Testimonies Blog

I am sending you under separate cover a picture of the crowd in and around the
tent. This was taken at night by artificial light and is not very plain, but it will give you
a little idea of the immense crowds that gather to hear the gospel and to see the works of God. This picture does not show a third of the crowd. On the end of the tent they stood clear across the street, and 1200 who were sitting are all hid by those who stood in front of the camera. The meetings are increasing in interest and power and people are coming from many states. A man got here yesterday morning from Minneapolis, Minnesota on purpose to attend this meeting, another from the Pacific Coast, some from Illinois, Michigan, and other states. Many drive forty and fifty miles, and they were there yesterday from Galveston, Houston and many other towns in Texas.

On August 12th, three men brought a man dying with consumption and fistula 200
miles in a baggage car on a cot. He came from Mercury, Texas, and looked like a dead man when they carried him into the tent on the cot, in the very last stages of tuberculosis and nothing but hones. When prayed for, the power came and he jumped from the cot and ran up and down before the people praising God. He returned home and is gaining four pounds a week, and the fistula was healed over the next morning and never had to be dressed again. The country was stirred and about twenty-five more
have come from that vicinity.  Night before last a delegation from that county came with two deaf and dumb mutes. One was 34 years old and the other a beautiful
looking young lady of 17 years. God opened the ears of both. The young lady has attended the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Atlanta for the past seven years. She was saved and healed at the same time and is very happy. They were both in our home this morning and I played on the organ for them. Many others have been healed of deafness.

Yesterday was the most wonderful day I ever saw in this work. God came with the
melting and slaying power. Twenty-one like Paul were struck down by the power of God, and lay from one to ten hours. They had wonderful visions of heaven and of Jesus, and all came out with shining faces and filled with the love of God. Twelve of them received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues for the first time. The people said they never saw such power displayed. It looked like a battlefield to see them fall and lay
as dead. God said, “The slain of the Lord shall be many.” Sinners look on and weep as they see the wonderful works of God. Saturday night a boy 14 years old was brought forty miles in a wagon. He had a paralyzed leg; could not raise his foot off the ground, but had to push it along as you have seen paralyzed people walk. God instantly healed
him, and he could raise his leg and foot just as perfectly as I can. He was brought from Wiley, Texas.

Some of the worst cases of epilepsy have been healed in the last three weeks. One epileptic was brought over 100 miles from Bells, Texas. She has had these fits nearly all her life. She has had as many as forty-two in twenty-four hours and would he almost dead for days; had one or more nearly every day. God’s power struck her the very moment she knelt at the altar, and she was delivered and filled with the glory of God,
and I wish you could see her face shine. She has been on fire for God ever since. Her girl was cross-eyed, both eyes turning in toward her nose. God instantly straightened her eyes. A woman 75 years old, suffering from rheumatism for twenty years, was brought 250 miles and was healed in the first service. She came because of the healing of the consumptive referred to previously. A boy, totally deaf from birth, was brought by his father from Mattingburg,  Texas. God healed him perfectly, and his parents have written to us that his hearing is perfect and he is learning to talk. A woman from Palmer, Texas,
was healed of pallegra and filled with the Spirit at the same time. She had been given up on by the physicians. She is still here in the meeting and is well.  A man from Blue Ridge, Texas, sixty miles from Dallas, had suffered ten years with a cancer all over one side of his face and neck; suffered so he had to be taken from the meeting; could not talk on account of the awful suffering from moving his jaw. When Sister Etter prayed for him the power came and he was healed. The pain and all the burning and stiffness left instantly and he could turn his head in any direction without any pain. He got up
on the altar and preached to the people. His friends told me yesterday that the cancer was healing up and he is getting well. A minister’s daughter was brought by her father from Austin, Texas, suffering with fistula; could hardly stand the pain. She was saved and healed and has returned to Austin. One old lady from Streetman, Texas, with rheumatism all over her body for twenty years was instantly healed about two weeks ago, and her niece testified yesterday she was well. An invalid woman was carried into the tent from Elim, Texas. She had rheumatism all over her body for four years. She was instantly healed; walked and leaped and praised God, She was back again yesterday and
testified. One fifteen year-old boy, with his right arm paralyzed ever since he was one year old, was instantly healed and is in the meeting every night. He can use his arm perfectly, and for the first time that he can remember he raises his hand straight over his head. A 74 year-old lady living in Dallas, with rheumatism for eight years, a great sufferer, was healed the other night. Mrs. Hess, living in Dallas, a Catholic lady had scrofula, for 18 years, also with a running sore on her limb, was totally deaf in one ear and the other very poor, was healed of all these things. The sore and scrofula have completely disappeared. She was struck down by the power of God and had a vision of the Marriage Supper, was baptized in the Spirit and is in the meeting every night with a shining face. Night before last a Catholic lady came into the meeting for the first time. She was deaf in both ears and could not hear a sound as the choir sang. She was instantly healed and could hear an ordinary conversation. Saturday night a lady was brought from Beaumont, Texas dying with tumor. The doctors said she could not live forty-eight hours. She was instantly saved, healed and baptized in the Spirit, and leaped and praised God before the people. Sinners look on and weep, and then make their way to the altar. Pages like this could be written, but I have not the time.

I am receiving many letters, from all over the United States and Canada, inquiring about the meeting, The best citizens in Dallas are co-operating in the meeting. They say they never saw anything like it. We expect to begin to build a large tabernacle 100 by 150 feet this week. The lumber firms are going to give the lumber. This will be built in sight of six car lines. We are expecting great things during the coming weeks. There is so much to write that I hardly know where to stop. It is impossible to describe the wonderful works of God. They have to be seen, and experienced, to be appreciated. Some times there are a hundred seekers at the altar at one time. Give my love to all inquiring friends. – Your brother, F. F. BOSWORTH.

P. S. I did not get your letter off last night, so will add a little. I said that Sunday was the most wonderful day I  had ever seen. I now want to say that last night was still more wonderful. No tongue or pen could describe that meeting. Three deaf and dumb mutes, 54, 34 and 17 years old, all strangers to each other, hugged, kissed, wept and shouted for about a half hour because God had opened all their ears and gave them their voices, and saved them all. The great audience looked on and wept, and as many as could crowd into the vacant space at the front of the tent sought God for salvation, healing and the baptism. Many were struck down by the power of God and had wonderful visions of Jesus, and many received the baptism in the Holy Ghost as at Pentecost. Some are stricken down in their homes. It surely looks like a battlefield to see the slain of the Lord lying in the tent.  I wish you could see how those deaf and dumb mutes looked at the choir, making signs to each other that they enjoyed the singing and the instruments. The delegation that came with the deaf and dumb mutes returned with them this morning,
saying that they were going to bring another mute and perhaps other afflicted ones. A preacher last night, that came up with them, got up and told how he had known the deaf and dumb young lady from birth and loved her as his own daughter. It was wonderful how the power of God fell on the audience during the services last night. It was impossible for anyone to doubt. We expect the power to increase more and more, as the
people are taught and see the displays of God’s power. I never heard such preaching as that done by sister under anointings of the Spirit.

Excerpt from a 1912 “Triumphs of Faith” magazine edited by Carrie Judd Montgomery.