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Mt. Salem—continued from page 23
emphatically. “The devil didn’t want
it to happen.”
He began to preach. “You are
healed from the inside outside. A
doctor cuts you open to heal you.
What happens on the outside is
going to pass away. What happens
on the inside could give you eternal
life.
“I’ve never seen a God like this,”
he said as if amazed.
“The things I used to do I can’t
do no more because God has taken
that away from me.”
He talked about a man bound to
alcohol. “AA can’t do nothing with
him, but JC can get rid of it.” God
is acting in situations where people
are addicted to drugs, too, he said.
Elder Marshall was an intense
speaker with shifting cadences. He
seemed to loom large. He gripped
the attention of his audience. When
he quickened the pace of his talk, he
gradually raised the steely determination
in his voice. Then he might
pause. “Come on! Come on!”
demanded those in the church.
He asked for a hallelujah. He got
what he wanted. “Thank you, Lord,
for supplying my needs this day.”
“This day, this day,” agreed the congregation,
some of whom spontaneously
stood up.
“Sometimes you’re asking God
for something and you already have
it,” observed Elder Marshall, taking
up a more conversational tone.
“How many times have you said
you don’t have anything to eat and
there’s food in the cabinet? You’re
missing it. Until we realize what we
have, we’re missing it.
“I’ve never seen a God like this,”
he repeated, still seeming amazed.
“It doesn’t take much to take
what God has for you,” he advised
the crowd. “Keep your hands open
if you want something in them.”
He shifted between calm, meditative
talk, storytelling, and urgent,
forceful, insistent points. “I’ve never
seen a God like this,” was his refrain.
He commanded the room for more
than an hour, but the time went by
unnoticed.
“When God is fighting your battle
for you, all you have to do is
stand still and watch it.” And the
people were ready to give their battles
over to God to win.
Elder Marshall asked for any who
might need it to approach the altar
for prayer support. Several went forward
and a few of the congregation
gathered around and placed their
hands on each petitioner, who quietly
expressed his or her need or
anxiety. Singing began spontaneously.
“Give them victory, Lord,” prayed
Elder Marshall. “Give him whatever
he needs, God.”
People brought their injuries and
worries and left them, at least partly,
for Jesus to bear. The emotion they
sat down with was not what they
had stood up with.
The faith of Mt. Salem church
was manifest now and profound.
“You can’t see the supernatural,”
Elder Marshall had said, “but you
can feel it.”
The service was ending.
Missionary Colemon made a concluding
statement: “Our duty to
God is to be obedient to his word.
He has given each of us a mission.”
The congregations parted, but as
brothers and sisters and in unity.
Ladies of Mt. Salem tidied up the
church and put things in order.
Everyone had their jobs to go to the
next day and tasks still to do at
home, but Sunday they had devoted
to God at Mt. Salem.
The vision Pastor Colemon had
brought to the empty building at
the side of the road is thriving and
strong.
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