CHAPTER XXV
AT CARROLL, IOWA
From Mount Pleasant we went to Carroll, Iowa—two hundred and fifty miles northwest to hold a meeting for the Church of God. We were kindly received by the pastor and his wife and also the church. As we entered the church the first night we found a large congregation awaiting our coming. When we walked up the aisle they sang, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow;” they were so rejoiced to see the Lord had answered their prayers, in sending us to them. Souls were converted the first night, and every day and night for five weeks, the shouts went up to Heaven, from those who had been born into the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ; and from those who had been made whole in body of all their diseases. People came from all parts of the country, and were saved. Several came seven hundred miles and were saved and healed.
There were many ministers present at this meeting and they did what they could to push the car of salvation on. The day we closed the people took a vote to have us come in the summer with our tent. The vote was unanimous. One of the elders of—the church said God gave him a vision of the work at Carroll some years before. He saw the multitudes on the brink of ruin and that they must be gathered to Christ soon. The Lord showed him he would be used of the Lord to bring the meetings about: that they would bring the multitude to Christ. He fell under the power of God one night in our meeting, and saw a cloud of glory resting over the pulpit. God showed him this was the meeting, and work, he had seen in the vision. I think he said he had the vision three years before. He told the people not to doubt the work was of God. Oh, praise the Lord for his wonderful victory he gave us at this place.
MEETING AT DEDHAM
The next place at which we held a meeting was at Dedham, thirteen miles from Carroll. We held the meeting in the Methodist
Episcopal Church. The town was well named, for the people,
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