The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-12
Many Miraculous Deeds Per-
formed by Rev. Nelson.
His Work Is Result of Auto
Accident.
WILL Be HERE ONE WEEK
Conducts Healing Service at
Swedish Baptist Church.
Treatment Is Similar to Work
of J. Nj. HickSOn.

The story of how he was miracu-
Iously healed after being seriously in
jured in a motor car accident, and
how he has since been engaged in
asking divine healing for others, is
told today by the Rev. p. c. Nelson,
well known as an apostle OF divine
healing. who is in Topeka to conduct
a weeks mission at the Swedish Bap-
fist church, Fourth and Fillmore
streets.
He WIGS Healed.
when 1 was suffering day and
night and in danger of losing my left
leg. I made n new conservation of my
life TO God and promised TO give Him
every ounce of strength and every mo-
ment of my time as long as 1 live"
the Rev. Nelson said. Il called in
friends who believed in divine healing
and had been healed themselves and
asked them to anOint me and pray
for me, according to directions in
James, fifth chapter. verses fourteen
and fifteen. L had not been off my
bed and had hardly been able to move
for five days The Lord healed me
and I rose and dressed myself and
walked \ downstairs, ready for a big
meal Next day 1 was in my pulpit,
to the great surprise of my people,"
Injured in Auto Accident.
The Rev. Nelson was injured in a
motor car accident which nearly cost
him his life, in Detroit, Mich, last
October. He was pastor of the Con
1ey Memorial Baptist church of that
city.
After he was healed so miracuously,
the Rev. Nelson said he gave testi-
mony before thirty Baptist ministers
of Detroit. testimony which was
printed in many periodicals.
People in my parish began to call
on me to pray for the sick The first
ono Il tod H. r.
days old, suffering from spinal menin-
gifts and commissions. The babe was
Quickly healed and after a few days
the nurse came to me and testified
that the Lord had healed the child.
Il prayed for a Polish woman who
had been totally blind thirty-three
years" the Rev Mr.. Nelson said. "She
Immediately opened her eyes. For
the first time in her life she saw her
daughter, who was twenty-five, and
had led her to the meeting, and they
wept for joy together. 1 prayed for
two other blind people who immedi-
ately regained sight. One evening /
prayed for four deaf mutes, three men
and a young mother. All were made
to hear and to speak the same eve
ming, and the woman, cripple or
crutches. was healed and went out
carrying her crutches high in the all
while the multitude wept and cheered
In that meeting more than ten thou
sand sick and afflicted were prayed
for These had come from many states
80 many calls came to me to &c
here ard there to pray for people thai
/ could not give proper care to my
pastorate," he continued, land 1 die
not have the heart to refuse to go t.
meet these calls of the suffering.
felt in my soul that God was calling
me to give up my pastorate and my
home and go out with this two-folt
ministry.
''Since left Detroit March l hav,
seen many hundreds saved and healed
Many blind have received their sight
many scores of deaf have been mad
to hear. in our great meeting il
Wichita, several were healed o
paralysis. of rheumatism, of cancer
and of other diseases called incurable
One woman was brought from De