# Signs and Wonders God Wrought in the Ministry for Forty Years/Chapter 43

Autobiography of an American healing evangelist
CHAPTER XLIII
God was with us in power to save and heal. Many ministers and workers were present from many States. The word was spoken with power and great was the multitude that gathered up and carried the baskets full to give out to hungry souls. Many miracles of healings were performed.
One, a girl that was hopelessly blind was saved and got instantly healed. When we laid hands on her and prayed for her sight, it was perfectly restored. Her mother was taken there, a hopeless cripple. with many diseases, nearly insane. She thought that she had committed the unpardonable sin. She was saved, healed, made perfectly whole, and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. She then went from Arkansas to California, telling all along the way what God had done for her. After two years, I met them again in San Francisco, Cal., both full of the Spirit, and always ready to tell the large audiences how wonderfully God had healed them. The young sister that received her sight had the loveliest pair of blue eyes you ever saw; large, long lashes, very high. It surely was a great miracle.
A saloonkeeper in the city bought one of my books, Acts of the Holy Ghost; and took it to his wife. She was taken very sick. While sitting by and waiting on her, he began to read the book. He got convicted, was converted, and soon sold out his two saloons and went to Moody’s Bible School in Chicago, and is now preaching the gospel. This is just a little of what God did in the Hot Springs meeting.
I could write a good sized book from every meeting that we held, telling what God has wrought, but write just a little here that you may know that there is a God in Israel.
Mrs. Woodworth-Etter.
HOT SPRINGS, ARK.
(From “Word and Work.”)
The good work goes on, praise God! One night a man, blind for 25 years, was healed. He had been pronounced incurable by - specialists. God sent him here from Des Moines, Iowa, which
GOD STRETCHING HIS HAND TO HEAL
Report by Brother Opperman
Hot Springs, Ark. In the providence of God, our beloved sister, Mrs. M. B. Woodworth-Etter, and Bros. Earl W. Clark and C. B. Fockler have come to Hot Springs, Ark. The meeting is being conducted in the Auditorium in Whittington Park, a very beautiful place, and a blessed revival is spreading throughout the city. More than one hundred campers came from the Malvern Camp to attend this meeting. Visitors have come from almost every State in the South and some from the Northern States. Most of them have come to be healed. In the first night of the meeting, the first two that were prayed for fell under the power immediately after prayer, and the next day testified that God had healed them. Many have since been greatly blessed of the Lord and testify to healing.
One woman, 67 years old, was instantly healed of deafness of 35 years standing. She could hear even a low toned conversation. (The writer was standing by her side when prayed for and witnessed the deliverance with his own eyes.)
Mrs. Ruth Webster said: “For the glory of God, I want to tell of my healing. I came to Malvern and on to Hot Springs to be in the meeting. While at Malvern prayer was offered with laying on of hands in Jesus’ Name, and through His stripes I was made whole. I was healed of two fibroid tumors and stomach trouble. Inside of a week I was reduced six inches around the waist and three inches around the hips and abdomen, besides realizing a great change inside the body. Just like Jesus! Praise His dear Name! Saved, filled, healed and looking for Jesus’ soon coming.”
Mrs. Minnie McHargue, from Missouri, said: “I came to Hot Springs on the 25th of September, and on the 28th of September the Lord healed my body of tuberculosis of the left kidney and throat trouble. He also gave me my voice.”
Singing in the Spirit, the heavenly anthem, the song that none but the Redeemed can sing, is a frequent and very beautiful manifestation of the Spirit. This is generally followed by beautiful
One very blessed feature of the meeting is the love and unity manifested among the saints.
D. C. O. Opperman.
JEHOVAH STILL WORKING AT HOT SPRINGS, ARK.
November 20, 1913. There have been several remarkable cases of healing lately. A woman, with scrofula from childhood, came from St. Joseph, Missouri, and was healed the same day.
A man from Hot Springs was wonderfully saved and healed of rheumatism of years standing last Sunday.
Also, a girl, a graduate of the State Deaf and Dumb School, was healed of deafness and could hear clearly.
We have moved the meetings from the park to the Opera House down town. The interest is increasing.
Howard A. Goss,
Hot Springs, Ark.
“I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE”
The Testimonies of Two Women Who Were Miraculously Healed of the Lord in the Recent Revival at Hot Springs, Ark.
(Copied from “The Christian Evangel.”)
“And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.” (Mark 16.20.)
Thirty years ago there were scarcely any witnesses to the healing virtue of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who did press through and touch the hem of His garment, were so filled with Holy boldness that in spite of great opposition the glad tidings of deliverance for the body as well as the soul through the reconciliation of Christ spread abroad, the opposers were gradually shamed into silence and thousands both in this and other lands have come into the knowledge of Christ, the Healer of all their diseases and the Saviour of their souls.
During the past few years the power of God in the healing of the sick has been brought before the world in a more ​aggressive manner than ever before. Great meetings have been held in which the healing of the sick was a prominent feature, thousands of lives beg touched, and many being converted through the manifestations of the power of God on their own bodies, or else on the bodies of their friends.
Prominent among these are the meetings of Mrs. M. B. Woodworth-Etter in Dallas, Texas; Long Hill, Conn.; Chicago, Ill.; Montwait, Mass. and Hot Springs, Ark.
I was converted seventeen years ago, but praise the Lord, He baptized me in the Holy Ghost and fire, and I am now healthy and happy, eat and sleep well, and never get tired of running to and fro, telling of the wonderful works of Jesus. Bless His Holy Name.
Mrs. Preston Roberts.
HEALED OF RHEUMATISM AND BOWEL TROUBLE
Hot Springs, Ark., November 27th, 1913. I was healed of afflictions of four years’ standing. Had rheumatism and could hardly get around with the aid of a crutch and cane, and was all doubled up with pain so that I could not go up and down stairs at all and was unable to do my own housework. I had an operation performed for bowel trouble, and during the operation one of the muscles of the stomach was severed so that I had no control over my bowels at all. But, thank the Lord, I was made every whit whole when hands were laid on me in Sister Etter’s meeting. How wonderful are the works of God. I want to tell every one I meet of my healing, for now I can run up and down stairs, wash, iron, or anything there is to be done about the house. The greatest miracle is that God has joined together the severed muscle and I now have perfect control of my bowels. Praise His precious Name!
Mrs. Barnett.
(Note.—The sister gave this testimony on the above date, and demonstrated her healing by running up and down the aisle, shouting and praising the Lord. She received her healing in the first part of the meeting, about three months previous, and is still shouting His praises.)
These testimonies especially reported for
THE LASTING INFLUENCE OF THE HOT SPRINGS MEETING
When we left, the whole city was stirred by the mighty power of God. The meetings continued in power and demonstration of the Spirit; many were saved and healed and baptized in the Holy Ghost, for the hall in which we held meetings had been secured for six months and Brother Fockler was left in charge until Christmas. One of the lasting results of the meeting was the donation from a sister of $5,000.00 with which to erect a tabernacle for the Pentecostal work. Bro. Opperman is in charge of the Hot Springs work and is opening a Bible School.