Baptisms and healing.

[Sam]

Speaking of healing and Holy Ghost Baptisms happening when people were baptized in Jesus’ name,

this is a record of happenings in 1915 near Los Angeles and is from pages 98-99 of The Phenomenon of Pentecost.

One of the greatest, most startling characteristics of
that great revival was that the vast majority of the new converts
were filled with the Holy Ghost after coming up out
of the water. They would leave the tank speaking in other
tongues. Many were healed when they were baptized. One
woman who was well known in Pentecostal circles used to
fight us desperately. She had tracts printed against the
message and would come out early on Sundays and stay all
day moving around among the people sowing discord, trying
to dissuade people from coming there.

One Sunday, according to her own printed testimony,
she came out as usual, expecting to continue her fighting
tactics. She had just sat down when she heard an audible
voice, like thunder in her ears: “If you will ask my servant
to baptize you in My name I will heal you.” She had been
suffering with an inward cancer for years but was afraid
to have an operation, and now the doctors said it was too
late. She came striding up the aisle just before time to
begin the meeting. I met her at the front of the platform.
She asked, “Will you baptize me into the name of Jesus
Christ after the meeting?” I said, “I certainly will!” When
she was baptized her cancer was instantly healed and disappeared,
the swelling all subsided, and the women had
to cover her with a robe while they pinned up her skirt.
She put this experience in a tract, and it has been circulated
everywhere.

This is from 1918 in Los Angeles and is from pages 112 and 113 of that book

We had the large auditorium filled and held meetings
twice a week and three times on Sunday when we did not
have special meetings. Members of our audience came
from suburban towns over forty miles distant. The baptismal
font was patronized every week; sometimes I
would baptize over fifty in one service. I kept a record of
the number baptized, and when we stopped because of a
fear that we were numbering the people and might incite
God’s displeasure, there were over two thousand names.

It was a common thing to have the majority of the
candidates that had not received the baptism in the Holy
Spirit receive the experience in the baptismal font.
Miracles were continually taking place. At one service I
baptized a Spanish woman 105 years old. She was stone
blind. She said that the Lord had showed her that He was
coming for her soon, and that she must be baptized in
His name. When she descended into the font and stood
with hands clasped in prayer, the power of God so
wrapped us that we were both mightily quickened. The
saints close by said that she raised up and stood still in
the water about a foot from the bottom. In a few days this
old pilgrim was gone to her reward. God put such a premium
on being baptized into His name in those days.

It was simply amazing. Literally hundreds were
miraculously healed in the water. I have had people
refuse to take off their best clothes, the conviction was so
strong on them. Many went with their watches on, forgetting
everything in their anxiety to obey God. I have
had men unstrap or unscrew their peg legs and, with
some help, get down into the font for baptism. I baptized
one man in a dying condition on a stretcher because he
insisted that God showed him his time had come and he
wanted to be baptized into the name of Jesus. We buried
him the week after this service.