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In 1928 I
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One
afternoon a big powerful man struggled in on crutches. An accident had left him
so horribly mangled that his distorted ankles had turned and his feet faced
backwards instead of to the front. We went to where he sat hunched together
on a chair, and asked if we could try to make him a little more comfortable,
but the poor fellow said, ‘No! leave me. I’m never comfortable’. |
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After the
evening meeting they prayed with him anointing him with oil in the Name of
the Lord, and later as he was leaving the meeting, my friend Seth
Wigglesworth was walking with his two daughters just ahead of the cripple,
and had reached the vestibule when he shouted: ‘Look out’! A moment later the
man behind was jumping, shouting and swinging his useless crutches in the
air. He had suddenly found that his feet and legs had become perfectly whole.
He was so wild with delight that he nearly struck one of the daughters with a
crutch. |
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That thing
was not done in a corner. Three thousand people had seen him distorted with
pain and twisted in body. They now saw him straight and strong. Could any man
say in the face of such an incident that God does not heal through His
servants today? That night, so greatly was God’s power upon the meeting, that
over three hundred decisions for Christ were recorded. |
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W. F. P.
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From: W.
F. P. Burton, Signs following, page
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