
left my grip at the restaurant and1     
walking across the street1  found a long
 pole and started out on a thirteen mile
 hike4 ,i would walk a  little and then 
sit down1 and even lie down a while and 
rest in the snow1  and wept and prayed4 
,it was about five-thirty in the        
afternoon when ,i reached ,brother      
,geselbeck's pasture4 ,it had taken me  
over eleven hour to walk the thirteen   
miles4 ,i was praying and weeping when  
,i saw ,brother ,geselbeck coming from  

his mail box with my card4 ,he looked up
 and saw me1 then lifting his hand  with
 the card in it1 shook his head as if to
 say1 ,poor ,brother ,susag6 ,in  order 
to prove to him that ,i was not dead    
yet1 ,i threw away my pole and  jumped  
as high as ,i could and when ,i came    
down ,i was perfectly healed and  the   
swelling was all gone6 ,i had thought   
that this would be my last trip to      
,brother ,geselbeck's1 but ,i have made 
many since then4           99       99  
99       99       99    ,once ,i was    
holding a meeting in ,north ,dakota     
about ten miles in the country  north of
 ,denbeg4 ,the morning after the meeting
 closed1 ,i woke up and lay  awake a    
while1 then fell asleep again and ,i had
 a dream4 ,i dreamed that ,i  saw       
,brother and ,sister ,gaulke driving on 
the highway south of ,grand ,forks4     
,suddenly ,i saw the car go up in the   
air amidst a cloud of dust4 ,some folks 
came and took ,sister ,gaulke out of the
 wreck and laid her on a blanket1  then 

a big black blanket came up between me  
and ,brother ,gaulke and the  wreck4    
,when ,i awakened it was just fifteen   
minutes past seven4 ,it made such  a    
vivid impression on me that ,i said to  
the family with whom ,i was staying1  ,i
 will not leave here until the mail     
carrier comes2 ,i expect a telegram4  ,i
 then told them my dream4 ,they went    
with me to the mail box a mile from  the
 farm1 and when the mail carrier came1  
he had brought me a message from  ,mrs4 
,johnston telling what had happened at  
exactly the hour ,i was having my       
dream1 and asking me to come at once1 so
 instead of going to my next            
appointment ,i went at once to ,grand   
,forks4 ,on my arrival at the hospital  
when ,sister ,gaulke saw me1 she said1  
,of all the angels in heaven1 how did   
you get here8 ,sister ,gaulke recovered 
but her husband lingered a few days  and
 then went home to glory4           99  
99       99       99       99    ,i had 
a dream one time while ,i was in ,europe

 about my second son who was  working in
 a store in ,superior1 ,wisconsin4 ,i   
saw him go to a music store  and buy a  
special instrument4 ,i woke up and      
couldn't go back to sleep  again1 so got
 up and wrote to him1 telling him that  
it was all right that  he bought the    
instrument1 for ,i knew he was          
interested in music1 but ,i  asked him  
to please not join an ungodly band as it
 might lead him into  temptation and    
into bad things which would bring down  
his daddy's gray  hairs with sorrow to  
the grave4    ,he wrote back and thanked
 me for my letter but never mentioned a 
word about  the instrument4 ,a few days 
later ,i came home from ,europe and he  
had  resigned his position and gotten   
another one4 ,his grips and trunk were  
brought to the house4 ,the family were  
anxious to see what he had in them  for 
he had been gone several years1 so when 
they finally got to the big  trunk he   
lifted his hand and looking at his      
mother and the rest1 said  hesitatingly1

 ,i don't know1 now4444 ,his mother     
said1 ,clarence1 have you  got something
 in your trunk you do not want us to    
see8 ,he answered1 ,daddy  knows4 ,i    
said to him1 ,it is all right1          
,clarence2 ,i am sure you obeyed my     
admonition4 ,he opened the trunk and    
there was a new violin6 ,then he told   
us that when he was buying the violin he
 had intended to join an orchestra1  but
 when he got home from the store with   
his violin there was daddy's  letter4   
,this fulfilled the ,scripture that     
,before they call ,i will answer  and   
while they are yet speaking ,i will     
hear4           99       99       99    
99       99    ,another time before ,i  
went to ,europe there was a little      
difference or  misunderstanding between 
two ministers1 and some other ministers 
were  called on to help get the         
misunderstanding out of the way1 which  
we did1  and everything was fine4 ,they 
were good ministers and ,i loved them   
dearly4  ,they had both been a blessing 

to me4 ,a year later ,i dreamed that the
  brother mostly to blame got up early  
one morning and traveled three hundred  
miles by train to see the other brother1
 and on seeing him treated him very     
unmercifully4 ,i dreamed this at two    
o'clock in the morning and could not    
sleep any more1 so got up and wrote this
 brother a kind letter telling him  of  
my dream and that the ,lord had shown me
 that he was now greatly to  blame4 ,i  
advised him that if the dream did not   
fit to destroy the letter  and to resist
 the enemy1 and also that ,i was praying
 for him4 ,on coming  back to ,america  
,i learned that the dream did fit       
exactly as to the time1  both date and  
hour1 in which his unmerciful action    
took place4           99       99       
99       99       99    ,while at the   
,anderson ,camp ,meeting one year1 ,i   
dreamed that ,i saw the  ministers of   
the ,church of ,god within a large      
enclosure1 walls four square1  high and 
very beautiful4 ,i was standing just    

inside the door1 and on the  outside of 
the door stood one of the leading       
ministers among us4 ,he had  gotten into
 some false doctrine1 and he and his    
wife had built a little  shanty just    
outside the walls near the entrance1    
where they had twelve to  twenty        
ministers with them4 ,the room was so   
small that they all had to  stand up4   
,the brother was talking to me trying   
his best to get me to join his group    
and accept his doctrine4 ,then as ,i    
looked up the street1 to my left as it  
were1 ,i saw a troop of cavalrymen      
mounted on white horses and dressed in  
white uniforms1 coming toward me4 ,the  
troop was so long it seemed almost as   
though there was no end to it4 ,an      
officer1 who was riding on the side1    
said  to me1 ,you stay in there with the
 rest of them and you will be protected4
  ,then they went to the shanty1 a      
little hut made of unpainted lumber1 and
  smashed it up1 scattering all the men 
inside4 ,then the clock struck two4     

,at the minister's meeting in the       
morning ,i asked if ,i might tell my    
dream  and1 consent being granted1 ,i   
told my dream4 ,after ,i had told it1   
,bro4 ,e4  ,e4 ,byrum got up and said1  
,i can interpret the brother's dream3   
,we were  dealing with this brother and 
sister until two o'clock this morning1  
and we  found it to be an ungodly spirit
 and doctrine4 ,i warn everyone to stay 
away  from it4 ,the couple left us and  
never came back again4    ,brother      
,george ,w4 ,green and ,i once came from
 ,pit1 a little town in northern        
,minnesota4 ,on our way to ,grand ,forks
 we stopped at a town by the name of    
,steiner1 the home of the ,koglin       
family4 ,quite a number of people were  
in  the house when we arrived4 ,grandma 
had had several strokes and the family  
had been looking for my address1 as they
 were expecting she would die and       
wanted me to come and conduct her       
funeral services4 ,we asked if we might 
see her and they told us we could4 ,we  

went into the bedroom and prayed for    
her and the ,lord healed her4 ,if ,i    
remember correctly1 she lived for over  
ten years longer4           99       99 
99       99       99    ,at one time ,i 
was holding a meeting in a school house 
near ,warren1  ,minnesota4 ,i was       
staying with a family named ,keutzer1   
three miles from the  school house4 ,in 
the afternoon previous to the evening   
service ,i was  praying1 and wrestling  
with the devil4 ,i asked the brother to 
start at  least an hour ahead of time to
 go to the meeting or else give me a    
lantern  and ,i would walk over4 ,he    
asked me why1 and ,i told him that the  
devil was  mad at me and will not let me
 ride--that when ,i get in the car1 it  
will  stop4    ,the brother laughed at  
me and said1 ,i have a new ,oldsmobile  
car1 and they  would not let me have a  
lantern1 but when they were ready to go 
,i got the  lantern and told them to go 
on and tell the folks that ,i would be  
coming as  fast as ,i could4 ,but the   

brother said1 ,get in the car4 ,i didn't
 want to1  but he took hold of me and   
almost forced me into the car4 ,i got in
 and it  ran for a rod or two and then  
stopped4 ,i jumped out of the car1 took 
the  lantern and ran4 ,after a while    
they caught up with me and stopped for  
me to  get in1 saying that if ,i didn't1
 they would not go4 ,this happened      
several  times4 ,i would get in the car1
 it would run a rod or two and stop4    
,finally  ,i ran away from them and     
walked all the way to the school house  
and they  arrived after ,i got there4   
,we were so late the people were just   
getting  ready to leave1 as it was      
nearly nine o'clock4    ,we all went    
into the school house and went on with  
the service4 ,we found  afterwards why  
the devil opposed me and did not want me
 there4 ,there was a  bootlegger in the 
audience1 who1 when hearing me relate   
the experience1 got  to thinking about  
it1 became convicted and got saved4     
,when we were leaving  to go home1      

,brother ,keutzer asked me how ,i was   
going to get home2 was ,i  going to     
walk8 ,no1 ,i said1 ,i am going to ride 
and we will have no  trouble with the   
car4 ,the devil had lost his hold on    
that bootlegger and  we had no further  
trouble with the car4           99      
99       99       99       99    ,the   
first time ,i was called to the ,koglin 
home to hold services was in  winter and
 very cold4 ,the address given me was   
,thief ,river ,falls1 but did  not state
 the number of the rural route1 so there
 was no way for me to get  to their     
place that evening1 and ,i had only     
enough money to take me to  ,steiner1   
which was my destination4 ,i asked at   
the depot whether ,i could  stay there1 
but they said ,no1 because they closed  
up over night4 ,so ,i  left my grips    
there and went out to see what ,i could 
find1 for there was no  one in the city 
that ,i knew4 ,i saw a light in a chapel
 and went in1  thinking ,i might get an 
opportunity to testify1 and that someone

 might  invite me home with them4 ,i got
 a chance to testify all right1 but no  
one  invited me to go home with them4 ,i
 walked around the city and went into a 
restaurant1 sat down and got warmed up4 
,but soon they closed4    ,i kept       
walking the streets to keep warm1 and   
after a while a man caught up  with me  
and said1 ,well1 some one else is out   
walking in this cold weather1  twenty   
below4 ,i agreed that it was surely     
cold4 ,he asked me whether ,i  lived    
there1 and ,i told him that my home was 
in ,paynesville1    ,minnesota4 ,then he
 said1 ,what is your name8 ,i told him1 
,s4 ,o4 ,susag1  and he then replied1 ,i
 used to know a man by that name who was
 in the  grocery business on ,franklin  
and ,minnehaha in ,minneapolis4 ,he     
turned to me  in the darkness and said1 
,i am ,erickson of the firm of ,rudda   
and ,erickson  that used to be on ,cedar
 ,avenue in ,minneapolis4    ,it turned 
out that he was a good friend of years  
ago1 so he soon found out  why ,i was   

there4 ,he asked me whether ,i had a    
hotel room yet4 ,i told him1  no1 that  
,i was just looking around4             
,nevertheless1 he offered me money to   
pay for a room at the hotel4 ,i refused 
it1 but he insisted1 saying1 ,if our    
spare room was empty ,i would have taken
 you to my home1 but we have friends    
from ,north ,dakota visiting us today1  
but you come to our home for breakfast  
in the morning before you take the      
train4 ,he never knew what a blessing he
  was to me in the hour of my great     
need4           99       99       99    
99       99    ,,speaking ,,in ,,tongues
    ,at the ,state ,camp meeting at     
,wilmar1 ,minnesota1 ,i was asked to    
preach in  ,scandinavian as there were  
some sixty elderly ,scandivanian people 
who did  not understand the ,english    
language4 ,i agreed to do so4 ,as soon  
as ,i had  begun to preach the whole    
camp came in to listen4 ,when the       
service was over  people asked why      
,brother ,susag did not preach in       

,scandinavian in the  afternoon4        
,brother ,ring told them that he had    
done so4 ,however1 they  insisted that  
,i had spoken in ,english1 since the    
whole camp1 they said1 had  come in and 
heard me preach in ,english4 ,the fact  
is3 ,i had spoken in  ,scandinavian and 
the ,lord interpreted it to them in     
,english4           99       99       99
       99       99    ,,the ,,fur ,,coat
    ,at one time ,i was in great need of
 a fur coat1 for the winters are very   
cold in the northern states and ,canada4
 ,so ,i set my heart on having a        
fur-lined coat listed in the ,sears     
,roebuck catalogue for #eg4be4 ,i asked 
the ,lord if ,i could have it and ,he   
answered1 ,yes4    ,shortly after this  
matter had been decided1 a brother came 
to me and said1  ,you need a fur coat   
and here are ten dollars to start toward
 it4 ,others  wrote sending money       
specifying that it was for a fur coat   
until ,i had  #cf4ej4 ,then a whole year
 passed and nothing came4 ,the following

 ,november ,i  went to ,rice ,lake1     
,wisconsin to hold a meeting for ,bro4  
,e4 ,g4 ,ahrendt4 ,it  was very cold and
 there was lots of snow4 ,on my arrival 
,brother ,ahrendt  said to me1 ,haven't 
you got a fur coat1 ,brother ,susag8 ,i 
answered1 ,yes4  ,he said1 ,why don't   
you wear it this cold weather8 ,i       
answered1 ,i have it  by faith--have had
 it for a year and a half and have      
#cf4ej laid by for it  that was given me
 towards buying a coat1 but the price is
 #eg4be4 ,then  ,bro4 ,ahrendt went     
upstairs and was gone for a long time4  
,when he came down  again1 he said1     
,brother ,susag1 before you leave here  
you are going to have  a fur coat4 ,i   
said1 ,is that faith or presumption8 ,to
 which he replied1  ,if it isn't faith1 
,i have never had faith4 ,i said1       
,praise the ,lord2 good  for you and    
good for me4    ,when the meeting was   
over ,brother ,ahrendt said1 ,did you   
get the fur coat8  ,i told him1 ,no4 ,he
 then asked me where ,i was going       

tomorrow night from  here1 and ,i told  
him that ,i was going ten miles out in  
the country to a  little meeting house  
for a service4 ,he said1 ,i'll go with  
you4    ,after the service that night   
,brother ,ahrendt again asked1 ,did you 
get your  fur coat8 ,i said1 ,no4 ,upon1
 which he inquired where ,i was going   
that  evening4 ,i told him that a family
 had invited me to their home and had   
offered to take me to another railroad  
over which ,i would be able to reach    
home sooner4 ,brother ,ahrendt declared 
that he was going with me until he  saw 
my last foot safe in the train1 and1 he 
said1 if you haven't got the  fur coat  
by then ,i'll not know what to think of 
myself or my faith4 7,by  way of        
explanation would say here1 that the    
offerings ,i received went for  my      
general expenses2 the money for my fur  
coat was to come from other  sources4   
,the ,lord had promised me the fur      
coat47    ,that night ,i had a dream4 ,i
 woke up about three o'clock in the     

morning1 and  as ,i stirred a little1   
,brother ,ahrendt whispered1 ,are you   
awake8 ,i told  him ,i was4 ,did you    
have a dream8 he asked4 ,i answered1    
,yes1 a woman came  to me and gave me   
four bills6 ,the fur coat6 the fur coat6
 he excitedly  said4 ,we got so happy   
that we couldn't sleep any more and we  
shouted1  ,glory to ,god6 ,we made so   
much noise that we disturbed the folks  
down  stairs1 and when we went down they
 said1 ,what is the matter with you     
brethren making so much noise8 ,we told 
them we were so happy that we could  not
 help ourselves4    ,after a while the  
sister asked me to come out into the    
kitchen4 ,she gave me  a chair and ,i   
sat down4 ,she at once began to unburden
 her mind and said1  ,did you understand
 when ,i spoke to you at the campmeeting
 at ,st4 ,paul ,park  three or four     
years ago that ,i was intending to give 
you some money for  your trip to        
,europe8 ,i answered1 ,yes1 ,i thought  
so4 ,but she said1 you  said you had the

 fare4 ,yes1 ,i answered1 ,i had it by  
faith4 ,then in  surprise1 she asked1   
,but didn't you have the money in your  
possession8  ,weren't you then already  
on your way to ,europe8    ,i was on my 
way to ,europe1 ,i answered1 but did not
 have all my  fare--only by faith4      
,she then told me that she had been sick
 for about two years4 ,she said1 ,i     
have been prayed for often1 and have    
received some help1 yet ,i gradually    
got worse4 ,finally1 she said1 ,i got   
desperate about it and said to the      
,lord1 ',what's the matter with me      
anyway2 ,i cannot get well and ,i cannot
  die8' ,then the ,lord said1 ',do you  
know the ,brother you intended to give  
some money before he went to ,europe8'  
,i said1 ',yes1 in a way1 but he's back 
now4' ,the ,lord said1 ',that does not  
make any difference2 how much was it8'  
',fifteen dollars1' was my answer4      
',that's right1' the ,lord said1 'but   
there  is ten dollars interest on that  
now4' ',i'll give it to him the first   

time ,i  see him1' ,i said4 ,then ,i was
 prayed for and healed at once4 ,having 
said  this1 she handed me the money1    
,here it is1 and it was four bills6 ,i  
took  it and commenced to shout the     
glory of ,god4 ,in came ,bro4 ,ahrendt  
and ,i held  up the four bills for him  
to see4 ,he shouted1 ,the fur coat1 the 
fur coat6  ,then ,i related my          
experience to her of my praying for a   
fur coat and said  to her1 ,if you had  
given me the money when ,i came back    
from ,europe ,i would  not have had to  
suffer cold for about a winter and a    
half4 ,the sister was  healed and       
blessed1 and ,i was kept warm for many a
 day inside that fur  coat4           99
       99       99       99       99    
,a number of years ago ,i was called to 
go to ,wales1 ,north ,dakota1 to hold a 
meeting at ,brother ,paul ,garber's     
home1 which was a ,great ,northern box  
car4  ,the weather was very cold1 the   
temperature being twenty degrees below  
zero4  ,after the first evening service 

a woman came to me and said1 ,i am the  
sheriff's wife and ,i want you to come  
home with me4 ,i cannot allow you to    
stay here4 ,i went with her and the next
 day we got the ,methodist church in    
which to hold our services4    ,more    
than half the people who attended the   
services were ,catholics4 ,on the  last 
evening as ,i was going out of the      
church1 the butcher of the town  shook  
hands with me1 putting three silver     
dollars in my hand and said1 ,you  come 
back soon4    ,i surely had a fine stay 
with the sheriff and his wife1 and the  
day ,i was  leaving the sheriff was at  
the depot with a delegation representing
 the  business men of the town saying to
 me1 ,we wish you would come back soon4 
,i said to them1 ,what's your reason for
 wanting me to come back soon1 since    
the butcher was the only business man of
 the city who came out to my  meeting8  
,when you come back1 they said1 we will 
all come to your  services1 because many
 people have come and paid up their old 

bills and  made good their outlawed     
notes since you have been here4 ,i am   
sorry that ,i  never had the opportunity
 of going back there again4    ,a number
 of the saints at ,wales moved to ,grand
 ,forks1 ,n4 ,dakota1 and were a  great 
blessing and an asset to that           
congregation4 ,later on1 sixty-three    
adults and children moved to ,benton    
,harbor1 ,michigan1 and ,i understand   
that  an ,english and a ,german         
congregation was started at that place  
through  their efforts4           99    
99       99       99       99    ,one   
time ,brother ,renbeck and ,i went to   
,bro4 ,bahr's to pray for ,willie1 a    
son of theirs1 who had the scarlet      
fever1 and after we had prayed ,i felt  
that ,i should stay a little longer4 ,i 
lay down on the lounge and fell  asleep4
 ,all of a sudden ,sister ,bahr called  
and said1 ,i believe ,willie is  dying1 
and when ,i laid my hands on him he was 
so hot that the heat seemed  to go right
 through my whole body4 ,i kept on      

rebuking the sickness and the  devil1   
but it didn't seem to help any4    ,i   
prayed1 ,lord1 heal this boy to ,thy    
glory4 ,if no other way1 ,i am willing  
to take this sickness upon myself1 just 
so you get the glory of healing the     
boy4 ,in a few minutes he was sound     
asleep1 perfectly healed6 ,but ,i felt  
as  though ,i was sore all over my body4
 ,when ,i went out into the cold winter 
weather the cold would smart what seemed
 to be sores on my face1 and when ,i    
got to the chapel to preach ,i felt     
ashamed to get up before the audience   
because ,i thought the folks would see  
the sores on my face1 although ,i knew  
it was an imposition of the devil4 ,when
 ,i got into the pulpit ,i told the     
people how ,i felt1 and asked them to   
pray1 and immediately the feeling left  
me4 ,i learned the lesson not to be     
willing to take a devil's sickness in   
order to get people healed4           99
       99       99       99       99    
,in #aidb as ,i was coming from the     

,west coast to ,wolf ,point1 ,montana1  
,i took  the bus thirty-eight miles from
 there where another road turns off to  
go to  my son's place1 a mile and a half
 off the highway4 ,it had snowed quite a
  bit and was somewhat stormy1 but ,i   
thought ,i could make it4 ,however1 ,i  
had  not walked far until ,i had to     
throw my grips into the ditch and tried 
to go  on1 but the snow was so deep ,i  
could not make it walking4 ,my only way 
was  to lie down in the road and roll4  
,i kept that up quite a while1 and when 
,i  got tired ,i would just lie and     
rest4 ,after ,i had gotten a quarter of 
a mile  ,i was so worn out that it      
seemed as though there was no hope for  
me4 ,i  rolled over to a fence post and 
stood up and tied myself to it1 thinking
  that if ,i did freeze to death folks  
would be able to find my body4 ,after ,i
  had been standing quite a while       
praying1 ,i felt as though ,i was       
getting my  strength again1 so ,i       
loosened myself from the fence post and 

started to  roll again and then tried to
 walk on my knees1 but that would not   
do4 ,the  snow was too loose--,i went   
down4 ,toward evening ,i had reached the
 highest  spot from which ,i could be   
seen from my son's house4 ,he was coming
 from the  barn and happened to see me1 
and then quickly came to meet me and    
very soon  led me safely to his home4   
,so the ,lord had mercy on me once more4
           99       99       99       99
       99    ,one time ,i received a    
telegram from ,brother ,fortner of      
,brookings1 ,s4 ,dakota  asking me to   
come at once4 ,i arrived there late in  
the evening and found  that their son1  
,clarence1 was seriously ill at the     
hospital in ,huron1  eighty-three miles 
from ,brookings4 ,the folks thought we  
had better wait  until the following    
morning to go4 ,brother and ,sister     
,fortner1 another son1  and the pastor  
all went with me in my car4    ,clarence
 had been saved but had gotten away from
 the ,lord4 ,on our trip from           

,brookings1 on the highway we drove     
eighty miles an hour and the pastor     
said1 ,brother ,susag1 you do not need  
to go so fast4 ,i thought that ,i  would
 slacken down but the car was still     
going eighty miles2 the pastor  called  
again1 ,brother ,susag1 you need not go 
so fast4 ,i said nothing but  felt      
rather sad that ,i was hurting the      
pastor's feelings1 but still ,i was     
going eighty4 ,finally the pastor spoke 
sternly1 ,brother ,susag1 you don't     
need to go that fast4 ,i felt sad1 but  
said nothing1 yet in spite of myself    
and the pastor1 ,i was still going      
eighty miles an hour4    ,on arriving at
 the hospital the young man said1 ,i    
have gotten back to the  ,lord and this 
morning at three o'clock ,he said to me 
that at nine o'clock  ,brother ,susag   
would be here to take you home4 ,he had 
the clock standing on  the chair and it 
was just nine o'clock when we arrived6  
,the pastor walked  out4 7,this occurred
 before the laws governing speed went   

into effect1 but  law or no law1 the    
,lord wanted me there at nine o'clock47 
99       99       99       99       99  
,,getting ,,in ,,trouble ,,for ,,obeying
 ,,the ,,word ,,of ,,god    ,a brother  
minister got the idea in his mind that  
wife and ,i were covetous1  but we did  
not at the time realize to what extent  
it had affected him4  ,previous to his  
leaving the state he brought the matter 
before the body of  ministers so as to  
have them deal with us4 ,the ministers  
told him that they  had not seen any    
indication of coveteousness in ,brother 
and ,sister ,susag1  and then asked him 
what proof he had for thinking so4 ,he  
answered1 ,they do  not give enough4    
7,our custom was never to tell anyone   
what we gave1  because the ,bible says1 
,let not your left hand know what your  
right hand  doeth47    ,we were called  
before the ,ministerial ,assembly and   
the matter was taken up4  ,the brethren 
said that they had not seen any         
indication of coveteousness in  us and  

all the brother had against us was that 
we hadn't been giving  enough1 and1 said
 they1 ,after thinking it over1 neither 
did we know what  you were giving4 ,to  
which ,i replied1 ,if ,i'm coveteous1   
,i'm the one that  ought to know it1 so 
won't you brethren1 please help me out8 
,this is what  they suggested3 ,you tell
 us how much you give and then we can   
compare4 ,i  answered1 ,if ,i tell you  
how much ,i give1 won't it be fair for  
you folks to  tell how much you give8   
,whereupon the chairman replied1 ,yes1  
that will be  fair2 ,i know you cannot  
give as much as me since my income is   
larger2 but  you and ,bro4 ,a---- should
 give about the same amount4 ,so they   
all told  what they had given for the   
year4 ,i then added the amounts and     
found the  total1 and getting my grip1  
took out of it receipts for what wife   
and ,i had  given and asked the brethren
 to add them up4 ,then ,i requested them
 to add  up what the seven ministers had
 given and1 to the great surprise of all

 of  us1 they found that wife and ,i had
 given #bb4ej more than all seven       
ministers together4 ,this was one of the
 all things in my life4           99    
99       99       99       99    ,when  
,i was the evangelist at a certain      
,state ,camp meeting1 a lady1 who had   
only been to our services that morning1 
got saved at that ,sunday morning       
service1 and having to leave the meeting
 right away1 wanted to be baptized      
before going4 ,three sisters came to me 
in protest1 and said1 ,you are not      
going to baptize that woman with all    
those rings on1 are you8 ,i answered1   
,please leave that sister and her rings 
alone4 ,to which they replied1 ,if  you 
baptize that woman with all those rings1
 we will never have confidence  in you  
again4 ,i answered1 ,i'm very sorry1 but
 let's pray about it2 you go  over in   
the timber in that direction and ,i will
 go over in this direction  in the      
timber and pray and prepare for the     
baptizing4    ,as the woman1 who was to 

be baptized1 stepped into the water1 she
  exclaimed1 ,oh6 as if something was   
hurting her1 then stripping the rings   
off her fingers she threw them into the 
sand1 never more to put them back  on   
her fingers4    ,in response to an      
urgent call to come to ,st4 ,paul ,park 
,i forthwith prepared  to go1 although  
not knowing the reason ,i was summoned4 
,when ready to start1  at the request of
 my wife1 ,i consented to take along a  
rag carpet which she  had made for the  
,old ,people's ,home out there4 ,i put  
the carpet into a sack  and checked it  
to ,st4 ,paul1 rechecking it from there 
to ,st4 ,paul ,park4 ,the  baggage man  
asked me whether ,i had a trunk or a    
grip4 ,i informed him ,i had  a sack4   
,in answer to his inquiry as to what was
 in it1 ,i told him1  ,clothing4 ,while 
riding on the next train the devil said 
to me1 ,you're a  pretty nice preacher2 
you lied to the baggage man2 instead of 
telling him  clothing was in the sack   
you should have said it was cloth or rag

 carpet4  ,well1 ,i said1 ,i can make   
that right on my return trip4 ,on my    
arrival at  the ,park ,i found that     
,brother ,krutz had lost his mind4 ,when
 ,i met him he  did not know me4 ,i went
 to praying and tried to talk to him and
 after a  while he knew me4 ,he said1   
,brother ,susag1 ,brother ,susag1 you   
are pure  gold1 pure gold4 ,then looking
 at me intently1 pointing his finger at 
my  heart1 he said1 ,what do ,i see1 a  
tiny spot8 ,no--doubt the enemy wanted  
to  hinder me in praying for him4 ,the  
incident bothered me a little bit1 so ,i
  went out into the woods and the ,lord 
showed me that it was just an           
imposition of the devil to bother me4   
,brother ,krutz was prayed for and the  
,lord healed him and the next ,sunday he
 preached4           99       99        
99       99       99    ,,praying ,,for 
,,eggs ,,and ,,kerosene    ,brother     
,ahrendt and ,i were holding some       
meetings in the locality between        
,bertha and ,hewitt1 ,minnesota4 ,we    

were staying in a log house--just the   
two  of us4 ,we ran out of kerosene1 and
 were also out of money4 ,brother ,a----
  took the can and started to walk to   
,hewitt--a distance of six or seven     
miles--in the snow1 hoping to meet some 
brethren who would ask him why he  was  
carrying that can--but he met no one4   
,he went to the post office1 got  the   
mail and concluded that he would have to
 go back without the kerosene2  however1
 on opening one of the letters a dime   
dropped out4 ,he immediately  went to   
the store1 bought the kerosene and      
returned home4    ,one evening ,brother 
,ahrendt said to me1 ,brother ,susag1   
,i'm hungry for some  eggs2 let's pray  
the ,lord to send us some eggs4 ,i      
replied1 ,how can we  expect to get eggs
 out here8 ,i haven't seen any chickens 
around here1 nor  in the bush where ,i  
have been4 ,well1 he said1 the ,lord can
 bring them  from somewhere4 ,that      
evening on our returning from service we
 found  something setting on the table  

covered with a newspaper4 ,brother      
,ahrendt  lifted the paper and found a  
tiny basket with five eggs in it6 ,i    
said1 ,you  get three of them2 you      
prayed and had faith while ,i only said1
 amen4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,,the ,,reading ,,on     
,,the ,,sign ,,post ,,changed787    ,one
 day ,bro4 ,ahrendt was out advertising 
the meeting4 ,his last call was at  a   
schoolhouse1 and from there he wanted to
 go to ,bertha intending to take a      
short cut through the brush to the      
highway4 ,on coming to the highway1 he  
saw a signpost pointing in the direction
 he was going1 which read1 ,one  mile to
 ,hewitt4 ,well1 he thought1 what won't 
boys do changing the road  signs8 ,he   
walked on a few steps and saw a little  
town not far away1 then  he realized    
that he had been going north while he   
thought he was going  south4 ,the boys  
had not done any harm4 ,he was mistaken 
in his sense of  direction4    ,one year
 ,brother ,h4 ,a4 ,sherwood was the     

evangelist at the ,minnesota ,state     
,camp meeting which was held at ,saint  
,cloud4 ,a large1 roomy church building 
was used for the services4 ,the heat was
 record-breaking that year1 and on  one 
of the hottest afternoons when ,brother 
,sherwood was expecting to preach  as   
usual1 the heat was so intense that he  
was physically unequal to the  occasion1
 and so it came about that at ,brother  
,sherwood's urgent request1  ,brother   
,allison ,f4 ,barnard 7who1 with ,mrs4  
,barnard1 was attending the  meeting7   
consented to preach in his stead that   
afternoon4    ,as ,bro4 ,barnard came   
into the pulpit the ,holy ,spirit came  
upon him and upon  the whole            
congregation in such a way and in such  
measure as ,i had never  seen in any    
service4 ,the heat in the chapel        
moderated at once1 but outside  it was  
as hot as ever4 ,it was as though the   
dear man was out of the body  and there 
was no trouble at the altar of prayer   
for seeking souls to  receive their     

heart's desire4 ,they prayed through6   
,so1 again1 the ,scripture  was         
fulfilled1 ,not by might1 nor by power1 
but by my ,spirit1 saith the  ,lord of  
hosts4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,speaking of ,brother    
,sherwood1 ,i loved that big little man 
in the ,lord4 ,on  one occasion he was  
the campmeeting evangelist at ,morden1  
,manitoba1 ,canada4  ,the ,lord used him
 mightily and when the meeting was over 
it was arranged  that wife and ,i should
 take him with us in our car to ,grand  
,forks1 ,north  ,dakota4 ,it started to 
rain and did really pour down4 ,the     
first forty-five  miles the roads were  
nothing but black gumbo1 and we used    
eight gallons of  gas driving that      
forty-five miles4    ,brother ,sherwood 
sat in the back seat1 praying all the   
time that we would  not get stuck in the
 mud nor slide down into the ditch1 and 
when we reached  the gravel road in     
,north ,dakota he said1 ,brother ,susag1
 will you stop  awhile so we can have a 

thanksgiving meeting right here1 that   
the ,lord has  heard prayer and         
protected our lives6 ,and that is what  
we did4 ,brother  ,sherwood then said1  
,bro4 ,susag1 will you accept an        
admonition from a  younger man than     
yourself8 ,i answered1 ,any time1       
,brother4 ,and he said1  ,this is the   
second worst automobile ride ,i ever had
 in all my life4 ,will  you promise me  
never again to start out driving when   
the road is as bad as  this8 ,my reply  
was3 ,hello6 ,hello6 ,hello6 ,who is    
this8 ,brother ,sherwood8  ,what do you 
want8 ,your wife sick8 ,what1 dying8    
,yes1 ,i'm starting out right  away2    
,i'm coming as fast as ,i can4          
,whereupon ,brother ,sherwood reached   
out  his hand and said1 ,brother ,susag1
 forgive me2 how quick a man can be to  
ask a promise of a man without thinking6
           99       99       99       99
       99    ,once ,i was called to     
attend a meeting north of ,st4 ,cloud1  
,minnesota4 ,there  were about thirteen 

ministers there4 ,it was among a people 
who were called1  ,the ,free4 ,some     
three of their leading brethren had     
heard the ,truth1 and  they were the    
ones who had sent for me to come4 ,the  
ministers and the  majority of the      
people were opposed to our teachings4   
,when the offering was  divided among   
the ministry1 those three brethren1 who 
were on the board1  gave me #ch4jj4     
,but after ,i had taken the money ,i    
could not keep it on my person4 ,i tried
  my best1 but even when in my overcoat 
pocket the money burned me1 so ,i gave  
it back to the brethren4 ,a brother was 
going to drive me to the nearest        
railroad station1 and when ,i had taken 
my seat in the buggy ready to go to     
town1 these three brethren came and gave
 me fifteen dollars1 saying1 ,we  have  
given much more in the offering than    
that1 and they felt that the  fifteen   
dollars would not burn me4 ,so ,i took  
the money and thanked them for  it and  
we went on our way to town4 ,as ,i put  

the money in my pocket it still  burned 
me4 ,i had to take it out again and lay 
it on the bottom of the  buggy4 ,i told 
the driver to take it back and return it
 to the brethren4 ,he  said1 ,they will 
not know what to do with it now that the
 meeting is  ended4 ,i told him of a    
young minister who was sick and in      
need--to take  the money to him4 ,i was 
needing the money badly1 even the       
#ch4jj1 as ,i was  without money to pay 
my way home4    ,as we crossed the      
railway track coming into the town near 
the depot1 ,i  asked the man to let me  
off4 ,as ,i was walking up to the       
station a man1 whom  ,i did not know1   
came along beside me and pressed a five 
dollar bill into my  hand1 and that was 
enough to take me home6 ,a number of    
people took their  stand for the truth  
in that meeting4           99       99  
99       99       99    ,,the ,,lord    
,,still ,,hears ,,prayer    ,at a       
,ministers' ,meeting at ,tulare1        
,california1 in #aide1 while the noon   

lunch was being served1 ,i was sitting  
in the chapel with my head bowed on  the
 chair in front of me1 praying for a    
certain amount of money1 not  expecting 
any money at that meeting4 ,soon ,i felt
 the confidence that the  ,lord had     
heard prayer and dismissed the matter   
from my mind4 ,a few minutes  later a   
man came and sat down beside me and     
said1 ,say1 how do you get your         
expenses2 do you get a salary for       
traveling around this way8 ,i answered1 
,no1 ,i have no salary2 ,i pay my       
expenses as the ,lord puts it into the  
hearts of the brethren to give to me4   
,well1 he said1 the ,lord told me  to   
come over and give you this4    ,and he 
handed me the very amount ,i had been   
asking the ,lord for6           99      
99       99       99       99           
,brother ,renbeck and ,i were holding a 
meeting out near ,kellys1 ,north        
,dakota4  ,after the service one        
afternoon ,i saw ,brother ,renbeck      
sitting in a corner  of the room        

weeping4 ,i went over to him and asked  
him what was the trouble4  ,he said1 ,i 
am weeping because there were not more  
sinners in the meeting  to get saved1   
for if there had been more there1 more  
would have been  saved4 ,to which ,i    
replied1 ,keep on weeping4           99 
99       99       99       99    ,,my   
,,first ,,experience ,,in ,,dealing     
,,with ,,devil ,,possession    ,another 
time we were holding meetings near and  
in ,fosston1 ,minnesota4 ,it  was said  
of us that those preachers are of the   
devil4 ,one evening a man  came to the  
meeting who had blood poisoning in one  
of his knees4 ,in getting  to the       
meeting he used a long pole to help     
support himself4 ,he wanted to  see     
those preachers who were of the devil4  
,when he arrived the room was  full and 
there being no chair for him to sit on1 
,i gave him mine4 ,when we  knelt down  
to pray ,i laid my hands on his knee and
 asked the ,lord to heal  him and he was
 healed instantly4    ,a few nights     

later a man came to the service who was 
possessed with devils4  ,he was frothing
 at the mouth and acting like a madman4 
,as ,i took hold of  him and laid my    
hands on him we almost wrestled4 ,i     
commanded the devils to  come out of    
him1 and ,i told the ,lord ,i would     
never let ,him go until ,he  delivered  
the man1 and he was finally delivered by
 the ,spirit of the ,lord4  ,although it
 was winter time ,i was as wet as though
 ,i had been dipped in the  river4      
,while the struggle was going on all the
 people ran out of the room4  ,but the  
man was fully delivered and then he was 
saved4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,in another of our       
meetings a sister got saved and received
 light on  baptism4 ,she had a little   
baby girl and her husband wanted to have
 the  child sprinkled1 as that was his  
faith4 ,the mother was to carry the baby
  forward to receive this rite1 but she 
objected and said1 ,no1 ,i cannot do    
that2 but if you care to1 you may do so1

 for she is as much yours as she is     
mine4 ,but the husband would not consent
 to do that4 ,well1 she didn't know     
what to do and went to ,brother and     
,sister ,anton ,nelson for advice4      
,brother  ,nelson said1 ,let us ask the 
,lord about it4 ,after they had prayed  
about  it1 ,brother ,nelson said to the 
sister1 ,you go and carry the baby and  
we  will come along and pray for you and
 it will all come out all right4    ,at 
the ,sunday service that the baby was to
 receive this rite1 there were  seven   
children in all being subjected to this 
ceremony4 ,the minister came  to this   
sister and said1 ,what is the name of   
the child8 ,the sister  answered1 ,anna 
,marie4 ,then the minister said1 ,anna  
,marie1 do you forsake  the devil and   
all his works8 ,do you believe on the   
,lord ,jesus ,christ and  will you upon 
this faith be baptized8 7,the mother was
 supposed to answer1  ,yes47 ,the sister
 answered nothing4 ,so he read his      
ritual once more and  again no response4

 ,so after asking the question the third
 time1 he said1  ,anna ,marie1 don't you
 answer8 ,at this1 the father of the    
child called out  from the audience1 and
 stamping his feet1 said1 ,come on1     
wife1 that's  enough6    ,you will      
remember reading at the beginning of    
this book ,i told of how my  mother1    
when ,i was a child1 used to say to me1 
,child1 ,o child6 ,you are  more trouble
 to me than all the other eight children
 put together6 ,and  yet1 after ,i had  
been away in ,america for twenty-four   
years1 when ,i went  back home1 the very
 first day my mother had me sit facing  
her not more than  about four feet away 
and ,i listened to her telling me       
stories about the  most wonderful boy ,i
 had ever heard of4 ,after about two    
hours of this  pleasant entertainment ,i
 smiled and said to her1 ,i have        
recollections of a  mother who used to  
weep over this same boy and say1 ',o    
child1 what shall ,i  do with you1 you  
are more trouble to me than all the     

other eight children  together4' ,o ,ja1
 she said1 but you were the best boy    
anyhow4 ,i am  fairly good in           
arithmetic1 but that is a problem ,i    
have not solved yet4           99       
99       99       99       99           
,,preaching ,,on ,,worldliness    ,while
 conducting a revival meeting at ,grand 
,forks1 ,north ,dakota1 ,i preached  one
 afternoon on the subject of            
worldliness4 ,an attorney and his wife  
from  ,langdon1 ,north ,dakota were     
staying in the city to attend the       
meeting4 ,after  hearing this sermon the
 wife would not attend the services any 
more4 ,at the  close of the ,sunday     
afternoon service1 two days later1 the  
attorney came to  me and said1 ,the     
,holy ,spirit was in the meeting this   
afternoon1 wasn't  ,he8 ,i replied that 
,he was1 and he continued1 ,every sinner
 present was  saved and something       
happened to me that ,i never remember   
having experienced  before4 ,i cried    
like a child6    ,i asked him why his   

wife had quit coming to the meeting4 ,in
 reply he asked1  ,has ,sister ,hansen  
told you anything about us and our home8
 ,i said1 ,yes1  you once gave a        
minister twenty-two-hundred pieces of   
money1 they were all  pennies4 ,you did 
a good thing4 ,this is all ,sister      
,hansen ever told me about  you folks4  
,i have heard nothing whatever about    
you4    ,he referred to the sermon on   
worldliness and said1 ,in your talk1 you
  practically1 set a price on everything
 we have in the home1 such as  curtains1
 carpets1 furniture and the range2 and  
you illustrated it this  way3           
',supposing a person could buy a        
suitable range for #db4ej but seeing    
another1 just the same kind only with   
nickel-plated trimmings1 for #hb4jj  and
 he would choose the latter1 wouldn't   
that be called the pride of the  eye8'  
,and that is just the kind of range we  
have6 and my wife could not see  it that
 way4 ,she thought that ,sister ,hansen 
had told me and did not get  that out of

 her mind and was finally lost1 the     
husband said4    ,i was preaching under 
the leading of the ,holy ,spirit and in 
what ,i said ,i  had no one in mind in  
using that illustration1 but was simply 
trying to  show that such money could be
 used to better purpose and that        
sometimes  when folks yielded to the    
temptation to take the finer appearing  
article  they might be going beyond     
their means4           99       99      
99       99       99    ,one ,sunday    
morning when ,i was pastor in ,grand    
,forks and had just gotten  through     
preaching a man came rushing up to the  
pulpit and said in a rough  voice1 ,who 
told you all about me8 ,i put out my    
hand and said1 ,my name is  ,susag1 what
 is your name8 ,he answered1 ,you stood 
before this audience  this morning and  
told them everything ,i have ever done6 
,i answered1 ,dear  man1 ,i don't know  
you1 nor have ,i ever heard of you1 what
 is your name8 ,he  looked around1 then 
turned and out he ran6 ,i never saw the 

man again4    ,some years ago when in   
,norway1 ,morris ,johnson and ,i held a 
meeting on a  large farm in ,roleg in   
,numedahl4 ,a large crowd was out at the
 first  service4 ,we knelt down to pray 
and while we were praying ,i heard a    
great  commotion and when we rose from  
our knees we found that two thirds of   
the  people were gone4 ,the foreman of  
the ,king's highway was in the audience 
and  he had said when he came out there1
 that those preachers were too fanatical
  and if he had had his gun along and   
had shot them1 he would have done the   
,lord a good favor4 ,however1 ,i do not 
think that in his heart he meant as  bad
 as it sounded1 for some time later he  
invited us to his home and  treated us  
with much courtesy and kindness4 ,a     
number were saved and  baptized and     
quite a nice little congregation was    
raised up at that place4           99   
99       99       99       99    ,while 
we were at ,sanes1 ,norway1 ,brother    
,morris ,johnson was very sick and  one 

evening when we arrived at our stopping 
place he rolled onto the bed  with his  
clothes on1 exhausted4 ,he had been     
bleeding from the lungs and was  so weak
 that ,i could hardly get him home4 ,we 
wept and prayed and finally ,i  said to 
him1 ,morris1 can't you get out of bed  
and kneel down with me and  pray8 ,i    
might1 he said1 but ,i think the bed is 
the best place for me4  ,however1 he got
 down and said a few words and then     
rolled back into bed  again4 ,he wasn't 
able to undress all night and ,i was    
afraid to go to sleep  for fear that he 
might leave me most any time during the 
night4    ,in the morning he seemed to  
be somewhat rested and ,i said to him1  
,brother  ,morris1 we must try and get  
down to ,sister ,svenson's and get you  
some meat  broth4 7,sister ,s4 had a    
delicatessen store1 and ,morris hadn't  
eaten  anything for a couple of days7   
but he said1 ,i am unable to get down   
there  nor can ,i eat anything4 ,but1 ,i
 said1 ,you've got to get down there    

even  if ,i have to carry you there on  
my back4 ,you'll have to eat or ,i will 
be  having to bury you somewhere among  
the rocks in ,norway4 ,he got up and ,i 
put my arm around him and1 as luck would
 have it the road was down hill4 ,we    
had to stop and rest several times but  
we got there and the ,lord must have    
impressed ,sister ,svenson for she had  
some broth all ready made1 but as she   
was preparing to serve it the trouble in
 his lungs began again and he went  to  
the wash room4 ,i fell prostrate on the 
floor crying to ,god for help for  him4 
,suddenly ,i realized ,i had received   
faith for him and called to him1        
,morris1 the bleeding stops1 now6 ,and  
it did4 ,and from that time on he       
recovered rapidly4 7,when ,i think of   
that dear brother and the plight he was 
in1 it brings tears to my eyes1 even    
now74           99       99       99    
99       99    ,a ,,wonderful ,,meeting 
,,at ,,stavanger    ,a telephone call   
came to ,sr4 ,svenson from two ministers

 at ,stavanger  requesting the two      
,american evangelists to come to them4  
,we accepted the  call and ,sr4         
,svenson's daughter and ,bro4 ,fjield   
went with us4 ,how the  ministers came  
to locate us at ,sr4 ,svenson's ,i never
 knew1 as neither of us  had ever been  
at ,stavanger4 ,the names of the two    
ministers calling us were  ,johnson and 
,jornsen of the ,christian church4 ,we  
called first at ,brother  ,johnson's    
where we were warmly welcomed4 ,they    
told us that they had heard  of us and  
had been earnestly praying for the ,lord
 to send us to them and  that they were 
glad we were there3 ,you are here in    
answer to prayer1 they  said1 and then  
opening a door into another room        
informed us that there was  our bedroom4
 ,they showed the dining room1 saying1  
as they did so1 ,anytime  that you are  
hungry1 come here and eat4 ,to all this 
kind welcoming my  response was1 ,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  
you1 perhaps we  had better go in and   
have prayer together and some           
consultation about the  matter4 ,after  
we had had prayer they related the      
following3    ,we belong to the         
,christian ,church2 formerly there were 
two hundred members  of us or more1 but 
two years ago a ',tongues speaker1' an  
ex-,baptist  minister1 came to this city
 and as he seemed to be earnest and     
sincere we  were sorry he was not       
getting a single opportunity to speak1  
so decided to  give him the privilege to
 speak once in our chapel1 and that was 
once too  often6 ,at the meeting1 ,i    
,bro4 ,johnson was sitting on the       
platform with  him1 and ,brother        
,jornsen1 who weighed two hundred and   
sixty pounds1 was  standing in the aisle
 holding on to the back of a chair on   
which a man was  sitting1 as the chapel 
was packed4 ,after the preacher had     
spoken ten or  fifteen mintues seven    
women were lying on the floor in a      

trance4    ,we took a stand against the 
spirit that was working and1 talk about 
power6  ,the chapel wall on one side    
cracked 7the evidence of which was still
 to be  seen74 ,brother ,jornsen said1  
,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 my jaws were just jabbering4 ,this
 continued eight days and nights  until 
we finally got the victory over it and  
the preacher took over two  hundred of  
the congregation with him1 leaving us   
but nine persons1 we two  ministers make
 the total number eleven4 ,and if you go
 with us to the  service tonight there  
will be thirteen of us and we will have 
services1  ,sunday1 ,wednesday1         
,thursday and ,friday1 and they added1  
you must preach  only until nine        
o'clock1 the services start at eight    
fifteen4 ,don't let any  women testify  
nor any pentecostals6    ,now1 ,i said1 
,i will give you our proposition1 we    
will go with you  tonight and tomorrow  

you can advertize in the two city daily 
papers that  two ,american evangelists  
are here to hold services every night   
including  ,saturday and three services 
on ,sunday1 all next week until ,friday 
and then  we will see how things go4    
,that will not do1 they said1 ,no one   
will  come out ,saturday night nor      
,monday or ,tuesday nights4 ,well1 ,i   
said1 you  can let us have the key and  
if no one comes ,brother ,johnson and ,i
 can go  inside and have prayer4 ,upon  
this condition we can stay1 and if not1 
we  will take our grips and go4    ,to  
which they replied1 ,you can't go1 for  
the ,lord has shown us that you  are to 
hold a meeting for us4 ,the next night  
there were about two hundred  in the    
congregation and some ten minutes before
 nine o'clock eight persons  started to 
get ready to leave2 ,i was still        
speaking1 so paused and said1  ,just a  
minute1 please3 ,we have just come from 
,denmark where we preached as  long as  
the ,lord would lead1 until nine or ten 

o'clock4 ,now if you have to  go home   
you are welcome to go1 but if it's      
simply your custom to leave a  meeting  
at a certain time whether or not the    
service is over1 we are going  to pray  
the ,lord to break up such a custom4    
,six of the persons sat down  again and 
two left4 ,saturday night the chapel was
 full and ,sunday night  quite a number 
were saved4 ,the meeting continued      
almost four weeks and  souls were       
getting saved right along4    ,one day  
we had a baptizing service between two  
boat houses in the ,north sea  and after
 ,i had baptized all the candidates1 a  
fisherman1 who owned one of  the boat   
houses1 came out and asked me whether ,i
 would not baptize him4 ,on  my inquiry 
as to his being saved1 he told me this3 
,i was saved three years  ago but have  
never before met folks with whom ,i     
believed the ,lord was  working1 but    
today as ,i witnessed this service ,i   
was convinced that the  ,holy ,ghost was
 with you folks4 ,i baptized him and    

never saw him again4  ,after that we    
were not allowed to baptize from the    
shore but had to take  the folks out in 
a boat and baptize them from a rock in  
the ,north sea4    ,following that      
incident we were invited to a sea       
,captain's home1 to be  there at #i3cj1 
the next morning4 ,the house was the    
most finely finished  house ,i had even 
been in4 ,when we arrived in the morning
 we found it was  full of people of the 
upper class1 the men with their silk    
hats and the  women equally distinctive 
in their dress4 ,some of the company    
were saved  and some fifteen more were  
saved that morning4    ,the lady of the 
house and her six sisters had a brother 
who was an old sea  captain and was     
sick4 ,we were told he was an infidel   
and would have nothing  to do with      
preachers1 that if any happened to come 
into his house he  ordered them out4    
,his seven sisters were praying         
earnestly for him and they  felt that we
 could be a help to him4 ,their plan was

 to set a day when they  would all go   
and visit him and if the weather was    
fine we were to come by  and they would 
be on the porch talking to him4 ,we were
 to pass along on the  other side of the
 street and when they saw us they were  
to call ,good  morning and invite us    
over and introduce us to their brother1 
he was not  to know that we were        
preachers4 ,the plan was successful and 
after talking  awhile ,captain ,parsons 
invited us into the house4    ,on coming
 into the room we noticed that the walls
 were hung with pictures  of ships1     
thirty-eight steamers4 ,he said he had  
been seaman on each one of  them and    
captain on several4 ,so he took us for a
 trip around the world4    ,finally he  
came to the last one1 a very large ship1
 but it looked1 like a  rusty1          
broken-to-pieces tin can1 its masts1    
smokestacks and bridges had  evidently  
been blown or swept off4 ,we were awed  
by the sight and said1  ,this looks bad4
 ,yes1 he said1 that was the trying hour

 of my life1 it  was in a typhoon off   
the coast of ,sidney1 ,australia4 ,this 
is how it looked  when we were towed in4
 ,then ,i looked at my watch and found  
we had been  talking for two hours and  
feeling that it was time for us to leave
 ,i said  to him1 ,we are two ministers 
and generally when we make a call1      
before  leaving we sing1 read some      
,scripture and have prayer4 ,would you  
grant us  that privilege here8 ,he said1
 ,i see no reason why you should not do 
so4    ,we1 accordingly1 sang1 read a   
,scripture lesson and had prayer1 after 
which  we said to our host1 ,we have    
certainly had a pleasant visit and      
enjoyed  the trip around the world with 
you immensely1 and now there is one     
sailing  trip left for you to take4 ,for
 all these other trips no doubt you made
  suitable preparation4 ,what about this
 one2 are you ready to meet your ,maker 
in peace8 ,no1 he said1 ,the ,lord      
doesn't have such bad men as me4 ,but   
we told him that was just the kind ,he  

came to save4 ,he said1 ,boys1 boys1    
you don't know what bad men seamen are4 
,we tried to talk to him1 but to no     
avail4 ,so we thanked him and said      
,goodbye4 ,as we left he said1 ,boys1   
boys1  come back soon4    ,the next day 
we heard that he was poorly and the     
,board of ,health had  ordered that no  
one shake hands with him as his case was
 not yet diagnosed4  ,we continued to   
visit him1 instructing him and praying  
with him4 ,on one of  these occasions on
 leaving him we both made a good        
mistake4 ,we broke down  and wept4      
,morris speaking to me in ,english said1
 ,i love this man's soul  like my own   
father's and wouldn't lay a straw in the
 way of his getting  saved2 ,i would    
like to shake his hand1 but may not4 ,as
 far as ,i am  concerned1 ,i said1 ,i   
wouldn't be afraid to take his hand in  
both mine1  but for the sake of the     
public we cannot do it2 but he is a man 
of  understanding1 we will go and       
explain to him and ,i'm sure it will be 

all  right4 ,later1 as we were leaving1 
he said1 ,be sure to come back soon4    
,the next day ,i was called out to an   
,island and ,brother ,morris went over  
alone to see him4 ,he was up and        
apparently pretty well and he said to   
,morris1 ,young man1 you had better     
speak ,english4 ,i understand your      
,english  better than ,i do your        
,norwegian4 ,now you can see that the   
mistake the day  before was a good one4 
,that day he got gloriously saved and   
the next day he  was up and around happy
 and praising the ,lord1 at two o'clock 
in the  afternoon he lay down to rest   
and went home to glory4 ,on account of  
his  salvation we were asked to speak to
 the students at the mission college4   
,here at ,stavanger a good congregation 
was raised up and ,brother ,mortensen   
became pastor1 he was a tailor by trade 
and also was the owner of a fine        
clothing store4 ,they got the chapel the
 revival was held in1 in #aiaa1 in      
#aibb4 ,i went through and they expected

 me to remain for a three weeks  meeting
 to preach on ,church of ,god doctrine4 
,i was supposed to be there on  ,sunday1
 but did not arrive until ,monday4 ,they
 had advertised for three  services for 
,sunday1 and between fifteen hundred and
 two thousand were  present for each    
service4 ,i was unable to remain for the
 three weeks  meeting as ,i was         
traveling through on a special mission  
for the ,missionary  ,board and the boat
 left the next morning4 ,speaking of the
 truth1 this would  have been the       
greatest opportunity that ,norway will  
have for years to come  and perhaps     
ever4    ,brother ,mortensen said1 ,o   
how sad--this all happened because of a 
crooked  preacher that ,brother ,susag  
had to take back to ,america4 ,brother  
,mortensen  raised up a number of       
congregations on the ,west coast1 and in
 #aicg the old  chapel at ,stavanger was
 razed and a new and larger chapel was  
erected in  its place4           99     
99       99       99       99    ,,my   

,,wife ,,healed ,,of ,,cancer    ,some  
years ago my wife had a sore on her left
 cheek4 ,dr4 ,morgan examined it  and   
pronounced it cancer4 ,she was prayed   
for and the third day after there  was  
no sign of cancer4    ,a little later a 
growth started on her right side just   
above the hip4 ,it  grew until it was   
twenty-two inches long1 sixteen inches  
by the body and  fourteen inches around 
at the end of it4 ,it finally developed 
into cancer4  ,she was prayed for often 
but seemingly was not helped1 the odor  
from it was  horrible4 ,we went to the  
,anderson ,camp meeting4 ,on the day    
especially set  apart for the healing of
 the sick1 and seats at that particular 
meeting  were so arranged that for each 
sick person there were three preachers  
to  pray for him or her4 ,my wife came  
up and sat down on the chair next to the
  one where ,i was offering prayer1 and 
after prayer had been offered for her1  
,i heard one of the ministers say to    
her1 ,sister ,susag1 do you believe the 

,lord heals you8 ,she answered1 ,by     
faith ,i am healed4 ,and the minister   
said1 ,yes1 by faith1 is right4 ,from   
that time the cancer began to fall to   
pieces4    ,on the way home ,i asked her
 what it was that gave her the faith for
  healing4 ,she said1 ,i don't know2    
when ,i went onto the platform ,i wanted
  ,brother and ,sister ,byrutn to pray  
for me1 and could have gotten on their  
chair1 but there came a young lady who  
looked as though she might be in the    
last stages of tuberculosis1 to such an 
extent was she affected that she  had to
 be supported by a sister1 one on each  
side of her when she attempted  to walk1
 and ,i saw she was in greater need than
 ,i was1 and1 too1 she was a  young     
woman4 ,i was willing for anyone to pray
 for me1 and if ,i were healed  or not  
it would be all right4 ,i replied1 that 
is where you gained the  victory4       
,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 show      
where the cancer had been4 ,just before 
we went to ,anderson1 a neighbor lady   
wanted to see the cancer and the sight  
of it made her so sick she was in  bed  
for two days4 ,and through it all my    
wife never once complained4           99
       99       99       99       99    
,on the last evening of a meeting ,i was
 holding in ,whittier1 ,california1 a   
man came to me telling me of a sick lady
 who wanted me to come and pray for     
her4 ,i consented to do so but told the 
man ,i must go quickly as a brother  was
 coming very soon to take me to ,los    
,angeles4 ,on arriving at the bedside   
of the sick woman ,i asked her what her 
trouble was4 ,she told me she had a     
cancer on her left breast and side1 and 
that having to lie on the one side  all 
the time she became very sick and sore4 
,i prayed the prayer of faith  for her  
and left immediately4    ,one year later
 ,i received a letter from her4 ,she    
wrote1 ,it is just a year  ago tonight  

since ,i sent for you to come and pray  
for me4 ,as you prayed for  me it was as
 though an electric shock went through  
me and after you left ,i  turned over on
 my left side and went to sleep and     
slept all night and in  the morning when
 ,i woke up ,i was perfectly healed4 ,i 
have waited a year  before writing1 to  
see whether any symptoms returned1 but  
none ever did4    ,in one of my meetings
 while ,i was pastor at ,grand ,forks ,i
 felt impressed to  speak to a young    
man1 ,tom ,perkins1 a ,world ,war ,i    
veteran4 ,i went down into  the audience
 to speak to him1 and told him he ought 
to seek the ,lord that  night as        
something was going to happen4 ,he said1
 ,do you think so8 ,i said1  ,no1 ,i    
don't think so1 ,i know so4 ,but he     
said1 ,not tonight4 ,that was  ,sunday1 
and on ,wednesday afternoon as ,i was   
going down ,de,meres ,avenue he  came   
out of a clothing store with a friend of
 his1 ,i said1 ,how do you do  to him   
and passed on in front of him1 but as ,i

 was passing him the ,lord  said to me1 
,go back and speak to ,tom4 ,i at once  
turned back to him and  said1 ,tom1     
listen to me2 you ought to seek the     
,lord4 ,let us go back in the  store and
 settle it with the ,lord4 ,but he said1
 ,no4 ,i said1 ,it is very  important4  
,he said as before1 ,do you think so8   
,and again ,i answered1 ,i  don't think 
so1 ,i know so4 ,he took it very nicely 
but refused to make any  move toward    
seeking the ,lord4 ,two days later1 the 
following ,friday1 he went  to          
,minneapolis and on ,sunday afternoon he
 was crushed to death between two       
street cars4 ,would it not be well for  
people to heed the warnings of ,god's   
servants and ,his ,spirit8    ,the      
pastor of the ,scandinavian ,free church
 at ,brookings1 ,south ,dakota1 one     
time sent for me to come to pray for a  
sister who was a member of his          
congregation and had been sick in bed   
for some six months4 ,i preached there  
several times and then announced that ,i

 was going to pray for the sick  sister 
at three o'clock the next day1 and asked
 all those who had faith to  be present 
and those who did not have faith to stay
 away1 preachers and  all4 ,only one    
person was there--an elderly ,baptist   
sister from ,huron-,sister  ,shall4 ,the
 prayer of faith was offered and ,sister
 ,johnson was healed and  was present at
 the service that evening4    ,one      
,sunday morning wife and ,i with two    
sisters drove to ,westlake for the      
forenoon service which was held in the  
home of ,brother and ,sister ,hans      
,myhre4 ,after service wife came to me  
and said that ,sister ,myhre wanted us  
to stay for lunch4 ,but ,i said1 ,no1 we
 cannot stay for lunch1 the ,lord  wants
 us to go home right away4 ,on hearing  
this1 ,sister ,myhre came to me  and    
said1 ,you have got to stay for lunch4  
,i answered1 ,sister1 we can't  stay for
 the ,lord told me to go home4 ,she     
said1 ,and then the sisters will  not   
get anything to eat either4 ,why do you 

have to go8 ,i said1 ,i don't  know1    
only that the ,lord says1 go home4      
,brother ,susag1 you are stubborn1  the 
sister insisted4    ,we drove home4     
,wife went upstairs to change her dress1
 ready to get lunch4  ,i sat on a chair 
meditating on what had taken place4 ,i  
said to myself1 ,are  you stubborn8 ,why
 did you come home8 ,just then the      
telephone rang4 ,i  answered and a voice
 said1 ,is this ,rev4 ,susag8 ,yes1 ,i  
said4 ,hold the  line1 long distance    
calling you1 he informed me4 ,after a   
short pause a  voice said1 ,this is     
,anna ,anderson of ,brookings1 ,s4 ,d4  
,do you remember  promising ,grandma    
,h41 when you were pastor here1 that you
 would officiate  at her funeral8 ,she  
died this morning and is to be buried on
 ,tuesday4 ,can  you come8 ,i told her  
,i would come4 ,as ,i turned from the   
telephone wife  came into the room and  
,i said to her1 ,now ,i know why ,i had 
to come home so  quickly1 for if they   
had not gotten in touch with me now1 ,i 

couldn't reach  there in time for the   
funeral4 ,she said1 ,sometimes you are a
 little  queer1 but ,i have committed   
you to the ,lord and things always come 
out all  right4           99       99   
99       99       99    ,when ,brother  
,august ,christofersen of ,norway ,lake1
 ,minnesota1 was down with  double      
pneumonia ,i was sent for to come and   
pray for him4 ,i went and prayed  for   
him and the ,lord raised him up4 ,i     
stayed for three days1 went home and  in
 three or four days received a phone    
call to come back4 ,i asked whether  he 
was sick4 ,they answered1 ,no1 but he   
wants to see you4 ,i was able to  get a 
ride almost to his place1 and walked the
 rest of the way4 ,on nearing  his home 
,i turned in to a grove ,i had to pass  
and kneeled down to pray for  the       
brother4 ,the ,lord said to me1 ,you do 
not need to pray for him now2 he  is    
home with me4 ,on coming toward the     
house his brother came out to meet  me1 
and ,i said to him1 ,so ,brother ,august

 is home with the ,lord6 ,he said1  ,how
 did you know8 ,i said1 ,the ,lord told 
me over in the grove4           99      
99       99       99       99    ,while 
,i was in ,denmark ,i was invited to    
come to a certain town with which ,i    
was entirely unacquainted4 ,finally when
 ,i found time to go ,i went without    
writing to announce my coming4 ,on      
arriving in the city ,i found ,i had    
forgotten both the name and address of  
my friends4 ,i walked back and forth  on
 the depot platform1 racking my brain1  
as it were1 to come across the  needed  
address1 but ,i just could not remember 
it4 ,a man spoke to me and  said1 ,you  
seem to be in deep meditation1 or in    
trouble of some kind4 ,i  said1 ,i      
surely am4 ,to which he replied1        
,sometimes we get into such a  fix2 do  
you suppose ,i could be of any help to  
you8 ,but ,i answered1 ,i  don't suppose
 you can4 ,however1 ,i told him my      
trouble4 ,he laughed and  said1 ,surely 
you are in bad fix2 can't you think of  

anything8 ,the only  thing ,i can think 
of1 ,i said1 is that they are the       
parents of ,mrs4 ,anna  ,nelson of      
,kaas1 ,denmark4 ,well1 he said1 you    
haven't struck it so bad  after all--,i 
am her father6    ,when ,i was pastor in
 ,grand ,forks we had in the            
congregation a mother in  ,israel1 a    
,german sister who could not speak      
,english4 ,one ,sunday evening the      
,lord had blessed in a spiritual way4   
,mother ,calm said to ,brother ,shave1  
,i  can preach ,bro4 ,susag's sermon in 
,german now4 7,i had preached in        
,english47  ,bro4 ,shave said1 ,you     
can't do it4 ,but she said1 ,i can4 ,at 
that1 ,brother  ,shave raised his voice 
and said1 ,everybody wait a little      
while4 ,and1 sure  enough1 ,sister ,calm
 preached my sermon1 the ,germans said1 
almost to a  word4           99       99
       99       99       99    ,at the  
,st4 ,paul ,camp meeting one time1      
,sister ,aamot came to me telling me    
she had lost a five dollar bill1 over   

which she was feeling very badly4 ,her  
husband was not saved4 ,she wanted me to
 pray that the ,lord would help her     
find it4 ,she told me she thought she   
had lost it on her way coming from the  
,old ,people's ,home to the tabernacle4 
,it had been blowing pretty hard that   
day and she had the bill in her         
handkerchief4    ,i went out into the   
timber to pray1 and how the wind did    
blow6 ,after ,i had  been earnestly     
praying that the ,lord would help me to 
find the bill for her  and was getting  
up from my knees1 on looking down into  
the leaves1 lo1  there1 between my      
knees1 was the five dollar bill6 ,and   
the sister had no  difficulty in proving
 that it was her five dollar bill4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,while still in ,denmark1 one time      
,brother ,morris ,johnson and ,i were   
holding  a meeting on a farm4 ,as we saw
 a large1 fine looking man coming toward
 the  meeting place1 ,morris said1      
,let's go behind the barn and pray ,god 

,almighty  to convict and save that man 
this afternoon4 ,and the ,lord honored  
our  faith and really saved the man that
 afternoon4           99       99       
99       99       99    ,i was holding a
 meeting in ,albert ,lee1 ,minnesota and
 from there was  intending to go to     
,greenwood1 ,wisconsin4 ,i looked at my 
time-table to find  out what the        
railroad fare would be and ,i figured it
 to be thirteen  dollars1 so asked the  
,lord to give me thirteen dollars that  
evening4 ,at the  close of the service  
someone put some money in my pocket and 
,i began to  thank the ,lord for        
thirteen dollars4 ,the devil said1 ,you 
haven't got  thirteen dollars in your   
pocket1 but ,i said ,i had4 ,he said1   
,just feel in  your pocket and you will 
find there is hardly anything there1 or 
take it  out and count it and you will  
see4 ,i told him that ,i would neither  
feel in  my pocket nor count the money  
for him1 and that ,i had thirteen       
dollars4    ,when ,i got to my room ,i  

knelt down and thanked the ,lord for    
thirteen  dollars1 and then took the    
money out of my pocket and counted it   
and found  ,i had #ac4je4 ,on buying my 
ticket the next day it cost #ac4je6 ,i  
had made a  mistake in my figuring1 but 
the ,lord knew the exact fare4          
99       99       99       99       99  
,during the meeting at ,greenwood ,i    
went out inviting folks to the services4
  ,one day ,i came to a farm house where
 the man of the house was ill in bed    
with tuberculosis of the spine4 ,i told 
him that ,i was a minister and also1    
that ,i believed in ,divine healing4    
,when he heard this1 he said1 ,you are  
the very man the ,lord has sent to me   
that ,i may be healed4 ,i said1 ,i do   
not know about that2 however1 ,i will   
pray for you4 ,i am impressed of the    
,lord not to anoint you4 ,i will be back
 on ,friday afternoon1 and in the       
meantime will pray the ,lord to show me 
what to do4 ,with this arrangement  the 
sick man was satisfied4 ,it was now     

dusk1 and on reaching my room in the    
house where ,i stayed1 ,i knelt down    
beside a chair to pray for him4 ,as ,i  
did  so1 a cow and three sheep stood    
right before me4 ,i did this four times1
 and  as soon as ,i would get on my     
knees here were the cow and three sheep 
between me and ,god1 so to speak4 ,so ,i
 gave up trying for that time1 but the  
next day at ten o'clock ,i went in to   
pray for him again in broad daylight4   
,but as ,i did so1 the cow and the sheep
 were there before me4    ,on the       
appointed ,friday ,i went to see him    
again4 ,he inquired at once what  the   
,lord had made known to me about him4 ,i
 told him the ,lord had shown me        
something but that ,i did not understand
 what it meant4 ,he was anxious to  hear
 what it was1 and ,i related the vision 
,i had had4 ,he said1 ,i perceive  that 
the ,lord has sent you to be a help to  
me1 and continuing1 went on to  say1 ,we
 used to live in ,iowa on a good sized  
farm and we were well-to-do             

financially4 ,i was very much interested
 in spiritual work1 even to printing    
and sending out a number of tracts4 ,but
 it seemed that my poor soul was        
clinging to the worldly thing too much4 
,i was troubled about it1 off and  on4  
,however1 your vision means that if ,i  
only had a cow and three  sheep--which  
we have--if my soul is clinging to them 
,i can never enter  heaven4 ,surely1 he 
said1 the ,lord has sent you to help me4
 ,please pray  that ,i get right with   
,god2 that is the main thing4 ,the dear 
man bitterly  repented and became very  
happy4 ,the third day following this    
event he went  home to glory4           
99       99       99       99       99  
,i had promised that after this meeting 
,i would go to hold a meeting at        
,dallas1 ,wisconsin1 but the ,lord      
impressed me to go home4 ,knowing no    
reason  for going home1 ,i bought my    
ticket only to a certain station where  
,i would  have to change if ,i went to  
,dallas1 thinking that maybe my feelings

 would  change before ,i got there4 ,but
 there was no change in my feelings when
 we  got there1 so ,i bought a ticket to
 ,st4 ,paul and from there got a ticket 
to  ,hawick1 ,minnesota1 which is just  
three miles from my home4    ,on the    
street in ,hawick1 ,i met a young       
brother who exclaimed when he saw  me1  
,oh1 so you got our postal card8 ,i     
replied1 ,i did not get any postal      
card4 ,then he said1 ,but you got the   
telegram8 ,i told him ,i had not        
received any telegram either4 ,well1    
then1 said he1 how did you happen to    
come home8 ,i told him that the ,lord   
wanted me to come home1 and then asked  
him what the trouble was4 ,he told me   
that my wife was very sick1 near to     
dying4 ,then he very kindly said he     
would take me out home4 ,on arriving    
home  wife said1 ,i knew you were       
coming2 ,i asked the ,lord to send you4 
,she was  suffering from an internal    
malady from which the nurse had told her
 she  could not recover1 and so made up 

her mind that she was going to die4     
,right at this time we received a letter
 from ,brothers ,nelson and ,niles      
requesting me to come and hold a tent   
meeting for them in ,san ,antonio and   
that ,i should bring my tent with me to 
hold the meeting in4 ,of course1 ,i     
felt ,i could not go and wrote them to  
that effect4 ,meanwhile1 wife had       
persuaded me that she was going to die1 
and being in poor circumstances1 ,i     
said to her1 ,you will not hold it      
against me1 if when you die1 ,i sell out
  and take a homestead and so get out of
 debt1 will you8 ,and her reply was1    
,when ,i am dead you can do what you    
please4    ,just about that time we got 
a letter from the ,brothers ,nelson and 
,niles  telling us they had been praying
 and the ,lord had showed them that     
,sister  ,susag was not going to die4   
,on hearing this1 wife said1 ,the good  
brethren  do not know any better2 ,i am 
going to die4 7,and ,i was thinking so1 
too1 as  she was getting no help47 ,more

 and more ,i was thinking about the     
homestead2  but wife told me ,i had     
better go to ,texas4 ,it seemed almost  
impossible to  get anyone to come and   
stay with her and the children1 yet she 
would say1  ,we will get along some way 
and you had better go or else souls will
 be  lost4 ,if ,i should pass away      
before you get back you know where ,i am
 going  and if you keep true to the     
,lord we will meet in glory4    ,but ,i 
did not feel as though ,i could go and  
leave her that way4 ,a couple of  nights
 after ,i had had this conversation with
 her ,i had a dream4 ,i saw a  little   
table standing beside my bed on which   
was a kerosene lamp4 ,the light  was    
just about to go out4 ,it would light up
 a little and then go down till  it     
looked as though it was just ready to   
quit burning4 ,i saw ,jesus standing  on
 the other side of the table with a sad 
look on his face1 pointing to the  lamp 
and saying1 ,your lamp is about to go   
out4 ,and ,i awoke from my dream  and   

jumped out of bed1 ran into the next    
room and said to my wife1 ,on  ,tuesday 
morning1 ,i leave for ,texas whether you
 are living or dying4 ,to  which she    
replied1 ,praise the ,lord for your     
decision4    ,the ,lord miraculously    
sent a good sister to our home from     
,washington4 ,she  arrived the morning  
,i was leaving for ,texas4 ,when she    
discovered the  circumstances1 and that 
wife was sick1 she said1 ,now ,i know   
why the ,lord  sent me here1 and ,i'm   
here to stay until ,sister ,susag is    
well4    ,so ,i went to ,san ,antonio4  
,this was in the year #aijb4 ,at one    
place where ,i  had to change trains on 
the way1 ,i took my grip and walked out 
on the  platform toward the train ,i was
 to take4 ,there ,i stood and did not   
get on  the train1 and the train pulled 
out without me4 ,i walked back to the   
depot1  and the agent asked me whether  
,i had intended to take that train and  
why ,i  did not get on it4 ,i simply    
told him ,i didn't know why4 ,well1 he  

said1  you fool1 you will now have to   
wait four hours and take a slow train4  
7,i  understood a little later why ,i   
was held back from boarding that train4 
,only forty-five miles out it became    
derailed and some forty passengers were 
seriously injured and1 if my memory is  
correct1 some were killed47    ,when the
 tent meeting was over at ,san ,antonio1
 ,bro4 ,nelson left with me and  we were
 expecting to stop over in ,hamilton and
 ,kingston1 ,mo4 to hold some  services4
 ,as we came closer to the first place  
,bro4 ,nelson said1 ,here the  saints   
are well-to-do people4 ,so1 ,i thought1 
if they are well-to-do we  will not need
 to spend our time asking ,god for our  
car fare1 for they well  know that      
preachers need car fare4 ,the           
congregation rented a room for us  about
 a couple of blocks from the depot and  
we ate our meals in the  different      
homes4    ,after the meeting had closed 
and we had gone to our room at eleven p4
 m41  ,brother ,nelson asked me whether 

,i had received money for our car fare4 
,i  told him ,i had not2 that ,i thought
 he had received it all1 since he had   
been there before4 ,but he hadn't       
received any4 ,we then decided we had   
better see whether we had enough money  
to take us to the next place4  ,brother 
,nelson had enough for his fare and     
eight cents over2 ,i was lacking  two   
dollars4 ,we were to leave on the       
four-thirty train in the morning1 and   
now we had to pray the ,lord to get us  
the two dollars6    ,as for me1 ,i was  
not acquainted in the city and did not  
know where to go to  raise a penny4 ,we 
prayed until two o'clock1 then ,i said  
to ,brother ,nelson1  ,we do not need to
 pray any longer2 the ,lord says ,he    
will attend to it4 ,we  went to bed for 
about an hour and a half4 ,we went to   
the depot and ,brother  ,nelson bought  
his ticket1 then ,i ordered mine and put
 what money ,i had in  the window of the
 ticket office4 ,while the agent was    
counting the money1 a  man came running 

very fast into the waiting room and     
stuck his left hand  right in front of  
my nose through the ticket window and   
left two dollars  there1 then turned and
 went out so fast that ,i had no chance 
to thank him4  ,brother ,nelson looked  
at the man1 and then asked me whether ,i
 knew him1 but  ,i had never seen him   
before1 nor had ,brother ,nelson4 ,the  
lesson ,i learned  from this incident   
was that it is better to depend upon the
 ,lord than on  well-to-do saints4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,on arriving home ,i told wife of the   
incident4 ,she at once asked me whether 
,i was sure it was a man who brought the
 two dollars4 ,i said1 ,to me he  looked
 like an angel1 and he would have looked
 so to you if you had been in  a like   
fix4           99       99       99     
99       99    ,,answers ,,to ,,prayer  
,once1 when home for two or three days  
,i was suffering pain in the region of  
my heart4 ,at every beat it would seem  
to say1 ,kelly1 ,kelly1 ,kelly4 7,kelly 

was a place in ,north ,dakota1 about    
#bfj miles from home4 ,there were a few 
saints in the community who might be    
needing help74 ,i was very sick and ,i  
told my wife how badly ,i was feeling4  
,she said1 ,perhaps the ,lord wants you 
to go to ,kelly4 ,the next day the pain 
was still bothering me1 so ,i sat  down 
and wrote to ,o4 ,o4 ,holman and said1  
,i am sick2 if the pain in my  heart    
does not soon stop ,i will be at your   
station ,sunday at ten o'clock4  ,this  
was in the month of ,august1 the busy   
season for farmers4 ,the pain did  not  
stop1 so ,i started out4 ,when ,i had   
gone about one hundred miles from  home 
the pain left me4    ,having to change  
trains at ,grand ,forks and there being 
no train for ,kelly  until the next     
morning1 ,i decided to go and stay over 
night with ,brother ,c4  ,h4 ,tubbs4 ,at
 the parsonage ,i met ,brother ,newell1 
a minister1 ,brother ,shave  and        
,brother ,niles1 deacons of the         
congregation there1 and a sister who was

  visiting4    ,they all exclaimed in   
surprise at seeing me appear at that    
time of the year  and wanted to know the
 reason for my being there4 ,i really   
felt sheepish  about telling them4      
,kelly was only fifteen miles from      
,grand ,forks and they  had not heard of
 there being any serious trouble there4 
,after ,i had told them how ,i happened 
to be going to ,kelly1 ,brother ,tubbs  
turned to his wife and said1 ,mary1 you 
preach tomorrow2 ,i want to go along    
with ,bro4 ,susag and see what is going 
on4 ,his wife said1 ,charles1 ,i am     
going along1 too4 ,then to ,bro4 ,newell
 he said1 ,you take the morning  service
 tomorrow1 but he also declined as he1  
too1 wanted to go with us4  ,and ,bro4  
,shave made the same reply2 he wanted to
 go to ,kelly4 ,but when ,bro4  ,niles  
was asked to preach at the morning      
service1 he kindly consented to  take   
charge4 ,in the morning ,i started out  
for ,kelly with three ministers1  one   
deacon and one sister accompanying me4  

,i am generally quite talkative1 but ,i 
did not do much talking those fifteen   
miles1 wondering what the people would  
think if1 when getting there1 we  should
 find nothing unusual the matter4 ,when 
the train stopped at the  station ,i    
waited for all the folks to get off     
first4 ,as ,i looked out of the  window 
,i saw ,brother ,holman standing on the 
platform weeping1 looking at  the people
 as they got off the train4 ,then ,i    
came4 ,i went to him and asked  him why 
he was weeping4 ,he said1 ,we have been 
praying the ,lord to send you  to us and
 today ,i started for the station1      
confident that ,i would either  meet you
 in person or that ,i would get a       
letter1 and taking the letter  from his 
pocket and holding it up1 said1 and here
 ,i have both6 ,then he  told me that   
his wife was very ill1 possibly dying1  
and that they had been  praying the     
,lord to send me to them4    ,it was    
three miles out to their home in the    
country and ,bro4 ,holman had  only a   

one-seated buggy1 so the two sisters    
drove and we preachers walked4    ,the  
good ,lord heard prayer and healed      
,sister ,holman4 ,also1 an old lady of  
ninety years of age was baptized at this
 time4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,on another occasion ,i  
was asked to come to ,grand ,forks to   
hold a revival  meeting4 ,on my arrival 
there ,i found that the pastor was      
having trouble  with his eyes so that he
 had to stay at home in a dark room4    
,services  started ,friday night and it 
seemed that the whole congregation had  
become  cooled off4 ,this was made clear
 to me1 so ,i preached three            
sermons--one on  ,friday night and two  
on ,saturday4 ,but it looked as though  
the condition  grew worse instead of    
better as a result of my preaching4     
,saturday night ,i had a dream4 ,i      
dreamed that the ,lord had sent me there
 to  gather the sheep back that had     
wandered into a man's field and were    
tramping the grain down4 ,then ,i picked

 up one stone and threw it at them to   
try to get them back4 ,i picked up      
another stone1 and then threw the third 
one4 ,they seemed now to be frightened  
worse than ever4 ,this discouraged me   
and ,i said to the ,lord1 ,what shall ,i
 do8 ,he said1 ,speak gently to them4   
,then ,i went into the field myself and 
called ,sheep6 ,sheep6 to them1 and     
they began to gather together and it    
wasn't long before ,i had a nice bunch  
of sheep up on the highway4 ,i asked the
 ,lord why it was ,i couldn't get them  
together without my going into the field
 myself1 for ,i preached ,his word to   
them4 ,yes1 ,he said1 you preached ,my  
,word to them1 but it was the way you   
preached it4 ,so ,sunday ,i made my     
confession to the congregation and      
weeping1 asked their forgiveness1 and   
every one was brought back to the       
,lord1 and a few sinners who were in the
 audience were also saved4    ,through  
the week of services thirty-eight       
persons came from different  states and 

,canada for healing--and there were some
 very serious cases4 ,the  night before 
the day we had set apart for the praying
 for the sick1 ,i  prayed from eleven   
o'clock that night until four o'clock in
 the morning in  a dark room4 ,when ,i  
got up from my knees the ,lord stood    
before me and made  it clear to me that 
,he was going to heal every one of those
 who had been  prayed for4    ,after all
 were healed and it was time for the    
services to close1 a little  nine year  
old girl came and sat on the altar      
bench4 ,i went to her and said1  ,what  
do you want1 ,sophie8 ,in reply she said
 that she had seen how the  ,lord had   
healed the eyes of ,sister ,hobert and  
that now she wanted the ,lord  to heal  
her and set her eyes straight4 7,her    
eyes were badly crossed74    ,on        
returning to the city some eight months 
later1 ,i was invited to take  supper   
with ,brother and ,sister ,amondson1    
,sophie's parents4 ,they had a  number  
of children who came around me1 and ,i  

wanted to know where the  little girl   
was whose eyes were crossed and for whom
 ,i prayed several  months before4 ,a   
little girl spoke up and said1 ,don't   
you know me8 ,i am  ,sophie4 ,i then    
asked her to tell me about her healing4 
,she told me that she was prayed for on 
that ,friday night1 and the following   
,monday she was starting out to school  
without her glasses and her mother1  who
 was not saved1 seeing her without her  
glasses1 said1 ,sophie1 don't  forget to
 wear your glasses6 ,sophie answered1   
,mother1 ,i was prayed for at  the      
revival meeting ,friday night and ,i do 
not need my glasses4 ,her mother  said1 
,nonsense1 come and get your glasses4   
,but ,sophie ran away to school6        
,that forenoon the teacher asked ,sophie
 to read1 and when she got up she  said1
 ,sophie1 haven't you your glasses with 
you8 7,she knew ,sophie had not  been   
able to read without her glasses47      
,sophie answered1 lifting her hand1     
,teacher1 ,i was prayed for at the      

revival meeting ,friday night and ,i do 
not  need my glasses6 and her eyes were 
straight6    ,a number of years later ,i
 met ,sophie with her little girl4 ,she 
was a lovely  looking woman and was     
happily married4           99       99  
99       99       99    ,i was baptizing
 a number of people in the ,north ,sea1 
outside of ,lokken1  ,denmark1 among    
whom was ,sister ,swenborg1 from ,tiste1
 whose eyes were so  crossed that she   
could not help herself at all without   
wearing her glasses4  ,a big crowd was  
there1 mocking and throwing sand at the 
saints4 ,i had just  baptized ,sister   
,swenborg1 and as she was coming out of 
the sea ,i heard a  shout going up from 
the saints4 ,they told me that as the   
sister was coming  out of the water with
 lifted hands and looking up to heaven  
praising ,god1 a  halo of glory was     
shining around her head--and her eyes   
were straightened  and she was a changed
 woman from that time4 ,the mob stopped 
their mocking  on seeing this           

demonstration4    ,after the service the
 next ,sunday at ,tiste1 ,sister        
,swenborg made the  request that        
everybody meet her the next ,tuesday    
afternoon at two-thirty  o'clock at the 
boat landing as she had something of    
interest to tell them4    ,a big crowd  
gathered on ,tuesday afternoon1 and the 
sister climbed up on a  large box       
holding her glasses in her hand and said
 to the people1 ,you all  know me and my
 parents who live about six miles east  
of town4 ,before ,i was  big enough to  
wear glasses it was necessary either for
 me to have someone  lead me or to pull 
me in a little wagon or sleigh4 ,i was  
saved recently in  a meeting held by    
,bro4 ,morris ,c4 ,johnson and last week
 ,i went to ,lokken and  was baptized1  
and as ,i came out of the water my eyes 
were straightened4  ,here are my        
glasses1 she said1 holding them up and  
telling what they had  cost1 ,here they 
go6 ,i don't need them anymore6 and into
 the sea they  went4 ,then1 opening her 

hand bag she took out a needle and said1
 ,this is  the finest needle on the     
market1 and took thread and threaded it 
before  the eyes of the astonished      
crowd4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,for a number of years ,i
 had suffered with appendicitis and     
during a meeting  ,i was holding in     
company with ,bro4 ,carl ,arbeiter at   
,plum ,coolie1 ,canada1 ,i  had a severe
 attack which lasted two days and two   
nights4 ,the third night ,i  was so     
tired and worn out that ,i went to sleep
 in spite of the pain4 ,i woke  up      
hearing myself say1 ,don't stick that   
knife into me4 ,the appendix was        
swollen to about the size of a small    
hen's egg1 and ,i felt it was going to  
burst4 ,there was no time to get anyone 
to come and pray so ,i laid my own      
hands on my body and said1 ,lord ,god   
,almighty1 if you do not help me now ,i 
am gone4 ,it burst1 making a noise like 
the shot from a small shotgun4 ,i  then 
turned over to my other side and went to

 sleep at once and have never           
experienced any bad effects nor had any 
attacks since4 ,in relating this        
experience to three doctors later1 two  
of them laughed and made fun of me1  but
 the third one said1 ,hold on1 hold on2 
this man has never lied to me  yet4 ,he 
said it could have burst into the       
intestines1 the poison passing  out the 
natural way4 ,and if not1 the ,lord ,god
 could take care of him6           99   
99       99       99       99    ,once  
,i had a stroke4 ,half the left side of 
my body down to my knees was  affected4 
,i could not sit up1 neither could ,i   
lie down4 ,i stood on my knees  beside  
the sofa for two weeks4 ,i was prayed   
for several times but was not  healed4  
,and ,i was to start a revival meeting  
at ,hereford1 ,minn4 the  ,thursday of  
the second week that ,i was sick4       
,sister ,hedricks came over often and   
prayed for me4 ,when on the second      
,friday she came and ,i was no better1  
she asked me whether ,i had sent to     

,anderson and to the ,scandinavian      
,publishing ,company at ,st4 ,paul ,park
 to  have them pray for me4 ,on telling 
her ,i had not done so and explaining to
  her that ,i had no faith for my own   
healing1 ,i said1 ,i could pray for your
  healing if you were sick1 but ,i have 
no faith for myself1 and ,i have always 
preached that when folks were saved they
 should have faith to pray for  their   
own healing1 so ,i do not want to bother
 the folks to pray for me4  ,well1 she  
said1 aren't you humble enough to tell  
them that you have no  faith for        
yourself8 ,i answered1 ,all right1 you  
pray for me and ,i will  think it over4 
,the next day ,i asked wife to write to 
these two places1 and  when she had     
written and sealed the two letters ,i   
was instantly healed6  ,wife sent the   
letters4    ,after getting healed ,i    
decided to go to the revival meeting at 
,hereford1  but there was no train going
 there until ,monday and it was in the  
month of  ,november and very cold4 ,and 

it was at the time when the automobile  
first  came into use4 ,one family in the
 congregation at ,hereford had a ,ford  
furnished with a top and side curtains1 
another family had a ,buick 7called  a  
gentleman's car71 and it had no top nor 
even a windshield on it4    ,i found out
 later that the owning of these cars had
 caused some little  friction in the    
congregation4 ,in fact1 some had said   
that nobody could have  one of those    
machines and still be a ,christian4 ,but
 they had decided to  leave the matter  
until the time ,brother ,susag should   
come and he would help  them out4       
,when we were leaving my home to drive  
to town to take the train for there1  it
 was really cold4 ,i said to my wife1   
,let's go back in the house and ask  the
 ,lord to send a man to meet me at      
,elbow ,lake1 with a car having a top on
  it and side curtains--for ,i was still
 very weak4 ,on arriving at ,elbow ,lake
  ,i went to the post office and wrote a
 card home--,i would have had to change 

trains there if no one had come to meet 
me--and as ,i came out of the post      
office ,i saw a man across the          
street--walking in the direction ,i was 
going4  ,he looked at me and ,i looked  
at him1 wondering1 then he came running 
across  the street and exclaimed1 ,now  
,i know why ,i came to town today6 ,i am
 here  to drive you to the meeting4 ,i  
had left my car in town to have a little
  work done on it1 not intending to use 
it until after the meeting4    ,then he 
went on to say1 ,we live six miles from 
town1 and this morning as ,i  was       
working around the barn the ,lord said  
to me1 ',you go to town and get  your   
car4' ,my wife said1 ',john1 leave that 
car alone2 don't go to town4'  ,but ,i  
told her that the ,lord said1 ',you go  
and get the car4' ,and ,i came as  fast 
as ,i could get here4    ,he took me to 
the service4 ,bro4 ,e4 ,g4 ,masters was 
preaching1 and when he  had finished    
speaking he asked me to come to the     
pulpit and tell how the  ,lord had      

healed me and how it was that ,i managed
 to get to the service4 ,i  related the 
whole story1 telling how ,i had prayed  
for someone to meet me  who had a4 car  
having a top to it and side curtains to 
keep out the cold4 ,i  then added that  
,i was so glad the ,lord had lots of    
cars2 that as for me1 ,i  never expected
 to have a car of my own for ,i did not 
think that ,i would  ever be able to    
afford anything like that4 ,that settled
 the car difficulty  in the             
congregation--and ,i was entirely       
ignorant of the fact of there  having   
been any trouble6 ,today ,i am using my 
ninth car4    ,that meeting was a real  
success4 ,brother ,masters1 for a number
 of evenings1  had offered a brand new  
eighteen dollar ,bible to any preacher1 
professor1  presiding elder or bishop   
that could come into the pulpit and     
prove that we  were not preaching the   
,bible4 ,he gave them five minutes to   
come to the  front4 ,one family         
belonging to a certain denomination sent

 for their bishop  and he came4 ,after  
the service was over and the family had 
taken the bishop  to their home1 they   
asked him why he did not get up and     
prove that we were  not preaching the   
truth so as to get the ,bible4 ,the good
 man answered1  ,after those two men    
were finished speaking there was nothing
 to say4 ,they  preached the ,bible4    
,brother ,masters spoke on the ,white   
,horse of ,calvary  and used the        
blackboard to illustrate his meaning4   
99       99       99       99       99  
,brother ,peter ,peterson of ,hoboken1  
,new ,jersey and ,i held some meetings  
together up in a newly settled district 
of northern ,minnesota4 ,our offering   
for two weeks services was one round    
fifty-cent piece4    ,while there we had
 a call to go to the insane asylum1 at  
,fergus ,falls1  ,minnesota to pray for 
a ,brother ,weegan who had lost his     
mind4 ,after  entering the institution  
we were locked in the cell with him and 
on bended  knees with our hands uplifted

 toward heaven1 we began to pray and all
 of a  sudden he was restored to his    
right mind4 ,we knocked on the door to  
have  the attendant came and let us out4
 ,as we were going out of the door      
,brother  ,weegan pushed his head       
between us and the attendant and said to
 the man1  ,you might just as well let  
me out1 too1 for ,i am as rational as   
these two  preachers now1 and ,i will   
not hurt you any more4    ,then ,i asked
 the attendant whether there was a man  
in the place by the name  of ,john      
,lukesen of ,irving1 ,minnesota1 and he 
told me there was such a man  there4 ,i 
told him we had ten minutes to spare and
 asked him whether we  could go in and  
see him without first having to go to   
the superintendent's  office for        
permission4 ,the man lifted his hands   
and said1 ,you can see  anyone in this  
institution since this one man has      
received help from you4    ,he then     
proceeded to give us information about  
the one we wanted to see4 ,he  said1    

,when ,mr4 ,lukesen first came here we  
had to have him in a padded cell  and he
 got so bad that we had to tie him to   
his cot and now he is like a  wild cat  
and nothing but skin and bones2 he won't
 be long for this world4    ,when he    
opened the door to the cell1 there ,i   
saw my neighbor lying on his  cot and he
 surely did look like a wild cat1 as the
 man had said6 ,the  compassion of the  
,lord ,jesus came upon me and ,i lifted 
my hands toward  heaven and called aloud
 to him1 ,john ,lukesen1 the ,lord      
,jesus ,christ1 whom  ,i serve1 makes   
you well6 ,and he was well6 ,shortly    
after this1 he was sent  home4    ,we   
planned to go from there to ,hereford1  
,minnesota4 ,at ,evansville where we    
had to change trains1 we inquired of the
 station agent when the train for       
,hereford would be leaving4 ,we were    
informed that there would be no train   
leaving for that place before ,thursday 
at three o'clock4 ,we were told that    
only two trains a week went from there  

to ,hereford and this was ,tuesday--a   
long time to wait6    ,brother ,peterson
 said1 ,let us go out and pray4 ,after  
we had prayed we  returned to the depot 
and asked the agent when the train for  
,hereford would  be leaving4 ,he        
answered gruffly1 ,i told you ,thursday 
afternoon at three  o'clock4 ,all right1
 said ,brother ,peterson1 ,let us go out
 and pray4  ,after praying we went back 
the second time and asked the agent the 
same  question2 and this time he was    
really gruff4 ,and he surely informed us
 that  there would be no train leaving  
before ,thursday afternoon at three     
o'clock4  ,again1 ,brother ,peterson    
said1 ,all right1 let us go out and     
pray4    ,we went out once more into the
 grove to pray and ,brother ,peterson   
did the  praying3 ,lord1 the ,president 
can get a special pullman train any time
 he  wants it and he is only the        
president of the ,united ,states2 and   
here are  we1 ,brother ,susag and ,i1   
,thy ambassadors4 ,we are not asking    

,thee for a  pullman car--we will be    
satisfied with an old caboose--the      
distance is only  #cj miles2 so ,lord1  
won't you please talk to the agent8 ,we 
both said ,,amen4    ,on returning to   
the agent for the third time1 ,brother  
,peterson said to him1  ,when will that 
train be ready for ,hereford8 ,in a very
 mild tone he  replied1 ,i have been    
thinking about it and ,i will shove a   
few box cars and  a caboose together and
 send you fellows out4 ,and we both     
said1 ,thank you1  sir4 ,and so the     
,lord answered prayer and sent us home  
on a special train6    ,when wife and ,i
 got saved1 my brothers and families and
 wives quit writing  to us1 and in four 
years we seldom heard from them4 ,one   
evening a letter  came from my          
sister-in-law telling us that my brother
 had lost his reason  and had been sent 
to the insane asylum at ,st4 ,peter1    
,minnesota1 and asking  me to come at   
once4 ,not having any money on hand to  
go with1 ,i went to a  near neighbor and

 showed him the letter and asked him if 
he would loan me  fifteen dollars so    
that ,i could go to ,minneapolis and    
also to ,st4 ,peter4 ,he  told me that  
he would do that even if ,i were not    
able to pay him back4 ,the  next day ,i 
went to ,minneapolis to my sister-in-law
 and her five children4  ,jerome1 the   
oldest boy1 seven years of age1 said1   
,uncle1 are you going to  bring ,daddy  
home8 ,i said1 ,son1 ,i cannot bring    
your ,daddy home1 but ,jesus  ,christ   
whom ,i serve will bring him home4      
,my sister-in-law related how it all    
happened4 ,she went for her pastor and  
my brother-in-law1 a professor in the   
,lutheran college4 ,when they came      
,jerome said to them1 ,won't you pray   
like ,uncle ,swen does8 ,they had       
evidently talked about our praying even 
though they did not write to us4  ,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  him4    

,i went to ,st4 ,peter1 and ,dr4        
,tumbleson1 the president of the        
institution1  refused to let me see my  
brother4 ,i told him that ,i must see   
him2 that as a  minister of the gospel  
,i had a right to go where a doctor     
could go4 ,but he  still refused and    
called in two other doctors who said to 
me1 ,your brother  is not only insane   
but is seriously ill and we do not      
expect him to leave  this institution   
alive4 ,to which ,i replied1 ,then so   
much the more do ,i  have to see him2   
and if you continue to refuse to let me 
see him you will  have two ,susags in   
this institution1 for ,i will stay until
 you grant me the  right to see my      
brother4 ,finally relenting1 they sent  
for a man to take me  to see my poor    
brother4    ,as ,i entered the cell in  
which he was confined my brother did not
 know me4  ,he was walking around the   
room more like an animal than like a    
man4 ,i knelt  down in the middle of the
 floor and prayed4 ,after a while he    

came and put  his hand on my shoulder   
and said1 ,swen1 how does it come that  
you are  here8 ,i said1 ,i have come to 
help you1 ,mike4 ,thank you1 ,i am glad 
you  have come2 something got into my   
head and ,i lost my mind4 ,how is my    
family8 ,i told him they were all well  
and had sent their greetings to him4    
,then the man who had brought me in took
 hold of me and ordered me out4    ,but 
,i was satisfied4 ,this was the #bbnd of
 ,march and ,i fasted from one meal     
every day for seventeen days and some   
days ,i would touch neither water nor   
food telling the ,lord ,i had promised  
,mike's wife and his children that ,i   
was going to bring the husband and daddy
 home2 and1 ,jesus1 ,i will give you  no
 rest until you do so4    ,on the eighth
 of ,april during morning worship the   
,spirit of the ,lord  revealed to me    
that the ,lord had heard our prayer and 
that my brother was  perfectly well6 ,i 
jumped up from my knees and ran around  
the house shouting  the glory of ,god4  

,wife thought1 ,here is another crazy   
,susag1 but ,brother  ,enos ,key1 of    
,red ,key1 ,indiana 7who had come to    
hold a meeting7 was with us  and he     
said1 ,praise ,god1 ,brother ,susag has 
the victory6 ,and three days  later ,i  
received a letter from ,doctor          
,tumbleson giving us the good news  that
 on the eighth day of ,april the nurse  
went to take food to my brother  and    
found him perfectly well in mind and    
body4 ,and that he was doing            
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 come4 ,in a  short 
time he was home and well4           99 
99       99       99       99    ,on one
 occasion when ,i was holding a meeting 
at the fishing town of  ,sookden1       
,denmark1 a great storm arose4 ,as is   
the custom in fishing towns1  boats put 
out to sea at high tide for better      
fishing conditions2 forty-two  had gone 
from here about two o'clock in the      

night4 ,toward morning the storm  broke 
and on into the forenoon it became very 
fierce4 ,some of the older  people were 
telling of a similar storm they         
remembered of some forty years  before  
when thirty-eight boats went out and    
such a storm blew up4 ,if ,i  remember  
correctly1 not one boat returned4    ,in
 those days there were no motor boats4  
,they were all sailboats1 generally     
three men to a boat4 ,this time1        
however1 they had gasoline motors on the
  boats and from twelve o'clock until   
three o'clock one boat after the other  
returned1 some of them full of water1   
barely getting to shore4 ,forturnately  
the wind was blowing toward the shore or
 they might not have made a safe        
landing4    ,i was staying at the home  
of ,brother ,morton ,petersen4 ,he and  
his crew had  not returned as yet4 ,it  
seemed that most of the population of   
the town was  standing on the hills     
looking for his return4 ,i heard someone
 say to his  wife1 ,marie1 do you expect

 ,morton to return8 ,she answered1 ,he  
has been  out so many times and has come
 back1 and ,i expect him back this time4
 ,he  generally went farther out than   
any of the fishermen because the farther
  out the fish were supposed to be      
larger and better4    ,we stood out     
there for two hours or more4 ,about five
 o'clock someone said1  ,i see a dark   
spot out there4 ,a little later someone 
else shouted1 ,i see  a spot1 too6 ,and 
then we began to see the spot more and  
more often1 and at  last they came      
safely to land--and not a bucket of     
water in the boat4    ,on our way home  
,i asked ,brother ,petersen how he had  
gotten along4 ,he said1  ,when we       
realized the storm was on hand we packed
 up our fishing lines and  ,i ordered my
 partner to take care of the motor and  
,i myself took charge of  the rudder4   
,my partner was a saved man but we had a
 boy who was not saved4  ,i ordered him 
to be ready to dip out the water if any 
got in the boat4    ,i asked him whether

 they did much talking during that      
terrible storm and he  said1 ,no1 ,i was
 praying all the time that we might     
reach land safely1  because the young   
man with us was not saved and he was the
 sole support of  his widowed mother1   
his father and one or two brothers      
having gone down  somewhere in the      
,north ,sea not so long ago4 ,we were   
getting along very  well--for the ,lord 
helped me steer the boat right--but the 
worst that we  had to meet was just     
before we landed--there were three      
sandbars we had to  cross4 ,if the waves
 struck us just right we would get over1
 but if not1 we  would get stuck in the 
sandbars1 and there would be no help for
 us4 ,when we  came to the first one a  
big wave carried us safely over the     
sandbar4 ,i said  ',thank ,god1 we are  
over the first one2' and so it was with 
the other two2  and each time ,i said1  
',thank ,god for taking us over1 and    
too1 for not  letting the water get into
 our boat4'    ,a week later ,i embarked

 on the steamer ,olaf ,barger1 sailing  
from  ,fredriksen1 ,denmark1 to ,sweden4
 ,as ,i was going on board the boat the 
,captain came to me and asked whether ,i
 could spare him a few minutes before   
we landed in ,sweden1 as he wished to   
have a talk with me4 ,when we got so    
far that we could begin to see the rocky
 coast of ,sweden he came to me and     
began his narrative4 ,he said1 pointing 
ahead1 ,you see that three-mast         
schooner standing upon that rock8 ,i    
said1 ,yes1 ,i see it4 ,you remember    
the awful storm we had a week ago today4
 ,we were just coming out from          
,gottenburg to return to ,denmark--an   
hour's sailing--and the schooner called 
for help but we were unable to even help
 ourselves so that we could not         
possibly help them4 ,they were blown    
upon the rocks1 but the people were     
saved4 ,then he pointed to the left to  
two big rocks1 and continued1 ,and      
right there was a small steamer in      
trouble4 ,they1 too1 called for help but

  we could not give it and they went    
down4    ,we now saw that it would be   
impossible for us to reach ,denmark and 
were  fortunate in managing to turn the 
ship's course back toward ,gottenburg4  
,i  tied myself to the bridge with an   
inch rope4 ,down into the waves we went 
and ,i said to myself1 ',we have seen   
the sun for the last time4' ,but we came
  up and went down again many1 many     
times4 ,then ,i did something ,i had    
never  in all my life done before--,i am
 sixty-five years old--,i prayed the    
,lord to  save my ship and all that were
 sailing with me4 ,along in the         
afternoon ,i  found myself calling on   
,god for salvation of my soul1 and the  
,lord did save  me and finally brought  
my ship1 and those sailing with me1     
safely into the  harbor at nine o'clock 
that evening1 it having taken us nine   
hours to do  one hour's sailing4        
,knowing that you were a minister of the
 gospel ,i wanted to tell you the  story
 that you might perhaps tell it to      

others4    ,how longsuffering and       
merciful is the ,son of ,god toward the 
children of men  that when they repent  
and turn to ,him1 ,,he ,,forgives       
,,them4           99       99       99  
99       99    ,one time when ,i arrived
 home from one of my evangelistic tours 
,i found that  my two young sons who    
were twins1 eleven years of age1 had    
been cutting  hay4 ,it was all raked and
 rowed up ready for hauling1 and they   
were  rejoicing that ,i had come as they
 were counting on me to help them haul  
and  stack the hay4 ,they said1 ,dad1   
tomorrow you will have to help us4 ,i   
said1  ,all right1 we will have to get  
up early to get it done as ,i am leaving
 the  following day to start another    
meeting4    ,the next morning we started
 out4 ,we had to drive eighty rods south
 on the  road1 then we turned another   
eighty rods east to the hay meadow4     
,just as ,i  began to pitch the hay up  
in the rack the boys exclaimed1 ,dad1   
it's  raining4 ,yes1 ,i said1 and stuck 

my pitchfork in the ground1 threw my hat
  beside it and said1 ,let's pray4 ,i   
said to the ,lord1 ,this hay is yours2  
this farm is yours and ,i am your       
servant4 ,this hay must be hauled today 
as  ,i leave tomorrow to minister unto  
the people1 so please1 at least keep the
  rain off the hay meadow and off the   
road where we have to drive4 ,amen4     
,i went to pitching hay again2 it was   
just pouring down all around us as far  
as we could see across the fence and    
west of the road4 ,the only spots where 
it did not rain was where we were       
working and on the road we were driving4
  ,it rained all day1 and it did not    
just rain--it poured6 ,we hauled hay all
  day1 until a little after six o'clock 
,i slid off the stack in the yard and   
then the rain just poured down4 ,i said 
to the boys1 ,the ,lord surely heard    
prayer4 ,they said1 ,yes1 ,he did1 and  
we thanked the ,lord4    ,after ,i had  
left the next day1 our neighbor came    
over and seeing the stack  asked the    

boys when they stacked that hay4 ,they  
told him1 ,yesterday1 ,daddy  was home4 
7,there was a distance of about twenty  
rods between his house and  ours74 ,he  
said1 ,that is impossible4 ,i took a    
rest all day for the rain  just poured  
down and ,i could not do anything4 ,he  
thought it must have been  the day      
before that we hauled and stacked the   
hay4 ,but the boys told him  that ,daddy
 prayed and it did not rain on our hay  
meadow1 nor on the road  where we were  
driving4 ,this man was greatly          
astonished at hearing this4           99
       99       99       99       99    
,one afternoon1 about three o'clock1 the
 renters on our place came running  in  
great excitement into wife's room and   
said1 ,mrs4 ,susag1 a cyclone is        
coming4 ,she went out with them and it  
was dark4 ,there was a wood pile  about 
three or four rods south of our houses  
and parts of our neighbors  buildings   
south of us were blowing through our    
pasture and wood from the  wood pile    

began to go up in the air4 ,wife lifted 
her hands toward heaven  facing the     
storm and cried1 ,lord ,god1 don't let  
that storm strike our  dwelling4 ,the   
cyclone turned right square to the east 
several rods and  then turned square    
again to the north-east of the          
buildings4 ,when it got  beyond our     
buildings it turned west and when it got
 just in line with the  direction from  
which it came1 it turned north again1   
rooting up big trees  and damaging the  
neighbor's buildings2 but not a thing on
 our premises was  disturbed4    ,the   
spout of the cyclone dug a ditch several
 feet deep in some places4 ,once  more  
,god's ,word was verified3 ,call and ,i 
will answer4           99       99      
99       99       99    ,,gluttonous    
,,man ,,with ,,dyspepsia    ,at a       
meeting we were holding1 ,brother       
,tubbs1 ,brother ,enos ,key and myself  
was asked to fast and pray for a man    
weighing from #bej to #bfj pounds and   
calling himself a saint6    ,we fasted1 

accordingly1 and went after service     
,sunday noon to pray for him4  ,we were 
still fasting1 but he sat up to the     
table and ate a big chicken  dinner and 
when he had finished eating he said1    
,now you can pray for me4  ,bro4 ,tubbs 
said1 ,no1 we are not going to pray for 
you4 ,we have been  fasting for you1 and
 still haven't eaten1 and you have sat  
up to the table  and eaten as much as we
 three preachers1 together1 could eat4  
,goodbye6 ,and  out we went4            
99       99       99       99       99  
,,casting ,,out ,,devils    ,at a       
meeting in ,chicago there was a woman   
possessed with devils1 and wanted  to be
 delivered4 ,seven ministers1 four men  
and three sisters1 were working  with   
her for over an hour but without        
apparent success4 ,we tried to lay our  
hands on her but the devils in her would
 kick our hands away4 ,big knots  came  
out on her body1 on her shoulders and   
neck the size of a good sized  apple4   
,then we ministers withdrew for a       

consultation among ourselves--to  see   
whether the hindering cause in casting  
these devils out1 lay in us1  among     
ourselves--to be assured of complete    
unity and agreement in our  midst3 ,and 
we found that there was perfect unity4  
,that being the case1 we  said1 ,we must
 have the victory1 the evil spirits must
 go4 ,we went back to  the woman and    
worked1 prayed and rebuked the enemy for
 nearly three hours1  all to no avail4  
,then one brother said1 ,there must be  
someone in the chapel sympathizing  with
 her4 ,we began a search looking        
everywhere to find where the trouble    
was and behind some folding doors in the
 prayer room we found a man4  ,brother  
,knight said to him1 ,what are you doing
 here8 ,he said1 ,can't ,i  stay here8  
,but he was told to leave forthwith and 
he went4 ,we then locked  the doors of  
the chapel and in a few minutes the     
woman was delivered4    ,she was obliged
 to go home as her husband went to work 
at four o'clock in  the morning1 but he 

came back the next day and was          
gloriously saved4    ,another case of   
demon possession happened in ,grand     
,forks4 ,during a meeting  we were      
holding there1 a man came to the service
 who formerly had taken his  stand with 
the church1 coming out of a certain     
denomination1 but before  long he       
returned to it again4 ,when he came to  
the meeting we were holding  he was     
possessed4 ,in one of the services      
,brother ,krutz and ,i attempted to  lay
 hands on him3 ,he was kneeling at the  
altar with his back to the pulpit  and  
he was taken up bodily and thrown upon  
the rostrum against the wall  behind the
 pulpit4 ,i ran after him and the devil 
said to me1 ,now1 it will  go with you  
as it did with the seven sons of ,sceva4
 ,i rebuked the devil  and when ,i got  
to the man he turned over on his back   
and slid1 head first1  off the rostrum  
toward the seats1 knocking his head     
against the seats until  it seemed as   
though his skull would surely be broken4

    ,i called for help4 ,eight brothers 
came and held him so that he would not  
get hurt4 ,we laid hands on him and     
commanded the evil spirits to come out  
of him but they did not come4 ,then ,i  
asked them1 ,what is your name8 ,the    
answer was1 ,salvation ,army devil4     
,then in the name of the ,lord ,jesus we
  commanded the ,salvation ,army devil  
to come out of him4 ,and when they went 
out it was with such a horrible scream  
that many women jumped up on their      
seats in fright and the man's shirt was 
torn and blood was running from his     
mouth and he fell on the floor as though
 he were dead4 ,we let him lie there  a 
little while1 then1 laying our hands on 
him1 prayed and he came to4 ,this  man  
repented1 made his confession and was   
saved4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,bro4 ,drysdale of ,grand
 ,forks1 who had a stiff knee1 was      
prayed for several  times1 but got no   
help4 ,however1 in this meeting his limb
 became so  limbered up that he could   

run up and down the steps like a young  
man4 ,he  got so happy that he forgot   
his cane and went home without it4 ,on  
getting  home he discovered he had left 
his cane behind and ran back to the     
chapel  to get it1 but when he got hold 
of his cane1 his limb was as bad as     
ever4    ,when ,i was in ,minneapolis   
with ,brother ,e4 ,g4 ,masters1 a lady  
came to us to  be prayed for4 ,she was  
walking with two canes4 ,she was prayed 
for and the  ,lord healed her4 ,and she 
got around like a young woman4 ,she went
 home  forgetting to take her two       
canes--and they were beautiful canes6   
,she came  back to get them1 but when   
she got hold of them she was just as    
crippled as  ever1 and no praying helped
 her4           99       99       99    
99       99    ,one time ,i was asked by
 the congregation at ,rice ,lake1       
,wisconsin1 to come  and hold a meeting 
for them4 ,and ,i felt that the ,lord   
wanted me to do so4 ,i  wrote the pastor
 there about it four times a year for   

two years1 but he did  not want me4     
,however the ,lord said1 ,you go1 and ,i
 went4 ,on my arrival at  ,rice ,lake1  
,i found the pastor sick in bed4    ,i  
said to him1 ,well1 ,i'm here now2 the  
,lord told me to come4 ,he told me  the 
chapel was open and that ,i should go   
ahead4 ,i started that meeting with     
eight to twelve school children and two 
women coming to the services1  keeping  
on for two weeks4 ,many times the devil 
said to me1 ,so you thought  the ,lord  
sent you1 didn't you8 ,now you see6     
,the last ,sunday night1 to cap the     
climax1 the children came around me and 
said1 ,reverend1 aren't you going to    
close the services8 ,i asked1 ,do you   
want them to close8 ,they said they did4
 ,i asked them the reason and they      
said1 ,we like your preaching so much   
better than our pastors1 but we go to   
school and we get so tired from coming  
every night4 ,then ,i said to them1     
,children1 your reason is very good4    
,but what do you think of this          

proposition3 that we announce services  
for ,monday1 ,tuesday and ,wednesday    
evenings1 and if no more come we will   
close the meeting and you tell your     
folks about it8 ,the children thought it
 would be fine4    ,the next night1     
,monday1 two more women came and they   
came the next night  too1 and one of    
them 7if not both of them7 got saved4   
,but what happened the  next two        
evenings is erased from my memory1 but  
,friday evening when ,i came  to open   
the door for the service1 there were    
more people than there was  room in the 
chapel to accommodate them4 ,so they    
stood around on boxes and  ladders      
outside the windows4 ,fifty-two were at 
the altar for salvation in  the last    
three weeks--,i was there five weeks in 
all4 ,the last ,saturday ,i  went to the
 pastors home and said to him1 ,i have  
come to pray for you4 ,you  are going to
 get healed today so you can attend the 
service tomorrow4 ,but  you will have to
 come early or you will not be able to  

get into your own  pulpit4 ,he broke    
down and cried and said1 ,i haven't a   
pair of decent  trousers to wear to     
stand before such a big audience4 ,i    
said1 ,i have two  pairs1 thank ,god1 ,i
 will give you one pair4 ,i prayed for  
him and he was  healed4    ,at a later  
time ,brother ,masters and ,i held      
another meeting there4 ,one  evening a  
couple came in a little late and sat    
down in the back seat4 ,this  was the   
first time they had attended the service
 and they got under  conviction1 but    
they got out before we could get to     
speak to them4 ,they  came the next     
evening and slipped out again before we 
could get to them4  ,they did not come  
any more4 ,we began to inquire around to
 find out their  names and where they   
lived4 ,yes1 we were informed1 he was a 
real estate  agent1 and they never go to
 church anywhere4 ,we went to their home
 and had  a fine visit with them one    
afternoon for about two hours4 ,they    
were nice  folks4 ,brother ,masters     

said1 ,we have not seen you out to the  
services any  more since the second time
 you were there4    ,well1 they said1 we
 are not in the habit of going to any   
meetings1 but we  enjoyed the beautiful 
singing so much the first night that we 
decided we  would go again the next     
evening4 ,we didn't want to be late1 so 
,i decided to  milk our cow after       
service4 ,after coming home from the    
service ,i took my  lantern1 as we have 
not any light in the barn and hung it up
 on a nail on  the studding and went to 
milking4 ,as the milk began to run ,i   
heard a noise  like a shot and the      
lantern went out1 leaving me in total   
darkness4 ,when ,i  went to examine what
 had happened1 it appeared that ,i had  
been so disturbed  in my mind over what 
,i heard at the services that ,i had    
made a mistake and  had hung the milk   
pail up instead of the lantern1 and when
 the milk  dropped1 it fell on the      
lantern-globe and broke it4    ,well1 we
 said1 you are coming to the services   

again8 ,but they answered1  ,we surely  
are not4 ,if two services can affect us 
to such an extent as  nearly cause us to
 lose our minds we will never go back   
again4 ,we only go  to the funeral      
services of our neighbors4           99 
99       99       99       99    ,at one
 time when ,i was in ,denmark1 ,i was in
 dire need of a considerable sum  of    
money4 ,i prayed earnestly over the     
matter and one day as ,i went to put  my
 hat on my head it seemed to be too     
small4 ,i took it off and looked on  the
 inside of it to be sure it was mine and
 in feeling around1 on the  inside of   
the sweat band ,i found the very amount 
of money ,i needed4           99        
99       99       99       99    ,while 
still in ,denmark1 ,i needed an         
overcoat4 ,i went to a clothing store   
and picked out one4 ,there were a few   
alterations to be made and ,i was to    
get it in two or three days1 but ,i had 
no money and did not know from where    
any was coming4 ,this was ,friday and   

,sunday evening after service a number  
of saints went passed my door and one   
sister threw a folded bill on to my     
table4 ,she said1 ,brother ,susag1 you  
need an overcoat4 ,here is a little to  
help on it4 ,i thanked her and looked at
 the bill and found it was a  hundred   
crown bill--more than seven crowns over 
the cost of the overcoat4           99  
99       99       99       99    ,once  
when ,i was in ,grand ,forks holding a  
meeting1 my oldest son wrote me  that a 
man to whom ,i owed #bg4ej needed #bj4jj
 and that if ,i could pay the  twenty he
 would give #g4ej4 ,between the forenoon
 service and that of the  afternoon1 ,i 
stayed in the church to pray and just   
before the next service  was to begin a 
number of people came in and stood      
beside the stove warming  themselves4   
,an elderly woman from ,south ,dakota   
put out her hand to me and  said1       
,praise the ,lord1 ,brother ,susag1 and 
putting a crumpled bill into my  hand1  
said1 ,this is for you4 ,i thanked her  

and went behind the pulpit and  thanked 
the ,lord for twenty dollars and when ,i
 looked at it1 it was twenty  dollars4  
,the next day1 between morning and      
afternoon services1 ,i took a walk and  
on  my way ,i passed a fruit stand4 ,as 
,i looked into the window of it ,i saw  
some  delicious red apples1 and ,oh1 how
 ,i wished ,i had three of them4 ,i went
 back  three times and looked at them1  
but ,i had no money4 ,i went back to the
  chapel and the same old sister that   
had given me the twenty dollars the day 
before1 handed me a little paper bag and
 in it1 to my happy surprise1 were      
three of those delicious apples that ,i 
had wanted4    ,one time when ,i was in 
,denmark1 ,i wanted to go from ,hjoremg 
to ,lokkum4 ,i  did not have the money  
for my carfare but stood up against a   
pillar in the  station praying the ,lord
 to send it4 ,as it was getting near    
train time it  looked as though it were 
not coming when suddenly a lady whom ,i 
knew--she  was not saved--came into the 

depot and crossed right over to me and  
handed  me a five crown bill4 ,this lady
 had heard me often tell of the ,lord   
hearing  prayer1 but she did not believe
 that it was all true4 ,i took it       
hastily1  ran for the ticket window1    
purchased my ticket and was just in time
 to  catch the train4 ,when ,i came     
back1 this lady came to the services and
 when  ,i saw her ,i asked her whether  
,i had thanked her for the bill she had 
given  me at the depot4 ,she said1 ,no1 
you didn't have time4 ,when ,i came in  
to the  depot and saw you standing      
there1 something said to me1 ',he's     
praying for  carfare2 go1 give him five 
crowns1' and when ,i gave it to you ,i  
saw tears  in your eyes and when ,i got 
home ,i knelt down and asked the ,lord  
to save me  and ,he did4 ,then she said1
 ,you were praying for carfare1 weren't 
you8 ,i  assured her ,i surely was4 ,god
 moves in a mysterious way1 ,his wonders
 to  perform4           99       99     
99       99       99    ,at the first   

,camp meeting we held1 ,i went to the   
bank and borrowed ten  dollars to divide
 among the ministers1 and one day the   
,lord said to me1  ,give ,elihu ,key    
five dollars4    ,i couldn't understand 
so went to wife and told her about it2  
she said1 ,if  the ,lord told you to    
give ,brother ,key five dollars1 you had
 better give it  to him2 he must be     
needing it badly4 ,so the next day ,i   
crumpled a five  dollar bill up and     
stuck it in his hand4 ,he said1 ,thank  
you1 and into the  brush he went--and ,i
 went after him1 crawling on my hands   
and knees so he  would not see me--quite
 close up to him4 ,he fell on his knees1
 crying and  thanking the ,lord for the 
five dollars and for the man who gave it
 to him  and asking the ,lord to bless  
him a hundred-fold according to ,his    
word4 ,then  down the hill he ran to the
 ,post ,office and sent it to his       
family4 ,this ,i  learned later from his
 brother4 ,the family was in great need4
           99       99       99       99

       99    ,on one occasion a payment 
of #bde4jj had to be made on the        
contracts on our  home--to save the     
contract from lapsing4 ,i did not have  
the money4 ,i tried  every possible way 
to borrow it from different banks1 and  
failing that1 ,i  tried to get it from  
some of the brethren4 ,the last one ,i  
approached surely  capped the climax4   
,he assured me that he had the money and
 could loan it to  me1 but he said that 
he might just as well throw the money on
 the manure  pile1 for1 he said1 ,you   
can never pay for the place anyhow1 and 
the  quicker you leave it the better4   
,i went home1 and after praying for     
three days the ,lord said the name ,torp
  to me4 ,the only one ,i knew of that  
name was a banker in ,willmer1 our      
county  seat1 whom ,i had met once--he  
hardly knew me nor ,i him4 ,anyway1 ,i  
went to  him and told him my trouble1 to
 which he responded by saying that he   
could  not loan me any money2 that ,i   
was out of the district for him to loan 

on  chattel mortgages2 that ,i would    
either have to get it at ,paynesville1  
,atwater or ,new ,london4 ,i told him   
that ,i had already applied at those    
places but could not obtain the loan4   
,then ,mr4 ,torp asked me what security 
,i was able to give1 to which ,i replied
 that the security ,i had would not be  
worth fifty dollars1 but that ,i had a  
strong back and two strong arms and a   
good will and that we would like to stay
 on the hill a little longer if it  were
 at all possible4 ,he said1 ,such things
 will go a long way4 ,he sat  there     
silent for a minute or two1 then he     
said1 ,i'll think the matter over  and  
you come back after dinner4 ,a lump got 
into my throat so that ,i could  not    
even say1 ,thank you4    ,i walked down 
into the railroad yards1 found a place  
between two box cars  and prayed for    
nearly an hour and a half-back and forth
 ,i went praying that  the ,lord would  
speak to the dear man and make his heart
 tender toward this  poor man and his   

family4 ,i went back to the bank and the
 good man met me4  ,he invited me into  
his office1 and when we were seated he  
said1 ,i have  thought the matter over  
and ,i am going to loan you the money2  
now what  security have you to offer8 ,i
 said1 ,i have a bay colt1 a couple of  
calves1 an old wagon ,i paid seven      
dollars for1 and some other little      
trinkets4 ,well1 he said1 the colt as it
 grows will increase in  price--good    
horses at that time were only worth     
about fifty dollars--and  the calves    
also will increase in value4 ,how long a
 time do you want8 ,i  told him ,i      
thought eight months4 ,then he told me  
that their charge for such  loans was   
#ab1 but that he would let me have it   
for #h4    ,three weeks before the note 
came due ,i went to see him4 ,my purpose
 in going  was in regard to the loan4   
,well1 he said1 it is not due yet2 we   
have not  sent you a notice4 ,i told him
 that ,i was wanting to know whether he 
would  extend the time on the note4 ,he 

asked me whether ,i had anything at all 
to  pay on it4 ,i told him ,i had only  
#ej4jj and the interest4 ,to which he   
replied1 ,that's fine4 ,it took me two  
years instead of eight months to pay    
off the loan2 but ,i was always on hand 
ahead of time to get the extension4     
,when ,i made the last payment he gave  
me one dollar4    ,i went to see this   
banker some years later1 and ,i asked   
him what it was  that had made him so   
kind to me4 ,tears came into his eyes1  
but he did not  answer--and my eyes were
 moist as well4 ,he turned and from a   
drawer took  out a small tract in which 
was an account of his boyhood life and  
experiences4 ,his father died when he   
was eleven years old4 ,he took a job as 
ship boy on board a ship and went       
through untold hardships to help support
  his mother and his six brothers and   
sisters4 ,when he was about seventeen he
  came to ,america and located in       
,wisconsin4    ,when the ,civil ,war was
 on a certain rich man came to him with 

an offer of  several hundred dollars if 
he would act as substitute for his son  
in the  army--which offer1 however1 he  
refused4 ,some time later he became     
acquainted with a family in which were  
seven children who were very good to    
him4 ,one day word came that the father1
 who was a soldier1 was killed in       
action and that the oldest boy was to be
 taken to fill his father's place4      
,whereupon young ,torp stepped up to the
 boy and said1 ,you go home and take    
care of your mother and the family and  
,i will go in your place--free of       
charge4 ,the ,lord was good to him and  
protected him2 very soon he was         
promoted to the rank of an officer--and 
so the booklet continued1 telling  of   
his life's experiences4    ,these two   
incidents remind me1 by way of contrast1
 of the story of another  banker and of 
the way he dealt with a poor man who was
 in debt to him4 ,when  not prepared to 
meet the payments on his note the poor  
man would ask for an  extension of time4

 ,finally the banker became impatient   
and refused to grant  any further time  
extension4 ,the poor man begged for     
mercy--that he would  allow him more    
time4 ,all right1 said the banker1 ,i   
have a glass eye2 it  is such a good one
 that people cannot tell which one it   
is2 if you can tell  which one1 ,i will 
extend the loan4 ,looking carefully at  
the eyes the man  said1 ,it is the left 
one4 ,yes1 said the other1 how could you
 tell8  ,the man said1 ,i could tell    
that eye was more sympathetic than the  
good  one4 ,it is said of ,jesus that he
 learned obedience through the things   
that he suffered--and so with us1 we    
learn how to have sympathy according  to
 how we suffer4           99       99   
99       99       99    ,my first       
experience of being healed of cancer of 
the stomach was while ,i  was in ,grand 
,forks in #aibb after that ,doctor      
,weatherstein had examined me  and said 
there was nothing that could be done for
 me4 ,i was taken to the  ,werstlein's  

home where ,i was staying1 and ,brother 
,shave1 ,sister ,gaulke and  ,sister    
,johnstone were sent for4 ,they came1   
and when they saw me as ,i lay on  the  
lounge1 they fell on their knees weeping
 and calling on ,god4 ,all at  once they
 arose1 and with ,sister ,werstlein1    
laid their hands on me and  rebuked the 
devil and the cancer1 and ,i was        
instantly healed6    ,in the fall of    
#aicf ,i had a number of calls to go to 
the ,west ,coast1 but ,i  did not feel  
that ,i could leave unless wife had     
someone to stay with her4  ,however1 she
 insisted that ,i should go1 saying she 
was able to take care of  herself1 but  
,i hesitated about going so far away and
 applied for a job as  an automobile    
adjuster paying #ej a week and          
commission4 ,i had everything  signed up
 on ,friday1 and ,i was to go to work   
the following ,tuesday4 ,on  ,sunday the
 cancer returned again for the third    
time--the blood running from  me and ,i 
was very sick4 ,wife said--not in an    

unkind way--,good enough for  you4 ,i   
said1 ,i know what you are going to say4
 ,yes1 she went on1 but  ,i will check  
up on you4 ,do you remember what        
,brother ,dorrity said to you  when you 
were ordained8 ',this is not for a day1 
nor for a week1 nor for a  month or a   
year1 but for your lifetime1' and you   
are not dead yet6 ,to  which ,i replied1
 suffering and weeping1 ,all right1 you 
come and pray for  me4 ,she came and    
prayed and ,i was instantly healed4     
,needless to say1 ,i did  not take the  
job4    ,this took place the ,sunday    
before ,thanksgiving4 ,on ,thanksgiving 
day we were  to go by invitation to     
,willmar to dinner and in the evening we
 were to  attend service and ,i was to  
preach4 ,that was the last automobile   
trip my  wife ever took with me4    ,in 
the same year we were living on our     
little farm4 ,on ,december the first1   
as ,i was going to town1 wife made out a
 little list of things she wanted me  to
 buy1 but in spite of the list ,i forgot

 two of the items ,i was to  get--and   
they were never purchased for they were 
never needed4 ,on ,monday  the #hth ,i  
said to her1 ,perhaps ,i had better go  
to town and get those two  articles1 but
 she said1 ,never mind1 we will wait    
until someone else goes  in4    ,being  
clerk of the district school board and  
her brother the chairman1 when  he came 
over1 they talked over some business    
matters and other affairs that  evening4
 ,the next morning she got up early4 ,i 
saw a light in her room and ,i  asked   
her whether she was getting up4 ,she    
said she was2 so ,i thought ,i had      
better go down and stir up the fire4    
,when she came down she said1 ,if you   
want a job you can get breakfast ready4 
,i answered1 ,okay1 what do you  want to
 eat8 ,she said1 ,a glass of milk1 a    
slice of toast and a soft  cooked egg4  
,then she said1 ,i suppose you want     
oatmeal6 ,i said1 ,sure4    ,after      
breakfast we had our morning worship and
 then she went to read and  write4      

,after ,i had washed the dishes ,i said1
 ,i am going to town to get  those two  
articles4 ,to which she replied1 ,it is 
up to you4 ,no hurry about  it4 ,i went 
out to the garage to get the car and    
found ,i had a flat tire1  so ,i went   
back into the house and said1 ,it is    
cold out there and there is  a flat     
tire4 ,she said1 ,never mind4    ,about 
eleven o'clock she put her hands up to  
her ears and said1 ,i have  such pain   
around my ears4 ,then she went over to  
the sofa and lay down1 but  the pain    
grew worse4 ,i went to her and knelt    
down2 we prayed and she was  instantly  
made well4    ,at noon ,i fixed a little
 lunch1 after which ,i said1 ,now ,i    
will go and fix  the tire and go to     
town4 ,she laughed and said1 ,so now you
 are going to be  a man again4    ,i    
jacked up the car but could not turn any
 of the bolts on the wheel4 ,i  walked  
to the neighbor's and borrowed a coal   
chisel but still ,i could not  move a   
bolt even with the hammer and chisel4   

,all at once ,i heard a rattle  as      
though someone was dying4 ,it startled  
me4 ,i threw down the hammer and        
chisel1 and ran for the house like a    
wild man1 jerking open one door after   
another1 and slamming them as ,i went4  
,when ,i opened the last one1 there ,i  
saw wife sitting in the rocker reading1 
and she laughed4 ,i raised my hands  and
 said to her1 ,you are not dead yet6    
,she answered1 ,i should say not6 ,i    
was wondering what kind of a cowboy had 
come rattling through the house6        
,then ,i told her that ,i could not get 
the wheel off4 ,after a few minutes she 
said1 ,uncle ,carl her brother said to  
me1 ',martha1 why don't you take a      
rest8 ,you are always so busy and you   
don't have to keep going like that1'  so
 now ,i am going up stairs to take a    
rest4 ,you come with me and carry my    
,bible and a few other things4 ,so ,i   
went with her4 ,after ,i had tucked her 
in bed ,i asked her if she was resting  
comfortably now4 ,she said1 ,yes1 and   

looking up at me with a smile1 she said1
 as though she was about to tell me  a  
secret1 ,and now444--and she was dead6  
,i raised my hands and said1 ,o  ,mama1 
you are not leaving me1 are you8 ,but   
there she lay smiling4    ,i called the 
doctor and in a few minutes the house   
was full of people4 ,the  first one to  
come was ,sister ,hansen4 ,she said1    
,brother ,susag1 ,sister ,susag  is not 
dead--she lies there smiling6 ,but she  
was gone4 ,she had been  praying for    
about two years that she might go that  
way1 and her prayer was  answered4 7,i  
got a neighbor young man to come and see
 what he could do with  the car4 ,he had
 no trouble in turning the bolts and was
 able to fix it very  easily47 ,the     
feeling ,i had that ,i could not leave  
my wife to go to the ,west  ,coast to   
hold meetings proved to have been quite 
in order4           99       99       99
       99       99    ,on one of my     
trips ,i had to change trains at ,grand 
,forks1 and having a  little time to    

spare ,i walked down a certain street of
 the city and met  ,brother ,john       
,sonden who was standing outside of a   
doctor's office4 ,he was  surprised to  
see me1 but ,i explained that ,i was    
just passing through in  making my train
 connections4 ,he said he was waiting   
for his son1 ,brent1 who  was up in the 
office consulting the doctor about his  
health4 ,he wished so  much that ,i     
could talk to the boy4 ,at his request  
,i went and met him as he  was coming   
out of the consulting room4    ,he      
informed me that the doctor had told him
 he had heart trouble1 but as he  did   
not know what kind1 he wanted him to go 
to the hospital for a week when  he     
thought he would be able to locate the  
ailment4 ,after hearing what he  had to 
say1 ,i said to him1 ,i'll tell you what
 your trouble is and how you  feel when 
you are sitting on the gang plow1       
plowing3 ,you feel you are going  to    
fall off in front of the plow and get   
killed and that makes you nervous  and  

sick4 ,he said1 ,yes sir1 that is       
exactly how ,i feel4 ,i then said to    
him1 ,i can tell you the cure for it3   
,go home1 and falling on your knees1    
confess your sins to ,god and call on   
,him4 for salvation4 ,i will be agreed  
in prayer and ,i guarantee you will be  
well--and now1 goodbye1 ,brent1 ,i must 
run to catch my train4    ,a year later 
when driving past his farm with ,brother
 ,holman1 ,i saw a man  out in the field
 and asked ,brother ,holman whether that
 was ,brent ,sonden4 ,he  said it was1  
and out of the car ,i got and ran over  
to him in the field  saying1 ,praise the
 ,lord1 ,brent--did you follow the      
advice ,i gave you a  year ago8 ,he     
answered1 ,yes1 and ,i have never had   
that feeling again since  the ,lord     
saved me4           99       99       99
       99       99    ,at one time ,i   
went to ,hereford1 ,minnesota to preach 
for ,brother ,george  ,green while he   
went on a trip to ,iowa4 ,at the ,sunday
 morning service ,i  learned that ,elder

 ,larson had met with an automobile     
accident the night  before1 breaking his
 left arm in two places and had been    
taken to the  hospital at ,barrett4 ,his
 father phoned me that he would call for
 me and  take me with him to the        
hospital4    ,on our arrival there1 we  
found three doctors on the spot ready to
 amputate  the arm--they were to take it
 off between the shoulder and the elbow4
 ,but ,i  protested1 saying1 ,that arm  
is not going to be amputated2 those     
bones have  to be set2 for if you take  
the arm off you can never put it back   
again4  ,but the doctors objected1 ,that
 is all we can do4 ,i replied1 ,if      
,doctor  ,phelon of ,paynesville had    
been at home ,i would have called for   
him to come  and he would have fixed    
those bones in a jiffy4 ,they replied1  
,we know him  and he is no better than  
we are4    ,they turned to the father   
and said1 ,are you going to listen to us
 or to  this old foggy preacher8 ,well1 
he answered1 ,the old minister knows    

something too4 ,at this1 two of the     
doctors picked up their instruments and 
left4 ,the one remaining said to me1    
,what are you going to do8 ,i said1 ,i  
am going to ,hereford to preach tonight1
 after which ,i'll come back and take   
the young man with me on the train to   
,minneapolis4 ,but1 he said1  gangrene  
may set in4 ,i told him that ,i would   
pray ,god ,almighty to keep  that away4 
,then he asked me whether ,i was going  
alone with the boy1 and ,i  told him ,i 
was4 ,he said that ,i was a brave man1  
but ,i answered1 ,no1 it is  not that ,i
 am brave1 but that young man would give
 anything to have his two  arms4 ,then  
the doctor said1 ,how would it be if ,i 
were to go with you8 ,i  told him that  
it would be fine4 ,when we were on the  
train he asked me where  ,i was going to
 take the young man when we got to      
,minneapolis4 ,i told him ,i  hadn't    
thought of that1 but in a city of       
#ejj1jjj people there must be a  doctor 
capable of setting bones4 ,if not1 ,i   

said1 ,i'll do it myself4 ,all  right1  
replied the doctor1 ,we'll take him to  
the ,fairview ,hospital2 ,i  know a     
doctor there who is good at setting     
bones4 ,his name is ,seversen4  ,and    
this we decided to do4    ,it was early 
when we arrived in the city1 so we first
 had breakfast1 after  which ,i was     
introduced to ,dr4 ,seversen4 ,i said to
 him1 ,so you are the  doctor who is    
going to set the bones in that arm8 ,but
 he said1 ,it can't  be done2 the arm   
will have to be amputated4 ,i said1     
,that suggestion has  been made to me   
before1 and that arm is not going to    
come off4 ,while we  were talking       
several other doctors had come in--some 
thirteen or fourteen  in all4 ,they     
said4 ,we will show you the ,xray       
pictures--hoping to convince  me that ,i
 was wrong4 ,but ,i answered1 ,xray     
pictures or no ,xray pictures1  that arm
 is not going to be amputated4 ,however1
 they protested and argued  that        
gangrene would set in--if it had not    

already done so4 ,i said1 ,i will  ask  
,god ,almighty to not let that happen4  
,then turning to the doctors1 ,i  said1 
,shame on you doctors2 if you cannot do 
it1 ,i can1 only ,i have no  license4444
 ,and to ,dr4 ,seversen ,i said1 ,will  
you do it8 ,tell me quick1  for if you  
will not1 ,i will take him away from    
here4 ,the doctor replied1  ,i will4    
,i said to ,dr4 ,seversen1 ,i would like
 to go along with you to see whether    
you know how to do it4 ,eight doctors   
were also present4 ,while the doctor    
was drilling a hole in the protruding   
bone1 red blood spurted out of it1  and 
,i said1 ,praise the ,lord6 ,one of the 
doctors standing by said1 ,how do  you  
know fhat that looks good8 ,i made no   
reply1 but looked at him with a  grin4  
,during his stay in the hospital ,i     
visited the young man from time to time4
  ,one day ,i asked the doctor how he   
was getting along with ,elder1 and he   
answered1 ,getting along good only the  
sore doesn't quit running as rapidly  as

 ,i would like to have it4 ,then ,i     
ventured1 ,have you looked at his  back8
 ,he asked1 ,tuberculosis of the spine8 
,i replied1 ,you had better  look4      
,the next time ,i was there he said1    
,there is no tuberculosis about him now2
  he is well1 when did he have it8 ,then
 ,i told him that five years previous   
to this time1 when a lad of fourteen1 he
 was sick and ,i prayed for him and  the
 ,lord healed him4 7,dr4 ,seversen did a
 good job on that young man's arm  and  
the ,lord did the finishing47 ,mr4      
,larson has a good strong arm today and 
is employed in a service station in     
,elbow ,lake1 ,minnesota4    ,two years 
later ,i visited ,dr4 ,seversen4 ,when  
he saw me1 he stuck both arms  up and   
said1 ,here comes the man with the iron 
nerve4 ,i answered him1 ,no1  here comes
 the man with a little good common sense
 and faith in ,god  ,almighty4 ,yes1 he 
said1 common sense1 but ,i thought it   
could not be  done1 when it was in such 
a mess and had been broken so long4 ,i  

answered  him1 ,yes1 but a good arm is  
better than an iron hook on it4 ,he     
said1  ,indeed1 but ,i did not think it 
could be done4 7,i have nothing against 
doctors1 but the ,lord can do what men  
cannot do47           99       99       
99       99       99    ,one time       
,brother and ,sister ,george ,larson's  
three sons were stricken at the  same   
time with infantile paralysis4 ,herman  
was #ba and the twins #ah years4 ,a     
specialist was called and he brought two
 doctors with him4 ,he pronounced  the  
cases as very serious1 especially       
,norman who was stricken in the head1   
and they did not think there was any    
hope for him4 ,they said it would be a  
good thing if he would die1 for if he   
lived1 he would be crazy4 ,they sent    
for me4 ,sister ,larson was then pastor 
of a congregation in ,hereford1 ,minn4  
,they had been praying and we prayed    
again1 and the ,lord finished the job   
and healed all three4 ,often people say1
 ,it was not so serious and may not     

have been what they said it was1 but    
this time the devil got fooled4 ,the    
young man had been going to the         
,university of ,minnesota where they had
 been  tapping some blood from them for 
medical science purposes to use to heal 
others stricken in the same manner2 so  
medical science acknowledge they had    
the real thing4    ,at one of the camp  
meetings at ,hereford1 ,ole ,torgesen   
got very much under  conviction and went
 home to repair a thrashing machine     
engine4 ,it did not  want to start and  
he got angry and swore at it4 ,starting 
suddenly1 the fly  wheel struck his left
 hand and breaking a number of bones4   
,he went to the  doctor and had the     
bones set and the hand taped and the arm
 strapped to his  body4 ,then he came   
back to the meeting and wanted to be    
saved4 ,he repented1  and the ,lord     
accepted him4 ,while he was still on his
 knees he looked up and  said1 ,i hear  
you men believe in divine healing1 and  
,i want to be prayed  for that the ,lord

 will heal my hand4 ,so ,brother ,c4 ,h4
 ,tubbs and myself  prayed the prayer of
 faith and he began to unloose his arm  
and take off the  bandage4 ,while he was
 doing so1 the saints were shouting the 
praises of  ,god4 ,others told him not  
to take the bandage off and got angry as
 he  continued removing them4 ,finally  
he took off the cotton and cleaned off  
the  iodine and the taping4 ,after doing
 so1 he lifted his arm slowly to move   
his  fingers4 ,finally he put his hand  
up and moved his fingers freely1 and his
  hand was healed to the glory of ,god4 
,next day we had baptismal services and 
,i asked him if he wanted to be         
baptized4 ,he said he did1 but thought  
his  wife would be saved1 too1 so wished
 that both could be baptized together4  
,i  said1 ,all right4    ,next day in   
the morning service she got saved4 ,she 
was the daughter of a  lay minister of a
 certain denomination who did not       
believe in baptism by  immersion4 ,she  
asked me if they could be baptized right

 away4 ,i told her  that just as soon as
 the service was over we would go       
immediately to the  pool4 ,she did not  
want her parents to know what she was   
doing1 so we kept  it quiet1 but when we
 started for the pool1 the prairie      
seemed to be alive  with people on horse
 back and in all kinds of rigs1 coming  
from all  directions4    ,they were     
blowing horns and making music on circle
 saws4 ,so when we got to  the pool1 the
 banks were covered with people more    
than in the baptismal  service before4  
,while we were singing1 ,i heard the    
sister say to her  husband1 ,there they 
come6 ,it was her father and mother4    
,they came over to  them and ,i said1   
,don't say a word to them4 ,the preacher
 went after them  in a great way4       
,finally the daughter put her arms      
around his neck1 and  said1 ,daddy1     
don't go at it this way1 please4 ,we are
 saved now and want to  obey the        
commandments of the ,lord4 ,all right1  
he said1 ,you are old  enough to know   

what you are doing4 ,but this man444    
running at me and  shaking his fist in  
my face1 and ,i thought ,i surely would 
get a good  licking when ,i said nothing
 and did not move4 ,he cooled down1 and 
said1  ,this is a poor man4 ,we better  
take up a collection for him1 and walked
  away4 ,while ,i was baptizing the two 
and a ,methodist minister's son1 stones 
and sticks flew in plenty around me but 
none hit me4    ,one evening three young
 men cut the rope of the tent and were  
caught4 ,when  they learned they could  
get seven years in ,state prison1 and we
 did not  prosecute them--that ended all
 the disturbance at that place4         
99       99       99       99       99  
,at one time ,i was holding a revival   
meeting at ,plum ,coulee1 ,canada4 ,one 
evening there was conviction upon a     
number of people4 ,i was just going to  
close my sermon and make the altar call1
 and the devil said1 ,now you  swear4   
,it shocked me so1 ,i had to stop for a 
minute and conviction ceased4  ,then ,i 

had to start preaching again4 ,the devil
 once more said1 ,now you  swear4 ,i    
rebuked him and went ahead and made the 
altar call1 and those  under conviction 
came forward and received help4         
99       99       99       99       99  
,,man ,,fear    ,i was called at one    
time to ,grand ,forks to help in a      
meeting4 ,coming there1  ,i saw two or  
three large1 tall ministers whom ,i had 
never seen before4 ,i  was scared to    
preach before them1 so when we had      
prayer that evening1 ,i  prayed the     
,lord to deliver me from man fear4 ,the 
committee asked me to  speak that       
evening and the ,lord blessed and gave  
me victory4 ,next day one  of those good
 ministers came to me and said1 ,i want 
to talk to you4 ,i was  so blessed      
before you came1 but since you came1 ,i 
was afraid of you and my  blessing all  
left4 ,i wonder if you can help me8 ,i  
can1 ,i said4 ,when ,i  came last night1
 upon seeing you and ,brother ,h41 ,i   
got so scared ,i wished ,i  was not     

here1 so ,i prayed and it left me and   
then the devil jumped on you4    ,this  
made me think of a ,swedish song which  
says in part3      ,menisko frygtens    
didlige snaror har bringat    ,mangen en
 man paafald4    ,which means in        
,english3      ,the fear of man the     
deadly snares    ,has brought many a man
 to fall4    ,in a case like this it may
 not mean so much1 but in many cases    
good  ministers have failed to preach   
the truth because of the fear of man4   
,what  a disaster for themselves and for
 hundreds of souls6    ,one ,sunday     
morning ,i spoke in a chapel for a      
brother pastor4 ,when the  service was  
over he came to me and in a very tired  
tone1 he said1 ,did you  mean me this   
morning8 ,i answered1 ,dear ,brother1 ,i
 surely did not mean  you4 ,he said1    
,well1 and walked away still tired4 ,i  
did not go for lunch  but remained in   
the chapel and wept and prayed that ,i  
might not be a trial  to my dear        
brethren4 ,i said1 ,i will not go into  

the pulpit again until you  give me more
 wisdom1 but when the afternoon meeting 
time came1 no one else  had a message1  
and ,i had to go into the pulpit again4 
,the ,lord blessed in a  wonderful way1 
and a number of souls got saved4 ,after 
the service the good  pastor came to me 
and said1 ,will you forgive me8 ,you did
 not mean me this  morning4           99
       99       99       99       99    
,,how ,,the ,,lord ,,leads    ,once on  
my way to ,platte1 ,south ,dakota1 ,i   
got lost4 ,i was driving slowly  trying 
to think of where ,i had gotten off my  
route--when suddenly a man in  a field  
on a tractor waved me to stop4 ,he      
climbed over the fence1 and here  it was
 ,brother ,walter ,ratzlaf4 ,he said1   
,how come you are here8 ,i  answered1   
,i'm lost4 ,turn around1 he answered1   
and we will drive down  to the house4   
,going to the house1 there was a young  
lady ,i had known in ,north ,dakota4 ,he
  introduced her to me as his wife4 ,the
 last time ,i had seen them1 they were  

in ,north ,dakota4 ,both of them were   
now members of the committee for the    
young people's convention of ,north     
,dakota1 which was to convene the       
following ,friday1 ,saturday and        
,sunday4 ,george ,w4 ,green of ,bertha1 
,minnesota  was to have been the guest  
speaker1 but they had just gotten a     
telegram  from him saying that he could 
not be there4 ,brother ,ratzlaf said1   
,the ,lord  must have sent you here4    
,could you be our guest speaker8 ,i     
answered1 ,yes1  if you want me4 ,i am  
on my way home1 and ,brother ,green was 
expecting to  meet me at my place1 and  
,i was planning on taking him from my   
home on to  the convention4 ,again1 ,i  
could see how the ,lord directed many   
times1  unbeknowns to me4    ,a lady    
brought her sister who was in the last  
stages of tuberculosis to the  camp     
meeting at ,saint ,paul ,park1 ,minn4   
,wife and ,i prayed for the sick woman  
and she was instantly healed4 ,so they  
insisted that ,i go to their place and  

hold them a meeting4 ,i was very busy1  
so it was sometime before ,i could go4  
,finally they wrote asking how much ,i  
wanted to hold the meeting4 ,i wrote    
that my carfare round trip was to be    
#bf4ej1 and ,i thought ,i ought to have 
that much4 ,they answered that they     
would give me that much1 and that much  
more4 ,i went and started the meeting on
 ,friday evening4 ,the folks ,i was to  
stay with lived six miles in the country
 and we secured the ,methodist  ,church 
in town for the services4 ,we had two   
services on ,saturday1 three on         
,sunday1 two ,monday and two ,tuesday4  
,tuesday night they left me in the      
church4 ,i had coal enough to keep me   
warm4 ,as ,i had no money to go to the  
hotel1 the next morning ,i walked out to
 their place in the loose snow1         
arriving about dinner time4 ,i had      
dinner and that evening they took me to 
the meeting and left me again4 ,i have  
no recollection of how ,i got away  from
 there4 ,it seems to me a family in     

town1 who knew some of my relatives1    
kept me for a day or two4 ,my carfare1  
which ,i still have coming from them  as
 well as the rest1 is the only meeting  
,i had held in #eb years on which ,i    
had set a price4 ,a brother belonging to
 another denomination who often         
attended the services and who was an    
agent for the ,furges ,kalls ,woolen    
,mills1 ,minnesota1 whom ,i met some    
years later1 asked me1 ,did you ever get
  any money from that meeting8 ,i       
replied1 ,i have it all coming1 so he   
gave  me five dollars and a pair of     
seven dollar trousers4 ,that experience 
was  one of the all things4 ,this was   
the only time ,i ever set any price on  
my  ministry4    ,,prayer ,,changes     
,,things    ,brother ,masters and ,i    
were holding meeting in ,hereford1      
,minnesota4 ,brother  ,masters was doing
 most of the preaching1 and ,i was      
exhorting and giving the  invitations4  
,one evening after he finished          
preaching1 ,i dismissed the  meeting    

immediately4 ,as we were going to our   
room between eleven and  twelve1 he     
asked1 ,why did you not give the altar  
call tonight8 ,then he  added1 ,you did 
right1 but what was the reason8 ,i      
answered1 ,too much  ,masters4 ,he      
replied1 ,the ,lord help me6 and on his 
knees he went4 ,he  stayed there until  
between three and four o'clock in the   
morning4 ,the next  night ,i did not    
need to give an altar call1 for the     
people flocked to the  altar of their   
own accord4           99       99       
99       99       99    ,,my ,,first    
,,preaching ,,trip    ,i was standing in
 a wagon driving home from ,hawick1     
,minnesota4 ,the ,lord  spoke to me and 
said1 ,i want you to go to ,belgrade    
next ,sunday and  preach4 ,i replied1 ,i
 do not know what to preach4 ,the ,lord 
answered1 ,you  go and open your mouth  
wide1 and ,i will fill it4 ,i argued    
that ,i did not  have the money to go4  
,he answered1 ,i'll tend to that4       
,when ,i arrived home from ,hawick1     

there was a letter from an old brother  
about #hj years of age living at ,norway
 ,lake1 ,minn4 ,he said1 ,the ,lord has 
been telling me that you ought to go to 
,belgrade and hold them a meeting1  and 
,i am sending you the carfare4 ,so ,i   
went4    ,another time ,i was holding a 
meeting north of ,belgrade and staying  
with  ,brother and ,sister ,andrew      
,larson4 ,the night before leaving that 
locality ,i  dreamed that when ,i came  
to ,belgrade1 ,i saw a man go into the  
depot just  ahead of me1 and as he      
stepped away from the ticket window he  
said1 ,ha1  ha1 ha1 ,i may as well go   
home then1 since there is no train until
 three  o'clock this afternoon4         
,brother ,larson was to take me to the  
depot early in the morning1 and it was  
cold4 ,when telling them my dream they  
laughed1 and we all laughed4 ,they      
said1 ,it can't be that bad4    ,it was 
about six miles to town and riding in an
 open buggy1 ,i got cold1 and  when we  
got within about a quarter mile from    

town1 ,i said1 ,you had better  let me  
out here and ,i will walk and get warmed
 up4 ,so he did4 ,when ,i  arrived at   
the depot a man walked in just ahead of 
me1 and when he turned  from the window1
 he said1 ,ha1 ha1 ha1 ,i might just as 
well go home since  there will be no    
trains until three o'clock this         
afternoon4    ,i walked up to the ticket
 window and said1 ,how come the train is
 so late8  ,he said1 ,an old freight    
train ran off the track and they will   
have to  clean up before the passenger  
train can come through4 ,i did not wait1
 but  walked home--a distance of twenty 
miles4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,at one time ,i held a   
meeting in what was known as ,clark     
school house1  fifteen miles south of   
,cohasset1 ,minnesota4 ,after the last  
,sunday morning  service1 ,i said1 ,if  
there is anyone who will take me to     
,cohasset after  service tonight1 my    
heavenly ,father will give him a hundred
 fold in this  life1 and eternal life in

 the world to come4 ,so going down to   
the door  after service to shake hands  
with the folks1 there stood a           
nice-looking  young man who had not been
 out to the services before4 ,he said1  
,i'll take  you to town tonight4 ,i     
said1 ,all right1 thank you1 and out he 
went4  ,after a while ,brother ,goodell1
 the elder1 came and said1 ,i'll take   
you to  town4 ,i said1 ,you are too     
late4 ,you lost your pay this time4 ,he 
said1  ,who is going to take you8 ,i    
answered1 ,the young man who stood by   
the  door when ,i got there4 ,he thought
 a while1 then he said1 ,oh1 that was   
,henry ,garber2 that will never do4 ,he 
is not saved4 ,he drinks a little1      
dances1 plays cards and likely smokes4  
,then he added1 ,i'l take you4 ,the     
road is bad 7and it surely was74 ,i     
answered him1 ,if he is like that he    
needs the pay4 ,well1 he said1 ,he may  
not come4 ,aren't you afraid to go  with
 him8 ,no1 ,i said4    ,he came1 and it 
took us quite a while to get there on   

account of the road4  ,we talked        
farming1 dancing1 drinking1 love and    
salvation4 ,getting to town1  it was    
still an hour and a half before the     
train would arrive4 ,he said1  ,wouldn't
 it be good to have a little lunch now8 
,i said1 ,that would be  fine4 ,alright1
 he said1 you order what you want4      
,aren't you going to  have some8 ,i     
asked2 but he said1 no4 ,after lunch he 
said1 ,how about a  little ice cream    
now4 ,fine1 ,i said4    ,there were     
quite a number of young folks in the    
restaurant and while ,i was  eating he  
was talking to the young people telling 
them he had been to two  services that  
day and he added1 ,they were two of the 
best sermons ,i have  ever heard in my  
life4 ,they called out in a chorus1     
,henry1 ,henry1 have  you sworn off8    
,then they asked1 ,who preached8 ,he    
answered1 ,reverend  ,susag over here4  
,after ,i got through eating1 he        
introduced me to all those young people4
  ,then ,i said1 ,you had better get me 

to the depot now1 and start for home2   
the road is so bad4 ,well1 he said1 ,i  
will not start back until you are  on   
the train4 ,and so he did2 and when he  
put my grips on the train1 he  said1    
,good by1 and as he shook hands with me 
he left #c4jj in my hand4 ,as  he was   
leaving me he said1    ,when-- but he   
never finished what he started to say4  
,no doubt he meant to  say1 ,when you   
pray remember me4 ,i did not hear of    
him1 nor see him for  two or three      
years4 ,going to ,milwaukee one ,sunday 
to hold services for  ,brother ,flint1 a
 young man came to me in the chapel and 
said1 ,praise the  ,lord ,brother       
,susag4 ,i said1 ,amen4 ,i looked at him
 and he said1 ,do you  know me8 ,i      
answered1 ,yes1 ,i have met you         
somewhere1 but ,i don't remember  where4
 ,think of ,cohasset1 ,minnesota1 he    
answered4 ,i slapped him on the         
shoulder and said1 ,henry1 when did you 
get saved8 ,driving home that  night1 he
 said2 thinking how you treated me1     

almost a stranger1 you spoke  to me like
 a father--with such good understanding 
of everything and you  called me brother
 and ,i got broken up1 and going to my  
room on the farm1 ,i  knelt by my bed   
and repented and the ,lord saved me4 ,it
 was so good and the  ,lord made me so  
happy4 ,i went to see my parents who    
lived six miles out of  ,milwaukee1     
,wisconsin4 ,they all became members of 
the congregation in  ,milwaukee1 and    
,henry became a much loved and respected
 member of the  congregation in ,grand  
,rapids1 ,minnesota1 and for many years 
one of the  leaders and finally went    
home to his reward4    ,one time ,i was 
holding a meeting in the neighborhood   
where a young man  lived who was one of 
our first converts1 and he attended my  
services4 ,one  day he asked me if ,i   
would go home with him4 ,i said1 ,yes4  
,on the way1 he  stopped me and said1   
,have you got grace enough8 ,i answered1
 ,i think so4  ,finally we got near his 
home1 and in a little grove he stopped  

me again and  he repeated1 ,have you got
 grace enough8 ,i answered again1 ,i    
think so1  but if you think ,i need     
more1 let us pray that the ,lord will   
give me all  that ,i need4 ,we knelt    
down in the grove there and prayed4     
,coming into the  house he introduced me
 to his mother1 a fine looking lady4 ,we
 sat down and  had a friendly chat1 and 
before ,i knew it1 ,i said1 ,praise the 
,lord4    ,oh1 she said1 ,you are one of
 them are you8 ,then she gave me a real 
tongue lashing4 ,this was because       
several of her sons and daughters had   
gotten saved1 and they were very much   
persecuted because they left their      
church4 ,sometimes when she would find  
,olaf on his knees praying1 she would   
grab him by the hair and pull him around
 in the house4    ,finally her husband  
came in1 and she introduced me to him4  
,susag1 he said1 are you the husband of 
that witch over near ,paynesville  or   
,hawick1 that goes singing and fingering
 on the strings on that box1  getting   

people to weep and taking them away from
 their parents8 7,wife  played a harp   
when she sang47 ,you get out of this    
house as fast as your  feet can carry   
you4    ,i took my hat and started for  
the door1 and as ,i came near1 he stood 
there  with his hatchet in his hand and 
said1 ,if you come nearer1 ,i will smash
  your head1 and lifted the hatchet4 ,i 
realized the man was so angry he did    
not know what he was saying1 so ,i went 
back and sat down4 ,say1 ,mr4           
,erickson1 ,i said1 sit down1 and let me
 tell you how the ,lord saved us4       
,alright1 he answered4 ,his wife said1  
,get him out1 get him out6 ,then he     
answered1 ,let him speak out of his     
heart4 ,it is the first time he has ever
  been in our house4 ,no1 she said1 ,get
 him out4 ,no1 no1 wife1 be  quiet4 ,and
 he sat down and ,i related how the     
,lord convicted wife and ,i4  7,we used 
to be of the same faith as they were47  
,when ,i had told them our  experience1 
he came over and put his hand on my     

shoulder1 and said1 ,you  can stay with 
us over night1 but don't say anything   
about your religion4    ,i thanked him  
and said1 ,we have services tonight1 and
 ,i have to be going4    ,later on      
,brother ,peter ,peterson of ,foboken1  
,new ,jersey and myself held a  meeting 
in that neighborhood and went and called
 on ,mr4 ,erickson1 and had a  very     
pleasant visit with him4 ,brother       
,peterson had been a rough seaman and   
he told him of his life1 and how the    
,lord had convicted and saved him4 ,that
  seemed to impress him4    ,years later
 ,olaf bought the farm and his parents  
moved to another house4  ,one morning   
,mr4 ,erickson did not come in for      
breakfast1 and his wife went  to his    
bedroom to see what was the matter4     
,there he was on his knees by the  bed  
praying4 ,the first time she had ever   
seen him doing so in that  position4 ,he
 got up and said1 yes1 ,i am coming4    
,she went back to the  kitchen1 but     
still he did not come2 so she went back 

to call him4 ,again he  was on his knees
 by the bed4 ,she said1 ,aren't you     
coming husband4 ,the  breakfast is      
getting cold4 ,he answered again1 ,yes1 
,i'm coming4 ,but he  did not come yet4 
,she went back the third time1 and on   
his knees he was1  and this time he was 
dead4 ,no doubt the man had been calling
 upon ,god1 and  the ,bible says1       
,whosoever calleth on the name of the   
,lord shall be saved4  ,hundreds of     
prayers had gone up for those folks4    
,after his death ,mrs4  ,erickson went  
to stay with her oldest daughter at     
,westlake1 ,minnesota4  ,after being    
there for some time she took very sick1 
and she said to her  daughter1 ,will you
 send for the preacher8 ,yes1 she said1 
,what is his  address8 7thinking she    
wanted her own pastor74 ,no1 she said1  
,i want  your pastor1 ,brother ,susag4  
,i went and at the end of three days1   
she got  gloriously saved and got well4 
,later on she took sick again and passed
 on1  and because ,i was in ,europe at  

the time1 my wife conducted the funeral 
service4 ,what looks hopeless with man  
can be changed by prayer4           99  
99       99       99       99    ,at one
 time when ,olae ,christaphersen was    
selling books in the country  between   
,grove ,city and ,litchfield1           
,minnesota1 he came to a home where     
quite  a number were weeping and he     
asked why they were so sad4 ,the lady of
 the  house replied1 ,our daughter1 a   
young lady1 is in the bedroom dying1 and
  husband has gone to town to get the   
coffin1 as she stinks already4 7,those  
days they took the coffin to the homes  
sometimes74 ,he inquired if he could    
see her1 and she said1 yes4 ,after      
standing looking at her a while1 he     
knelt  and laid his hands on her and    
prayed the prayer of faith1 and the     
,lord  raised her up4 ,years later he   
was selling books in ,n4 ,dakota4 ,he   
came to a  nice farm home and knocking  
at the door a fine looking lady opened  
the  door4 ,surprising him1 she said1   

,come in4 ,unused to such courtesy1 he  
hesitated a moment1 and she said again1 
,come in1 ,i know you4 ,i am the lady   
you prayed for down by ,litchfield1     
,minnesota1 whose father had gone to the
  undertaker to arrange for the funeral4
 ,i am married and this is my home4     
99       99       99       99       99  
,at one time a sister-in-law of ,olae   
,christaphersen1 ,bastine               
,christaphersen1  was in childbirth4    
,the midwife said the child could not be
 born without  medical help4 ,her       
husband started for ,wilmer to get the  
doctor4 ,at seven  o'clock she began to 
get blue and lost consciousness4 ,they  
sent for ,brother  ,olae4 ,when he came1
 he looked at his sister-in-law and     
walked out into the  woodshed1 and there
 among the split wood he knelt down and 
prayed4 ,a number  of times they called 
for him to come in1 but he did not      
answer4 ,about  twelve o'clock he came  
hurrying in and laid his hands on his   
sister-in-law  and said1 ,i command in  

the name of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ    
that this child  be born1 and that my   
sister-in-law be made well4 ,immediately
 the child was  born1 and all was well4 
,in a few minutes the doctor arrived and
 he said it  was a wonderful miracle4   
99       99       99       99       99  
,,healed ,,after ,,running ,a ,,rusty   
,,nail ,,through ,,the ,,foot    ,one   
time my wife stepped on a rusty nail1   
running it through the shoe sole  and   
her foot4 ,the next morning ,brother    
,christaphersen came and she asked  him 
to make her a crutch1 since ,i was in   
,europe at the time4 ,she had to  walk  
with her knee on a chair and he said he 
would4 ,he went out and in a  few       
minutes he came back and said1 ,the     
,lord does not want me to make you a    
crutch4 ,let us pray the ,lord to heal  
you4 ,they prayed and she was healed  at
 once4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,,healed ,,of ,,lockjaw  
,i had my collar bone broken three      
times2 the third time ,i was in ,north  

,dakota holding meetings4 ,it was during
 ,july and very hot1 being around #he   
to #ij degrees in the shade4 ,i was     
staying with ,brother and ,sister ,e4   
,olson  and lockjaw set in4 ,i took     
chills until they moved me into the     
kitchen and  had the stove red hot4     
,even then ,i could hardly quit         
chilling4 ,i battled  with the devil and
 the pain for a whole day1 and finally  
got the victory4  ,bless ,his name4     
,,healed ,,of ,,broken ,,leg    ,one    
time ,i was plowing and was thrown off  
the seat onto the plow in such a  way   
that my leg caught between the bars and 
,i was thrown with my weight on  my leg1
 breaking it near the ankle and         
splitting the bone nearly to the  knee4 
,the end of the broken bone protruded   
under the skin near the knee4  ,the     
neighbor hearing my scream1 phoned to my
 home1 and the folks came and  took me  
home4 ,we sent for ,sister ,hendricks1  
7now ,sister ,mayhre74 ,she and  wife   
prayed for me and as they prayed the    

bone moved back into its place  and the 
next day ,i was well as ever and able to
 go about my business4           99     
99       99       99       99    ,,man  
,,saved ,,and ,,healed    ,at one time  
while ,i was pastor in ,grand ,forks1 a 
young man came who had  been on crutches
 for four years4 7,he was partially     
paralyzed1 and unable to  bear his      
weight on his limbs47 ,he came at the   
time of the ,state camp  meeting4 ,he   
had written to ,brother ,e4 ,e4 ,byrum  
to come and pray for him1  and he was   
bringing the answer he had gotten from  
,brother ,byrum which said1  ,i haven't 
time to come and furthermore it is so   
far and expenses would be  so great and 
since the ,dakota ,state ,camp meeting  
convenes in a few days1  you might be   
able to get someone to take you down    
there4 ,brother ,susag will  be there   
and he does the same kind of work that  
,i do4 ,he will pray with  you1 and     
instruct you how to get saved and       
healed4    ,he came and went through the

 entire camp meeting without receiving  
the  faith he needed to get saved and   
healed1 but he remained another day and 
,i  had time to more thoroughly instruct
 him4 ,he did get saved and was         
perfectly healed4    ,a ,,doctor',s     
,,daughter ,,healed    ,i was asked at  
one time to come to a certain city to   
preach for a certain  denomination for a
 couple of weeks1 which ,i did4 ,on     
coming ,i found that ,i  was to stay    
with a certain doctor who had a daughter
 five years old4 ,one  afternoon she was
 sitting talking with me and ,i found   
her almost as smart  as a high school   
girl4 ,toward evening ,i said to her1   
,honey1 you are sick4  ,she shrugged her
 shoulders and said1 ,i'll be all right 
in the morning4  ,but she became        
seriously ill that evening1 insomuch    
that the next day her  father sent for  
another doctor1 a nurse and a lady to   
help4 ,about three  o'clock the third   
morning the doctor came up into my room 
and made a  confession which he needed  

not to have made4 ,then he said1 ,i've  
come to my  wit's end2 ,i know of no    
help for the child4 ,but would you      
please pray for  her8 ,but pray right   
away1 as she may pass away any time4 ,i 
began to pray  right away4 ,i put on my 
clothes and ran down stairs1 praying all
 the while4  ,when ,i got down stairs   
everything was quiet1 and when the      
doctor met me1 he  said1 ,less than     
three minutes after you commenced to    
pray my daughter went  to sleep1 and ,i 
believe when she wakes up she will be   
well4 ,she slept  until four in the     
afternoon4 ,when she awakened1 she said1
 ,i want to get up  and dress4 ,the     
doctor said1 ,no1 honey1 you can't do   
that2 you have been  awful sick4 ,you   
will have to stay in bed and be quiet   
until you get  stronger4 ,she said1     
,where is ,brother ,susag8 ,he said1 ,do
 you want to see  him8 ,she said1 yes1  
so they called me and ,i said1 ,praise  
the ,lord1  honey4 ,she said1 ,can't ,i 
dress8 ,sure1 you can dress1 ,i said1   

and so  they dressed her4 ,then she     
said1 ,now ,i want to get up and run4   
,again the  doctor said1 ,you can't do  
that4 ,she said1 ,brother ,susag1 can't 
,i run8 ,i  said1 ,sure1 you can run1   
and out of the bed she went1 but she    
stumbled  against the wall1 and the     
doctor went to catch her4 ,she said1    
,don't touch  me4 ,if ,i need help1     
,brother ,susag can help me4 ,then      
through the house she  ran with the     
father1 mother and nurse after her4 ,i  
was standing in the  middle of the room 
praising ,god4 ,finally she stopped and 
faced her father  and said1 ,can't ,i   
run1 daddy8 ,he said1 ,sure you can1    
honey4    ,her father came and put his  
arms around my neck weeping and said1   
,you  saved the life of my child4 ,i    
answered1 ,no1 ,i didn't4 ,he said1 ,who
 did  then8 ,i said1 ,you made a humble 
confession and asked one of the ,lord's 
servants to pray1 and the ,lord honored 
your faith and healed her4 ,yes1  he    
said1 but if you hadn't been here she   

would have been dead now4    ,a humble  
confession is a sure stepping stone to  
faith4           99       99       99   
99       99    ,,healed ,,of ,,paralysis
    ,not long ago the ,lord said to me4 
,you go to such and such a church       
tonight1 which ,i did4 ,after service   
was over1 a man who had been paralyzed  
from his waist down for a long time1    
asked me to pray for him4 ,the prayer   
of faith was offered and he was         
instantly healed4 ,to corroborate the   
above1  will say that later ,i met a    
minister of another denomination who    
knew the  case and he said that this man
 had retained his healing4           99 
99       99       99       99           
,,delivered ,,from ,a ,,sinking ,,ship  
,i wish to rewrite an incident given in 
,brother ,e4 ,e4 ,byrum's book1         
,startling ,incidents and ,experiences  
in the ,christian ,life4 ,as it was     
given to him verbally1 and ,i did not   
see the manuscript to correct it after  
it was written4 ,but on reading the     

article in his book1 ,i discovered that 
he had forgotten some of the facts4 ,i  
am rewriting it here1 praying that it   
may prove a blessing4    ,for the glory 
of ,god ,i desire to relate some        
incidents connected with my  trips to   
,scandinavia in the years #aijd-je4     
,while ,i was engaged in  evangelistic  
work in ,north ,dakota in the fall of   
#aijd1 the brethren in ,new  ,york ,city
 wrote me about making them a visit4    
,after praying earnestly for  the ,lord 
to make known his will in the matter1 ,i
 decided to go1 and felt  that if ,i    
went to ,new ,york ,i also ought to make
 a trip across the ,atlantic  to ,norway
 to see my parents and relatives whom ,i
 had not seen for  twenty-four years4   
,in the latter part of ,november it was 
made very clear to me by the ,holy      
,spirit that ,i should go1 and about the
 middle of ,december ,i left my home    
for ,new ,york ,city4 ,on the #bdth of  
,december my wife took so seriously ill 
that she was not expected to live4 ,she 

had faith that the ,lord would raise    
her up1 but the children were much      
distressed1 fearing that their mother   
was going to die1 and knowing that their
 father was on his way to a foreign     
land1 not intending to return for       
several months4 ,they begged to have a  
telegram sent to me asking me to return4
 ,finally about two o'clock in the      
night1 when she was getting very low1   
and the children would not be  comforted
 in any other way1 she consented to have
 a telegram sent to the  missionary home
 in ,new ,york ,city4 ,knowing as she   
did that it was ,god's will  for me to  
go to ,norway and knowing also that if  
,i returned so soon1 ,i could  not go if
 she should recover1 she prayed         
earnestly that the ,lord would  hinder  
me from getting the telegram1 which he  
did4 ,god heard her prayer and  also    
healed her4 ,after stopping with the    
church in ,new ,york for sometime1 ,i   
went to ,boston1 and thence on the #bjth
 of ,january1 #aije sailed on the       

,steamship ,saxonia of the ,cunard line 
for ,liverpool1 ,england4 ,everything   
went well--the ,atlantic was the        
smoothest ,i had ever seen it4 ,i       
wondered  how it could be otherwise1    
inasmuch as my family and many people of
 ,god  were sending up earnest prayers  
for my safe journey4 ,my journey from   
,liverpool to ,hull was by railroad1 but
 at the latter place1 ,i embarked on    
the ,s4 ,s4 ,tasso of the ,wilson ,line 
bound for ,tronheim1 ,norway4 ,getting  
into  the ,north ,sea we had a very     
rough voyage4 ,we were to make our first
 stop at  ,stavanger1 but the weather   
was so stormy as we neared the coast    
that  evening that we did not dare to   
sail in the dark4 ,consequently we      
anchored  out in the ,north ,sea for the
 night4 ,while the ship tossed up and   
down and  back and forth through the    
night1 ,i dreamed the ship was going on 
dry land4  ,i could hear the screeching 
as it went on the rocks and chills went 
down my  back4 ,then the scene changed4 

,in my dream ,i seemed to be on land    
standing  looking at the ship going1 and
 wondering why it did not tip over4 ,i  
looked  close and on the right hand side
 of the ship was a large stone1 almost  
as  high as the ship1 scraping against  
its side4 ,on the left side was a small 
stone steadying it as it moved along4   
,finally it moved out into deep water   
and turned to the left1 and in a little 
while we landed at our destination1     
,tronheim4 ,in the morning ,i told my   
dream at the breakfast table and said1  
,we may have an accident before we get  
through4 ,the people laughed and  said1 
,do preachers believe in dreams8 ,i     
said1 ,yes1 when they come true4  ,they 
thought there was no danger1 for the    
reason the ship was so large4  ,well1 ,i
 said1 it is very stormy weather and the
 sea is full of rocks  along the coast  
and we do not know what may happen4     
,that day we landed  safely in          
,stavanger1 and then went to our next   
stop1 ,bergen4 ,leaving there  we       

encountered the roughest sailing ,i had 
ever experienced4 ,four ships  started  
out at the same time from the dock1 and 
only one was able to anchor  at the next
 stop1 ,aalesund1 so we had to anchor   
out in the ocean4 ,the next  morning we 
were able to land at the dock4 ,thence  
we went to ,christiansund1  which was   
our last stop before our final          
destination4 ,it was a good harbor1  and
 were ready to leave there at #h p4m41  
but as the storm was still raging  out  
in the sea1 the captain decided to      
remain in the harbor until twelve       
o'clock4 ,then we should land at our    
destination at eight o'clock in the     
morning4 ,at twelve o'clock we left the 
harbor4 ,the storm was still raging  and
 a heavy snow was falling4 ,at #a3ae    
a4m4 ,i felt a shock and heard the  same
 screeching noise that ,i had heard in  
my dream and knew at once what  had     
happened4 ,immediately the stewart came 
running into the stateroom  calling1    
,everybody up6 take nothing along4 ,we  

are sinking6    ,quicker than ,i can    
tell you the seven men with me in the   
stateroom were up  and dressing1 putting
 on all the clothes they could4 ,up the 
stairs they  went1 throwing away their  
tobacco and pipes1 and leaving behind   
their  whisky bottles1 some empty and   
some partly empty4 ,i got up1 dressed1  
took  my ,bible and read a little4 ,then
 ,i knelt down and had prayer4 ,the     
stewart  came down and said1 ,aren't you
 in a hurry8 ,we are sinking6 ,i said1  
,no1  he that believeth shall make no   
haste4 ,he looked at me and went on the 
deck4 ,the snow storm was whistling     
wildly through the tackling of the ship1
  and the seamen were working with all  
their might to lower the life boats4    
,others were running to and fro4 ,some  
women were crying aloud and others  were
 praying while the water was pouring    
into the sides of the ship4 ,the  pumps 
were working to their full capacity1    
throwing out the water4 ,it was  indeed 
a sad sight4 ,as a seaman was running   

by1 ,i asked him to direct me to  the   
pilot4 ,he looked at me and said in a   
harsh voice1 ,what do you want  with the
 pilot8 and went his way4 ,a little     
further on ,i met another  seaman1 and  
asked him the same question4 ,he said1  
,the pilots are both over  there with   
the captain1 pointing to three men who  
were standing a short  distance away4   
,i walked over to where they were       
standing1 conversing with one another4  
,i  saluted them and said to the        
captain4 ,could you spare me a minute or
 two8  ,if it is important1 ,i can1 he  
replied4 ,i think it is1 ,i said4 ,speak
 on  then1 he said4    ,i then asked him
 who the pilot of the boat was1 and one 
pointed to himself  and another man4    
,then ,i said to the head pilot1 ,we are
 off the rock now1  are we not8 ,yes1 he
 answered4 ,did you turn to the left    
when you turned  off the rock1 ,i asked4
 ,yes1 he replied4 ,if that is the case 
we need not  go into the life boats1 ,i 
replied1 as this boat is going to land  

in  ,tronhein1 without loss of life4    
,the captain looked at me and said1     
,what do you know about navigation1     
man8 pointing to the water that was     
being pumped out of the ship2 we are    
sinking4 ,i know nothing about          
navigation1 ,i replied4 ,explain        
yourself1  he said4 ,then ,i told my    
dream1 and when ,i had finished         
speaking1 ,i saw the  tears running down
 the weather-beaten cheeks of the       
pilots4 ,then the  captain said1 ,what  
kind of a man are you8 ,i answered1 ,an 
ordinary  minister4 ,then the pilot said
 to the captain1 ,we had better listen  
to  this man4 ,he may be more right than
 we1 because as long as this ship can   
hold up1 we are safe1 but if we go into 
the boats in this fearful weather  and  
dark night1 we shall soon be dashed to  
pieces against the rocks4    ,then the  
pilot said to me1 ,our ship sticks #bh  
feet in the water and the  rock we      
struck was only twelve feet under the   
water1 so you see it is a  great miracle

 that our ship is not in two1 and one   
end on each side of the  rock4 ,had that
 happened1 no one would have known what 
became of us1 for we  are now in #ec    
fathoms of water4 ,orders were then     
given not to lower the  life boats4     
,then ,i said to the captain1 ,is this  
the ,tasso1 that used to sail on ,norway
  #bd years ago8 ,he replied1 ,no1 that 
lays on the bottom of the sea six  miles
 from here4 ,what about it8 ,i said1 ,i 
embarked on that ship at  ,tronheim the 
#bgth day of ,april on a ,sunday        
afternoon at four o'clock1 of  the year 
#ahha1 with #chd other young people who 
were sailing for ,england1 on  our way  
to ,america4 ,at nine o'clock we got    
into an awful snowstorm and just  lay   
drifting until one fifteen a4m41 exactly
 the same time of night as we  struck   
the rock this time4 ,we went on the rock
 and turned over on the side  just      
outside of the ,agness lighthouse4 ,then
 the captain said1 ,what kind  of a man 
are you8 ,just an ordinary minister1 ,i 

answered4 ,the captain  then told me his
 father was captain of that ship at that
 time4 7,it might be  interesting to the
 reader to know that we lay on our side 
until almost six  fifteen in the morning
 when the ship straightened up as the   
tide arose4  ,then they cut the anchor  
chain and we backed up and went our     
way47 ,needless  to say1 that night was 
one of the greatest prayer meetings ever
 held4    ,while ,i was speaking with   
the ,captain1 the first mate had come1 a
 fine tall  ,englishman4 ,will you      
kindly go with me to the front end of   
the ship and  see if we can see any     
lights8 ,we are lost4 ,we don't know    
where we are4 ,i  answered1 ,i know     
nothing about navigation sir4 ,he said1 
,please go with  me4 ,i did1 and coming 
out there1 ,i saw three lights1 and he  
could not see  any4 ,he said1 ,keep your
 eyes on them1 and ,i'll run for the    
captain4 ,they  both came running and   
the captain could not see the lights    
either4 ,turning  to me he said1 ,you   

must be mistaken4 ,no sir1    ,i        
replied1 ,i can see them now4 ,he then  
asked me the color of the lights4       
,after ,i had given him a description of
 them1 he saw them himself and          
explained1 ,they are steamers4 ,where   
are we8 ,we are lost6 ,he called out in 
agony4    ,we lay there until six       
fifteen in the morning4 ,when we turned 
around to the  right between the rocks1 
they knew where to go4 ,the pumps were  
in full  operation1 but our ship was    
tipping backward more and more as if it 
were  going to stand on one end4 ,we    
landed in ,tronheim in the afternoon    
with our  handsatchels and our lives1   
and as soon as the pumps stopped1 the   
ship  filled with water and sank in the 
harbor4    ,i saw an account of the     
wreck in two ,norwegian papers after the
 ship had  been raised and placed on dry
 dock4 ,the paper stated that the cargo 
was a  total loss and the ship was about
 thirty eight thousand dollars4 ,that   
nearly every plate from midship to stern

 was torn loose1 just as ,i had seen  in
 my dream and the paper said they could 
not understand why the ship had  not    
sunk before1 as one plate hole was      
enough to sink the ship4 ,my wife  wrote
 me later and said1 ,i know why the ship
 did not sink4 ,i and many  others were 
praying that ,god would keep that ship  
on top of the waves1  because he had one
 of his little ones on the ship4 ,the   
,lord verified his  promises by hearing 
the prayers of his people to protect me 
and bring me  safely to my destination4 
,the blessings of salvation never seemed
 more real  to me than at that time1 as 
,i was enabled to be calm and quiet     
through all  the perils1 having the     
sweet assurance that the mighty arm of  
,god was  upholding me and protecting   
not only me1 but those who were         
traveling with  me4 ,he hears and       
answers prayers4 ,those who trust and   
believe in him he  often saves from     
death and destruction4    ,,homeward    
,,bound    ,my return trip was just as  

eventful as my trip to ,norway4 ,for    
some time ,i  had been praying earnestly
 for the ,lord to direct me in getting  
the right  ship across the ocean1 as ,i 
was to sail during the stormy season of 
,spring4  ,on the twentieth of ,march1  
#aije1 ,i left the home of my parents in
 ,norway1  with the intention of sailing
 the next morning4 ,i was to sail on an 
,english  boat bound for ,hull1         
,england1 in order to reach the fastest 
boat on the  ,cunard ,line bound from   
,liverpool to ,new ,york1 as ,i thought 
that would be  the best vessel to take4 
,soon after leaving my fathers home1 ,i 
stopped at a  little seaport called     
,levanger to visit a relative of mine   
for a few hours1  expecting to leave on 
the evening train1 but my relative      
persuaded me to  stay and take the early
 morning train4 ,he said ,i would have  
ample time to  reach my boat in         
,tronhiem1 but when my train entered the
 station the next  morning1 the ship    
upon which ,i had intended sailing was  

just leaving the  harbor4    ,i did not 
understand what this meant1 but         
remembered the scripture which  said    
that ,all things work together for good 
to those that love the ,lord4  ,had my  
plans for reaching the fast steamer from
 ,liverpool to ,new ,york  carried and  
had the ship sailed on schedule1 ,i     
should have been in ,new ,york  in ten  
days1 but now ,i had to make the best of
 the situation1 so ,i decided  to embark
 on the ,s4 ,s4 ,united ,states of the  
,scandinavian-,american ,line from      
,oslo which was due in ,new ,york just  
one week later than the other ship1 and 
if run on schedule generally arrived in 
,new ,york nine days after leaving      
,oslo4    ,we sailed from ,oslo on time1
 but after being out at sea for a day1  
we found  to our surprise and           
dissatisfaction of many of the          
passengers that instead  of going direct
 to ,new ,york1 we had to go to the     
,azores to pick up some  passengers from
 another ship of the same line1 as a    

shaft of that ship had  been broken in a
 storm on the ,atlantic ,ocean1 and the 
ship had been towed  to some ,island4   
,this made a very long round-about      
voyage4    ,with the exception of two or
 three days of storm1 the weather was   
good1 but  the waves rolled exceedingly 
high every day4 ,by this we knew that   
farther  north in the ocean1 a terrible 
storm was raging4    ,finally after     
fifteen days of rough sailing1 we found 
ourselves just  outside ,new ,york in   
the midst of a heavy fog1 such as ,i had
 never before  witnessed4 ,the whistles 
of the fog horns of the ships kept      
blowing and the  bells ringing as we    
slowly proceeded in the afternoon1 but  
finally we had  to anchor1 as a pilot   
from the shore entered our ship and     
forbade us to go  any further4 ,he said 
the sea was full of anchored ships on   
account of the  fog1 some of which had  
been there for three days4 ,he said we  
could not move  until the wind changed  
and drove the fog away4 ,i felt quite   

satisfied1  although like many others1  
,i had been very seasick while on the   
voyage4  ,early the next morning ,i went
 on the deck4 ,there was so much unrest 
and  grumbling among the passengers that
 it was quite unpleasant for me to stay 
on the ship any longer4 ,however1 the   
fog seemed to be thicker than ever4 ,it 
was so dense a person could hardly see  
beyond his outstretched arm4 ,i went  to
 my room1 and there while lying across  
the bed1 prayed earnestly to ,god  to   
take away the fog4 ,then ,i went on deck
 and looked1 but the fog seemed to  be  
still worse4 ,i went down and prayed the
 second time1 but found on my  return   
the fog seemed to be thicker than ever4 
,the third time ,i went and  prayed1 and
 while ,i was praying a voice said to   
me1 ,change your clothes4  ,i knew what 
it meant4 ,the ,lord had heard my       
prayers4 ,i arose and put on my  best   
suit of clothes 7for ,i expected soon to
 be in ,new ,york74 ,then ,i went  to   
the breakfast table4    ,the people were

 complaining on account of having to    
remain so long on the  ship4 ,i said1   
,before we have finished breakfast1 we  
shall be on our way  into the harbor4   
,some asked who had said so4 ,i said ,i 
had been praying to  ,god and ,he had   
assured me that such would be the case4 
,eight men got up and  laughed me to    
scorn1 saying1 ha1 ha1 ha1 but while we 
were eating we  heard something rattle  
and someone asked4 ,what is that8 ,i    
said1 ,i  suppose they are raising the  
anchor4 ,a number sprang from1 their    
seats and  looked through the portholes 
and the fog was gone1 and we were on our
 way  to the port4 ,then one man arose  
and said1 ,that minister's religion must
 be  right4 ,after that there was no    
more laughing and scorning4 ,thank ,god1
 he  stood by me and showed himself     
mighty in answering my prayers and in   
lifting the fog to the astonishment of  
my fellow travelers4 ,our ship was  the 
first one to pass into port1 though some
 had been waiting there for  three days 

for an opportunity to reach ,new ,york4 
,after landing1 ,i learned that the     
,cunard liner on which ,i had intended  
to  sail from ,liverpool1 had not yet   
arrived4 ,it did not arrive until the   
next  day4 ,according to reports it had 
the worst voyage that any ship of that  
company had had for forty six years1 and
 a number of passengers were badly      
hurt1 being thrown about by the rolling 
and tossing of the ship4 ,a young  man  
who came across the ocean on that ship  
informed me that a number had to  be    
tied to their beds1 and many were       
injured4 ,after learning these things1  
,i perceived that the ,lord had answered
 prayer in a wonderful way4 ,he had     
hindered me from embarking on that ship1
 and had thus spared me much            
unnecessary suffering4    ,thanks be to 
his precious and matchless name4 ,it is 
safe to put our whole  trust in ,god1   
because ,he knows how to protect and    
shield us from harm and  danger4 ,it is 
my prayer that the relating of this     

incident of the ,lord's  dealings with  
me may prove a blessing and inspiration 
to others1 and enable  them to put their
 whole trust in the ,lord in time of    
difficulty and  distress4 ,he will      
surely hear and answer prayer when we   
call upon ,him in a  simple childlike   
manner4           99       99       99  
99       99    ,,an ,,answer ,,to       
,,prayer    ,for the glory of ,god1 ,i  
wish to relate two very definite        
instances of  answered prayer4    ,one  
time ,i was holding services nine miles 
north of ,kerkhoven1 ,minn4 ,the        
meetings were very good1 but ,i was     
under a very severe trial1 and it seemed
  very difficult for me to learn the    
will of the ,lord as to whether at the  
close of the meeting ,i should go home  
or to ,grand ,forks1 ,north ,dakota1    
,camp  ,meeting4 ,i learned that my fare
 from ,kerkhoven to ,grand ,forks would 
be  #c4cb4 ,then ,i went out into the   
grove three times1 7,i believe it was on
  ,friday17 and asked the ,lord that on 

,sunday forenoon at the close of the    
services ,he would put it in the mind of
 somebody to give me exactly #c4cb  if  
,he wanted me to go to ,grand ,forks4   
,no one but the ,lord knew my needs4 ,on
  ,sunday after the service while ,i was
 shaking hands with the people1 a       
brother put some money in my outside    
coat pocket4 ,when ,i left the house1 ,i
  walked to the grove to the same spot  
where ,i had prayed and knelt down and  
thanked the ,lord for #c4cb in my       
pocket1 and when ,i had counted the     
money ,i  found that it was the exact   
amount for which ,i had prayed4 ,he had 
not only  supplied my carfare1 but had  
in this way made known ,his will to me4 
,before  ,i left the next morning1 the  
brethren had given me more1 so that ,i  
had  something to send to my family4    
99       99       99       99       99  
,,the ,,second ,,incident    ,the second
 incident ,i desire to relate1 occurred 
at the time when the ,lord  made it very
 clear to me to go to a certain place in

 ,south ,dakota to hold a  meeting in a 
new place4 ,this also was on ,friday and
 ,i knew that the ,lord  was directing  
me to go on the following ,wednesday4 ,i
 was in need of a suit  of clothes1 as  
what ,i had was not fit to wear in      
public4 ,i was also in need  of carfare4
 ,an elderly sister was staying with us 
and together with my wife  we had prayer
 and agreed that the ,lord would supply 
these needs before  ,wednesday morning4 
,while we were in prayer the ,lord made 
it clear and  definite that ,he would   
grant our petition4 ,as we arose from   
our knees1 ,i  said1 ,thank ,god1 ,i    
have the money by faith4 ,the elderly   
sister said1  ,well1 ,i suppose you will
 have to write to some of the well-to-do
 brethren  and tell them your need4 ,no1
 ,i answered1 ,the ,lord will tell them4
 ,i  might make a mistake if ,i         
undertake to write to any of them4 ,you 
will not  have the money then1 she said4
 ,yes1 mother1 ,i said1 ,you will see   
before  next ,wednesday morning that ,i 

will have all ,i need4 ,she doubted and 
said  she would see4    ,the following  
,sunday we went to ,colfax1 ,minnesota  
and held a service and  received one    
dollar1 and ,i said1 ,thank ,god for one
 dollar4 ,then on  ,monday1 ,i received 
a letter from a brother who lived near  
,sisseton1 ,south  ,dakota which        
contained a check for seven dollars4    
,the check was from a man  whom ,i did  
not know that ,i had ever seen1 and he  
did not know my address1  but drove     
fifteen miles with a team and in a      
lumber wagon to another  brother who    
knew my address4 ,he told him to send it
 to me immediately1 as  he was impressed
 that ,i was in need4 ,the old mother   
knew this brother and  said he was      
well-to-do1 and could well afford to    
send it4 ,i said to her1  ,did ,i not   
tell you that the ,lord knew to whom to 
speak4 ,she was very much  astonished4  
,i also received another letter in which
 there was a check from  a brother whom 
,i had not seen for four years4 ,he     

wrote that while he was  coming from    
,crookston1 ,minnesota to where he had  
been working1 and was  nearing ,wadena1 
,minnesota1 the ,spirit of the ,lord    
told him to hurry to the  bank before it
 closed and send ,brother ,susag five   
dollars4 ,in his letter he  said he     
thought ,i must be in great need and    
that he hurried and reached the  bank in
 time to get the money4 ,he further     
said1 ,may the ,lord bless you and  use 
you to ,his glory4    ,wednesday morning
 ,i started for ,saint ,paul1 ,minnesota
 with thirteen dollars  in my pocket4   
,arriving there1 ,i was looking for a   
second hand clothing  store4 ,i stood on
 the street praying for the ,lord to    
direct me and ,he said1  ,samuelson1    
,samuelson4 ,i walked around a few      
blocks and suddenly ,i looked  up over a
 store and it said1 ,samuelson ,second  
,hand ,clothing4 ,going in1  the        
merchant asked if he could help me4 ,i  
said1 ,have you a ,prince ,albert  coat 
and vest that will fit me4 ,he looked   

and said1 ,just your fit1 and  walked   
over to a show case and brought the coat
 and vest and put it on me4  ,it fit    
like it was made to order by a tailor4  
,you could not see that it had  even    
been on a man before4 ,he said it was an
 eighty five dollar coat and  vest1 and 
it surely looked like it4 ,it had silk  
facing on the lapels4 ,i  took off the  
coat1 and put my own back on4 ,i felt   
that ,i did not dare ask  him the price4
 ,he said1 ,aren't you going to take it4
 ,he took my coat off  and put the coat 
back on me4 ,then ,i prayed the ,lord   
for courage to ask him  the price1 so ,i
 said ,what's your price8 ,he said1 ,a  
dollar and a half4 ,i  caught my breath 
and said1 ,what did you say8 ,he        
repeated1 ,a dollar and a  half4 ,i     
said1 ,have you a pair of new trousers  
that will fit me8 ,i had to  have the   
silk facing taken off1 for fear ,i would
 be asked to the altar for  too fine a  
suit4    ,i not only bought the coat and
 vest1 but one new and one second hand  

trousers1 and all came to #d4ej4        
,going to ,arlington1 ,i was dressed in 
the finest suit ,i had ever had in my   
life4 ,i overheard two ladies speaking  
about me4 ,one said1 ,you can see that  
man has seen better days by the fine    
clothes he wears4 ,i wore that coat  and
 vest for many years1 and couldn't wear 
it out4 ,finally ,i got too stout  and  
then ,i gave it away4           99      
99       99       99       99    ,at one
 time the ,missionary ,board was writing
 of the need in the  ,scandinavian      
countries1 and wanted me to go          
immediately1 though they were  unable to
 finance me4 ,also the leading brethren 
of the ,scandinavian  ,publishing       
,company at ,st4 ,paul ,park almost     
demanded me to go4 ,i prayed and  wept1 
and said to the ,lord1 ,haven't you got 
any one else to go as you know  ,i am a 
poor man1 in debt on my home1 and would 
be leaving my family in  need1 shifting 
for themselves4 ,for three days it got  
darker and darker for  me4 ,finally the 

third day toward evening ,i got         
desperate1 and going into my  bedroom1  
,i prayed earnestly1 not knowing where a
 penny of carfare would  come from4 ,as 
,i was praying ,i said1 ,listen1 ,lord1 
you know ,i am honest and  earnest4 ,do 
not let me be deceived4 ,i'll take one  
of these ,bibles on the  table1 and     
close my eyes and throw it up in the air
 and catch it and the  scripture my     
thumb is on when ,i catch it1 ,i'll     
accept as an answer from  you4 ,i did   
so1 and my thumb was on ,mark #aj3bi-cj4
 ,and ,jesus answered and  said1 ,verily
 ,i say unto you1 there is no man that  
hath left house or  brethren or sisters 
or fathers or mothers or wife or        
children or lands1 for  my sake and the 
gospels1 but he shall receive an hundred
 fold now in this  time1 houses and     
brethren and sisters and mothers and    
children and lands  with persecutions1  
and in the world to come1 eternal life4 
,i said1 ,amen4  ,then ,i got a phone   
message from ,saint ,paul ,park saying1 

,we have been  looking for you4 ,why    
don't you come8 ,my answer was1 ,i have 
no money4  ,they said they had a check  
for thirteen dollars for me4 ,i         
answered1 ,i am  coming4    ,from there 
,i went to ,chicago to meet ,brother ,e4
 ,e4 ,byrum who was president  of the   
,missionary ,board4 ,he took me into a  
room and said1 ,it is almost  cruel to  
demand you to go when we have no way to 
finance you1 but the need  is so urgent1
 and we know you have faith and the only
 thing ,i can do is to  lay my hands on 
you and pray for you4 ,he did so1       
praying and weeping1 and  when we got   
through he took out his purse and       
emptied it into my hand4 ,it  contained 
#id cents4 ,how ,i got there1 ,i do not 
know4    ,i spent some time in ,norway  
and ,sweden visiting the churches       
holding  revival meetings4 ,from there  
,i went on to ,denmark where ,i spent   
thirteen  months helping the dear       
faithful workers in raising up eight new
  congregations1 making a total of      

thirteen4 ,in #aiaf the ,missionary     
,board  sent #be per month for seven and
 one half months to wife and the        
children4    ,before leaving ,denmark1  
,i visited all thirteen of the          
congregations which  were there at that 
time1 and preached my farewell sermon4  
,in each place  they gave me an offering
 and a large size envelope1 thick and   
fat and  written on the outside1 ,not to
 be opened until on the ,north ,sea or  
the  ,atlantic4 ,when ,i opened them1   
there were many letters from different  
persons in each congregation expressing 
their appreciation for the help and     
blessing ,i had been to them4 ,if ,i am 
not mistaken1 there were #aec in all1   
and there was sufficient money in those 
letters to almost pay for my first  car1
 a ,ford4 ,the promise previously quoted
 in ,mark #aj3bi-cj was verily          
fulfilled4           99       99        
99       99       99    ,once ,i was in 
great need of at least one hundred      
dollars and ,i had calls  for three     

meetings at the same date4 ,from one of 
these1 ,i knew ,i would  receive a      
hundred and twenty five dollars1 and    
another1 one hundred1 but ,i  knew the  
third could not give more than fifty4   
,for three days ,i stayed home  and     
prayed1 and the ,lord said ,i should go 
to the third1 which ,i did4    ,on      
arriving at the place1 ,i found they    
were closing a union meeting in one  of 
the large churches the following day4   
,they told me that the evangelist       
required them to forward him #ejj before
 he would start his meeting1 also  #cjj 
at the close of his meeting and #bjj for
 his singer4    ,monday night ,i began  
our service in the ,church of ,god4 ,one
 got saved4  ,tuesday night the crowd   
could not all get in the church4 ,the   
,presbyterian  minister of the town was 
there and he said it was too bad the    
people could  not get in and offered us 
the ,presbyterian ,church free of       
charge4 ,it was  the largest church in  
town4 ,we accepted and announced our    

meetings to be  held there for          
,wednesday night4 ,the church was packed
 and overflowing4 ,many  were outside   
who could not get in4 ,a #cbnd degree   
,mason came to me and said1  ,have you  
ever preached in a ,masonic ,hall8 ,i   
said ,i had preached in the  ,masonic   
,temple in ,chicago1 so he offered to   
get the ,masonic ,hall for me4 ,i       
thanked him and accepted his offer1 so  
the balance of the meeting was held     
there4 ,it was filled for every service4
    ,when the two weeks meeting was     
over1 the church gave me #eb4ej and the 
next  day ,i was asked to come to a     
chain store2 the manager said the store 
always  gave a present to every         
evangelist who came to town4 ,then he   
said1 ,there  is a present for you4     
,what do you need8 ,my wife says you    
need a pair of  shoes1 so go over to the
 counter and pick out a pair4 ,they are 
fourteen  dollars a pair4 ,then he said1
 ,come and sit down4 ,i want to talk to 
you4  ,reaching his hand in his pocket  

he handed me a five dollar bill and     
said1  ,that's from me4 ,then the man   
who let me use the ,masonic ,hall came  
in4 ,he  said to the merchant1 ,are you 
trying to persuade ,mr4 ,susag to go    
with you  to ,norway to fish8 ,the      
merchant answered1 ,i wish ,i could4 ,so
 do ,i1 he  answered4 ,then he          
continued1 ,mr4 ,m41 you know that you  
and ,i are about as  low down in the mud
 as we can get1 and every evangelist    
that comes to town  is digging the hole 
deeper2 but this man has kept on for two
 weeks doing  his best to dig us out4   
,the merchant answered1 ,that is right4 
,then the  ,mason handed me a check for 
ten dollars1 and turning he said1       
,when-- and  he walked away with tears  
in his eyes4 ,later on ,i understand he 
got saved  and went to glory4    ,as ,i 
left the station that day for my home1  
many people came to the station  to see 
me off and shook hands with me1 leaving 
money in my hand or slipping  it into my
 pockets4 ,after ,i got on the train1 ,i

 counted the money and found  ,i had    
#ahg4jj instead of the fifty ,i had     
expected4 ,again ,god proved ,himself   
to be the ,god that ,he says ,he is and 
,his promises are true4           99    
99       99       99       99    ,,trip 
,,to ,,europe ,,in #aici    ,the ,lord  
made it very clear to me that ,i should 
go to ,europe again4 ,i  expected to    
stay four years4 ,when it was understood
 that ,i was to sail for  ,europe1 a    
number of people in a certain           
congregation requested me to stop  over 
as they wanted to send greetings1 so ,i 
did1 thinking also that they  might give
 me a little offering to help me on the 
way1 but for some reason  they failed to
 do so4    ,the war broke out in        
,europe4 ,i was able only to visit the  
churches1 and  late in the fall of the  
same year ,i was ordered to leave these 
countries4  ,after being home for some  
time1 ,i met the wife of a minister and 
she asked1  ,where have you been1 ,bro4 
,susag8 ,we haven't seen you nor heard  

of you for  so long4 ,i told her ,i had 
been to ,europe4 ,why1 no1 she          
explained1 you  were in such and such a 
congregation1 7naming a place where ,i  
had stopped  to receive greetings to    
carry to ,europe74 ,then she said1 ,they
 said that  you had not gotten any      
further than ,new ,york1 as you did not 
have the money  to go any farther4 ,then
 ,i told her1 ,the ,lord made it very   
clear to me to  go1 so ,i went4         
,after leaving this place for ,new ,york
 ,i was sitting on the train reading my 
,bible when a train man came along and  
said1 ,are you reading the good  book8  
,after answering yes1 he asked if ,i was
 a minister4 ,i answered1  yes1 and he  
asked where ,i was going4 ,i told him ,i
 was on my way to  ,europe4 ,do you have
 the finances supplied8 he asked4 ,i    
told him ,i  traveled by faith4 ,to what
 church do you belong8 he asked4 ,i told
 him1  the ,church of ,god4 ,so he      
explained1 ,my pastor is ,brother ----2 
,what is  your name8 ,when ,i told him1 

he said1 ,why1 ,i have heard of you4 ,as
 he  left he said1 ,pardon me1 ,i will  
see you again before we come to our     
divisional point4 ,later on he came and 
handed me a sum of money1 so my  needs  
were nicely cared for4    ,on hearing of
 my experience1 the sister exclaimed1   
,why6 ,god's promise1 ',my  ,god shall  
supply all your needs1' was fulfilled at
 that time4           99       99       
99       99       99    ,,arrested ,,for
 ,,being ,a ,,german ,,doctor    ,in    
#aiae ,i was on the ,atlantic ocean on  
my way to ,europe1 and the captain  came
 to me a number of times on the voyage1 
saying1 ,i am afraid you are  going to  
have trouble if an ,english boat catches
 us before we get to  ,norway1 because  
you claim to be a ,norwegian by birth   
and a minister4 ,we  think you are a    
,german by birth and a doctor4 ,we had  
one sailing with us  the last trip from 
,saint ,paul1 ,minnesota and he spelled 
his name ',susage'  and was a ,german   
and a doctor4 ,you spell your name      

',susag4' ,he had a goatee  like you and
 looked just like you1 and we think you 
two are brothers4 ,we  believe you are  
an ,american citizen1 and if you        
acknowledge that you are a  ,german and 
a doctor1 we believe we can be a help to
 you4 ,we will guarantee  to the        
,english people that we will take care  
of you and take you back to  ,america   
the next trip4    ,i thanked him and    
smiled and said1 ,but ,i am still a     
,norwegian and a  preacher1 and ,i      
believe ,i am going to stand the test4  
,sure enough a number of us were        
apprehended by an ,english war ship1 and
  they sailed us into ,kirkwall1        
,scotland and put nine of us 7me        
included7  under arrest4 ,the fourth day
 a high official came from ,london to   
examine  our papers1 and ,i was the     
first one to march in between two rows  
of  soldiers with bayonets on the guns  
ready for action4 ,the captain and first
  mate were present to see how ,i was   
coming out4 ,finally a soldier called1  

,halt6 and ,i assure you1 ,i stopped and
 smiled at them all4 ,i saluted the     
officer and handed him my papers ,after 
he had examined them thoroughly1 he     
said to me1 ,where were you born1       
,reverend8 ,i said1 in ,norway4 ,what   
,city8 ,stienkjer1 ,i answered4 ,will   
you tell us that in your own tongue8    
,i did so2 then he folded my papers     
nicely and handed them1 back to me1     
smiled and saluted and said1 ,pass on2  
you are ok4 ,i enjoyed the  experience  
very much4           99       99        
99       99       99    ,,the ,,lord    
,,gets ,,me ,a ,,clergy ,,permit ,,on   
,,the ,,railroad    ,when the ,lord     
saved me1 he called me into the         
ministry4 ,i knew the ministry  were    
securing half fare on railroads1 but did
 not know that they had to be  ordained 
before they could get it4 ,but ,i did   
know that the ,lord had  ordained me for
 the ,ministry4 ,so ,i went to the depot
 agent in my home town1  and asked him  
if he would sign for me so ,i could have

 the benefits of  clergy rates4 ,he had 
known me for some years1 so told me he  
could if ,i  would swear that ,i was a  
preacher4 ,i said1 ,no1 ,i can't swear4 
,if you can't  take my word for it1     
,i'll go without a permit4 ,he said1 ,if
 you can't  swear1 ,i will sign for you4
 ,so ,i sent in my application to the   
clergy  bureau1 and a few days later ,i 
received the permit1 but there was a    
little  slip with it which said1 ,are   
you wholly engaged in gospel work1 or do
 you  do some secular work8 ,i studied  
and prayed about it and wrote the clergy
  bureau and sent the permit back and   
said1 ,when ,i travel1 ,i do nothing but
  gospel work1 but when ,i am home1 ,i  
preach twice on ,sunday and once a week1
  and through the week ,i do whatsoever 
my hands find to do4 ,i do not want any 
railroad bill against me in the day of  
judgment4 ,so if you find upon this     
explanation that ,i am worthy of your   
courtesy1 ,i will be very pleased to    
receive the permit1 and if not1 ,i thank

 you4    ,a few days later1 the permit  
was returned to me with a letter saying1
  ,please accept our courtesy4 ,we are  
not afraid of being imposed upon by a   
man like that4    ,when ,i was ordained1
 the brethren said1 ,now you can get    
half fare on the  railroads4 ,well1 ,i  
said1 ,i have had that almost seven     
years already4  ,when ,i explained to   
them they were astonished4           99 
99       99       99       99    ,a     
,,wonderful ,,experience    ,i was the  
evangelist at the ,south ,dakota ,state 
,camp ,meeting one year4 ,after  the    
meeting was over and ,i had received my 
offering from the committee1 a  brother 
came to me and wanted to give me #ej    
extra but ,i refused to accept  it4     
,why1 he said1 ,don't you need it8 ,yes1
 ,i said1 ,i need it badly1  but ,i do  
not feel ,i can take it4 ,well1 he said1
 finally after much  persuasion1 ,if you
 won't take it1 ,i'll put it in the     
bank4 ,for the ,lord  told me to give it
 to you1 and ,i don't want it1 and it   

will be there until  you call for it4   
,about nine months later1 ,i needed     
money and wrote him to see if ,i could  
borrow it until the next camp meeting4  
,he sent it right away and wrote        
saying1 ,thank ,god1 it is out of my    
hands1 and ,i'll never take it back     
again4 ,at the next camp meeting1 ,i    
tried again to pay it back1 but ,i      
failed1 so ,i went to prayer and asked  
the ,lord what ,i should do4 ,the ,lord 
said1 ,you give ,brother ,renbeck       
fifteen dollars for a new suit1 and you 
keep the rest for your family4 7,in     
those days one could get a good suit    
for fifteen dollars74    ,i looked for  
,brother ,renbeck and finally he came4  
,he had been weeping1  although he still
 seemed happy4 ,why have you been       
weeping8 ,i asked4 ,i  need a new suit1 
and ,i went out and prayed and the ,lord
 told me ,i could get  a new fifteen    
dollar one4 ,i reached my hand out and  
said1 ,here is your  fifteen dollars4   
,he stepped back and said1 ,no1 no6 ,i  

couldn't take it  from you4 ,you need it
 worse than ,i do4 ,i explained to him  
how it was1 and  he accepted it and     
praised the ,lord4 ,in those days we    
didn't know any  different than to trust
 the ,lord4         99       99       99
       99       99    ,,an ,,experience 
,,with ,,twelve ,,ministers ,,on ,,the  
,,train    ,at one time while on the    
train in ,north ,dakota1 ,i sat down in 
the company  of twelve ministers1       
representing that many denominations4   
,while listening  to them ,i decided    
that this was the time for a little     
fellow to keep his  mouth shut4 ,one    
young minister appeared to be the leader
 in the discussion  standing with his   
,greek ,testament in his hand4 ,finally 
he turned to me and  said1 ,are you a   
minister too8 ,i told him ,i was4 ,what 
denomination do you  belong to8 ,i told 
him ,church of ,god4 ,well1 he said1 ,if
 you belong to  the ,church of ,god1 you
 have a horn in our side4 ,i had met    
three of them  once and they surely     

horned me4 ,i said1 ,yes1 ,i've got a   
horn and ,i pity  the minister that     
hasn't got one4 7,the horn represents   
power in  scripture74 ,but1 ,i said1 ,i 
use that on only one preacher4 ,who is  
that1 he said4 ,the devil4 ,well1 he    
said1 ,if you have one you have not     
showed it to us because you have kept   
still4 ,then turning1 he pointed to     
each of the ministers individually      
asking each one what visible church of  
,god he belonged to1 and each answered1 
naming their own denomination4 ,then  he
 said1 ,i belong to the visible ,church 
of ,god ,congregational4 ,i spoke up    
then and said1 ,i belong to the visible 
,church of ,god4 ,then he slapped his   
hand on the arm of the seat and said1   
,you've got me1 ,brother4 ,then ,i      
said1 ,you see me1 don't you8 ,yes1 he  
said4 ,i see you1 shake hands4  ,then he
 asked me how far ,i was going1 saying  
that he would like to have a  talk with 
me4    ,i told him ,i was going to      
,bismark1 to which he said1 ,it is too  

bad that ,i  change at the next station4
    ,that ended the conversation4 ,they 
seemed to have no more to say4          
99       99       99       99       99  
,,experience ,,with ,,twelve ,,other    
,,preachers    ,when ,i was holding a   
meeting in a certain state1 some of the 
church said  there had been a couple of 
preachers holding services across the   
street  from the ,church of ,god chapel1
 and some of the saints had attended    
their  meetings and became confused4    
,they wanted me to preach against it4 ,i
 said1  ,i cannot do that4 ,the ,word of
 ,god says1 ',thou shalt not judge a    
strange  servant4' ,but ,i will pray the
 ,lord to help me to meet them to get   
acquainted with their teaching4 ,i did  
pray earnestly that ,i might meet  them4
 ,later ,i came to a town where ,i had  
to stay all night4 ,i found twelve      
preachers there who were trying to start
 a new spiritual mushroom or work1  and 
of the twelve preachers1 two of them    
were the association preachers who  had 

been holding the meetings across from   
our chapel in the town previously       
spoken of4 ,i went to their service that
 evening and sat and prayed  earnestly  
that if ,god was displeased with this   
new work they were trying to  start1    
that the minister who was going to speak
 that night would have the  hardest time
 preaching that he ever had in his life4
    ,a minister arose to preach4 ,his   
preaching was ,biblical1 but he had a   
hard  time1 while the other ministers   
kept on praying1 ,lord1 give the brother
  the anointing4 ,he worked and         
perspired until all of a sudden he sat  
down4  ,the ministers huddled together  
and talked and prayed and finally sent  
one  of their number out into the       
audience to talk with the people4 ,he   
finally  wound up at me4 ,he asked me a 
number of questions1 whether ,i was     
saved and  sanctified1 and then left4   
,but the ministers seemed to be         
dissatisfied1 and  sent another minister
 to me to investigate4 ,at last he said1

 ,i suppose the  sermon tonight scared  
you4 ,i said1 ,no1 that was a good      
sermon and ,i have  been preaching that 
way for over thirty eight years4 ,that  
is the way the  apostles preached4      
,well1 he said1 ,we didn't know there   
was anyone preaching like that4  ,then  
,i said1 ,but he had a hard time4 ,yes1 
he answered1 ,he said he had  the       
hardest time he had ever had in his     
life1 and he has preached from the      
,atlantic to the ,pacific and from      
,canada to the ,gulf of ,mexico and had 
never  met anything like that he said4  
,yes1 and he was preaching against me4  
,he  replied1 ,yes1 and it was you that 
made it hard for him4 ,then ,i said1 ,i 
prayed earnestly that the ,lord would   
make it hard for him1 if the ,lord was  
dissatisfied with his association4      
,the association must have died because 
,i never heard of it again4 ,it turned  
out that the two ministers at that place
 were the two which held the  meeting   
previously spoken of4    ,once at the   

,south ,dakota ,state ,camp ,meeting1 on
 account of the weather1 we  had the    
services in the chapel4 ,one day a man  
came who said he was a  minister4 ,no   
one knew him1 but he looked like a good 
man4 ,he asked for the  privilege of    
preaching and it was granted him4 ,after
 he had been preaching  a while it was  
evident to all that he was badly        
confused1 so the spiritual  ones        
commenced to lift their hearts in prayer
 to ,god to stop him1 which ,he  did1   
insomuch that he left the platform and  
went to the stove to spit1  trying to   
clear his throat4 ,however1 there was   
nothing in his throat4 ,he  tried again 
to speak1 but he could not1 so finally  
went out and left the  grounds4 ,we     
never saw him again4    ,brother ,thomas
 ,nelson and ,i held a meeting in       
,wisconsin and we had the same  kind of 
an experience as the one given above4   
,the man in this case was a  professor  
in college and a real orator1 but his   
religious doctrine was  unscriptural4   

,brother ,nelson and ,i had given him   
the privilege of  preaching4 ,we gave   
one another an understanding glance to  
be agreed in  prayer asking ,god to stop
 him immediately4 ,he lost his voice and
 could not  continue speaking4          
99       99       99       99       99  
,,discouragement ,,blinds ,a ,,person   
,at one time ,i was holding a meeting at
 ,badger1 ,south ,dakota4 ,the meeting  
was fairly good in a way but ,i expected
 results and hoped to see souls  saved4 
,i worked and fasted and prayed1 but to 
no avail4 ,it seemed there was  no      
conviction upon sinners4 ,when that     
meeting was over1 ,i decided to quit    
the ministry1 thinking to myself1 ,what 
is the use to go on this way1  enduring 
hardships and sufferings and not seeing 
any souls saved4 ,i  thought ,i must be 
a failure1 so going home1 ,i went       
through ,minneapolis1  ,minnesota to    
visit my sister4 ,after the evening meal
 ,i thought ,i would take  a walk4 ,as  
,i strolled up ,lake ,street1 ,i saw to 

my left in the middle of the  block1 a  
large sign1 ',revival ,meetings1        
,minnesota's ,greatest ,evangelist4' ,i 
became interested because ,i had lived  
in ,minnesota many years and had never  
heard his name before1 so ,i decided to 
attend4 ,by the time he was half        
through his sermon1 my discouragement   
had vanished4 ,i thought1 ,i'm a  better
 preacher than that2 ,i can preach the  
,truth4 ,so ,i went back to  preaching  
with fresh courage and determination4   
,the next year just before the          
,minnesota ,state ,camp ,meeting at ,st4
 ,paul  ,park1 ,i came home with another
 load of discouragement4 ,it seemed to  
me ,i  was backslidden and that ,brother
 ,nelson and ,brother ,tubbs were going 
to  deal with me at the meeting and tell
 me so4 ,i told wife to go on to the    
meeting and ,i would stay home and rest 
a few days1 as ,i was tired4 ,she       
objected and refused to go without me1  
telling me the saints would be  asking  
about me1 and if ,i told them you were  

home they would be wondering  why and ,i
 would have no peace1 so that was that4 
,we went and ,i did not  attempt to     
preach neither ,saturday1 ,sunday1 nor  
,monday4 ,i was waiting1  expecting the 
brethren to come and have a talk with   
me4 ,finally on ,monday  afternoon ,bro4
 ,nelson came and said1 ,let us go out  
into the timber4 ,i want  to have a talk
 with you4 ,then he said1 ,brother      
,susag1 what is the matter  with you8   
,you are holding up the meeting4        
,everyone is expecting you to  preach   
and you sit there and say nothing4 ,i   
answered1 ,yes1 ,i know that  you know  
what it is4 ,why ,i don't know anything1
 he said1 ,what do you  mean8 ,i said1  
,aren't you and ,bro4 ,tubbs going to   
deal with me8 ,you know ,i  am          
backslidden4 ,since when8 he asked4 ,i  
told him ,i did not know4 ,he then      
said1 ,we surely do not know anything4  
,it is just an imposition of the  devil4
 ,rebuke him and get into the pulpit and
 preach4 ,we had prayer1 and  rebuked   

the devil and his accusations1 and the  
spell was completely broken4    ,a year 
later at the ,minnesota ,state ,camp    
,meeting1 ,brother ,nelson was not      
feeling well1 neither was ,i4 ,one day1 
,brother ,nelson said to me1 ,what do   
you think is the trouble with us8 ,maybe
 we are bad boys4 ,i told him1 ,no1     
that is not the reason1 however1 we do  
not see many healings and miracles  now4
 ,as we stood there talking1 we could   
not think of anything that had  taken   
place of late4    ,just then a sister   
came up to where we were and said1      
,praise the ,lord1  brethren4 ,we said1 
,amen4 ,i do not suppose you know me8   
,yes1 we know  you1 we said1 ,but we    
have forgotten your name4 ,my name is   
,rasmussen1  she said2 ,i haven't seen  
you1 ,brother ,nelson1 since you were   
down and  prayed for our youngest son   
who was down with double pneumonia4     
,brother  ,nelson said1 ,the ,lord      
healed the boy1 didn't ,he8 ,i should   
say ,he did1  she answered4 ,he not only

 healed him1 but changed him from a     
puny1  delicate child to a strong1 husky
 child--the healhiest one we have4 ,she 
went away and we felt we had gotten a   
reproof1 and yet an encouragement1  from
 the ,lord4    ,then a brother came     
along and he said1 ,praise the ,lord4   
,wasn't it  wonderful how the ,lord     
restored ,brother ,krutz8 ,that was     
another reproof4  ,then a sister came by
 and said1 ,have you heard about ,sister
 ,johnson8 ,we  asked1 which ,johnson1  
and she said1 ,brother ,morris          
,johnson's mother4 ,she  fell and broke 
her leg just above the ankle and they   
took her on the train  to ,st4 ,paul and
 while waiting in the ,union ,depot for 
a train for home1  saints came on their 
way to the camp meeting and seeing her  
suffering they  had compassion on her1  
and prayed the prayer of faith1 and she 
was  instantly healed1 insomuch that she
 went back to the camp meeting4 ,after  
she left1 ,brother ,nelson started one  
direction for the timber and ,i the     

other4 ,we felt the ,lord had been      
grieved because of our discouragement   
and  had reproved us in this way4       
99       99       99       99       99  
,on ,sunday morning while ,i was holding
 a meeting at ,rice ,lake1 ,i was       
preaching on the ,joy of the ,lord4     
,after speaking a few minutes1 the ,lord
  spoke to me and said1 ,your theme     
today will be trials and                
discouragements1 so ,i announced to the 
congregation that the ,lord had  changed
 my subject1 and in my talk1 ,i related 
some of the worse trials and            
discouragements ,i had passed through4  
,after ,i was through speaking1 a       
brother came up to the pulpit and said1 
,shame on you1 ,brother ,susag4 ,i      
said1 ,say that again4 ,he did a little 
stronger than before1 so ,i said1  ,say 
it again1 for 'all good things are      
three4' ,then he did say it strong4  ,he
 said1 ,here you have been standing here
 telling that preachers get tried  and  
tempted and discouraged like that-- and 

he turned and went out4    ,when he had 
gone1 a young lady came up and asked me 
for dinner and said  that ,brother and  
,sister ---- were coming to dinner1 too4
 ,on arriving at  their home1 they all  
sat down to visit4 ,they didn't take off
 their wraps1  nor ask me to either4    
,they said to me1 ,do you know why the  
,lord changed  your subject today8 ,i   
told them it must have been for         
somebody4 ,yes1  they said1 ,it was for 
the four of us4 7,these four had gotten 
saved in the  revival ,i had held the   
year before47 ,we have been tempted and 
tried so  much1 they said1 so we came   
near giving up4 ,then they'd said to one
  another1 ,look at ,brother ,susag4 ,he
 is happy all the time4 ,he is not tried
  and tempted like we are4 ,but when    
they heard of my experiences1 they said1
  ,the shame is on us4 ,they were much  
encouraged and went on in the service   
of ,god4 ,they finally moved somewhere  
to the northwest and ,i am told that    
one of the brothers became a minister1  

and the other three ,sunday ,school     
workers4    ,many people do not realize 
that ministers pass through much        
suffering both  spiritual and physical  
for the sake of others1 but they are    
glad to do so  for ,christ's sake and   
for the sake of others4    ,while       
pastoring in ,grand ,forks1 ,north      
,dakota a lady called on the phone one  
day and asked to speak to ,the ,rev4    
,susag4 ,i am the one speaking1 ,i said4
 ,then she told me she had heard from   
,mrs4 ,werstlein that ,i would pray for 
anyone no matter what church they       
belonged to4 ,i told her ,i would4 ,then
 she said1 ,my husband is at the        
,catholic hospital and the doctor just  
called up and said he is liable to  die 
any minute1 and cannot live longer than 
until three o'clock this  afternoon4 ,he
 is an infidel4 ,then she continued1    
,would you kindly go see  him and talk  
to him and then come by the house as    
,i'd like to hear what he  had to say   
and what you think about it4 ,i told her

 ,i would if ,i could get  in to see    
him4 ,tell them that ,i sent you1 she   
said4 ,at first they refused  to let me 
in1 but after telling them ,i was pastor
 and that his wife had  sent me they    
said alright4 ,they said1 ,he is near   
death and almost has one  foot in the   
grave4    ,when ,i went into his room   
and saw how bad he was1 ,i introduced   
myself to  him and said1 ,i'm sorry to  
find you in such a condition4 ,i have   
been where  you are now4 ,i will not    
tire you out with much talk1 but would  
you let me  read you a scripture lesson 
and pray with you8 ,he answered1 ,it    
would be  out of place to refuse such an
 offer under such circumstances4 ,so ,i 
read  ,jesus' conversation with         
,nicodemus 7,john #c3a74 ,then ,i knelt 
and prayed a  short prayer4 ,when ,i got
 through1 he put his hand out and said1 
,thank you1  ,i have got to see you in  
the morning4 ,i asked him what time and 
he told me  nine o'clock4 ,then ,i bid  
him good-bye and went to the door4 ,when

 ,i reached  the door ,i thought ,i     
heard him say something and turned and  
said1 ,beg your  pardon1 did you say    
something8    ,he said1 ,can ,i depend  
on you8 ,i answered1 ,yes1 you can      
depend on me1 and  furthermore we have  
service tonight in the church1 and ,i   
will tell the  folks to agree in prayer 
for you and also to fast and pray       
tomorrow that  the ,lord will heal you4 
,he thanked me and ,i left him4    ,when
 ,i went to his house1 his wife said1   
,what do you think about my  husband8 ,i
 answered1 ,he is pretty low1 but ,i am 
going back to see him  tomorrow morning 
at nine o'clock4 ,she said1 ,he isn't   
going to live that  long4 ,i told her he
 was not going to die1 but going to     
live1 and she said1  ,who said so8 ,i   
answered1 ,the ,lord4    ,next morning  
,i went back and eight nurses met me and
 one said1 ,what did  you do to that man
 yesterday8 ,he had one foot in the     
grave and now he is  going to live4 ,of 
course he is going to live1 ,i said4    

,then they said1  ,but what did you do8 
,we have never seen anything like this4 
,well1 ,i  said1 ,i did what they used  
to do in olden times4 ,what was that8   
they  asked4 ,prayed1 ,i said4 ,yes1    
they said1 that helps4    ,going into   
his room1 he was smiling and ,i began to
 talk to him about the  ,lord4 ,then he 
said1 ,i do not believe in those old    
women's fables4 ,i said1  ,i am going to
 get you to believe in ,god4 ,he        
replied1 ,you can't do it4 ,i  answered1
 ,by ,god's help ,i can1 for where you  
are1 ,i have been1 and where ,i  am1 you
 can come4 ,if ,i can only gain one     
point with you ,i can get you to        
believe in ,god4 7,he was a professor at
 the ,university of ,north ,dakota74 ,i 
had to come back in the afternoon at    
three o'clock and the next morning at   
about nine4 ,when ,i came in he said1   
,you are too late4 ,the doctor was here 
with two specialists and ,i told them ,i
 wanted to get up and go home2 ,i am    
well4 ,they answered me1 ',you stay in  

bed2 you are a sick man4 ,there are no  
,t ,b germs about you but we are        
studying about what kind of medicine to 
give  you4' ,he then asked me how ,i    
would have answered them1 if ,i had been
 here1  and ,i said to him1 ,i would    
have said to them1 ',the ,god of ,heaven
 that you  don't believe in1 heard      
prayers and smote those germs and made  
you well4'  ,he said1 ,if you had told  
them that1 there would have been a      
panic4    ,the next morning he got up   
and went home4 ,i was sent to ,europe on
 a special  mission the next day by the 
,missionary ,board and the church4      
,after  returning in ,january1 one      
,monday morning ,i went to the ,northern
 ,state ,bank  on business and on       
opening the door into the bank1 who     
should ,i meet1 but  this professor4 ,my
 hands went up and ,i said1 ,glory to   
,god6 ,here is the man  the ,lord kept  
out of the grave last ,august4 ,up went 
his hands1 and he  said1 ,bless ,god4   
,god ,almighty did something for me4    

,i regret that ,i have not kept a record
 through the years4 ,the only record ,i 
have is for the first eleven months ,i  
was pastor in ,brookings and ,white1    
,south ,dakota4 ,i preached #bgb        
sermons1 made #agh pastoral visits1     
wrote #bjb  letters1 traveled almost    
fifteen thousand miles during that time1
 and in my  fifty years ministry1 have  
had a stated salary only about six      
years4 ,in my  first ten to fifteen     
years1 ,i preached 7at intervals7 as    
many as six  sermons a day1 three in    
,norwegian and three in ,english4 ,in   
all ,i have  preached something over    
#ag1jjj sermons1 and have traveled over 
one million  miles4 ,i have crossed the 
,atlantic ,ocean seventeen times one    
way1 and  preached a good many times on 
fifteen of those voyages4    ,returning 
to ,america in the late fall of #aici1  
many people asked me who ,i  thought was
 to blame for the war4 ,they named a    
number of the leading rulers  of the    
warring nations1 and then they added1   

,the devil4 ,i said1 ,none of  them are 
to blame for the war4 ,who then8 they   
asked4 ,backslidden1  professing        
,christians1 ,i said4 ,then they asked  
if ,i thought ,america would  get into  
it1 and ,i answered1 ,most assuredly4   
,however the majority of them  said no1 
and they also said that our ,american   
boys would never leave  ,american soil  
to fight4 ,i told them that our boys    
would not only go to  ,europe to fight1 
but to almost all the ,islands of the   
sea4 ,then they asked  how long ,i      
thought the war was going to last1 and  
,i told them #aidi4 ,a  goodly number   
laughed me to scorn4 ,not long ago1 ,i  
received a letter from  my oldest son   
who said1 ,i have been checking up on   
you dad and everything  that you said   
would happen1 has come true up to the   
present date4 ,the  actual fighting is  
over1 but thousands of our men are in   
foreign lands1 and  no peace4 ,if the   
,lord does not get an opportunity to    
perform a miracle1  another war will    

start before any real peace4    ,i have 
not built any chapels large or small1   
but ,i have started about fifty  or more
 congregations in this country          
7,america7 and in ,europe4 ,also ,i have
  raised quite a sum of money to build  
chapels and to help ministers and       
missionaries in need4 ,i have raised    
thousands for church and missionary     
work in general1 seventy per cent has   
come from the brethren of ,norwegian    
descent1 fifteen percent from the       
,danish descent1 ten percent from those 
of  ,german descent1 three percent from 
the ,swedish1 and two percent from      
,americans4 ,the percent here mentioned 
is for the work in ,scandinavian        
countries only4         99       99     
99       99       99    ,while holding a
 meeting in ,bowbells1 ,north ,dakota1  
after a few days three  families quit   
coming and ,i went out to the farm to   
see them4 ,when ,i arrived  at the first
 farm1 the other two families were there
 visiting4 ,after  conversing a while1  

,i asked them why they had not been out 
to the services  of late4 ,finally the  
man who was the head of the house said1 
,we did not  like it when you said the  
preacher could not forgive sins4 ,i     
answered1 ,if  you have wronged the     
preacher1 and ask him his forgiveness he
 can forgive  you1 but there are some   
sins that even the ,lord cannot forgive4
 ,for  instance1 if you owe ten dollars 
to your neighbor over the hill1 and you 
are not willing to pay him1 you can keep
 on praying as long as you live1  and   
the ,lord could not forgive you if you  
are not willing to settle with  him4 ,of
 course1 if you didn't know where he was
 and couldn't find him1 the  ,lord would
 forgive you all right4 ,the man        
answered1 ,we will come to the          
services1 they said1 and some of them   
got saved4 ,unbeknown to me1 he had     
owed his neighbor ten dollars for four  
years and was unwilling to pay1 but     
after he became willing he got saved and
 paid his debt4           99       99   

99       99       99    ,one man got    
saved in a meeting in ,south ,dakota1   
and the ,lord reminded him  of twelve   
ears of corn which he had taken from his
 neighbor's field to feed  his own oxen4
 ,as he went by on his way to town1 he  
said1 ,yes1 ,i'll attend  to that       
tonight4 ,so after dark he filled a     
bushel basket with corn and  took it    
over and emptied it into the man's hog  
pen1 feeling good that he  had done his 
duty4 ,the next morning after worship1  
the ,lord spoke to him  and said1 ,i    
suppose today you will go over and      
settle for the twelve ears  of corn4    
,why ,i took that over last night1 he   
protested1 ,but you took  that over to  
the hogs1 and they were already fed4 ,so
 he went over and  confessed to the man4
 ,we can see by this that it was not the
 corn the ,lord  was so interested in as
 his humble confession4    ,,god ,,works
 ,,in ,,various ,,ways ,,for ,,the      
,,protection ,,and ,,deliverance ,,of   
,,his  ,,children    ,a certain brother 

who was a farmer needed a threshing     
machine badly1 and an  agent visited him
 to see if he could make the deal4 ,they
 were agreed on  prices and terms1 but  
when they talked over the time of       
delivery1 the agent  acknowledged he    
could not get it to him in time for fall
 threshing1 so the  deal fell through4  
,another agent1 hearing of it decided he
 would go and see  the farmer4 ,this    
time the deal went through1 with the    
promise that the  machinery would be    
delivered in time4    ,the brother      
mortgaged his farm and the threshing    
machine for forty five  hundred dollars1
 but when harvest time came it had not  
come4 ,he wrote the  manufacturers1 and 
they said that as soon as they could get
 it built and  shipped1 they would do   
so4 ,the farmer became desperate4 ,he   
took the sales  contract to an attorney1
 but he found a clause in it that       
prevented him  from doing anything about
 it4 ,it looked as if he would lose all 
his  threshing income that fall as well 

as the machine and his farm too4 ,many  
earnest prayers went up that the ,lord  
would intervene in his behalf4          
,during harvest time that year1 he lost 
hundreds of dollars in not having  the  
machine4    ,finally in ,january1 the   
machine was shipped from the factory4   
,the freight  train that was pulling it 
got within three miles of the town4 ,it 
was  pulling up grade slowly1 and in    
turning a sharp curve the whole car     
which  was carrying the threshing       
machine loosened from the rest of the   
train1 and  tumbled down a steep        
embankment1 completely demolishing the  
whole thing4  ,the railroad paid the    
damages1 and the brother was released   
from all  responsibility4    ,a good    
many went out to see the wreckage1 and  
none could understand how the  car would
 become disconnected from the train4    
,they did not know our ,god1  and the   
way he answers prayer4         99       
99       99       99       99    ,when  
,i was holding a meeting at ,grand      

,forks1 wife wrote me that an epidemic  
of small pox had broken out in the      
neighborhood1 but that it was not       
necessary for me to come home because1  
she said1 ,i put the children and       
myself into the #ilst ,psalm and we will
 remain there until the scourge is  over
 and ,i thank ,god1 it did not come near
 our dwelling4         99       99      
99       99       99    ,no apology is  
made for writing this book1 recording   
the incidents and  experiences herein   
found4 ,as ,elijah's ,god is still the  
,god of the universe  and today ,he     
hears the prayers of the humble and     
delivers them in time of  need4 ,the    
author is acquainted with the persons   
mentioned herein1 and has a  personal   
knowledge of the things related4 ,no    
doubt some will question the            
truthfulness of some of the statements  
made in this volume4 ,but the truth     
must not be withheld because of a few   
skeptics and unbelievers4 ,some  doubted
 the miracles wrought by the apostles4  

,one good minister in  ,california said 
one time1 when introducing me to the    
ministers at a  ministers' meeting1     
,this brother can relate more incidents 
than anyone ,i  have ever known1 and if 
,i did not know ,brother ,susag1 as well
 as ,i do1 ,i  would have said he lied4 
,i answered1 ,if ,i did not know him as 
well as ,i  do1 ,i would have said he   
lied1 too4    ,brother ,c4 ,e4 ,brown1  
present editor of the ,gospel ,trumpet1 
upon introducing  me to a number of     
ministers at the ,anderson ,camp        
meeting1 also stated that  ,i could     
relate more actual incidents and        
experiences than anyone he had  ever    
met4    ,many ministers and the laity as
 well1 have through the years wanted me 
to  write a book of my experiences1 even
 ministers of other movements4 ,but ,i  
am  afraid ,i have waited too long to   
remember hundreds of incidents that have
  taken place during my ministry4       
,people say that when ,i am under the   
anointing of the ,holy ,ghost when      

preaching1 the incidents flow from my   
lips  like a stream4    ,my earnest     
humble prayer is that these incidents   
and experiences may prove  a blessing   
and an inspiration that will quicken the
 faith of those in need  whose help can 
come only from ,god4    ,as my name is  
,s4 ,o4 ,susag1 ,i think it is fitting  
to say as the distress  call of a ship  
is ,,sos1 that ,i have heard the        
distress call in my fifty-two  years    
ministry1 hundreds of times from the    
evangelistic field1 and  missionary     
fields in other lands1 from insane      
asylums1 hospitals1 sick  rooms1 and the
 ,lord has heard prayer1 and wrought    
many miracles1 almost  unbelievable4 ,to
 ,god belongs all the glory and praise4 
99       99       99       99       99  
,one time ,i received a distress call   
from ,geo4 ,w4 ,green and family who    
were  living that time on a farm near   
,hancock1 ,minnesota1 to come and pray  
for a  sick child4 ,they were living six
 or seven miles out of town1 and no one 

was  there to meet me1 so ,i had to get 
the taxi to take me out4 ,i arrived late
  in the evening4 ,going into the house1
 ,i learned the child was already dead4 
,all the occupants of the house1 both up
 and down stairs1 were sick in bed  with
 the flu1 thirteen in all4 ,sister      
,green was the only one able to get  out
 of bed to let me in4 ,i had no way to  
get back to town1 but as we were        
talking and praying1 a doctor happened  
along and stopped and came in and  asked
 ,sister ,green to make him a strong cup
 of coffee and sandwich4 ,he  said1     
,this is the third night since ,i was in
 bed1 and ,i need something to          
strengthen me4 ,he filled out a burial  
permit for the child so it could be     
buried4 ,and he said1 ,you can't stay   
here tonight4 ,i told him ,i had no way 
to get back to town1 so he offered to   
take me4 ,i went and the next day ,i    
returned with the undertaker4 ,the road 
to the cemetery went through the  town1 
but the leading lady1 a social worker   

7,i presume7 forbad us taking  the body 
through town4 ,so we had to detour      
several miles out of our way4 ,an       
epidemic of flu broke out in the town   
and ,i am told that this lady was the   
first one to die with it4 ,at the ,green
 home the ,lord restored the entire     
thirteen to health1 and protected me4   
,throughout the years ,i have been      
protected from all manner of contagious 
diseases where ,i have been called  to  
pray4           99       99       99    
99       99    ,brother ,edward ,ahrendt
 and ,i were holding a meeting in ,grand
 ,forks1 ,north  ,dakota4 ,one evening  
the call was made1 and the altar was    
filled with  seekers4 ,brother ,ahrendt 
and ,i started at opposite ends to pray 
and  instruct4 ,as ,i knelt1 the first  
one was a woman and ,i felt as if ,i had
  knelt by a barrel of devils4 ,i was   
surprised that she was professing to be 
a ,christian4 ,lifting my hand in       
astonishment1 ,i said1 ,sister ,g--you  
are  possessed with devils4 ,after the  

altar service was over1 ,brother        
,ahrendt  and ,i laid our hands on her  
and commanded the devils to come out in 
the  name of ,jesus1 which they did4    
,the next morning we had prayer and     
testimony  meeting and she arose and    
testified and in a way she excused      
herself4 ,i  said1 ,sister1 be careful  
or the devils will enter into you again4
  ,evidently they did1 because the other
 women in the rooming house told me     
that in the evening when she arrived at 
her room to go to bed1 the devils       
rolled her up like a ball with her heels
 almost on her shoulders1 and her       
sufferings were horrible4 ,they prayed  
and did everything they could to help   
her get straightened out1 but to no     
avail4 ,they tried to find ,bro4        
,ahrendt  and ,i1 but we had moved that 
night to another place4 ,no one seemed  
to know  where we were4 ,they called up 
all the saints that had phones1 but     
without  success4 ,finally1 two of the  
sisters started out going from house to 

house  among the saints that had no     
phones1 and at four o'clock in the      
morning  they reached the house where we
 were stopping4 ,we went over as quickly
 as  possible1 and when we went up onto 
the porch1 she straightened out         
instantly4 ,the devil was going to play 
possum on us4 ,brother ,ahrendt and ,i  
had a consultation1 as he had never had 
any experiences with cases of devil     
possession before4 ,he said1 ,brother   
,susag1 ,saturday night when we prayed  
for her1 there was no manifestation     
showing that she was possessed4  ,well1 
,i said1 ,there is no need of them      
having to be thrown around by the  devil
 when you know they are possessed1 so ,i
 said ,i would pray and we  would see   
how it would come out1 because ,i knew  
there was a need of full  agreement4 ,we
 phoned ,brother ,gus ,niles and asked  
if we could come to his  place with     
,mrs4 ,g----4 ,when we got there1 we    
went into a room and locked  the doors4 
,brother ,ahrendt prayed in one corner  

and ,brother ,niles in  another corner4 
,i gave her a chair by the table1 and ,i
 sat opposite4 ,i  said1 ,sister1 ,i    
have known you for four years and all   
that time you have  deceived yourself   
and the saints and the ministry4 ,you   
have had no  salvation all this time4   
,now tell me what the devil had you do  
when you  came home from meetings4 ,she 
said1 ,one time when ,i came home1 ,i   
went out  to the barn to feed milk to   
the calf1 and he wouldn't drink1 and ,i 
got  angry and took a small club and    
struck him4 ,he bawled and broke the    
rope  and jumped through the window and 
ran out into the woods4 ,when she was   
telling this1 her hand flew up and she  
commenced beating the air with it  and  
she could not stop4 ,i let her continue 
beating for a time1 then ,i said1       
,lord1 stop that arm1 and it did stop4  
,then ,i asked her what the devil got   
her to do other times when she came     
home4 ,she said1 ,another time when ,i  
came home1 husband's dog had gotten into

 the house1 and ,i opened the door  to  
get him out1 and as he went through the 
door1 ,i kicked him in anger  because ,i
 hated my husband1 and as she said this1
 she started kicking the  table and then
 she fell on the floor on her back still
 kicking the chair  and the table4 ,just
 then ,brother ,ahrendt came running and
 said1 ,i rebuke  the devil in ,jesus'  
name4 ,he had become convinced that the 
devils were  there by now4    ,then the 
three of us laid hands on her1          
commanding the devils to come out  of   
her1 which they did4 ,then she got saved
 and sanctified1 and got a sweet        
settled experience which everyone had   
confidence in4 ,she later became an     
able ,sunday ,school teacher and worker 
for the ,lord4           99       99    
99       99       99    ,a ,,warning    
,the evening when ,i said1 ,sister ,g1  
you are possessed with devils1 ,i       
looked back in the audience and saw a   
sister with her mouth open and  looking 
at me with surprise and apparent        

criticism1 as if to say1 ,what do  you  
mean by saying such things to ,sister   
,g8 ,just then ,i saw many serpents     
crawling in her lap and up her breast   
and in to her mouth4 ,after the  service
 this woman's sister came to me and     
said1 ,do you know that my  sister1     
,mary1 is possessed with devils8 ,i     
said1 ,yes1 and she asked how ,i  knew1 
saying1 ,she told me she had just gotten
 possessed4 ,i said1 ,i saw  them       
entering4    ,we took her to a private  
home and she was delivered by the power 
of ,god4         99       99       99   
99       99    ,there is always a cause 
when ,god does not answer prayer1 either
 in  individuals or congregations4 ,i   
have been speaking of individual cases  
in  this book1 where prayer was not     
answered4 ,now ,i will speak of         
congregational hindrances that ,i know  
of personally4    ,there is never an    
effect without a cause that produces the
 effect4 ,in a  certain congregation    
where ,i held several successful        

revivals for several  pastors1 there    
came a time when the work did not       
prosper as it had in  previous years4   
,by chance after twenty years absence1  
,i stopped in there  one prayer meeting 
night1 having business in the town that 
day4 ,they  entreated me to come back   
and speak for them on a certain ,sunday1
 which ,i  did4 ,the ,lord gave us two  
precious services4 ,they took up their  
regular  ,sunday evening offering4      
,after that1 they announced that they   
would take up  an offering especially   
for ,brother ,susag1 which they did1 and
 set the  basket in a position where ,i 
noticed the contents1 which was in the  
neighborhood of fifteen dollars or a    
little more4 ,next morning when ,i was  
ready to take the train1 ,i was handed  
four dollars with the remark1 ,this  is 
our custom4 ,no wonder the congregation 
did not prosper1 and still these  dear  
people had done their duty1 but were    
unaware of what the hindrance  was4     
,i know of other cases of that same     

kind1 both with other ministers and     
myself4 ,once in a camp meeting a young 
minister was the evangelist1 whom  the  
,lord used mightily4 ,one evening they  
were going to take up the love  offering
 for the evangelist4 ,a nice offering   
came in1 not any too large1  and they   
gave the evangelist seventy percent4    
99       99       99       99       99  
,once at the ,grand ,forks1 ,north      
,dakota ,camp ,meeting1 ,brother ,p4    
,pederson of  ,hoboken1 ,new ,jersey was
 to preach4 ,he read his text and       
related some of his  experiences and the
 ,holy ,ghost began to bring the people 
to the altar4 ,he  then closed his      
,bible and said1 ,a greater preacher    
than ,i is now  speaking4           99  
99       99       99       99    ,during
 the depression it looked as though we  
were going to lose the state  camp      
grounds at ,grand ,forks4 ,at the camp  
meeting the ,board said there is no     
other way than to let it go4 ,i said1   
,no4 ,well1 they said1 ,then you  will  

have to raise the money because we      
cannot4 ,i said1 ,if you will give  me a
 free hand1 to go at it when the ,lord  
says to1 ,i will4 ,they said ,o4 ,k4    
,one evening the ,lord said1 ,now is the
 time1 so ,i said to ,brother ,monk1    
,let me have a few minutes8 ,within a   
few minutes we had the amount to the    
cent4 ,brother ,monk said1 ,this time   
the devil was licked and the depression 
also4 ,it pays to pray4           99    
99       99       99       99    ,the   
first ,camp ,meeting ,i attended at     
,grand ,forks1 ,i generally got up at #c
  or #d a4m4 and went to the woods to   
pray4 ,at that time you could hardly    
find  a place to pray4    ,there were   
two or three members praying behind     
every tree before ,i got  there4    ,the
 first ,camp ,meeting ,i attended in    
,anderson1 ,i went out early in the     
cemetery and here they were praying     
every where4    ,the pioneer ministers  
knew how to pray1 because they had no   
sermon outline  book to take it from4   

,their converts knew how1 too1 for they 
were taught by  the ,holy ,ghost4       
99       99       99       99       99  
,once ,brother ,renbeck and ,i were     
holding a meeting in ,erskine1 ,minn4   
,it was  #db degrees below zero every   
day1 and we had to stand the bread by   
the  heating stove and a number of times
 it froze so hard on the table1 before  
we got through with our meal1 that we   
could not eat it4 ,when we went to  bed1
 we could see the stars twinkling       
through the cracks of the roof4 ,we     
took off our shoes and coats and lay    
down on the bed1 and pulled our fur     
caps down over our ears and put our fur 
coats over us4 ,often through the  night
 we would have to turn over because the 
side that was down got cold4  ,this may 
seem ridiculous to some1 but ,god knows 
it is true4         99       99       99
       99       99    ,in #aiaa ,brother
 ,morris ,johnson and ,i held a meeting 
on the west coast of  ,denmark4 ,at the 
place where we stayed and slept1 we had 

to climb up a  ladder through a hole    
into the room to sleep4 ,the bed was too
 short for  ,bro4 ,johnson and too      
narrow for two1 and the bed clothes     
accordingly4    ,we could not sleep much
 after breakfast4 ,we took our traveling
 blankets and  walked out side the town 
where there were some old grave hills   
that had  been opened to get out the    
wealth that was buried4 ,it left a deep 
hollow  place in the ground4 ,there was 
ice in the bottom4 ,we wrapped our      
blankets  around us and lay down so the 
wind could not blow on us and slept     
some4  ,that was pioneering in ,denmark4
 ,in this little town it was really the 
first  great battle for the truth won in
 ,denmark4    ,many have said that much 
of the pioneer work was lost and did not
 pay4 ,it  is true1 some was lost1 but  
what would we have had today without it8
 ,i pray  ,god to rekindle the pioneer  
spirit and passion for souls and trust  
in the  ,lord4 ,the opportunities are   
still here4 ,if ,i were a young man ,i  

would say  with the prophet1 8,here am  
,i1 send me40