A.A. Allen

[Apprehended]

Brother Allen employed no tricks. I knew him too well. A trickster would not spend nights in prayer. A trickster will not deny himself the way that he did. A trickster is not going to go many days without a bite of food while recalling the words of Jesus, "...this kind cometh not forth except by prayer and fasting."

One of the greatest books that I've ever read was written by him through his own personal experiences, "The Price of God's Miracle Working Power." He paid the price. It was not a cheap price. His whole life and blood was in the work of God. Yet, it is so easy for those who have neither chip or tear invested to tell the rest of us who were there in meetings without number how it was all a big trick.

Amazing, indeed. Wonder how many meetings the critics attended. How many all night prayer meetings have the critics spent in prayer with him? How many of these critics watched as hot salty tears dripped off his face as he was moved with compassion for the hurting? How many of these critics can cast out screaming devils and watch as God fills them with the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues? How many fault finders who can tell us how he operated his tricks can also cause the blind to see, the deaf to hear and cancer to disappear. If the critics can do that by a trick and are NOT doing it, they deserve to go to jail for denying relief of the suffering multitudes. They need to start doing the same tricks. The world is waiting. Nay, it is not by a trick, not by might, nor yet by power, but by MY Spirit, saith the Lord.

I did not approve of everything Allen did or said. SO WHAT? There are a lot of people that does not approve of everything you and I might say or do. BIG DEAL. Just keep doing the works of God, if you are doing them at all. If not, it is time to also pay the price as did Allen and others. Salvation is free but there are some things that are not. You don't have to fast many days to be saved but if you are going to cast out devils and do the mighty works of God, you will go days without number in both fasting and nights of prayer. I assure you.

Further, it is unfair to jump on the S.F. Coroner's autopsy report as to cause of death being a liver disease, to automatically assume it was due to acute alcoholism as so many of his enemies have done.