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They shall cast out devils (demons) |
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You only
have to read Pastor Hsi, one of |
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Here are one or two of the many cases in my own experience. Our
evangelist Ngaiusa had been preaching in a village of time-expired workmen. These
were more intelligent, more used to white man’s ways than the average native,
so that after years of service for the State they were given a place near the
Government Post in which to spend their last days. |
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The wife
of one of these men was deeply moved by the gospel and she wished to make a
public confession of her faith in Christ, but her husband forbade her
becoming a Christian. Then suddenly she went mad. At least that is what the
world calls it. The whole village was soon upset by her paroxysms of rage.
Generally at night she would rush up and down the village screaming, using
filthy insults at everyone, breaking food store-pots and even setting fire to
huts. She had superhuman strength at such times,
throwing down, mauling and tearing to ribbons the clothes of any who
attempted to stop her. |
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The
husband blamed Ngaiusa for it all. When she was not in these intense rages
she would sit moping, silent, neither eating herself nor preparing food for
her family. She was put down at the evangelist’s door and he was told,
‘Henceforth whatever damage she does, you and not I must pay the costs’. |
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Poor
Ngaiusa! He was greatly disturbed and came to ask us what to do. The whole of
the local church went to prayer and fasting. I pointed out that we must act in
faith on the promise of Mark 16:17, relying on the power of the Name of
Jesus. This was done. The demons were expelled, and the whole neighbourhood
saw the woman delivered, saved, clothed and in her right mind. |
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One day I halted
my auto in a village where a poor man sat in a chair with his neck fastened
in a forked pole by an iron bar behind, and his hands and feet made fast to
the same pole by a stout wire. I went and spoke to him, though his relatives
warned me not to approach him as he was dangerous. I told him of the power of
the crucified and risen Christ, and then commanded the demons, in the Name of
the Lord Jesus, to leave him. |
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Several
days later, returning by the same road, we overtook a happy, smiling man,
walking along singing to the accompaniment of a little native musical
instrument. It was the same man, and he was completely delivered. |
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Now, these
things are happening today and not only in the first days of the
dispensation. |
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W. F. P.
Burton |
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From: W.
F. P. Burton, Signs following,
pages 40-42 |