Personal Experiences of S.O. Susag | Page 5

I was pastor at
Brookings and White. The little three year old daughter of Brother and
Sister Hi Tellinghuisen was playing in the yard with an old rusty
sewing machine oil can. She fell on it, the spout striking right into the
center of one eyeball. She was taken at once to a physician who ordered
her to be taken without delay to a specialist to have the eyeball
removed. The parents then called me over the telephone to come at
once. When I arrived and saw the eye, it looked to me like a dried up
prune stone. I anointed the child, but could find no words to utter in
prayer. I could only groan, but the Lord witnessed to the healing. (I
think this took place on Saturday at 11 o'clock a.m. and the next day,
Sunday, she was brought to the services perfectly well.) (At this writing
she is teaching school).
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On March the 20th, 1904, wife was taken with quick consumption. Her
fever was so high that she was delirious. As long as I remained beside
her praying, she would be rational but as soon as I ceased praying her
mind would wander. Over a week later, on Saturday, Brothers O. T.
Ring and Carl Forsberg came to visit us. We then had agreement in
prayer for the healing of my wife, and from that time on her mind was
clear, yet she continued to go down. A number prayed for her but she
grew weaker and weaker, until in the month of August. When the
neighbors would come in to visit her, they would say to me on leaving,
outside of the house, "We are sorry to say it, but we do not expect to
see your wife alive again."
One day she said to me, "We have done everything we know to do
except to send to Brother E. E. Byrum for an anointed handkerchief." I
asked, "Do you want me to send for one?" to which she assented, and I
sent for one. We received it by mail August the 23rd at 1 o'clock. I
placed the handkerchief upon her and kneeling beside her laid my
hands on her and prayed. She was so weak that it seemd as if she would
pass away before I could remove my hands, so I soon said "Amen." She
remarked, "This does not look very encouraging, does it?" I answered,
"No, it does not." Then she drew one of her hands from under the
covers and said, "Do you believe that any flesh is ever coming to these

hands?" "Dear," I answered, "I do not know." Then she said, "I believe
that it will happen." I asked, "Why do you believe it?" She told me that
a scripture had come to her while I was praying. She said that it was the
one about Naaman: "His flesh came again like the flesh of a little child
and he was clean." 2 Kings 5:14.
Two hours later she was perfectly well, but weak, of course.
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On one occasion I received an urgent call to come to Norway Lake to
pray for Mrs. John Evenson who was ill with tuberculosis. While on
my way there I battled with devils, it seemed as though my buggy was
full of devils, whispering to me and saying, "You are going to be
arrested and put in jail." However, after driving sixteen miles, the Lord
assured me that He was going to raise Sister Everson up, even if she
were dead when I got there.
As I drove into the driveway I saw a number of men by the barn. It was
the Constable and others. Jumping out of the buggy, I proceeded to
unhook my team when Mr. Everson appeared, and said, "The hired man
will take the team; come along with me." We went into the house and
into the room where the sick woman was. Mr. Everson sat down in a
chair beside the bed, taking his watch out, he then took his wife's hand
in his to count the pulse. She was unconscious. I spoke to her two or
three times but she did not hear me. I knelt down and asked the Lord to
restore her to consciousness. Then I arose and spoke to her again. After
a bit she opened her eyes and I said, "Brother Susag is here. What do
you want him to do for you?" She replied, "I want you to anoint me and
pray for me." I immediately proceeded to do as she requested,
following which she sat up in bed and asked for something to eat.
The constable, with others, was waiting outside the house to arrest me
if the woman had