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

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4 Pastor <strong>Burt</strong>Somehow I patched up that broken handle and took <strong>the</strong> trek cartdown to a scrap yard <strong>in</strong> a little village. I started to haggle with<strong>the</strong> man about a price for <strong>the</strong> cart until God spoke to me: “If thisventure was out of My will, you should be glad to tip <strong>the</strong> cartover <strong>the</strong> first precipice. Never m<strong>in</strong>d haggl<strong>in</strong>g over a price.”The fellow gave me two shill<strong>in</strong>gs for it. I stacked some of mybelong<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> parcels and dispensed with <strong>the</strong> rest. I had just enoughmoney to purchase a tra<strong>in</strong> ticket to Lancaster.He was a like-m<strong>in</strong>ded man with a visionfor <strong>the</strong> latter ra<strong>in</strong>.When I arrived, I went to see a m<strong>in</strong>ister friend, a chemist by <strong>the</strong>name of Becker with whom I identified <strong>in</strong> his little work <strong>the</strong>re.He was a like-m<strong>in</strong>ded man with a vision for <strong>the</strong> latter ra<strong>in</strong>. In asorry spiritual state, I stayed with him for <strong>the</strong> rest of <strong>the</strong> summerwhile my <strong>in</strong>ner wounds began to heal. Grieved and broken, Isimply didn’t know how to adjust to what had happened to me.The Assemblies of God hadn’t fallen out with me; I had fallenout with <strong>the</strong>m. I was wide open for someth<strong>in</strong>g new and hadattempted special sit-on-your-own-seat services, tak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Gospelto <strong>the</strong> beaches, <strong>the</strong> marketplaces and <strong>the</strong> village greens. ThenI was slapped <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> face and knocked to <strong>the</strong> ground by no less aperson than our Lord Jesus Christ. I felt as if I was <strong>in</strong> a spiritualhospital for <strong>the</strong> rest of that summer.45

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