CHAPTER LII
ATLANTA MEETING, 1915
After One Year's Time. Old Converts Well and Happy.
On our way home from Tampa, Fla., at the earnest call from the dear ones at Atlanta,-we felt the Lord was calling, so we went and commenced a meeting in Bro. Jackson’s new hall, which was almost outside the city. We knew it would be hard for the people from the city to get there, especially the poor saints who would not have carfare to pay. The Messrs. Chapman and Alexander were holding a revival in the large tabernacle that was built for that purpose. The whole city had been canvassed, all churches arid missions had promised to help them. I did not want to commence near them, as it would look like opposition. Not one in a thousand would have tried to start a revival under such conditions. No one had promised me a dollar. I stood responsible for rent, and all expenses. I knew that many poor people could not attend the Chapman and Alexander meeting. I said we will start the meeting in Bro. Jackson’s hall and trust the Lord to draw the people. We shouted victory in Jesus’ name and told the saints that the large hall would not hold the people and it was so. Thousands attended the meeting; they could not all get in at times. Jesus says, “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me.”
Hundreds who had attended the year before, when we held a nine weeks’ meeting in the large tabernacle, came. Ringing testimonies came from those who had been saved and baptized with the Holy Ghost, or healed from day to day. As many as sixty who had received these blessings, testified in one day that they had been healed of all kinds of sicknesses and diseases, and had been kept well in soul and body. Jesus says, “Ye are My witnesses,” and “in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.” Jesus loves to hear the praises of the Redeemed so well that He stopped a great procession while on earth to hear the testimony of one poor leper, and the poor old woman who did not have a friend in the world. I am sure
He stops the angel choir and the music in heaven to listen to
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