In the year 1915 we decided to take an ocean-to-ocean trip and give out the Truth in all its fullness. Four of us workers made this journey in an Oldsmobile. We held meetings in New York, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and then we went down into the states of Oklahoma and Virginia where we held services in various localities.
Results were rewarding. Our meetings in Virginia were especially blessed, and souls were saved and established in the faith. At one of our services in eastern Virginia a drunkard, a tobacco-grower, was converted. His home at that time was almost broken up on account of his life of sin. His farm was mortgaged; his wife had few clothes and little to live on. Many times while washing clothes with bony fingers on a washboard, her broken heart would cry out in anguish because of her husband's condition.
At the revival meetings, he heard that God could deliver the drunkard, save him, and cause him to live right. At an altar of prayer he repented of his sinful life and God saved his soul, healed his afflicted body, and made his home happy. He quit growing tobacco, the mortgage was paid off, and God has prospered him through the years to a ripe old age.
This tour to the East was followed by numbers of others across the country. Workers would stop to hold special services at the different branch churches here and there; and then go into new fields to carry the Message to many who had never heard the Gospel preached in its fullness and power.