As word of these meetings and the work of the society continued to go forth, a committee from England came to examine and report upon Dr. He later accompanied that committee to England and conducted similar meetings in London under the direction of Bishop Ingram. This conference authorized a committee to further visit other healing institutions in England and Europe. In the company of this committee, he visited healing institutions in London and went to Lourdes, France.
Lake a board of physicians whose business it was to examine all candidates and report upon them. At Lourdes, they were privileged to visit the then greatest hypnotic institution for healing in the world.
This institution sent its representatives to demonstrate their methods to the Catholic board of physicians, and hearing of the committee, they were invited to go along. Lake agreed to take part if he were given the final demonstration. The committee selected five candidates who had been pronounced medically incurable. The hypnotists tried their various methods without success. Lake then had the five candidates placed in chairs in a row upon the platform in view of the audience of physicians and scientists.
He prayed over each one of them separately. Three were instantly healed, a fourth recovered in a few days, and one passed away. Lake returned to the United States for six months holding evangelistic crusades in Chicago, Portland, Oakland, and Los Angeles for the purpose of recruiting missionaries to take with him to South Africa.
While in Portland, praying alone in his room, he received assurance that the answer was on the way. Four days later in Los Angeles, a letter arrived at his hotel from George B. He returned to South Africa and remained there for several years during which time he founded the Apostolic Faith Mission with headquarters at Johannesburg.
He was elected its president and continued for years after that to be its honorary president. During his ministry, he organized white congregations and native congregations.
Protection From Disease In , the African fever ravaged the area in which Lake lived, and in less than a month, one-quarter of the native and white populations died. Agencies of every description were called into action to combat the epidemic. Lake worked there with several assistants, four of whom died of the fever, but he never had a touch of the disease. Lake on The Law of Life Now watch the action of the law of life.
Faith belongs to the law of life. Faith is the very opposite of fear. Faith has the opposite effect in spirit, and soul, and body. Faith causes the spirit of man to become confident. It causes the mind of man to become restful and positive. A positive mind repels disease. Consequently, the emanation of the Spirit destroys disease germs. And because we were in contact with the Spirit of life, I and a little Dutch fellow with me went out and buried many of the people who had died from the bubonic plague.
We went into the homes and carried them out, dug the graves, and put them in. Sometimes we would put three or four in one grave. We never took the disease. Lake During that great plague, they sent a government ship with supplies and a corps of doctors.
Our corps has preventatives that we use as a protection, but we concluded that if a man could stay on the ground as you have and keep ministering to the sick and burying the dead, you must have a secret. What is it? I believe that if I keep my soul in contact with the living God, so that His Spirit is flowing into my soul and body, no germ will ever attach itself to me, for the Spirit of God will kill it. If you will go over to one of these dead people and take the foam that comes out of their lungs after death, then put it under the microscope you will see masses of living germs.
You will find they are alive until a reasonable time after a man is dead. You can fill my hand with them and I will keep it under the microscope, and instead of these germs remaining alive, they will die instantly. In addition to the seven children born from his first marriage, five more children were born into his second one. That summer, Dr. Lake met Jim Hill while walking along the street one day in St.
Paul, Minnesota. When asked about what he was doing, Dr. Lake replied that he was simply trying to gather his health and that he was preaching wherever he went. Hill invited him to his office and give him complimentary passes that were good over all of his railroad lines. Lake began traveling, stopping at Spokane where he was invited to open a healing room in that city. He accepted the invitation and ministered to the sick for about six months.
The Healing Mission in Spokane Dr. Lake had been an elder in the Zion Apostolic Church when Dowie was at the height of his power. Thus he, together with various other persons exposed to the Dowie approach to Christian living, became dynamic disciples and missionaries of the gospel of Jesus Christ, coming west through the Dakotas, Montana, and into Washington.
Lake had made no preparation or study that prepared him for missionary work nor was he particularly trained in a theological perspective, as were most ministers. But he was a man of strong and forceful personality who seemed to make his way to the forefront in whatever situation he found himself. Lake His ministry had its weaknesses as well as its strengths.
It was believed by some that his failure to properly anticipate the heavy responsibilities his first wife [Jennie] had to carry was an unfortunate mistake that contributed to her untimely death on the mission field. This fact, plus the responsibilities he now had in order to care for a large family, was one of the primary contributing factors to the close of his ministry on the mission field.
However, his days of glory were not yet finished. His early ministry in the City of Spokane became a demonstration of the power of God that resulted in more than , healings being reported during a period of five or six years. Some declared that Dr. Lake, through his ministry of divine healing, had made Spokane the healthiest city in the world.
This, of course, was similar to a documented report that came out of Washington, D. His activity in Spokane had such impact that the Spokesman Daily Review carried full-page articles each week regarding his ministry and the miraculous acts of documented healing.
Personal interviews and ministry through prayer and laying on of hands. Public services on Sunday at The Masonic Temple at 11 a. Lake Our ministry is private and confidential.
Persons desiring to give public testimony must arrange with the ministers in advance. Then would follow letters of testimony from those who had received healing or their physicians as well as articles by Dr. Lake indicated that they ministered to an average of people per day in the healing rooms.
In addition, calls for prayer and the ministry came by telephone, telegraph, letter, and cable from all parts of the world. Ministry to the sick in their homes was another phase of work accomplished by the use of two motor cars in which ministers were conveyed from home to home, praying for those who were unable to present themselves at the healing rooms. Lake indicated that at least , people were ministered to each year by car, telephone, telegraph, letter, or cable.
Thousands of people would attend the Sunday services held each week at the Masonic Temple. There were no fees charged for any of the ministry, and the entire project was supported by means of love offerings.
An especially appealing story was published on September 20, , in the Spokesman Review. It was a testimony shared by Walter J. Williams, science department chairman of an eastern university.
Lake In the article, he told about two of his friends in the East who had traveled to Spokane and received amazing healings. This scientist-educator was very adverse to anything savoring of what might be called the supernatural.
But he journeyed to Spokane to gather first-hand information for himself. He visited several persons who professed to have been healed under Dr.
Then he visited the man himself. After an extended interview, he was invited to stay and see for himself what God was doing here. Williams did. I saw them come, hundreds in a day. I talked to them, asking them questions, the lame, the poor, the rich, the uneducated, and the intellectual.
Were they healed? Yes they were. Was I convinced that it was God? Indeed I was. Lake and his associates were. I have listened to some of the greatest teachers on earth, both secular and religious, but I have never heard such revelations of life or such a revelation of God as I heard and witnessed at the Healing Rooms in the Rookery Building in Spokane.
Walter J. Lake and his staff were waited upon at their healing rooms by a committee of the Better Business Bureau of the City of Spokane. Their duty was to investigate the truthfulness of the public announcements that were continuing to appear in the city papers. Lake These testimonies were so astounding that complaints had reached the Better Business Bureau to the affect that the testimonies must certainly be untrue.
The committee examined eighteen witnesses whose testimonies had appeared in public print. Further names of persons who had received healings within the city were given to the committee so that they could go personally and investigate for themselves whether or not these things were so. He invited them to form a committee composed of physicians, lawyers, judges, educators, and businessmen who could render a verdict.
During the intervening period between the interview in the healing rooms and Sunday, June 23, the committee continued their investigations. On Friday, June 21, Dr. Lake received a letter from the committee assuring him that they had no desire in any way to interfere with the good being done and had determined that their appearance at the Sunday meeting would not be necessary.
Two members of the investigating committee spoke privately to Dr. Lake and his staff and said that the committee was astounded. Lake was about to conduct in the area. Jack Reinboldt. The one girl died as a result of the operation. Louise came out of it unable to speak. She was taken to throat specialists, who pronounced her case absolutely incurable. Recently she was taken to Spokane to Mr. Lake announced that there would be no change in the program. He indicated the meeting would take place as announced, and if the Better Business Bureau would not take their place, he would appeal to the public for its verdict.
Thousands of people attended that afternoon in the Masonic Temple while hundreds were refused admittance due to lack of space.
Testimonies by ministers and lay people alike of significant, documented healings were given throughout the remainder of the afternoon. The publicity of this meeting was tremendous and was perhaps one of the high points in the sometimes controversial but always unique ministry of John G. Lake In May , Dr. Lake moved to Portland, Oregon, to establish a similar work to that of his church in Spokane.
Within a few years, this ministry in Portland was making a similar impact in Oregon as the one in Spokane had in Washington. One of his converts in Portland was Gordon Lindsay, who later became an independent Pentecostal evangelist of some significance and forerunner of the present Christ for the Nations Institute headquartered in Dallas, Texas. He possessed a remarkable ability to create faith in the hearts of his hearers. Gordon Lindsay was no exception.
Having followed Dr. He was stricken with a critical case of ptomaine poisoning and for days hung between life and death.
Lake offered prayer for Lindsay, and although deliverance did not come immediately in a visible manner, he professed confidence that indeed the Lord had answered prayer. Lake brought Reverend Lindsay some of the typewritten sermons her husband had recently given, and while reading these messages, faith suddenly sprang into his heart.
He arose from what many thought was a deathbed, instantly healed. While he was in Portland, Dr. Lake entertained hopes for raising up a chain of healing missions on the order of his works in Spokane and Portland.
However, though he was not yet advanced in age, he had lived an intensity that had taken its toll. A decline in the strength and vitality that had characterized his earlier ministry became apparent. He seemed unable to match his spiritual vision with the physical strength required to bring it to pass. Lake suffered a serious accident that almost took his life. He never returned to Houston. For a while, he ministered in churches throughout California. However, the dynamic touch that he once had was lacking.
He later returned to the City of Portland where he pastored for a time. Afterwards, he returned to Spokane. There he pastored until his death. On Labor Day, , Dr. Lake attended a Sunday school picnic. He came home very tired and after a hot supper, laid down to rest. A guest speaker was at the church that evening so Mrs. Lake prevailed on him to stay at home. She went to church in his place. When she arrived home, she found that he had a stroke in her absence.
He lingered for about two weeks, being unconscious most of the time, until September 16, , when he went to be with his Lord.
His ministry was summed up in the brief testimony of Reverend B. Hebden who spoke at the memorial service. Lake was a strong, rugged character of loving and winning personality, and he has left his mark indelibly upon the world of Gospel Truth. Lake came to Spokane. He found us in sin. He found us in sickness. He found us in poverty of spirit. He found us in despair, but he revealed to us such a Christ, as we had never dreamed of knowing this side of heaven.
We thought victory was over there, but Dr. Lake revealed to us that victory was here, a present and possible reality. We regarded death almost as a friend, but Dr. Lake came and revealed to us the Christ, all glorious and all powerful, that is triumphant, compassionate, and lovely, and our night was turned into day and despair was turned into laughter.
How I thank Him that I ever contacted that man, unique, powerful! I will never forget the day in the Hutton Block when I was sick with several chronic complaints, and I heard that message of Christ, that His arms were under me, and I kept it and the message kept me and, instead of my being, long and long ago, gone and forgotten, I am here rejoicing and thanking our brother, Dr.
Lake, who brought that message to me. Friends, he should still speak in me, not by the pen but by the Spirit that is in me, by the Light that is in me, by the regeneration of Jesus Christ that is in me. Let us, friends, not go and squander it by hiding it in a napkin, but let us keep it by giving it out.
Lake March 18, — John G. His parents move their family to Sault Ste. October — Lake becomes a Methodist minister in Chicago, Illinois.
April — Lake takes Jennie to the healing home of John Alexander Dowie in Zion City, Illinois, where on April 28 Dowie prays for her and she is instantly healed of tuberculosis and heart disease. Lake — John and Jennie move their family from Sault Ste. April — Lake leaves his insurance business, gives away his wealth, and goes into evangelistic work, casting himself and his family upon God to supply all their needs. April 19, — One year after beginning his evangelistic work, Lake and his family leave Indianapolis, Indiana, and head for South Africa to do missionary work.
May — John, Jennie, and their seven children arrive in South Africa. Early — Lake travels to England to hold meetings for Church of England ministers. Lake institutions with a reputation for healing. The Investigative Council in Lourdes asks several there to attempt to heal five terminally ill people. Lake agrees on condition that he is the last to pray for them.
All of the others fail in their attempts. Lake prays for the sick and three are instantly healed, one is healed over a few days, and one dies shortly after. July — Lake returns to the United States for six months to hold evangelistic services. Sufficient funds are raised to enable him to take eight missionaries to South Africa.
January — Lake and his eight missionaries travel to South Africa. Eight hundred Native Congregations and one hundred and twenty-five White Congregations are eventually organized. He never goes back to Africa. During their marriage, they have five children. Lake May — John and Florence move to Portland, Oregon, to organize a similar church and healing rooms there. Within a few years, the healing rooms are having the same impact as the Spokane healing rooms.
About to about — Lake attempts to establish healing rooms in Texas and various places in California but without success. He goes back to Portland to pastor for a short time and then returns to Spokane. Lake dies of a stroke. Seymour and John G. Lake seated, and Brother Adams, F. Bosworth, and Tom Hezmalhalch standing. Lake John G. But as the living lava continues to boil and seethe the pressure increases until nothing can hold it down and it breaks forth with a force that rolls over everything that tries to stop its progress.
Woman with an Issue of Blood Though the woman had an issue of blood and so under the law was unclean and forbidden to be in a crowd of people, her desperation, brought about by 12 years of unsuccessful medical treatment and having no money left to pay for more treatments, drove her through the law and the crowd of people to Jesus.
Lake On her feet, on her hands and knees, forbidden by the law, scorned, and discouraged by others, it did not matter. Blind Bartimaeus It was the same with Blind Bartimaeus. Be still. Think of the wonder. The Son of God, by whom and through whom and for whom all things were created Colossians , was arrested in His journey by the desperate cry of a blind person who sat begging daily on the side of the dusty and dirty Jericho Road.
All because the blind person saw the truth of Christ the Healer! So, Jesus stood still and commanded him to be brought to Him. Prodigal Son The prodigal son took everything his father gave him and spent it upon the pleasures of the world until the world took everything from him—as it does from everyone foolish enough to do the same. To get enough food to stay alive he was forced to take a job feeding pigs for no better food than the pigs ate.
An Israelite in covenant with Almighty God through Abraham reduced by his own foolishness to feeding animals declared unclean by the Law of Moses—a spectacle to all who saw him. Then he became desperately hungry, and that hunger caused him to see himself as he truly was, to see his desperate condition, and started him upon a journey home to his father—a father of love and healing.
Make me like one of your hired servants. Bosworth] home, before Fred thought of preaching the gospel, I listened to Lillian Thistleweight [sister-in-law of Charles Parham] tell of God and His love, His sanctifying grace and power, and what real holiness is.
It was the divine holiness that came from her soul. It was the living Spirit of God that came out of her inner being. I sat back in the room as far away as I could get. I was self-satisfied, doing well in the world, prosperous with all the accompaniments that go with successful life. But that night my heart became so hungry that I fell on my knees, and those who were present will tell you that they had never heard anybody pray as desperately as I prayed. That was the night you prayed in my home until the rafters shook, until God came down, until the fire struck, until God came in and sanctified our hearts.
A moment when God comes in and makes your heart pure and takes self out of your nature, and gives you divine triumph over sin and self. That is what the baptism brought to us. That is what we coveted from God. I set up my own home, married a beautiful woman, and our first son was born. My wife became an invalid; my son was a sickly child. Out of it all one thing developed in my nature: a cry for deliverance.
My soul cried to God for deliverance. I knew nothing about the subject of healing; notwithstanding, I was a Methodist evangelist.
But my heart was crying for deliverance; my soul had come to the place where I had given up depending on man. My father had spent a fortune on the family to no avail, as if there were no stoppage to the train of hell. And let me tell you, there is no human stoppage, because the thing is settled deep in the nature of man — too deep for any material remedy to get at it. You will not have to cry very long until you see that the mountains are being moved, and the angel of deliverance will be there.
I finally got to that place where my supreme heart- cry was for deliverance. Tears were shed for deliverance for three years before the healing of God came to us. My heart cried, my soul sobbed, my spirit wept tears. I wanted help. I did not know enough to call directly on God for it. But I did not. But one thing matured in my heart—a real hunger. Lake a law of God that is in the depths of the Spirit. God will answer the heart that cries; God will answer the soul that asks.
Christ Jesus comes to us with divine assurance and invites us when we are hungry to pray, to believe, to take from the Lord that which our soul covets and our heart yearns for. One day the Lord of heaven came our way, and in a little while the cloud of darkness, that midnight of hell, was lifted.
The light of God shone into our life and into our home. We learned the truth of Jesus as a present-day healer and were able to receive the divine power of God for our needs. No one can understand the tremendous hold that the revelation of Jesus as a present-day Healer took on my life, and what it meant to me, unless they fully understand my background.
I was one of sixteen children. Our parents were strong, vigorous, healthy people. My mother died at the age of seventy-five, and at the present time [March ] my father still lives and is seventy-seven.
Before my knowledge and experience of the Lord as our healer, we buried eight members of our family. A strange train of sickness followed us and for thirty-two years, there was always some member of the family who was an invalid.
When I think back to when I was a boy and a young man I remember a nightmare of sickness, doctors, nurses, hospitals, hearses, funerals, graveyards and tombstones, a sorrowing household, a brokenhearted mother and grief-stricken father, struggling to forget the sorrows of the past, in order to assist the living members of the family, who needed their love and care.
At the time Christ was revealed to us as our healer, my brother, who had been an invalid for twenty-two years, and upon whom father had spent a fortune for medical assistance, was dying. I have never known any other man to suffer so extremely and so long as he did. At the same time, my thirty-four-year-old sister was dying with five cancers in her left breast. But it was no use. There was a large core cancer and after the operations four other heads developed—five in all.
Another sister lay dying of an issue of blood. Gradually, day by day, her lifeblood flowed away until she was in the very throes of death. I had married and established my own home.
My wife, Jennie, became an invalid from heart disease and tuberculosis. Her heart would stop and she would become unconsciousness. Sometimes I would find her unconscious on the floor or in her bed. Stronger and stronger stimulants became necessary in order to revive her heart action, until finally only nitroglycerin tablets would work. After these heart spells Jennie would remain in a semi-paralytic condition for weeks, the result of over- stimulation the physicians said. Lake in that room.
Instantly, the power of God flashed through him. He arose and walked out of the place in his nightgown. Three others, a great deal like him, were on cots. Dowie prayed for each one, and one after another received the healing touch and arose from their cots. When I saw him well, I walked on my tiptoes for about three weeks. Great joy and marvelous hope sprang up in our hearts.
A real manifestation of the healing power of God was before us. Quickly we arranged to take our sister with the five cancers to the same healing home, carrying her on a stretcher. She was taken into the healing meeting.
I have not been a true Christian like others. They may be healed because of their goodness, but I fear healing is not for me. After listening from her cot to the preaching and teaching of the Word of God on healing through Jesus Christ, hope sprang up in her soul. She was prayed for and hands laid on her. As the prayer of faith arose to God, the power of God descended upon her, thrilling her being.
Her pain instantly vanished. The swelling disappeared gradually. The large core cancer turned black, and in a few days fell out. The smaller ones disappeared. The mutilated breast began to re-grow and became a perfect breast again. Words cannot tell this story. A new faith sprang up within us — a living, dynamic faith. If God could heal our dying brother and our dying sister, and cause cancers to disappear, He could heal anything or anybody!
The sister who had the issue of blood and I had been close from our childhood. She was a little older than I. The vision of Christ the Healer had just been opened to my soul. I felt for a heartbeat but there was none.
I picked up a small mirror and held it over her mouth, but there was no discoloration. I stood there stunned. Her husband knelt at the foot of the bed weeping.
Her baby was asleep in the crib at the opposite side of the room. My old father and mother knelt sobbing at the side of the bed. They had seen eight of their children die; she was apparently the ninth. My soul was in a storm. I cannot accept it! It is the work of the devil and darkness. Somehow, I just felt my spirit lay hold of the spirit of my sister.
My spirit was crying out for somebody with faith in God that I could call upon to help me. That was twenty-five years ago when the individual who trusted God for healing was almost an insane person in the eyes of the Church and the world. Bless God, it is different now. Lake together, stay together, and form a nucleus in society that has some force for God.
That was John Alexander Dowie, six hundred miles away. I went to the phone, called Western Union, and told them I wanted to get a telegram through to Dr. Dowie with an answer back as quickly as possible. I believe if you will pray, God will heal her. I am praying. She will live.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I abolish this death and sickness, and she shall live. Presently I observed her husband get up and tiptoe to the bed, and I knew that he had seen it. Day by day, death silently stole over her, until the final hours had come. A brother minister was present. I thought of her whom I loved as my own soul, and a flame burned in my heart.
I felt as if God had been insulted by such a suggestion. Yet, I had many things to learn. In the midst of my soul storm I returned to my home, picked up my Bible from the mantelpiece and threw it on the table.
Lake has bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond? What a faith sprang up in my heart, and what a flame of intelligence concerning the Word of God and the ministry of Jesus went over my soul.
I saw as never before why Jesus healed the sick. We decided on a. At , I knelt at her dying bed and called on the living God. The power of God came upon her, thrilling her from head to foot. Her paralysis was gone, her heart became normal, her cough ceased, her breathing was regular, her temperature was normal. The power of God was flowing through her person, seemingly like the blood flows through the veins.
As I was praying I heard a sound from her liPs. What a day! Shall I ever forget it—when the power of God thrilled our souls, and the joy of God possessed our hearts at her recovery? The news spread throughout the city and the state. The newspapers discussed it. People traveled for great distances to see Jennie and to talk with her. She was flooded with letters of inquiry.
A great new light had dawned in our soul. Our church had diligently taught us that the days of miracles were past. Believing that, eight members of the family had been permitted to die. But now, with the light of truth flashing in our hearts, we saw that such teaching was a lie, no doubt invented by the devil, and diligently heralded as truth by the Church, thus robbing Christians of their rightful inheritance through the suffering of Jesus Christ. Righteousness is the rightness of God.
The rightness of God in your spirit, the rightness of God in your soul, the rightness of God in your body, the rightness of God in your affairs, in your home, in your business, everywhere. God is an all-around God. His power operates from every side. The artists paint a halo around the head of Jesus to show that there is a radiation of glory from His person. They might just as well put it around His feet or any part of His person. It is the radiant glory of the indwelling God, radiating out through the personality.
There is nothing more wonderful than the indwelling of God in the human life. The most supreme example that God ever performed was His taking possession of men.
By the Holy Spirit He comes in and takes possession of those who are hungry. I will guarantee to you that after the crucifixion of Jesus there were mighty hungry folks at Jerusalem. If they had not been exceedingly hungry they would not have gotten so gloriously filled.
It was because they were hungry that they were filled. We are sometimes inclined to think of God as mechanical, as though God just set a date for this or that event to occur.
But my opinion is that one of the works of the Holy Ghost is to prepare the hearts of men in advance by putting within them a strong hunger for that event that has been promised by God until it comes to pass. Lake in all types and also themes.
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