# Signs and Wonders God Wrought in the Ministry for Forty Years/Chapter 39

Autobiography of an American healing evangelist
CHAPTER XXXIX
WORLD-WIDE CAMP MEETING AT LOS ANGELES
Mighty Signs and Miracles
While holding meetings at Dallas, Tex., Bro. Scott came from California to attend the meeting. God gave him a vision, showed him that I was to go to California to take charge of a great camp meeting, and he was to make all the arrangements. Bro. Bosworth was asked to attend also, but he never promised to go.
I told him the Lord had given me a special call to gather the saints together, and I was making arrangements to have a world-wide camp meeting, but when we prayed about the matter we all felt what the Lord was calling me to do, and that the world-wide camp meeting was to be held at Los Angeles, Calif.
Bro. Scott started home, advertising the meeting all along the way, and all over the country; telling that I would be there. They succeeded in a marvelous way in making all the arrangements, in getting and preparing the tents, and everything connected with the temporal management, good light and everything for our comfort. Dear. Bro. Studd assisted in all the arrangements, both brothers making every sacrifice to make things convenient and comfortable.
Thousands gathered from all over the state, some from foreign lands, and we believe it was the largest gathering of saints in the last days. The President, Bro. Scott, stated that two hundred ministers were on the platform, sitting in fellowship and love. The Lord was present showing His approval of the word, with mighty signs and miracles, especially in healing and baptizing with the Holy Ghost and fire. The slaying power was also greatly manifested, and many were struck down with the power.
Some had visions and revelations. It was stated by reliable ministers, two thousand persons were prayed for by the laying on of hands. Many ministers and evangelists received great power and gifts, by the laying on of my hands. These all went forth with great faith, expecting to have power over unclean Spirit and devils, to cast out and to cure diseases. I have since ​heard from many of these, good reports of their work; also, testimonies from many who were wonderfully healed.
Multitudes are carrying the news over land and sea, telling what they saw, felt and heard. Oh, God, keep them going on, and on, until we all meet in the rapture.
A HUGE GATHERING
The world-wide camp meeting was no doubt the largest gathering of baptized saints in these last days. I had full control of the 10 o’clock meetings, which would have lasted all day and night, for the power of God was poured out so wonderfully, but I had to close at 2 o’clock for other services. It was announced everywhere that I was to have charge of the Spiritual part of the meeting, so the people came from mostly every state and place to see me and be healed. At the call for the sick and seekers to come forward, they rushed by scores and hundreds, all trying to get into the pool. Hundreds were healed soul and body. One day the “Cloud of Glory” had covered us, the Lord had worked many miracles. The blind saw, the lame walked, the dying got up and walked; others sang in the Spirit; visions and messages in tongues were given. People were saved and healed all around. I had to stop for the 2 o’clock meeting. As they led me to the steps that went off the large platform, I stopped and looked at the many hungry, anxious souls; then the power of God came on me, I raised my hands to heaven and stood there, as the Holy Ghost swept over the multitude. I said, the Lord is going to save a lot of you dear people just now. All who want to be saved just now, while I stand here and sprinkle the blood of Jesus on you, by “Living Faith,” come forward. There was a rush from all directions to the platform. They began to weep and shout and scores were converted, without getting on their knees, except those who fell down under the Almighty power of God. No one there ever saw anything like it. If I could have had charge of the meeting until the evening, I am sure hundreds more would have been converted, but I had to give way for a different meeting.
Another day as I came off the platform many that could not get near while I was praying for the sick, stood, looking so sad, crowding around me as near as they could, trying to touch my ​hands or speak. I stopped to look at them. The power fell on me and swept over them. I raised my hands and told them all to look to Jesus, to look up, to lift their hands and faces to God, that I would sprinkle the blood of the Lamb over them, that they would all be healed. Oh, glory to God. The healing power swept over. Many miracles of healings were wrought, people were saved and baptized.
Now, about two years after, in our convention in Los Angeles, I heard many wonderful testimonies of those who were healed in the world-wide camp meeting. Two marvelous cases said they were healed the day that I was standing on the steps of the platform.
TESTIMONY
A Miss Gertrude Berry, of 510 East Thirty-third street, Los Angeles, testified that she was one of them that was healed that day. She had a large tumor, so that she weighed over three hundred pounds. In a short time the tumor disappeared and her weight was reduced nearly one hundred pounds. Her brother, who was a physician in a hospital at San Francisco, got uneasy and was under the impression she had Bright’s disease. He examined her urine and found traces of tumors disappearing in it, which left her body. She is now well in body and God is using her for, His glory in the missions in Los Angeles.
The last day of my stay at the world-wide meeting, they gave me the afternoon meeting and night. All the honest in heart said that they never saw or felt the power of the Lord and His presence as it was there manifested.
Hundreds were healed; hundreds were saved and reclaimed or baptized in the Holy Ghost; hundreds received power for service, or gifts, or had their gifts stirred up as never before. I have held meetings in about twenty states. I have heard many strong testimonies of those who were healed and heard them tell of the wonderful things that they saw and heard in the worldwide camp meeting in Los Angeles, Cal.
I have had many calls to go back. I went back last October, 1915 A. D., at the call of Brother Garr and many others. At this time we held a large convention again, where God did mighty miracles. It was a great pleasure to meet so many of the saints ​that I met in the great meeting over two years ago: Eternity alone will tell the results of that great meeting.
COPIED FROM: BRO. HAYWOOD’S PAPER “ON THE LOS ANGELES MEETING
“The power of God to heal was miraculous. Sick were brought from far. and near, and multitudes were touched by the power. of God through the instrumentality of His humble servant, Sister Etter, whose simple faith brought deliverence to many. The lame walked, the blind received their sight, the deaf heard, CANCERS were cured, TUMORS and TAPE WORMS passed away and dropsy and CONSUMPTIVES healed.
While there were many whose lack of faith hindered them from being healed, yet those who were healed were most re-remarkable. On one occasion many were healed as Sister Etter raised her hands toward heaven, while she was leaving the tent.
One afternoon such conviction fell on the sinners that many ran to the platform and were saved at once. It was a scene seldom, if ever, witnessed anywhere. There were times that the big tent resembled a battlefield on account of the many that were slain by the power of God. At times the power fell like rain, and the heavenly anthems filled the atmosphere.”
A WONDERFUL HEALING AT LOS ANGELES, CAL.
April 21, 1918.
Healed of Tumor, Bright's Disease, Dropsy and Bad Heart Trouble
“I want to praise the Lord Jesus Christ for the wonderful healing I have received of the above diseases in answer to prayer, and also in opening the way before me and bringing me to the Pentecostal world-wide camp meeting at Los Angeles, Cal. I came from Portland in the last stages of Bright’s disease. I had to wear a large, loose wrapper most of the time, my body being swollen far beyond normal size. Quarts of water were hanging from my bowels, and my heart would scarcely act. Doctor told my son I might not live to cross the bar of the river at Astoria, but God said, “As they went they were healed.” My burial ​clothes were brought with me, but I was prayed for and immediately healed. When Sister Etter laid hands on me and began to pray; my whole body quivered under the mighty power of God. The water sacks broke from my head down, and the water broke through the skin and trickled down until my clothing was drenched and my size was instantly reduced in sight of hundreds of people. I could afterwards lie down with perfect ease, and put on my ordinary clothes with comfort. Oh, I can never praise His Holy Name enough. Seven days afterwards the tumor passed away in pieces, and I have been kept through the power of God ever since, a living witness to the truth that “Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.” Blessed be His righteous name. After having preached this blessed gospel of salvation on this continent for many years, proving many times His power to heal the sick, and receiving the blessed Pentecostal Baptism of the Holy Ghost, God is now calling my husband and me to the land of Egypt, and we are expecting to sail, God willing, this fall.
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Van Horn, Home address: Milwaukee, Oregon.
Foreign address: Cairo, Egypt, after November 1, 1913.
Note.—This dear sister, with her husband, sold out everything and sailed for Egypt. God has wonderfully used them in that dark land. They are both still in the battlefield.
WONDERFUL TESTIMONY ON HEALING
Two years ago I went to Los Angeles for my health and being there one year, a neighbor of mine told me of healing in Jesus. She said that she knew a place where I could go and get healed. So I went to Sixtieth and Pasadena to Mrs. Etter’s meetings in a large tent. But I saw wonderful miracles done through Sister Etter by Jesus. People were healed instantly, cancers and consumptives were healed; the lame walked and the blind were made to see. I said that if it is for me, Lord, take me in and save my soul, baptize me in the Holy Ghost, and heal my body. I was paralyzed in both knees, could not walk for three years and the spine was afflicted with consumption, and my eyes were affected, having to wear glasses for seven years. ​When Sister Etter prayed for me, I found that the Lord had wonderfully healed, saved, and baptized me. My eyes were restored me and I sat on my glasses and broke them in pieces. I praise and thank Him for giving me new life in Spirit, soul and body. This was on the 25th day of April, one year ago. I have not had a pain or an ache in my body since. I am just like a new born baby.
The best of all is after I was so somber healed, my husband, who is a German-Jew, was convinced that it was of God. For three years he massaged my body with alcohol and liniments, and he said, “I thank God that He can do the same for me.” He suffered with kidney and stomach trouble. He said, “I am going to ask the Lord to heal me, too.” He got down on his knees the same day and had Sister Etter to pray for him and he was healed, too. The next day he went to the tent and asked the Lord to save him and the dear Lord did. Four months later the Lord wonderfully baptized him in the Holy Ghost. He wrote home to his parents in Germany and told them that the Lord had saved, healed and baptized him, and they were greatly convicted and believed it was God’s work. His father sent for a German New Testament. We forwarded one and wrote down a number of Scriptures for them to read. His sick sister was healed by reading it. My brother-in-law is a German Rabbi, and he was convicted and I believe the Lord is bringing the whole family in. Now, beloved, this miracle the Lord did in our family is through Sister Etter’s prayers. She is a true child of God and when the Lord works through her we are healed. I believe it with all my heart and soul. God bless you all, and give your hearts to Jesus, and let Him have His way in your hearts. I praise and thank Him for the rest He gives in my soul and heart.
Mr. and Mr. Victoria Freimark, 1212 Sanborn Ave., Los Angeles, Cal.
BROTHER SCOTT’S TESTIMONY
It is now nearly three years since the wonderful meeting in Los Angeles. We have many testimonies of those that God healed in the meeting and they went forth in all directions telling how the Lord healed and filled them with love and power. ​Brother Scott was the president of the meeting in 1913; he was used of the Lord to call the people together, and to ask me to take charge of the meeting. He came forward two or three times in the meeting in Los Angeles, 1916, and said he wanted to testify of the Lord’s healing him of double rupture in the world-wide meeting, three years ago, he had suffered many years and very often in a dangerous way. While in this meeting he was seriously hurt, in some way, and for awhile it appeared that he would die or have to be operated on. He said when we laid hands on him and prayed, he was instantly healed, that. the broken parts became natural, and he never wore a truss again; he was perfectly healed in every way.
BROTHER ANDERSON’S HEALING
Brother Anderson came from Portland, Oregon. He did not have much faith or knowledge in divine healing. But Sister Van Horn also came from Portland in a dying condition, and we knew they had brought her burial clothes with her. When he knew she was healed, he began to think there might be some hopes for him: every earthly hope was gone. He had blood poisoning and was covered with ugly running and eating sores; some nearly as large as his hand. He was a nervous wreck, and he could not sleep, and it was affecting his brain. He asked me if there was any hope for him, and I told him if he would give his restored life to be used to the glory of God, the Lord would heal him right now. He said, “I will.” I prayed for his soul and body, and sprinkled the Blood of Jesus all over him, by a living faith. Bless God, the Blood struck in: I laid hands on him and rebuked the poison, and cast out the unclean spirits, and the plague was stayed, and the blood was cleansed.
The power of God struck him, and he fell and lay like a dead man. I left him lying there, but praise the Lord, the next morning his sores were all gone, not even a scar of those rotten sores. His flesh was like a little child’s, where great raw sores had been on his hands and arms. All could see that the Lord had wrought a miracle. This was in Los Angeles, and in our meeting at Long Hill, Connecticut, a while later, a brother rose in the back of the tent (it was Brother Anderson) he had just arrived on the grounds, he was full of the Holy Ghost; and his face was ​shining as he told how God had sent him across the continent, to testify how the Lord had undertaken for him, and did not let him go down to the grave, and premature death, but had made him every whit whole, and sent him out to tell what great things God had done for him; to preach the glad tidings of salvation for soul and body, that Jesus was coming soon.
I heard this brother: testify in Chicago and Philadelphia, many months after and he was perfectly healthy, and giving God the glory.
BROTHER STUDD'S HEALING
Dear Brother Studd was taken sick with sciatic rheumatism and other diseases of the nerves. His suffering was very great. It appeared he would surely die, and continued to get worse. Although many prayed for and with him. The hope was to bring him to the tent, and when they did bring him, he looked like a dead man. I told him to cheer up, he would not die but live to glorify God. We prayed for him with the laying on of hands, and he was soon walking around praising the Lord and helping me pray for others.