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The promise of the Lord
Father really flourished in his work and loved holding feasts and knew how to give beautiful feasts, such as the 25th anniversary of the Bethanie Station in 1889 and the 50th anniversary of
the Hermannsburg Mission in 1899 which was a big feast in Bethanie and his last because in April 1900 the Lord called His servant into His everlasting peace!
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Has the Lord fulfilled his promises in father’s life when
father had left behind everything for the sake of the gospel,
as the evangelists said, “Brothers and sisters, mothers and children”? Not only has my father received a hundredfold in his congregation with thousands of souls, but the promise was also fulfilled as far as earthly goods are concerned: father received houses and fields a hundredfold in this time.
This, too, started small and ended big. Father had little time
in Bethanie to take care of or to seek earthly things, no, it was given to him and he took it as it came and it was good and
“he grants sleep to those he loves” (Psalm 127). And the Lord guided everything so that nothing went wrong and his promise could be completely fulfilled “a hundredfold”. The Lord gave everything and we simply had to take what was offered to us and He guided it so that nothing went wrong.