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

13 These Foolish ThingsWhen I was first saved, I had the idea I must always test everything,rather than just accept that I was right and everybody elsewas wrong. It was a foolish idea, because you don’t have to rollin the mud to see what color it is. So I decided I would do therounds and visit the Catholics, the Theosophists, the Spiritists, theMormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian Scientists. I did thelot. Wherever I went, in my heart, I said, “Lord, I’m so glad Yousaved me, but who am I to think I’m right and everybody else iswrong.”Let them exalt Jesus and the precious Blood.I would enter these places with a secret prayer in my heart, “Lordif this is of You, let them exalt Jesus and the precious Blood.Otherwise, let everything go wrong.” In the course of my searching,I arrived at a spiritist séance, which was being conducted bya blind medium who began to give messages.He said, “There’s somebody in this meeting the third row fromthe front, the second from the right hand… will you please respond?”Nobody moved. He repeated his request. Nobody moved. All ofa sudden, I got a punch in the ribs from the person sitting at theback of me. “That’s you,” he whispered. “Say, ‘Yes’.”Sure enough, third row from the front, it was me, so I said, “Yes.”The medium said, “I have a message for you from a lady calledEthel Dixon who died at the age of 68. She was a schoolteacher,193