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

Steam filled the whole bathroom, and I couldn’t see anything.Slowly, as it began to clear, I could see big chunks of ceiling in thebath water with Bob and blood running from the top of his head.The boiler had exploded and blown the ceiling, and Bob hadbeen knocked out.“Oh, I’m dead,” he groaned.I ran to the landing and called, “It is all right. He is alive.” Deadmen can’t tell you that they are dead. When Bob told me that hewas dead, I knew he was alive. That was the most exciting incidentof my time there. Otherwise it was mostly uneventful.Lizzie HayesAs a pastor of the Assemblies of God in London, be it ever sofeeble and ever so small, I had the responsibility to go to theLondon District Presbytery meetings, which I attended with aboutforty other pastors — mostly elderly, bald men.First they read the minutes, spending hours on the minutes. “Itwas brought up at the last monthly convention, blah, blah, blah.Also, the missionary from Africa who is coming, blah, blah, blah.Well, is there anything else?”“Yes,” someone reported. “A revival in the Midlands. It has cometo our notice that in the Midlands a revival has broken out, andthere have been some unseemly happenings. Apparently a younggirl has been going around placing her hands upon the heads ofmembers of the congregation and revealing the secrets of theirlives. Our esteemed vice-chairman has been there. That sameyoung woman put her hands upon his head and told him he wasa proud man and needed to repent. We consider it most unseemlythat a young girl should rebuke an elder and that a womanshould be in this position. We need to deal with this thing.”“Yes, quite,” everyone agreed.“It makes you wonder how much of it is revival.”“The Midland Presbytery needs to deal with it.”“Yes, that’s right.”“Well,” someone suggested, “Let us go on to the next item, becauseof the time.”52