Brett Wyatt - Healer: The Controversial and Supernatural Life of John G. Lake Book 2 1924-1935

HEALER

The Controversial & Supernatural Life of John G. Lake

BOOK TWO: John G. Lake 1924-1935

Compiled and edited by

Brett Wyatt

RILEY CHRISTIAN MEDIA

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON

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This Riley Christian Media edition is a revised republication of the work originally entitled A.F.O.M. and released primarily in the Pacific Northwest beginning in 1990 and reissued as Fire of God: John G. Lake in 2002. Some typograghical errors which occured either in the 1990 edition or the original newspaper articles have been tacitly corrected.

Dedication

For my Boys

Table of Contents

This chapter is a compilation of articles from 1924 which covered the tent meetings held by John G. Lake during the summer as well as a personal letter from Rev. Lake forwarded to the faithful from the church in Portland.

The newspaper made it a point to send as many of its reporters to Lakes healing tents as was possible. This will explain the different tones you may pick up in each article. I felt that it was important to include those articles in favor of the ministry that was going on as well as the opposed in order to make a clearer picture for the reader. As Lake once said, All of our cards are on the table.

It is this sentiment that makes it important that the story of the pretty little deaf girl, who could actually hear, be included. It is important that an article was included about a meeting where no healings were seen to have taken place. To only include the favorable articles or news of John G. Lakes ministry would weaken the testimony of faithfulness and anointing that he invested his life to bring us. The God we serve doesnt need to be apologized for. I pray that this account of the 1924 Healing Revival in Spokane leaves you encouraged and blessed.

Thursday, July 3, 1924

The Spokane Press

MODERN MIRACLES

Spokane minister announces he will cure by faith and invites physicians to check up on his promised performances.

Are the days of miracles past? Can prayer make the blind see? The lame walk? The deaf hear?

Can John G. Lake, one time millionaire, who will open a series of evangelistic meetings in Spokane next Sunday evening, prove to Spokane that disease can be overcome by the prayer of faith?

Is Lake right in his declaration that the power of God is just the same today, or did he give up his $50,000 a year job with a nationally known insurance company to follow an illusion?

Lake, who is the head of the Church Elect in Spokane and who has a chain of forty churches and missions in the United States and Canada, makes the most startling claims of any of the nationally known healing evangelists. He never asks an applicant for healing if he is a sinner or saint, a Protestant or a Catholic, a Jew or Gentile.

God heals all that have an honest soul and any degree of faith, says Dr. Lake.

Healing the sick is one of Gods ways for preparing the people for His message, is the way Dr. Lake explains this unusual belief. If a man is healed of his diseases he is fertile ground for Gods teachings.

But more startling even than his declaration that healing is for saint and sinner alike, is Dr. Lakes assertion that he welcomes medical investigation. Tell the doctors, said Lake today, to bring their incurables and their lecture subjects. Bring the hopeless cases, and those who have been under observation for a long time. We will pray for them, and declare them healed, we will turn them over again to the doctors for examination. I am willing to let this be the test of the truth of the message I bring.

The first meeting of the monthly series starts Sunday night in a tent at Ash and Chelan. At 7:30 there will be a song service. Preaching begins at 8 oclock. There will be a meeting each night during the rest of July.

With Dr. Lake in his campaign are associated Rev. F.B. Eastmand of North Dakota, Rev. George W. Bailey of the Church of God, Spokane, and Rev. J.N. Clos of Bellingham, Wash.

Other ministers from the Lake string of churches throughout the United States and Canada will be brought to Spokane during the series of meetings.

Healing meetings will be on Thursday nights only.

Today Mr. Lake issued the following invitation:

Bring your sick, and your well, bring the halt, the lame and the disease ridden, bring the sinner and the saint, the Protestant and the Catholic. Gods message is for all. Healing is for all.

Friday, July 4, 1924

The Spokane Press

LAKE CLAIMS HE ENDED EPIDEMIC IN SOUTH AFRICA

Converted General de Wet, Boer leader, who arose against the British .

Who is John G. Lake? The man who claims that thru prayer the sick can be healed, the maimed made whole, and who Sunday night will open a series of meetings in a tent at Chelan and Ash in an effort to prove his claims to Spokane. Lake, head of the Church Elect in Spokane, was interviewed by a Press reporter today. The following facts about his career were uncovered.

Since the age of 21 his life has been one of unusual adventure in the far corners of the world.

A graduate of Northwestern University, then manager of agents for a nationally known insurance company. Later the man who outlined the native policy adopted by the Smuts government in South Africa. Then a missionary, who after five years work in South Africa established 125 European churches, and native congregations totaling 5000 members, with 500 native preachers.

Last of all a healer, who takes the Bible as his authority and teaches that not only is God able to save the souls of man, but to heal the bodies and keep them well.

Lake is the man who was voted the thanks of the Transvaal Parliament because of his labors during the fever epidemic in the MShanagaan and Basuto country in the Zultspansberg District in 1910, when the fever killed more than 25 percent of the entire native and white population in that country.

Reported to Botha

Without any means of curing the fever except prayer, Lake with a party of missionaries invaded the disease ridden country and worked among the natives. His was the first report of the plague situation to be received by General Louis Botha, Premier of South Africa, who immediately placed Lake in charge of the situation until 50 ox wagon loads of supplies and a few government officials could arrive from Pretoria.

Because of our faith, said Lake today, We escaped the fever so deadly to the white man, and prayed and worked among those stricken by the plague, praying for thousands and seeing thousands healed. It was the demonstration of the power of God that converted General Hans de Wet, Boer leader who rebelled at the beginning of the late war, to our teachings.

Came here ten years ago

In 1914, Lake came to Spokane to establish headquarters for the string of Lake missions in America. Because of dissension in the local church, Lake moved the headquarters of his work to Portland, but is now in Spokane to re-establish headquarters here.

The same God that healed the natives of their fever in South Africa will heal the sick of Spokane, said Lake today. Our meetings during July are for the purpose of proving this to all.