My Better Half

The honoured wife of W. B. Godbey departs before he does since she has been heir to a frail constitution. She does not receive her second blessing for years after her husband since she modestly thinks it is for preachers only, and it was not yet generally accepted among the people. Her husband was known far and wide as "Crazy Godbey". However this did not last:

"Therefore we proceeded at once to hold the first holiness campmeeting in dear old Kentucky at Maple Grove under the shadow of Cincinnati. I prevailed on my dear wife to attend the meeting. After the saints had prayed down from Heaven copious showers of celestial fire and the tide was running high, my Better Half arrived on the ground. When she saw the altar crowded with the old, young, great and small, heavenly inundations sweeping down in great landslides from the Glory World, meanwhile many were tiding over, she rushed to the altar, observing that she had been mistaken in her conclusion that it was only for preachers, as she saw the laity crowd the altars, pray through, rise with radiant faces and tell the thrilling story of full salvation.

We were all surprised with the expedition which crowned her humble efforts to get the Pearl of great Price; when to our astonishment she leaped to her feet with shouts of victory, adding her testimony to ours confirmatory to this great salvation.

I was much gratified during our long walk together, to see the victory ostensibly abide, without those fluctuations so incident to the rank and file cognomened "Holiness people." She never flickered in her testimony but was always ready to witness clearly to the experience."
 

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