no help for me, as both my lungs were like soup. During the depression of
1892 I lost all I had. In my sinful condition I called on God and He healed
me.

We then moved to the farm and one afternoon a young man came to our home
and asked me to attend a service with him that evening. In answer to my
query as to what kind of service it was to be, he informed me that two
women evangelists were conducting the meeting. I replied that I was not in
favor of women preachers but I would go with him as I was not afraid the
women would hurt me. As a matter of fact, it was through these women that I
was partly awakened spiritually, but did not yet give up my infidelity.

One evening I was very tired and sleepy and went to bed at precisely nine
o'clock. I went to sleep at once and had a dream. I dreamed that I had
become a minister of the gospel and that I was traveling all over the
United States and Canada, as well as in a number of European countries.
Hundreds of souls were turning to the Lord in the meetings and many
healings and miracles were performed. It would take a long life to
accomplish all that I saw done in my dream. I awakened and felt so
refreshed and rested, that I thought it was morning and put on the light
but found I had been in bed JUST TEN MINUTES! I did not sleep anymore that
night but spent the time in meditating on my dream which convinced me that
there must be within the human body a positive something that would
continue to live forever and my infidelity vanished.

A few months later (March 12, 1895), the Lord spoke peace to my wife and me
at the same time in our own home, and called us into the ministry. He
brought us out of darkness through three visions and showed us the evil of
all sectarian division. All this was giving us light on the beautiful
Church of God without our having heard any preaching on the subject, nor