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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