Signs and Wonders God Wrought in the Ministry for Forty Years/Chapter 25
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, most of them, were dead spiritually. Almost all the help we had was from those, who had attended our revival at Carroll. The converts and other Christians from Carroll came thirty and forty at one time, and marched to the front like brave soldiers.
One day kneeling side by side at the altar there was one woman sixty years of age, one seventy-five and an old man seventy-three; they were all saved about the same time, and arose praising God for saving them at the eleventh hour. They shouted and leaped around like as though they were sixteen years of age. Their youth was renewed.
Many of the leading business men of the town and surrounding country and many-of the best farmers were brought to Christ. People came to this meeting from the surrounding country on the cars and in buggies.
A lady came from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, almost two hundred and fifty miles. She was healed at our meeting at Columbus Junction about eight months before of cancer of the stomach. Seventeen doctors had given her up to die. She had since her healing gained fifty pounds, and is now well, and living in the State of Iowa. Her testimony cannot be doubted; God carried conviction to the people’s hearts as she stood up and declared what the Lord had done for her, and how wonderfully she was healed.