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

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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
evening, he got up from the platform, announced that the meetingwas over and went to the door at the back. Nobody moved.Suddenly, a young woman rose up. The minute she responded tothe Spirit, we lost sight of her as a slim bit of a girl. She moved upthe aisle with queenly dignity and came to where the brotherwas standing. She touched him and down he went, flat on hisface. With all the dignity of royalty, she took two fingers andmeasured between her two fingers, and looking down at him,she said scornfully, “Wilt thou measure the immeasurable withinthe confines of one small hour?” She turned around on her heels,walked back down the aisle, sat down, and became just an ordinarygirl again. Those were unusual meetings, and many peopleleft the church.About this time there was a woman coming to the meeting whosehusband, the manager of the post office, was not a Christian. Hethreatened to lock her out of the house if she didn’t come homeat a reasonable hour. One could hardly expect an unsaved manto believe his wife was in church meetings until two and threeo’clock in the morning. He believed she was involved with anotherman and was suspicious, judgmental and jealous.Looking back, I realize now this woman was unwise. The Wordof God declares we will win our partners by our chaste behaviorand it is questionable that God really wanted her to be in allthose meetings.God marries our revelation to our situation. My revelation mustwork in my situation, that is, in my daily life… which isn’t madeup of jumping and shouting demonstrations and conventions.The whole purpose of the Spirit of God’s coming into a person’slife is to bring that person into reality, because the Spirit of God isthe Spirit of Truth. What a tragedy it is when the world says, “Icannot hear what you say for the noise of what you are.”Revival meant bleeding backs, prison cells and evendeath.When this dear woman found it necessary to leave her husbandbut had nowhere to go, Marj and I offered her a room in ourhouse. This only added fuel to the fire, because her husband accusedme of stealing his wife and of having two wives. Soon my79
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 88 YEARSBy Arth
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Book Orders & InformationWeb Page:
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PrefaceIn more than 70 years of min
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my father’s second marriage. Many
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avoid each stair that creaked. I wo
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oom house, as if he were important.
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I sat down, and with Father dictati
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Then the preacher went around the r
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One of his preacher friends was dri
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On the promenade in Whitley Bay14
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Mother asked him if he was ill and
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cial was coming to speak the next W
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an angel from heaven tell you anyth
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ing strawberries. I knew I hadn’t
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Directing myself toward the Roman C
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oken teeth on the right side of my
Page 36 and 37: These words, floating down over my
Page 38 and 39: Clockwise from left:1. 1934 - On wi
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Page 53 and 54: 4 Pastor BurtSomehow I patched up t
Page 55 and 56: Whenever I would stand up, the nois
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Page 59 and 60: “Hello, Brother Burt,” he calle
Page 61 and 62: “A revival has been reported in S
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Page 65 and 66: Holy Ghost invasionsIt was about th
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Page 71 and 72: 5 The ButtonIn 1940, Marj and I wer
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Page 75 and 76: died. The Bible tells us it was bec
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Page 81 and 82: as if I was violently in love. The
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Page 99 and 100: 7 The BlackoutA few of the stories
Page 101 and 102: wife, preventing her from committin
Page 103 and 104: He resists the proud…and He does
Page 105 and 106: What then is the answer? The only w
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Page 109 and 110: I would oblige him whenever he woul
Page 111 and 112: Then we had an awful winter with a
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Page 115 and 116: 8 “The Glory Meetings”As the mo
Page 117 and 118: One night while they were having a
Page 119 and 120: “Your family can stay here a mont
Page 121 and 122: “You’ve got your own wilderness
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Page 125 and 126: She led me into the bedroom where t
Page 127 and 128: This upset and offended Archie. “
Page 129 and 130: 9 Forbid Them NotThe next move of G
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Page 133 and 134: orphanage — £150, China Inland M
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“Oh, I wish I could believe that,
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over backwards, defying the law of
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It wasn’t two years. Sonya was de
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Finally, after much deliberation, I
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“I wish you had told me,” I sai
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10 Walking the LandIt started like
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Brother Friday. I’ll leave Paddoc
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In Dungannon, Ireland, as I walked
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A hard lesson in SwedenThe truth ma
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Andrew was upset about our move.
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I saw that I am sometimes guilty of
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ut on Christmas night, they returne
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ience. It seemed, at the time, as i
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through his whole life like a hot k
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Stevie, what was the story Uncle Ar
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11 The Proceeding WordA party of pe
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I was ministering in Portsmouth and
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same string. The three of us moved
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airport. I wondered if anyone would
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and praising God, while Sister Wall
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piano to a dead cat — or if, perc
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Just then, rain began to fall softl
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I told him to drop me off at the bu
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I discovered this, I didn’t inven
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Clockwise from right:1. Mickey the
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12 Climb the Mountain!On my first t
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leave, and then had begun pelting m
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There shall be no ebb. This is sign
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my ministry. Originally, God had sp
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I walked up the drive to this house
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— broken drains, damp basement
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Then the phone rang. It was Harry B
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13 These Foolish ThingsWhen I was f
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“Go away! Go away!” Pam demande
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Big (in my own eyes), pompous Arthu
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I thought I knew the voice of God a
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This reminds me of the old story of
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drive all the way to the Convention
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I got on the plane and looked at th
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Haiti. The large straw hatSometimes
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14 Far & AwayEl SalvadorWhen I was
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It’s easy for a missionary to go
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we had been during those hours, exc
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“Are you all right brother? Do yo
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I picked it up and went back to the
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“The porter just picked up my lug
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doesn’t really do much for your i
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15Crumbs from aBroken LoafIt is for
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Joy came to me one day and asked me
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“Oh,” he sputtered, “of cours
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He says, “Are you telling me, you
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ly that the message the Spirit of G
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that they’re wonderful. But then
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have now about this house from the
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ministering to God. When you minist
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