John G. Lake - Apostle to Africa (Pentecostal Pioneers) by John G. Lake

Author:John G. Lake
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Revival Library
Published: 2014-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter IV. Remarkable Events in the Ministry of John G. Lake

In the beginning of 1909, Dr Lake met Bishop Furze, the Bishop of the Church of England for Africa. He arranged a series of meetings for Church of England ministers to receive from the evangelist teaching along the lines of divine healing. These meetings were largely attended by ministers of this church, who came from all over the land to be present. They resulted in the establishment of the Emanuel Society for the practice of divine healing by the ministry of the Church of England in Africa. Dr Lake tells about the results of these meetings:

The Challenge at Lourdes, France

The meetings of this society resulted in the sending of a committee from England, of Church of England ministers to examine and report upon my work. I later accompanied that committee to England and conducted similar meetings in London for the Church of England ministers. These meetings were under the direction of Bishop Ingram, Bishop of London.

The conference authorized a committee to visit all the institutions of repute along healing lines in Europe both psychic and spiritual. In company with this committee I visited healing institutions in London. We then went to Lourdes, France. There we visited a Catholic institution where they heal by the waters of Lourdes and where they maintained a board of 200 physicians, whose business it was to examine all candidates and report upon them.

At Lourdes we also visited the greatest hypnotic institution for healing in the world. This institution sent its representatives to demonstrate their method before the Catholic Board of 200 physicians, and hearing of our committee, invited us to come before this body and give demonstrations along our lines. I agreed to take part, if I were given the final demonstration. The committee selected five candidates, people pronounced absolutely incurable. The hypnotists tried their several methods without success. I then had the five candidates placed in chairs in a row upon the platform in view of this large audience of physicians and scientists. I prayed over each one of them separately, at the same time laying my hands upon them. Three were instantly healed, a fourth recovered in a few days, and one died.

I returned to the United States for six months, holding evangelistic services in Chicago, Portland, Oakland, and Los Angeles, for the purpose of collecting a party of missionaries to take back with me to South Africa. I obtained eight men but needed $3,000 for their expenses. I had not a cent nor any in sight. While in Portland I went alone to my room and prayed for this money and received an immediate assurance that my prayer would be answered. Four days later on the night I closed my meetings in Portland, I found at my hotel a letter from George B Studd of Los Angeles, California. I quote: “My dear Lake, There has been a windfall in your favour today. A person who does not wish to be known gave me a draft of $3,000 saying, ‘God wants me to give this to Lake of South Africa.

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