Smith Wigglesworth : apostle of faith by Frodsham Stanley Howard 1882-1969

Author:Frodsham, Stanley Howard, 1882-1969 [Frodsham, Stanley Howard, 1882-1969]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wigglesworth, Smith, 1859-1946?
Publisher: Springfield, Mo. : Gospel Pub. House
Published: 1948-04-22T19:00:00+00:00

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"I began quietly to work among the passengers and testify to the power of God, 2ind I found this was very convincing. One was telling another about me, so I got an open door. A gentleman and a lady who were very rich occupied a first-class cabin, and their valet and his wife were traveling second-class. We had morning and evening services conducted by the Bishop of Bombay and they were very good. After a morning service the Bishop and I had a long talk together, and he was very interested in my work.

"After the evening service the valet and his wife were seeking me, as the lady was very sick. They had called the doctor, who had pronounced her very ill. The valet had told the lady about me and she desired an interview. She was really very sick and also filled with the principles of Christian Science, and finding these had' failed her, she was in great fear. So I told her about the only principle I knew and that principle was Jesus; but she knew nothing about Him. I prayed with her, laid hands on her, rebuked the demon in the name of Jesus, and the fever left her at once. This morning she is seeking salvation through the Word of God. She is now on deck, full of life, and I had the pleasure of dealing with the valet and his wife about their salvation also."

Wigglesworth's son-in-law, James Salter, writes of him: "What a lonely figure he seemed to be on the deck of the giant liner with its thousand passengers when he was leaving for Australia the first time. As the ship left the dock, he lifted his voice repeatedly in a series of hallelujahs, with a clarity and volume I have never heard equalled. He startled his feUow-passengers and caused the captain on his bridge to remark, 'That man has lungs of steel!' It was on this ship that he was asked to take part in a concert. He asked to be the last item on the program. The pianist said she could not accompany him when he gave her a hymnbook; but that did not matter. He sang his solo, a hymn exalting Christ. That concert turned into a soul-saving prayer meeting, and

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