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

ter, her face now radiant, came marching down the aisle. Shewent to the front and sat down at a table where she began to actout a scene without words. The Spirit of God had this youngwoman mime as if she were sitting in front of a mirror. She adjustedher hat, looked under her eyes, patted her cheeks, andsmiled at herself, looking into the mirror that wasn’t there. Weknew that the Spirit of God was revealing her vanity and pride.She turned to the people and said, “Me, me, me…” and then thescene changed.Now she mimed as if she was in front of a set of drawers and waspulling a drawer open. Looking this way and that, she took objectsout of the drawer and put them in a bag by her feet. Therewas neither bag nor drawer, but the Spirit of God made it real, asHe was dealing with her secret life — her pilfering, her stealing,her vanity, her pride. This went on for about ten minutes. Eachtime something more about her was revealed, she would turn tothe people and say, “Me! Me!” while we watched with rapt attention,not knowing what would happen next.After the Spirit had finished with that young woman, He pickedher up and she began to move around the people. Then He beganto reveal the secrets of every heart. I tell you, those dayswere hot! It was either get right or get out.A pastor at the meeting lay flat on his face, his head almost at myfeet, until the early hours of the morning. He lay groaning, moaningand struggling to rise to his feet, but he couldn’t for an unseenhand held him there. Finally, he had truth. It was a dreadful story.He had been sent forth as a young pastor and had stopped in thehome of a man who had three daughters. He didn’t tell them healready had a young lady back home and started courting theoldest girl. He got the second girl pregnant and was flirting withthe third girl. When the father discovered what was going on inhis house, he put his head in the gas oven and committed suicide.All of this had remained a secret until the Spirit of God began todeal with that young man. These were awesome times, as werealized we no longer had the privacy of our own lives.Night after night, we met in that mining community until 2:00 or3:00 in the morning until one night a brother said, “Let’s have anearly night and close the meeting tomorrow at 9:30.” The next78