CHAPTER XLVII
A FEW DAYS AT LONDON, KY.
On the way north from Atlanta, we stopped at London, Ky. and held a few meetings. The leader, Dr. G. F. Lucas, a noble-hearted dentist, had one case in mind, thinking that if that one individual got healed, he would feel himself amply repaid for giving the invitation to stop off at London. His case was a middle-aged man who was born deaf and dumb. When he was prayed for his tongue was loosened and his ears opened, and he began at once to sound praises to God. He commenced learning words, and in a short time he could pronounce some of them after any one. The assembly praised God for what they saw in the way of healing the sick, realizing in a new way, that God’s power is really the same today as of old, if the conditions are met. Two or three others who had been mutes since childhood, were also delivered. An old, gray-haired man, who had been deaf since the Civil war, whose ear drum was destroyed in one ear, and the-doctor told him he could never hear out of it again; he was prayed for and heard the birds singing with his lately deaf ear on the way home from the service.
God did wonders for this little assembly. A neighboring woman at the house where we were staying had a little child about a year old. This child had been deformed. from its birth, and had a very irritable spirit, so that the mother had to carry and nurse it day and night. She brought it to the house where we stayed to be prayed for. We readily saw that the child was possessed of a demon, which was cast out in the name of Jesus, and from that very hour the child began to mend. Ina few days it was normal and quiet. The mother praised God for delivering her child. At the close of this meeting we felt led to go to Indianapolis and rest before we began the battle at Petoskey,
Mich., where meetings were billed for the month of July.
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