Healing and Revival

John G. Lake's Description of Letwaba

John G. Lake spoke of Letwaba in a sermon titled the Science of Healing, given in Chicago in 1920. "One day I sat in Los Angeles talking to old father Seymour. I told him of an incident in the life of Elias Letwaba, one of our native preachers, who lived in the native country. I came to his home, and his wife said, “He is not home. A little baby is hurt, and he is over praying for it.” So we went over and got down on our knees and crawled into the native hut. I saw he was kneeling in a corner by the dying child. I said, “Letwaba, it is me. What is the matter with the child?” He told me that it had hurt its neck. I examined it and saw that the baby’s neck is broken, and I said to Letwaba, “Why, Letwaba, the baby’s neck is broken.” I did not have faith for a broken neck, but poor old Letwaba did not know the difference, and I saw he did not understand; but he discerned the spirit of doubt in my soul. I said to myself, “I am not going to interfere with his faith. He will just feel the doubt and all the old traditional things I ever learned, so I will go out” and I did. I went out and sat in another hut and kept on praying. I went to bed at one o’clock at three o’clock Letwaba came in. I said, “Well, Letwaba how about the baby?” He looked at me lovingly and sweetly and said, “Why brother, the baby is all well.” I said, “The baby is well! Take me to the baby at once.” I went to the baby and took the little black thing on my arm, and I came out and prayed, “Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ.”