understood him to say that there would be no afternoon service, that he
should go back and that I would follow as quickly as possible.

I had no message. I opened my Bible and from Genesis to Revelation the
Scriptures did not seem to mean anything to me. I prayed and still no
message. Then coming down stairs I met Sister Anna Hanson who was just
starting for the service. I said to her, "Please give me a text to preach
on." She said, "O you will have a text." I told her I was in earnest, that
I could not think of a single text in the whole Bible that meant anything
to me, that I was too worn out to think. Sister Hanson then said, "I have
often wished I might hear you preach on the first text I ever heard you
preach on and that was in Chicago. The text was, 'The Lord weigheth the
spirits.'" Then the Lord opened my understanding and I had a text. At the
close of the service Sister Hanson walked ahead of me to the parsonage and
into the kitchen where Sister Millar was. She asked, "How was the service?"
Sister Hanson answered, "The right message for the right people at the
right time." Sister Millar said, "Well, praise the Lord!" and when Bro.
Millar came in he said, "Praise the Lord," and jumped and shouted and said
that every stump had been pulled--twenty-two of them!

While this meeting was in progress Brother Tiffany Flint from Milwaukee
came down and asked me to come and hold a two weeks' meeting for him, but I
had no open dates. In those days I was, at times, booked ahead as many as
forty-two meetings, so I had to refuse him. But he urged, "Won't you come
just a few days?" So I promised to go for three nights. When I arrived he
said, "I have something to tell you: I have three persons here needing
spiritual help." I replied, "Tell me nothing, on the train the Lord gave me
three texts, one for each night, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, which I
am going to preach on." It happened that each text fitted each one of the
three mentioned persons and each one came to service on the very night his