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 and the pain left him, the swelling went down, and the callous parts disappeared ; he leaped to his feet, shouting, “Glory to God, I am healed.” “The lame man shall leap as an hart.” He threw his crutch away. It is now about nine years since he was healed; he has testified before thousands; many have visited him, others have written him. He is well now, “These signs shall follow them that believe.”

Dr. Daggett was the first we ever laid on hands for healing.

In our meeting last August, 1915, in Topeka, Kansas, I was led of the Spirit to tell of this first healing. After I was through a man came forward, and said he was Dr. Daggett’s son, and that thirty years ago he was converted, by reading one of my books, a few months before his father was so wonderfully healed, but had never seen me until the meeting in which his father was healed, after suffering from lameness, for many years. His father had a new lease of life and lived many years after.

Surely “God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.”

And He is always ready to smile on our work in Jesus’ Name and to confirm His word.

On Sabbath morning we commenced praise service at nine o'clock, with a large crowd which continued to increase until the grove was a moving mass of living souls. The songs of praise, shouts of joy, and the ringing testimonies, came from the old and young, from the white-haired fathers and mothers down to the little boys. When I asked for all those who had been blessed and knew they were saved, to raise their hands, not less than five hundred hands were raised, and all shouted, “Praise the Lord.” The power came like a cyclone. The multitude was swayed to and fro. Sinners were converted on their feet. God’s servants were so filled with the glory of God, they could not administer, as the priests of old. Some of their faces shone like Stephen’s when he was brought before false witnesses.

My next meeting, after leaving Perkinsville, was at Summitville, Indiana. We pitched our tents, and commenced battle. The enemy thought he had this place, and indeed it had that appearance; but the soldiers of the Lord came in companies from all points. Many ministers, and converts by the score, who had been converted at my meetings two years previous, came.