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

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She would respond, “But I need my cup of tea, Mister.” So, Iwould let her in.She would leave the door open on the coldest of mornings, andI would chide her, “Can you shut the door after you?”“Mister, your legs are younger than mine. You can shut the door.”Mrs. Moon would counter. “Haven’t you got the fire lit yet? It iscold.” I almost felt guilty because I didn’t have the fire lit for her.She would be mithering and complaining over me as I wouldlight the fire, “Shall you be long? Shall you have my cup of teaready soon?”The more I gave her, the more she took. I would sit at the tableeating an egg, while she stood over me with her big long nose.Wearing a black shawl over her white hair, she looked like awitch. She would watch me eat my breakfast, her eyes followingwhen the spoon went into the egg, her eyes on the spoonful asthe egg went into my mouth.Mrs. Moon began to drop broad hints, “I wish I had somebodyto boil me an egg.”“You can boil an egg, can’t you?” I suggested to her.“When you get to my age,” she sighed, “you feel neither nannynor billy.” (That was one of her favorite sayings, which had somethingto do with nanny and billy goats.) “You feel neither nannynor billy. It would be nice if you could boil me an egg in themorning when you are doing yours. Shall you, when you aredoing yours?”I was really running out of grace for her. I would move my chairalong the table and pull my plate and my egg, and she wouldfollow right on top of me, watching every mouthful of egg, breadand butter I ate.One morning I saw a flea hop off her shawl onto the tablecloth,and afterwards, we had a plague of fleas that hit the children. Itwas distressing, because while we kept our house clean, we coulddo nothing about the old lady. The bugs and the fleas came withher, and the children had bumps and bites all over them.Another day, I saw a drip on the end of her nose. Like a planedropping a bomb, I thought, it was going right into my egg. I88
moved my food quickly, and she followed. I was exasperatedand thought, “Do I have to put up with this?” My self-image asthe wonderful neighbor was rapidly disappearing.One never-to-be-forgotten day, she came in with the usual routine:pushing me, interfering with the children, leaving the dooropen, standing in front of the fire. We had a big guard aroundthe fire to keep the children away from it, and she used to standthere warming herself. No one else could feel anything from thefire, because she would be standing right in front of it. The poorsoul was probably a clean woman in her younger days, but nowthat she was old, she had difficulty with her natural functions. So,as she stood by the fire, it wasn’t “Evening in Paris” perfume thatwe smelled as we sat at the table!On this particular day, all of the accumulation of our problemswith her assailed me as Mrs. Moon kept on and on at me. Suddenly,something inside of me went “Snap!” and all of my graceflew out the window!“That’s it!” I roared. “I can take no more!” I sprung up from thetable and picked her up in my arms. As I did, she grabbed ontothe big fireplace guard. I determined to throw her out andgrappled with her and the fireplace guard all the way to thedoor. The children were screaming and everything on the table,pots of jam, milk, dishes… were swept onto the floor with acrash!Mrs. Moon was still clutching the fireplace guard when we got tothe door. I thought, “If it kills you, I am throwing you out!”Finally, I pushed her through the doorway and the guard wentout also, scraping her hand and arm. I slammed the door shutand locked it. And that was the end of big-hearted Arthur, thesuper-Christian.“What a mess I am,” I groaned. “What a failure I am. I’ve tried tolive the Sermon on the Mount, trying to go the second mile, toturn the other cheek, to be a good neighbor. I can’t live the Sermonon the Mount. I’ve made a mess of it.” As I crossed theroom, the words of a song came to my mind: “Oh Intercessor,Friend of sinners, earth’s Redeemer, plead for me.”“Oh God,” I moaned. “What a mess I am.”89
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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
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These words, floating down over my
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Clockwise from left:1. 1934 - On wi
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Then, something wonderful happened
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On one occasion, I went to the rail
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Pioneering in the early 30’sI was
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Page 53 and 54: 4 Pastor BurtSomehow I patched up t
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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
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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
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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
Page 135 and 136: Meanwhile, I continued ministering
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Page 139 and 140: over backwards, defying the law of
Page 141 and 142: It wasn’t two years. Sonya was de
Page 143 and 144: Finally, after much deliberation, I
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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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