"I've got only one book and it's a good one." She brought it to me and
said, "If you say this is not good, my salvation goes too." I asked her if
I might mark with a pencil in her book and she said I could. After reading
it a while I laid it aside having marked it here and there. She asked me
what I thought of her book. Not to discourage her, I said, "There are some
good things in that book." She took it and began to find the places which I
had marked, finally closed the book and said, "This book is no good; the
Bible says thus and so and the book speaks to the contrary." Then she said,
"Why have I been blessed many times when reading this book?" I answered,
"Because you were honest and did not know any better."

We pioneer ministers had many things to meet. On getting home one time, I
found that a runaway team had pulled our windmill down so that we had to
have a new one. The well was 204 feet and was hard to pump. After we got
the new one, a neighbor came over and said to my son, Oswald, "See, your
father has been out preaching and so you are able to have a new windmill."
Yes, he had been gone seven weeks and he was eleven cents short on his
expenses. The following year I was gone nine months and five days and I
fared real well--I had $76.76 above my expenses that time.

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Sometimes I got to thinking about little Charlie Brown, who I believe was
about eleven years old at the time. When his father asked him if he got
tired, he said, "Yes, I get tired of this walking preaching." So they went
into a grove and prayed and his father said to him, "We will go to the next
town and you preach on some street corner and if no one gets saved, we will
quit and if some get saved we will keep on. What do you think of that?"
Young Charlie agreed to that and a number of souls did get saved. Now
"young Charlie" is Editor in Chief of the Gospel Trumpet.