Around the World in 88 Years -E Book - Arthur Burt

a quarter ‘til six. I knew the shops all closed at 6:00, so I movedfaster than I had ever moved in my life.I made one purchase to split the £5 note up and sent my familyin different directions to buy food: bread, butter, cheese, milk,cereals, jams. We were grateful to receive that last minute provisionfrom the Lord and also grateful for how much we were ableto purchase with it. That was our roughest time in Kent.After a month, we moved to Hill Top Farm in that beautiful countrydistrict into a mobile house surrounded by an orchard of appleand cherry trees. We had already started our children into schoolin Maidstone, so everyday we had to take them to the railwaystation and send them to school in Maidstone a few miles away.All the children were happy except Beryl, who I sometimes wouldfind crying. I’d dry her tears and encourage her, and finally, shegot used to our new home.“Put yourself under.”Shortly after we settled in Paddock Wood, I encountered a brotherin the meetings who didn’t care for my ministry.“No doubt,” Brother Brown sneered at me, “God has sent aprophet in our midst.”At one meeting, he openly accosted me. “All you do is heap bucketsof sludge over my head,” he accused.“Well, Brother,” I reasoned with him, “Do you just come to listento messages for other people? You are accusing me of being spitefulto you.”“I am,” he admitted bitterly.“Brother,” I told him, “God says to pray for those who despitefullyuse you.”I was satisfied I had dealt with him effectively until some weekslater. I had gone for the weekend up to Blyth in Northumberlandwhere I ministered on the Scripture, “I will allure her, and bringher into the wilderness…and she shall sing there….” (Hos 2:14,15) God spoke to me through my own ministry.112