Personal Experiences of S.O. Susag | Page 6

died. Mr. Everson went out to them and they asked
him how things were going. He told them that before I prayed for her,
her pulse was 124, and when I took my hands off, her pulse was
82--which is normal!
Thirteen years later she was taken sick again. Mr. Everson, not being
saved, called for the doctor they had previously employed. The doctor
refused to come, saying that Mrs. Everson "had lived for thirteen years
on something more than human. I can do nothing for her. If she has
faith, she can live another thirteen years." Then they telephoned me. I

drove two miles in my automobile and was taken seriously ill and had
to return home and go to bed. I was very sick for two days. Mrs.
Everson died in the meantime, and I was well.
On one occasion Brother C.H. Tubbs and myself held a meeting at
Bowbells, N. Dakota and a number of people were saved. We were to
have a baptismal service. It was the month of February and we would
have to go three miles to the nearest lake in which to baptize the
candidates. There was no place there for the changing of clothes and it
was slow traveling as we rode in a lumber wagon. Sister Stolsy, who
wanted to be baptized, had been in poor health for five years and had a
baby five weeks old. The Constable, on hearing of it, came to us and
said, "If you put that woman through that hole in the ice, I'll be there
with a warrant for your arrest." So Bro. Tubbs said, "We better go see
Sister Stolsy," which we did. He said, "Sister, it does not look
reasonable for you in your condition to be baptized." She wept and said,
"I have wanted to be baptized for some time and now that I have the
opportunity I am denied the privilege." Then I said to her, "Sister
Stolsy, save your tears for something else. I will baptize you if I have to
spend the remainder of my life behind the bars," and she was baptized.
The constable witnessed the baptizing and saw that when she came out
of the water she looked the very picture of health. Three days later the
constable and his wife were baptized in the self-same place.
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I have baptized hundreds of people from Canada to San Antonio, Texas;
from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, in every month of the year, in the
lakes of Norway, Sweden and Denmark as well as in the North Sea, in
all kinds of weather--once in the Red River at Grand Forks, N. Dakota,
in a snow storm in zero weather, and I have never yet heard of one
person having taken cold from being baptized, but on the other hand,
MANY HAVE BEEN HEALED!
It pays to obey the commandments of the Lord. While I was pastor in
Grand Forks, N. D., from December, 1919 to November, 1925, I
baptized over two hundred persons.
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Once in company with Thomas Nelson, C.H. Tubbs and my wife, we
held a tent meeting in the country northwest of Colfax, Wisconsin.
Several people were saved and some were healed. This stirred up great

opposition so that on a couple of nights an angry mob was on the spot
throwing stones, sticks and lumber and bottles on the tent, demanding
that we come out and they would cut me to pieces. One night a minister
of that community was in the tent, and as he saw the stones come
rolling through the tent, he became badly frightened and said to me,
"This is worse than in a heathen land." "Yes," I replied, "but are they
not your people?" He said, "Yes," and then getting down on his hands
and knees crawled out the back way from under the tent and escaped to
the woods.
The reason for this unseemly tumult was because I had preached that
baptism was by immersion and other truths. The situation was that two
grown young people, the son and daughter of a minister in the
community, were among those who were to be baptized. But the fact
that there was no water nearby in which they could be immersed
seemed to give the opposing element great satisfaction. However, we
continued to advertise that there would be baptismal services on the
coming Saturday afternoon. Friday night it rained heavily and near the
tent there was a low place covered with green grass where the water
settled and the water was deep enough in which to baptize the new
converts.
This goes to prove that the Lord's resources are limitless. The next
Sunday night, being the last night of the meeting, after