GLORIFIED FASTING

THE ABC OF FASTING

By FRANKLIN HALL
AuUior of:

ATOMIC POWER WITH GOD

AND
THE FASTING PRAYER
ILLUSTRATIONS, TESTIMONIES AND
THE BREAK-FAST
NON-SECTARIAN INTERDENOMINATIONAL

GLORIFIED FASTING
rWARTS AND DIAGRAMS DESIGNED BY FRANKLIN HALL
NOTICE: Ail Rights Reserved.

COPYRIGHT 1948

By FRANKLIN HALL
COPYRIGHT U. S. A.. ENGLAND. .~^ANADA

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 INTRODUCTION
“STAND FAST, AND hold the traditions which ye have been taught,
whether by word, or our epistle .... Comfort your hearts; and stablish you in
every good word and work .... Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word;
of the Lord may have free course, and be GLORIFIED, even as it is with you.”
II Thess. 2:15, 17; 3:1.
FASTING, like PRAYER,is a part of the word of God. To dispute this
would be as denying water is wet. Shall we “STAND FA'ST’’ on this
foolish as
IRREVOCABLE “TRADITION,” which we have been taught in the WORD,
since it is indisputably a part of the WORD of God? Let us pray that it will
“have free course, AND BE GLORIFIED,” in its proper place in order that
JESUS may receive more glory and honor from His children. The purpose of
this volume is to popularize, perhaps one of the most downtrodden of all Biblical
subjects, and assist in the author’s small way to reestablish this part of the
Gospel, bringing it out in all its glorious aspects. We are dealing with a tre-
mendous portion of the Word— able to open up an avenue to tremendous power
and glory with JESUS for the mutual welfare of His body, and the bringing of
a mighty last day revival. By the proper utilization of fasting, praying, crying
and mourning for souls, and by going into the FASTING-PRAYER without a
selfish motive, many pillars of the FAITH can pull together in this travail to
such an extent that when tragedy, destruction, persecution, and the rest of the
last-day signs approach us more closely, we will have at our disposal a most
effective weapon to carry us through for the glory of Jesus.
It is NOT the purpose of this book, or any of the other articles on the sub-
ject of fasting, to leave an impression that this practice is the Scriptural cure-all
for spiritual, moral and bodily complaints. Emphasis is given the subject for
the purpose of quickly enlightening God’s people who seem to be “falling
away” from the old-time faith, and to prevent the unhappy drift towards
modernism that is so sweeping the land.
We do not emphasize fasting for the purpose of bragging, or for such great
merit that it would be boasting before our God, but we are pressing it forward
with such tempo so that the children of the Bridegroom will become more
quickly and fully prepared for the closing of this Holy Spirit dispensation.
This work has grown to such an extent, we have had to give up the revival
auditorium. The author is devoting his entire time to the work of fasting,
even discontinuing most of the traveling speaking engagements, in order
to assure it greater success and promotion over the world for the mutual wel-
fare of Christendom and the Kingdom of God.
To make it even easier to grasp, the author has gone to additional expense
in constructing drawings, diagrams and charts for numerous cuts to bring forth
quickly through the eye-gate, this precious vital truth of orthodox Christianity.
May the reader be blessed by them. This was done solely for the purpose ol
Glorifying our most lovable Jesus. In the name of Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost, we, therefore, dedicate this work to Jesus. May it bring
praise and honor of Him. Revelation 22:17-21.
The child portrayed on front cover is, “Dennis Allen Hall” (one year old). He
was given to his parents after the mother completed a pre-natal, prophet’s-
length fast.
The testimonies are from a cross section of many different denominations.
They are not in any manner to be construed with the promulgating of any
doctrinaL issue, nor are they necessarily to represent the beliefs, of the author,
in this or any other of his works. An unbiased non-sectarian view is taken
throughout. All religious groups should profit from these writings.
In the medical world, schools are still reluctant to come out with the teach-
ings of the science of fasting. In religious education, the seminaries and Bible
Institutes, are either “AFRAID” of the prophet’s-Jesus’-Iength of fasting, or the
teachers, at present, are incapable of educating the ministers of tomorrow.
This being a foundation process, is it any wonder the body of Christ is so
power-less. Therefore, both the medical and religious bodies are perishing,
PHYSICALLY and SPIRITUALLY, for this “lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6.
(This book was prepared during and after fasting twenty-one days).
 ILLUSTRATIONS
4
I. The Three Great Fundamentals of Christ
7
2\ The A B C of Fasting -

8
3. The Church Becomes Powerless
9
4. The Power That Food Plays Upon The Mind
Powerful Than Prayer. 10
5. Illustrating Why Fasting is More
- 11
10.
6. Door to Power and Carnality
12
7. When Living by Bread Alone
13
8. The The Life
Carrier of
14
9. Life Runs Through These Tubes
Progress 16
The Four High Points of Spiritual
Apparatus 19
II. Intestinal Digestive
21
12. Food Power Versus Spirit Power
Wayne 23
13. Journal-Gazette, Fort
26
14. Revival Power
28
1 5. Pleasure Emotions
29
16. Some Interesting Fours
30
17. The Four Tastes -

32
18. The Four Dimensions
33
19. The Four Parts of Fasting
34
20. The Four Divisions of Man
35
21. Four Necessities
Tube 36
22. Putting the Fast in a Test
38
23. (A) Demons at Work
38
24. (B) Demons Released
39
25. Demons in The Stomach
The Skin When Not Fasting 39
26. Corruption Under
41
27. The Four Piers of The Christian Religion ’

42
28. Contamination of The Canal
Oil— 44
29. Fasting Produces
46
30. The Four Zones
48
31. The Wall of The Stomach
51
32. Peering Into The Digestive Organ
Break-Fast— 52
33 ^ The Awakening of The Intestinal Villi at
55
34. The Longest Living Part of a Person
58
35. The Gastric Gland Highly Magnified
59
36. The Bonfire in Action
60
37. Where There Are Divisions
63
38. The Focusing of Attention on Jesus
(Front Cover)
39. Dennis Allen Hall
.(Back Cover)
40. Spiritual and Physical Bonfire
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PART I

FASTING POWER
1 will praise thee; for 1 am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are
the works; and thy soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14.

Most Christian people are happy to receive teaching on the subject of the
consecration fast. More than ninety-five percent of all questions asked con-
cerning the subject pertain to the natural. Before we can properly enter a
prophet’s length fast, one should familiarize himself with the subject in order
to be free from the bugaboos that Satan may hold over one and also to be able
to obtain everything out of the fast that is for us.

we are therefore compelled to go into considerable

In the face of criticism
detail of the subject from the physiological standpoint. We do this only for
the purpose of enabling God’s people to serve, honor, and obey Him more com-
pletely in this very precious process that leads us to more power with Him.
Many of God's people are perishing both physically and spiritually for this lack
of knowledge. Let every Christian be open minded in learning these deeper
Him who bought us
truths so they can also prove to be a greater blessing to
with a price and GLORIFY JESUS IN OUR BODIES, IN OUR SOULS AND
IN OUR SPIRIT. Ignorance is not bliss. The Bible tells us knowledge shall
This also indicates spiritual knowledge,
be increased in the last days of this age.
if we will be open minded enough to receive same. Let us hold fast to that
which is good. If this is good for the temple of the Holy Spirit as well as to
the spiritual man, why not accept every bit of it and glorify Him more than
ever in our every department of life.

Fasting is a powerful force whether used by the Christ fearing man and
woman or used by a heathen, worshipping idols. It has almost the power of
magic. When this powerful process is directed properly with every member
of our being centered on Jesus, there is spiritual force that even greater than
is

atomic power. We are only students, anyway, when it comes to certain depths
in the Spirit, and fasting and prayer are two of these. May we be open minded
to learn more, as we go through the pages of this volume.
"The full soul loatheth an honeycomb.” Prov. 27:7.
A casual observer difficult time trying to find a common
would have a
denominator to link such seemingly different individuals as a fencing master,
a hunger-striker, and other people. Still, there is a link, and it is as strong as

if it had been forged from the truest Damascus steel. That link is fasting
and mutual knowledge of its power.
their

There was a fencing master who never lost a duel. His movements were
so swift, his aim so true, and his skill so astounding, that he was a source of
amazement to all who beheld him in action. However, his secret was simple.
Before any duel or engagement was entered into he, of course, would practice
faithfully for hours. In addition, he would fast from seven to ten days.
The world has recently witnessed a graphic demonstration of the effect of
fasting on the hunger-strikers. If all others had deserted their cause, the
hunger-strikers who survived would still cherish the ideals they were willing to
die for. No cause will ever be deserted whose champions have fasted for it.

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 THE A B C OF FASTING
This points to fasting as a panacea against all the evils of backsliding, and the
indifference and superficiality which, like a religious hook-worm, saps the
energies of the church.
Mahatma Gandhi, along with his people, has known more than his share
of persecution, trials and tribulations. When a crisis is at hand, he invariably
goes on a fast, and, nearly always, something happens to ease the situation. He
is no longer held in contempt for his many fastings. His people revere him as
a holy man, and even government circles pay him honor and respect. Gandhi
—
has trouble ^he fasts and has victory! It sounds like magic!
A business man has financial reverses and is on the verge of bankruptcy. In
his despair, he forgets everything, even food. With many days fasting, many
times he will find a way out. No doubt, the Lord is mercifully and tenderly
watching over this man, even though he may be unaware of the fact. We are
told the Lord allows it to rain on the just and the unjust alike.
A football player leaves off a meal or two before a game and plays more
efficiently.

Many persons, including singers, actors, professional people and factory

workers, have fasted, and have known either a large or small degree of success
in connection with the object they fasted for. No doubt, it developed faith
in what they were doing. "There is no habit or weakness that can survive a
siege of prayer and fasting —prayer alone is not half the battle," states E. E.
However fasting not a
Purinton, in his book, "Philosophy of Fasting." is

cure-all for moral, physicaland religious problems. Jesus is the answer to this.
It would seem like magic the way fasting works in the natural. If fasting

has power to help natural people in their work and with their problems, how
much more effectively could this powerful force be utilized for the glory of Jesus.
Moses undertook two forty-day fasts, and there was revealed to him the
application of the law to all phases of life. Ex. 24:18; 34:27,28.
The Psalms are largely the product of fasting and prayer.
The book of Daniel, the first book of the Revelation, is another fasting book,
given because Daniel sought the Lord in much fasting and prayer. After he
fasted twenty-one days, he received the revelation of "what shall befall thy
people in the latter days." Daniel was no more entitled to this
Dan. 10:2.
revelation than any other Jew, but since he had sought it by fasting and prayer,
it was given him.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Rev. 1:1) was given to John on the bare
and rugged Isle of Patmos, where he was placed to starve to death. John, being
a very spiritual person, immediately converted his intended starvation into one
of the greatest consecration God's people will never know famines in
fasts.

the real sense of the word if they would follow the examples of Elijah, John
and other Holy men who converted famines into fastings. Therefore, we have
the product of fasting and prayer. Revelation of this kind nearly always came
to a prophet on an empty stomach. A product can be traced to its cause. We
find in Bible days, and in our own time, when a person goes into a prophet’s-
length fast, revelation is one of the most wonderful results. If I have ice,
the cause is water exposed to such a low temperature that it freezes. The result
is ice.

Elijah, after a fast of forty days, received the revelation of the nature and
manifestation of God. It was also revealed to him who was to succeed him as
prophet, and who were to be the successors of the kings of Israel and of Syria.

• Gandhi, a^e 78, was assassinated January 30, 1948. His physicians stated that he
was in better health at this time than the average man of that age.
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GLORIFIED FASTING

Ezra prodaimed companions at the river of Ahava, when he

a fast for his
was seeking God's help and giudance in the
work they were about to under-
take. Ezra 8:21-23. r .. t
Ahasuems in behalf of the Jews, com-
. , ,

Esther, when about to intercede with

this was for the purpose
manded the Jews of Shushan to fast for three days;
favor. Esther 4.16.
of obtaining wisdom as well as divine
and prayer night
To Anna the prophetess, who "served God with fastings
that the infant being presented was the Messiah.
and day," it was revealed
Luke 2:36. Fasting did not impair her health.
On the contrary, her great
age was given to prove fasting beneficial.
he would
On the fourth day of a fast, it was revealed to Cornelius where
Gospel. Acts 10:30. Peter
find Peter, through whom he would receive
the
because he was very hungry.
had evidently been fasting, too,
it was revealed to him that
After Saul fasted and prayed for three days,
reveal "what he must
Ananias would come and restore his sight, and likewise
do." Acts 9:7. » . i
revelation that he would
After Paul fasted thirteen days, he received the
before Oesar, and that his prayers would be
not perish, but would be brought
heard in behalf of his shipmates. Acts 27:21-33.
caves or
Many founders of religious systems fasted for long periods in
contain beyond contemporary
wilderness, and whatever truth their systems
knowledge, the product of their prayer and fasting.
is _

Buddha Sakia fasted 47 days before the revelation came.

Mahomet fasted

longperiods while continually calling on God for revelation.

different occasions, and had
Dr. Tanner, fasted over forty days on three
spiritual revelation, seeing the unspeakable
glories of the great Beyond. After

the last fast, his gray hair began turning black.

fasted forty days,
Sadhu Sundar Singh, the St. Paul of India and Tibet,
such a revelation of the presence and nearness of God that it has
and obtained
been a powerful factor in his success as an evangelist.
Jesus Christ fasted forty days and nights
"... healing all manner of
And His fame went throughout. Matt. 4:23,24.
disease among the people.
His manifestation of Sonship, and started performing
He began His ministry.
miracles after His long FAST.
Schlatter, suddenly
In 1920, an ignorant Denver shoemaker named Francis
After fasting for forty days, this
became transformed into a miracle-worker.
of healing and began praying for people
atholic shoemaker received the gift

everywhere. Many very notable healings occurred.

healing about the
Brother William Branham had received the gift of divine
was during the
same time the author wrote "Atomic Power With God. This
forty days for the power to
period men and women were fasting twenty-one to

of Christ. Brother Branham told me, "when

be restored in the church Jesus
I live the fasted life, the gift is in full operation. An angel appeared before
removed.’
me and said, ‘nothing will stand in my way, even cancers will be
There has been nothing that has failed to respond to me when I wait on the
life." The author was with Brother Branham in a
Lord and live the fasted
and every sick and diseased person that was prayed for was
recent meeting
healed, including a man brought in on a stretcher
whose death was expected
and walked away. Several
at any’ moment, but who arose, instantly
healed,
immediately healed, as were cross-eyes, cancer cases,
deaf and dumb mutes were
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 THE A B C OF FASTING
and folk in wheel chairs who
rose up and walked home.
Brother Branham informed THE
THEABC 0FFA5TING
AVERAGE AMOUNT
HUNGER
me he had his greatest meet- FAST IM POWER OF WEIGHT LOST
FOUR PARTS
ings where the author has
gotten many folk to fast, and BEFORE FASTING
has placed much fasting liter-
ature. Where fasting chains
were organized, the healing
power was manifested in an
unusual manner. This was
true in Canada, St. Louis,
Portland and Salem, Oregon,
where the Governor and oth-
er State officials attended.
Brother Branham has in-

formed the author his gift is

in answer to the many fast-
ings and prayers of the Lord’s
people. His work is inter-
denominational, but he holds
B.
Baptist credentials. AFTER FASTING
Brother William Hooley,
of Winnipeg, Canada, also
fasted, in travail, twenty-one
and forty days for Brother
Branham’s gift and success.
More and more people will APPROXIMATELY
receive this spiritual power 25X
as soon as they follow OF WEIGHT LOST
N04.
through the complete teach-
ings of Jesus. Are you doing THE COMPLETE FAST
your part.^
Evangelist Dale Hanson goes into food abstention ten days, seven days,
twenty-eight days and forty days within a period of nine months. With other
makes one hundred days of fasting in a nine month period.
shorter fasts, this
Sister Barbara Hanson also joined her husband with many fasts, including a
twenty-one day fast. They report to me they have been in the most spiritual
meetings of their lives. More folk have been healed and converted.
Evangelist Hanson gives these high points of his forty-day fast:
left my body.
"After three days, hunger In a few days the weak-
ness left and seemed stronger physically most of the time
I actually
in the fast than when eating. I lost seventy pounds, dropping from

two hundred forty pounds to one hundred seventy pounds of weight.

Jesus was very real to me. The tests and trials of fasting made my
faith stronger.
"Most of the time, I was in revival meetings while fasting. After
three weeks, ether odor came very strongly from my body. I had
revelation, faith and received rewards that I never would have received
»
by prayer alone. Jesus impressed me with the fact that I should fast

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 Church Jbecom.es
Powerless
iDiihouJ these

few weeks before, I fasted twenty-eight days and

a
forty days. A
certain trial came my way, discouraged me
from fasting the full forty

as I did this time (water only taken).

My body was made over new
and I feel better than at any other time in my life. This is four

months afterward.
am going to do all I can to spread the light
*'As an evangelist, I
on fasting. Our revivals are many times better when we teach and

get people to fast. Many more souls become converted and healed.

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 THE A B C OF FASTING

"My wife, Barbara, has four fold more anointing since her
twenty-one day fast. She was also healed of curvature of the spine.

"Thank you Dr. Hall, for bringing to us the light on fasting.

Evangelist Dale Hanson."

(Brother Hanson’s book (under preparation) ,

’’HEAVEN BY
VIOLENCE,” deals also with fasting and old time faith. Order
from author.)

THE POWER THAT FOOD PLAYS UPON THE MENTAL FACULTIES.

This diagram may help to enable one to understand why it is difficult to
get into the proper frame of mind, and become loosened from food bondage
for a season to begin a consecrated fast to the glory and edification of Jesus
Christ, and give the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit a good old-fashion cleaning.
(1) The food, or roast odor, ascends the nose and stimulates the olfactory
cells of the nasal mucosa (S) ; this stimulus is transmitted to the olfactory
center in the brain (3). The memory center (4) determines that the odor is
that of a roast foul, and orders the gland center (5) to switch on the salivary
gland. The order is transmitted to the switchboard (6), where one of the
salivary glands (7 and 8) is turned on. From here on we enjoy eating food.
 ILLUSTRATING WHY FASTING IS
MORE POWERFULTHAN PRAYER ALONE

l.rARNAL.ZQNE

2. PLEASURE ZONE
PLEASURE 5“TILL ENJOYED
WHILE PRAYING 1>* DAY FASTING
2“DAY FASTING
3" DAY FASTING

fasting is an anti-pleasure
FASTING ZONE

^ WHEN FASTING OMEHAS HO CAPACITY

FDR PLEASURE (ZONE 2) LET ALONE CARNAUTY

FOUND. Isa. 58:3.

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 ,

PART II

HOW TO BEGIN A FAST

yery easy to start a fast of any length. If the work is not too strenuous
It is

and one cannot very well get off from one’s job, the candidate can begin fasting
and continue working. Since our main object is to seek Jesus in prayer and
the humiliation of the flesh through fasting, one’s prayer life will not be so con-
centrated when working, however, Jesus promises us a reward when we fast
(separate from prayer, mind you) in Matt. 6:18, for proper fasting. Rather than
not fast atall and work, one could begin a fast and see how long he could keep

both up. If it became too difficult to fast and work, one could of course, break
the fast properly, at any time. To obtain the best from the fast, we should do
—
much praying and praying will be work. It is also MUCH EASIER TO
FAST while active. Walking and praying is one of the best exercises for the
faster. Hunger will also return more quickly when exercising. Prayer can be
made a fine spiritual and physical exercise.
can begin fasting by abstaining from the next meal and continue his
One
fast aslong as it will glorify Jesus. The depression, remorse, anti-pleasure and
other strange and oppressed feelings from Satan, are no excuse to break a fast

THE6AME DOOR THAT CLOSES CARNALITY

OPENS UPTHE ^
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SPIRITUAL
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 WHEN LIVINGBYBREAD ALONE

WITHOUT REGULAR FASTING ABSTEMI01J5 UVING

CARHAUjll
ACHRI5T1AN UNCONCIOU5LY VIBRATES TOWARDS

3. PRAYER ZONE

4 MOURNING
FASTING ZONE
prematurely. Most of these feelings are the fighting and gaining of virtorious
the
ground into faith that we so greatly need. The victory usually comes after
fast.

Some folk who have never fasted for longer than a meal or two
in their

once. It is suggested they take four or

lives, may not care to begin a fast all at

more days in preparation for the consecration fast TO JESUS in this manner:

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 THE CARRIER OF THE LIFE OF THE FLESH
The artery is the blood vessel that carries "THE LIFE OF THE FLESH,” our
blood. The fate of a human being depends upon the solidity and strength of
more than on most other things in the human body. The major-
this life carrier
ityof people die as a result of disease of the arterial wall, (a) The muscle fibres
are reinforced with alternate layers of connective tissue, (b and c) Elastic fibres
unite to form layers which alternate with the muscle fibres. These are elastic
fibres which pass between the muscle bundles. They pull the artery together
like rubber bands, (d) The inside of the tube also is covered with a layer of
flat cells, (e) The outer surface of the artery is covered by loose connective
tissue which cushions the impact of the forward, projectile motion of the pulse,
(f) These are small accessory blood and lymph-vessels, which supply the cells
of the arterial wall with nutrient materials, which pass through this padding.
Each artery has its private arteries, and also its intricate system of nerves that
regulate the width of the vessel, (g) The capillaries, network of minute vessels
fifty times thinner than our hair. The average diameter is 1/3000 of an inch.
Blood corpuscles pass through it in single file. Fasting has much to do with
the cleansing of these vessels to prevent hardening of the arteries and disease.

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 FOUR STEPS OF PREPARATION
FOURTH DAY BEFORE THE FAST:—
Leave off all meat and fried foods in diet.

THIRD DAY BEFORE BEGINNING FAST:—

Eat mostly green vegetables, cooked or otherwise.

SECOND DAY BEFORE BEGINNING FAST:—

Eat choice of any live foods. Live food are any uncooked
food, such as vegetables, dried and fresh fruit, nuts, etc.
These foods contain the most life giving substances for
the body, and contain a plentiful amount of vitamins and
minerals. Milk products are also live foods.
FINAL DAY BEFORE BEGINNING FAST:—
A fresh fruit diet. (Tomatoes may be included). Eat
all that is desired.
THEN BEGIN FAST THE NEXT DAY.
Approximately one pound of weight is lost daily. Physical work will cause
more weightto be lost and, if one is not too weak, it is not detrimental.

AUTOMATIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION:

Out of this pound or so of weight that is lost, the blood is retained within

the body along with most of the minerals and necessary vitamins. This is a
natural physiological process. After a few days fasting, one may even find it

dijEcult to sleep. The large amount of blood goes into the head, and sometimes
fever may result.The brain being bathed with more blood than usual, finds a
certain part of the fast difficult, insofar as sleeping is concerned. The organs
are consequently bathed in this “life” force. This is one reason one can receive
healing through the fast. There is no more natural blood transfusion but that
which is obtained through fasting. It requires a long fast for deep seated ail-

ments, glands and other vital organs, to become thoroughly cleansed and puri-
fied. This is also true in relation to the removal of the doubts and unbelief.

“LIFE” runs through these tubes. Fasting keeps tubes clean. The hardening
of these arteries slows down the life flow. When the arteries harden, other
organs are affected like the contracted kidney at the right — or the heart.

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 ‘Tor the LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD”: Lev. 17:11.

If a human being were squeezed out like a lemon, no less than eleven
gallons of water would be obtained. The human body is seven-tenths fluid.
This is the same proportion of fluids as the earth. The moon, along with the
It is logical to also believe
other planets, influence and cause the tidal waves.
that our fluids, which are even more vital, are influenced by them that are

identical, and almost in the same proportion. They are: (1) 80% sodium,
(2) 4% calcium, (3) 4% potassium and 2 to 10% (4) magnesium.

This is —
no ordinary water, but ^sea water! It contains the same salts, etc.,
that sea water contains. Both sea water and the fluid from our bodies contain
these FOUR elements.

In diagram (a-d) are shown the changes in the vascular wall which
end in
calcification: In (a) and (d), we have the first steps in the ulceration and
proliferation of connective tissue. When regular systematic fastings are gone

into, these conditions cannot come about. At this stage, they can become eradi-
from ten to twenty-one days (fast is to be broken properly).
cated in a fast
In (c) we notice deposits of calcium; (d) calcification and occlusion of the
vessel. Continued regular eating oftentimes consumates the condition in the
arteries as shown to right. This could result in scores of sicknesses, such as.
cerebral hemorrage, paralysis, rupture of an artery, rupture of a
blood v^sel
calcium
near the heart, heart failure, high blood pressure, etc. Even with the
can purify and eradicate these calcium
deposits as shown in figure (d), fasting
followed by a long fast; the individual will again
deposits in several short fasts

have the arteries and blood pressure restored to normal. (See "The Fasting
Prayer”).

We of course, presenting the secondary blessings of fasting which con-

are,
cern the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit. The primary blessings are far
more
However, by thoroughly understanding the natural
essential and important.
physical part that fasting plays, one will be more bold to go into these fastings
more often to please and glorify our Jesus. THIS IS OUR MAIN GOAL.

GIVING THE STOMACH A BATH

If one wishes to hasten into the fast more quickly, a bath can be given the

stomach by preparing one quart of very warm water (not too hot) place two ;

level teaspoons full of salt in it and stir. This can be drunk. Usually one has
his system flushed out entirely within two hours. This should be taken several
hours after the last meal when stomach is empty. One can take this for several
days but during the first part of the fast only. The quantity can be increased if
necessary. It can also be taken anytime (several hours after eating) when not
fasting to keep stomach clean. Some people use this bath daily.

SOLEMN WARNING
Fasting being an anti-pleasure measure,we are not supposed to seek pleasure
in or to even expect such, other than spiritual pleasure. Because fasting has
it,

such a power in connection with the natural things being successfully accom-
plished when our attention is thus directed to them, we are even forbidden *to
call this a consecration fast. That is, if one is fasting mainly for greater success
in business, or for selfish material welfare, or for healing only, or some other
personal object — ^this is an unacceptable fast to God. “Behold, in the day of

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your fast ye FIND PLEASURE, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for
strifeand debate, and to smite with the first of wickedness: ye shall not fast
as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.” Isa. 58:3,4.
A sanctified fast calls for a fast dedicated to Jesus and our whole aim
should be unselfish. If our fast has other main objectives aside from Jesus, we
are acting presumptous. We need not worry about our needs and problems.
Jesus knows about them and when the fast has been entered into properly,
all

Jesus will see that we have the desires of our heart.

Fasting is a symbol of mourning, going down into repentance and chasten-
ing of the heart. Very little pleasure, if any at all, can be found when seeking
the Kingdom of God with this process. When one attempts it, he may be
FASTING WRONGLY. According to the above Scripture, it may be possible

for one to “FIND PLEASURE” by seeking it when fasting. This is very true

during the first part of a fast.

In seeking God, we also cry out, mourn, groan and travail in this type of
praying, and the fast will enable us to get away from all natural pleasure. One
of the very purposes of the fast is to forsake all pleasures, of which, the eating
pleasure is all other pleasures, etc.
the key stone to
Fasting such a powerful spiritual factor in obtaining special favors from
is

our Lord, that we must above all things keep humble when we receive them.
Many times the blessings received will surprise our little faith and the devil
creeps in with pride, causing us to rise up as if to say, "look what I did,” etc.
Wedo not and cannot claim merit from fasting. Brother Charles E. Robin-
son has written a tract on fasting. In it he makes this point clear of which
we agree:
"This article would be incomplete without a solemn warning. Satan will
not fail to tempt the faster to adopt the Pharisaic theory of salvation by merit.
Luke 18:11,12. But it was the publican who claimed no merit who was for-
given. Satan moved the Pharisee to think he could bring pressure to bear on
God which He, being just, could not resist. He will try to do the same with
the faster. God has promised to reward the faithful faster, but this reward

THE FOUR HIGH POINTS

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isnot to be claimed as for merit lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2.8,9.
servants,
No matter how much Or how long we fast we are still unprofitable

having merely done our duty. Luke 17:10.

“ that what I could not get done by praying, with a spell
of
I do know
bilious fever, a 15-day fast —
no food but drinking plenty of water brought —
me which Jesus came when He “afterward was an hungered.
to the place to
Matt. 4:2. The 15th day I became hungry, ate, and was well.”
Many times Christian people receive some wonderful things from the Lord
through sanctified fasting, only to be shorn of all or part of these blessings by
permitting pride and boastfulness to creep in. One has also to refrain
too much “appearance” in ourselves after fasting as well as this “appearance
during the fasting period. In everything it should be done for the Glory of
this is our entire motive, then our humbleness and victories
in
God. When
fasting can be testified to for the exaltation and praise of Him, who redeemed
us from the curse of the law.
THE ACTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT reveals that prayer, supplications and
FASTINGS were largely put into practice. The church was born in the midst
of the former rain of the Holy Spirit through men and women .who went ALL
OUT FOR GOD. This, of course, included the entire, full old time faith
which included the foundation teachings of Jesus Christ of which FASTING
WAS ONE of them. The latter rain is under development at the present time,
and when enough of Christ's people go all out for Him in Fastings and prayers,
contending for ALL of the OLD TIME FAITH, then, surely a mighty revival
of power and the operations of the Spirit will become fully manifested.

ALMOST ALIVE
The intestinal containing five million finger-like villi and three
canal,
thousand cells to each one of these villi, is one of the most wonderful and
glorious parts of man that our blessed Creator has created. Our nourishment
or nutrition is developed there. It is the fountainhead for the well-being of

our body. This digestive tubing has its own nervous system and can continue
living,approximately four hours after a person passes out of this life and his
heart has stopped beating. With these vigorous cells and complicated structure,
a piece of the intestinal tract has been kept alive outside of the body, in a warm
nutritive solution, for days at a time, '^en round solid materials were placed
into one end of the tubing, it performed its movements in the peristaltic man-
ner, like does in the body, and completely pushed the objects through the
it

tubing. These tests were made several days after a person died. Why not
show due respect for this wonderful mechanism of the temple of the Holy
Spirit by giving it a vacation more often for the glory of Jesus ?

The breaking of the fast is a very slow procedure, if one wishes to retain
every good thing that was accomplished by it. The prophets and men of old
were acquainted with the proper care in the breaking of fasts.
In the study of Elijah’s fasts, we notice the angel giving him foodin two
different installments before he went on Jiis forty-day fast. Kings 19:5-8).
(I
In the study of Elijah just before the forty-day fast, we see him performing
miracles on an empty stomach. Famine was in the land, but Brother Elijah
was a very wise prophet who gave “no thought for tomorrow.” He took
adversity and converted it into glory and honor for the Lord. This very famine
that loomed so menacingly to most was immediately changed by Elijah into a

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consecration fast. When had run its course, the Lord sent ravens to
this fast

feed him Another famine enveloped the stricken land, and we

twice daily.
believe he also sanctified this one into a prayerful fast, for it was soon after-
ward that he performed some notable miracles. At any rate, with the brook,
his only source of water dried up, he was led to a very poor widow to break
his fast —and, please notice, how careful he was in breaking it. "And when
he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering
of sticks: and he called to her, and said. Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in
a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her,
and Bring me, I pray thee, A MORSEL OF BREAD IN THINE HAND.
said.
Please note Elijah’s instruction, "A MORSEL of bread.” (I Kings 17:10-13).
Surely, he was endeavoring to break a fast that he had been on and realized
that water was the most important thing, and that a tiny piece of bread care-
fully eaten would then be the next procedure. Again, we are further shown
although Elijah had been on a fast in a famished country, he was familiar
that,
with the breaking-in procedure because we are told in Verse 13, "And Elijah
—
said unto her. Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a
LITTLE cake first, and bring it to me, and after make for thee and for thy son.”
Please notice the miracle after fasting. "The barrel of meal shall not waste,
neither shall the cruse of oil fail.”
The author feels that Elijah was one of the greatest advocates of fasting
who ever lived and equalled only by John the Baptist, his proto type.
In the next chapter of I Kings, we find the God of Elijah answering by fire
and the prophets of Baal embarrassingly exposed. Please note that Elijah,
evidently, was on a fast here, after this spectacular miracle, because I Kings
18:41,42: "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, EAT AND DRINK; for
there is a sound of abundance of rain. So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.
And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and HE CAST HIMSELF DOWN
UPON THE EARTH, and put his face between his knees.” then we find Elijah
out-running Ahab who had been on natural food, while the prophet of God
had been on a spiritual feast of faith and power. "And the hand of the Lord
was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.” I Kings 18:46.
The food abstentionist, Elijah, had very severe trials along with all of his
fasts. Any person will also have severe trials in a consecration fast. This will
be a real spiritual fight if you put everything you have into it. Please study the
next chapter carefully, and note some of the trying experiences that befell Elijah
because he was being used mightily of God in FASTiNGS AND
PRAYER.
A lesson well learned is the secret behind Elijah’s and other great prophets

successes. This is the prophet’s-length fast. We, too, can have a prophet’s

experience by following their example. Why hesitate, why doubt, why dilly-

dally around about it. Let’s go into these prophet’s-early<hurch-length of fast-

ing and have their experiences of power and faith. PLEASE REMEMBER
THIS, JESUS CHRIST IS NEVER A
RESPECTER OF PERSONS. have We
just as much right to the miracle working as Elijah had. But we will have to
fulfill our part and, sometimes, suffer the miserable conditions that go
along
with it.

times in a Bible Institute, or from among a large group of saints, a

Many
person will start fasting for either long or short periods, then break the fast too

soon, too rapidly, or mistakenly in some manner, and cause a severe reproa^
against the power of fasting. Sometimes, the ill effects of their lack of wis-

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so serious that either they, themselves, will voluntarily go to a

hospital
dom, is
attention
or medical man, or some friend will force them to seek the special

made mandatory by their folly and indiscretion. Because there is little informa-
tion concerning the subject, all protracted fasting is condemned and barred
from
the Bible seminary and church. This, of course, frightens people and hinders
the progress and advancement of revival power and real Bible experiences.
When we go into a protracted fast without food (water only taken) for a
period of days or weeks, the importance of the proper break-fast, after such an
interval, is far more impoi^ant and serious than it would be from supper to the
morning meal. The longer the fast the more true this will be. The stomach
and intestinal tract go to sleep after a few days of fasting. The digestive and
intestinal secretions become retarded and almost at a standstill. To place any
solid food into the stomach at this time would be an actual crime against it.

In order to be able to absorb the digested food as well as the large quantities
of secreted digestive fluids, the intestinal wall has enlarged its surface by de-
veloping not only larger folds, but also minute processes known as VILLI. A
high powered lens reveals that the mucous membrane is covered with millions

The Intestinal Digestive Apparatus

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GLORIFIED FASTING

of tiny closely packed, tentacle hair-like structures, called villi. Each villus is
from 1/35 to 1/50 of an inch long. These become very much smaller
villi

in fasting and dormant in action. The longer the fast, the more asleep they
seem to become. When in the state of receiving food they appear as in the
above diagram. (A) is an empty villus in the act of receiving food, (B) after
having received food, and (C) is a villus that has evacuated its contents. (This
process is very slow after a long fast). At the upper left may be seen a food
particle that has passed into the small intestine in a half -digested condition.
When the food comes in contact with the villi beneath it (upper left), the
digestive gland knows its requirements and, at once, sends forth a tiny stream
(see fountain) of digestive juice over the food to enable it to digest. There is

also chemical stimulation to induce the flow of these digestive juices. Wander
cells creep out of the lymph node (d) to gnaw at the food and to carry away
its insoluble parts. As a result of the digestive action of the glandular secre-
tion, meat is converted into meat water (amino acids), starch into sugar water
(grape sugar), and fat into glycerin and SOAP. When fasting a length of
time, these glandular secretions rest and go to sleep. When wrong food is
placed into them suddenly, and in the wrong manner and quantity, they rebel.
They cannot awaken quicldy and take up this intricate, delicate task immediately,
and abruptly start performing their customary task. Consequently, only a very
slow and gradual, gentle stimulation by fruit juices, diluted if the fast is over
ten days, and only in small amounts of four to six ounces during the first few
meals, is called for. This fruit juice, or clear vegetable water, or clear cereal
water, will slowly but gradually reestablish proper digestionand assimilation.
These villi and do not dry up and become permanently
digestive glands
dormant, but only go to sleep, so to speak, only to be awakened by the very,
very light and gentle stimulation of water mingled with a few tiny particles of
food, such as would be found in the diluted fruit juices, or clear vegetable
waters, on There would be so small an amount of
a fast over fifteen days.
food watery food, that they would arouse themselves
particles in this diluted
only very slowly and gradually from their slumber. It might actually take days
of this gradually increasing the quantity and strength of food before every one
of the cells of the five million villi that are in the intestinal canal (wall) has
become fully awakened. Each villi, of the five million, has three thousand
cells that have to become fully reawakened before the stomach can be considered
fully readjusted to complete normalcy. Consequently, a great deal of time is

required and much patience, before the fasting candidate can get his teeth into
the full-eating regime again. It usually requires as long to break in a fast as
the length that one fasted, but only takes about six days of the fruit juices
it

and fruit a fast from twenty-one to forty days. The rest of the
when breaking
days one should eat lightly of easily digested foods, fruits, vegetables or milk,
in moderate quantities, properly spaced —
and rfo between meal eating.
Within the villus there are two sets of pipes, the blood and the lymph —
vessels. The and absorb both amino acids
blood-vessels are located externally
and sugar. These two classes of substances pass by way of the path 1, 2, 3
into the blood-stream. The lymph-vessels end as narrow bags (f). These bags
suck themselves full of glycerin and soap (H), from which they form human
fat, is transformed into a kind of milk.
so that the nutritive fluid When the
villus has become with milk (I), it contracts and pushes the milk into the
filled

lymph-vessels (J). Villi can be seen pumping milk down into lymph-vessels.

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 WE DO NOT LIVE ON WHAT WE EAT
Man does not live on what he eats, but rather on what he digests. The
body is not nourished by what is put into the food cavity, but by what passes
through and around the FIVE MILLION VILLI.
Everyone eats, and everyone thinks he knows why he eats. Medical science
does not know why, and does not yet know what a cell is, neither does it know
in what manner motor transforms the food substance which it receives
this cell
into energy. also unable to say why man eats, and why the cell
Therefore, it is

requires just these and no other food substances in order to function properly
physically. The fact remains that no doctor or scientist has ever offered a satis-
factory answer. Jesus Christ showed to us the most perfect way. He revealed
to us that not only must man give attention to his physical requirements, but he
also had a far more important part of himself that needed and also required
special attention. This was his spiritual nature. He gave us a lesson in this
regard in Matthew 4:4: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” He was speaking of food abstention
because He had just completed a prophet’s-length fast. (Compare Deut. 8:3).
Some religious groups are typ-
ical of a body of toilers who get

nothing accomplished. While

they are doing a lot of hard
work they labor in vain. On the
left of the illustration, we have
represented our continued three
meal a day stuffing habit. On the
right, is depicted luke warm
Christians, attached, bound, and
so occupied with these "weights”
as if their very lives depended
upon these instead of Christ. A
close observation reveals that
their whole body, soul and mind Food Power versus Spirit Power
is taken up entirely with the Matthew 6:31
procedure. They would not have strength, or time, for other spiritual things.
The buying, preparation, cooking, serving and eating of food keeps many a
person from HAVING TIME TO PRAY LET ALONE FAST. Should I say,

have time to fast? Actually, this would be a laughable excuse because unless
one has a large family, to cook and care for, one would have a lot more time
to fast. If these laborers would only let loose of the strings and encumbrances
they are attached to, they would immediately and automatically be on a fast.
Why strain, work and pant about a lot of things that, after all, are not really
necessary all of the time? Please see Matthew 6:25; Luke 10:40-42; Psalm 78.

PASTOR ON TWENTIETH DAY OF FAST

Dear Brother Hall:
I am pleased that Jesus has enabled me to be on my twentieth day of fast-
ing. I know it is a deeper experience for all of us who will pay the price. It

is the real secret of revival success.

May Jesus bless you. Pastor Harold O’Brien

Bowmanvill, Ontario, Canada.

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We are giving some testimonies from people who have become moderate
in their every day living by going into consecrated fastings to please Jesus:

BARBER WORKS AND FASTS TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS

RECOUNTS HEALINGS
First Letter
October 12, 1947
Dear Brother Hall:
Thank the Lord, I am on my twelfth day of fasting and I am feeling fine.

I am a barber, work every day, witness for Jesus, and tell people about His
already find there is power in fasting and prayer when we
do
saving power. I

it unto Him.
Outside of getting tired in the evenings, I am doing very well in the fast

physically and spiritually.

Yours in Jesus name,
Brother Glen Espich.

Second Letter
October 31, 1947
Brother Hall:
Greetings in Jesus Name.
I am sending clipping from our daily
morning journal, "THE JOURNAL
GAZETTE” (Fort Wayne, Indiana, Thursday Morning, Oct. 30, 1947).
fasted twenty-eight days without any food, only
I
water taken, worked daily

and lost thirty-three pounds. The water was so putrid the last eight days I

drank no water.
twenty-first day of the fast, I was privileged to see a paralyzed
While on the
child HEALED. Four doctors said it An opera-
was almost a hopeless case.
the child would likely be an invdid for life.
tion might help but, even then,
the child was completely healed. I just saw the
After prayer and fasting
child playing outside with the other children and
using every limb.

Some of the preachers say I have slipped off my beam, and it is no use to

fast. I told them that was how we got the word breakfast. It meant breaking
a fast. One has to fast before it could be "BREAK-FAST.”
I am feeling fine, but a little weak.
Brother Espich.

SEVENTEEN DAYS AFTER FASTING

November 14, 1947
Third Letter
Dear Brother in Christ:
Thank Jesus forever. He is mine and I feel Him ever so near me. It. seems

like everything unlike Him is entirely conquered, and I have entirely sold out'

to Him by giving away completely to His Holy Spirit.

is the best I have

Although I only fasted twenty-eight days, the experience
worked every day at the barber chair, preached three times
ever had in Him. I
a week, and prayed at meal time in place of eating. Then, at night, I really

prayed and also in the prayer meetings.

direc-
This is seventeen days after the "break-fast” period and I followed
food again. This
tions very carefullyin this matter of adjusting the stomach to

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 FORT WAYNE. INDIANA, THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 30, 1947 PRICE FIVE

STRONGER CONT
NE-WfiY TRAFFIC
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Sffective this morning, the
e-way flow of traffic will
; reversed

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on Wilt and La-
according to
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'estbouni only between
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Street will be east-
between Broadway and Organization
of t
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change im direction has crease’'of rents i?
pproved by the Board taken by the Fort W
ty, Mr. White said, and Union Council. T1
rcessary because of the seeking stronger re
»nal flow of the one- At the regular r
•eets north of the two CIO Council, Frank
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member on the Loc
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sory Board, reporl
i board is contempla'
I cent general Increa
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i
Fort Wayne, The n
attended by Carl
I
chairman.
The CIO Coun>
Tonight it is opposed to
cause it will br
Branning, Jr., Demo- ships to the
»e for mayor, will
Fort Wayne.”
e a series of major
‘Les
ve mimicipal elec-
,

It Was obs
might at a Demo-
living “is al
tbe entire south
excess of th'
Hill School. The
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nd R. Schutt will
ceremonies and
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Barber Without Food 28
Democratic can-
r speakers, in-
igan, candidate
d R. C. (Pat) Days In Religious Fast
locratic County
By RAY SCHERER
Gandhi-like stint which ended last
lairman of the There’s one man
in our town night. "I went on working in the
entral Commit- who has gone all out on
really
shop every day though. Finally
r, chairman of President Truman’s food saving
I got so weak I had to push my-
nocratic Cen- program. Two hundred per cent,
will appear in fact. self to worki Last Sunday was the
will intro- Glenn T. Espich of 476 Elizabeth day I got the hungriest. I was
respective Street is the man. Last night he only three days away from my
gorged himself on three spoonsful goal so I didn’t weaken,” he con-
of orange juice —
his first food in fides.
28 days.
Fast Disciple
Mr. Espich
an ordained clergy-
is
Mr. Espich is a disciple of San
man Fundamental Christian Diego’s Franklin Hall, the
of the
Church. He preaches how and then country’s foremost fast advocate.
but earns his daily bread running woman to go 62
ndkr the “He got one
a neighborhood barber shop at 510
th^ line days,” the northside scissor wield-
East State Boulevard, just east of
» itself er reports.
Bueter’s Garage.
lanner.
On the first of October, he scaled “I'll be on orange juice for
\annen 208 pounds. Last night, while about five days, then some vege-
”='.dge-
hitching up his pants. Mr. Espich tables. Won’t be any meat for an-
(sion
weighed in at 175. That’s down other 28 days.”
a $5 33 poundk in 28 days of occasional
The customers have told him
sips of water. that the new 175 pounds looks
. boat The 55-year-old preacher-barber good on the 5 foot 7 Espich frame.
but
cquip- proclaimed it a religious fast. “1 Espich agrees he feels good
was moved to do it and 1 really weak. Clothes don't fit anymore,
trousers up
didn’t know how far I’d get,” he but he has hitched his
says. in the back with safety pins.
JDaniel in the Bible fasted 21
The "new leaner look," one of
days and Elijah went for 40:” the regular shave customers has
Mr. Espich says he was asking tabbed it.

the Almighty to “send us a

vival.” He declares he wanted
"the young people to go to church
and stop this communism.” ,
Negotiations Rer
Tactor * He admits th^' several Fort
Wayne, doctors have been keeping
yirith
f'a wary 'eve on him the On Raer Field P'

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evening there was a birthday dinner for me, but I ate sparingly and stopped
eating when I should. Fasitng will help us to put the proper value on food.
Here are the facts as I remember them: The first four days were diflicult,
then hunger left me. Some people were praying for me who knew I was fast-

ing, and this immensely. On the tenth day I had lost fifteen
strengthened me
pounds. I was not worried any time during the fast. Some Christians en-
couraged me to go on. I was able to pray for a crippled child who lives near
me and Jesus touched her little body on the twenty-first day of the fast. The
child now walks every where. The father and mother are saying Jesus did it.
A was prayed for, and he immediately got up healed. Novem-
bed-fast brother
ber ninth, was taken to a hospital to pray for a man who had typhoid fever
I

and the Lord came on the scene like a bolt of lightning and healed him.
My eyesight is fifty percent better, arthritis has left my body and there are
no more aches in my arms
Some pie-chicken loving preachers here in “Wayne” said I was after glamour
and publicity. could not help it if folk knew I was fasting, besides, I was
I

only fasting to Jesus. Anyway, people made fun of David when he fasted and
he did not care— neither do I. (Psalm 109:24,25). I told them, people also
knew that Jesus and Johns’ disciples also fasted.
After Jesus fasted, Satan came on the scene and gave Him a battle. I also
had opposition and spiritual warfare but Jesus brought me through. Fasting
is VOWER and it has enabled me to claim victory and believe through on what
I have been praying about.
I also found out that good drinking water has a lot to do with fasting and

it is better to drink it warm than too cold after we get on into the fast.

Chlorine water is obnoxious and very disagreeable to take.

Tepid enemas were taken every three days and this proved helpful in many
ways. To keep my breath pure and cleansed, while working with my barber
customers, I touched my tongue to some tiny menthol crystals. I did not use
gum or sen sen.
The
last is best. My daughter gave birth to a beautiful baby girl (six
pounds, twelve ounces) in three and one-half hours. I travailed for her in

prayer while fasting for thirty minutes. Praise the Lord it was worth any

sacrifice I tried to make. Jesus does reward us and oftentimes, the fasting re-
wards are full of pleasant surprises.

Yours in the Lord, Brother Glenn Espich

Fort Wayne, Indiana.

REVIVALS THROUGH FASTING AND PRAYER

Dear Brother Hall:
Many people started fasting for a city-wide revival and some great meetings
came into our city. We
saw wonderful results that fasting and prayer accom-
plished. I believe nearly three hundred people became converted. I am glad
I received light on thiswonderful Bible fasting truth. I went into more and
longer fasts and we have seen God do some wonderful healings.
I “Atomic Power With God” to my son in Tulsa,
sent the fasting book,
Okla., who is in Bible college, and he fasted six days. My sister who is also
there, fasted for nine days, and a mighty revival has broken out in that area.
Thank Jesus for revivals coming this way in answer to fasting and prayer.
Sister E. N. Hawk, Hamilton, Ohio.

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 SISTER FASTS FORTY DAYS IN NEW ZEALAND
Dear Brother Hall:
We are so happy over what fasting will do when combined with prayer.
Some of the saints in this country are finding special blessings in fastings and a
revival stir is on. Some of our prayers we have been praying many years are
being answered with the additional power of fasting.

One Assembly here, has been in fastings night and day like
sister in the

Anna, the Prophetess. She has fasted for forty days without any food. She
testified to having a vision similar to the one Daniel had (ahead of time) of
the risen and GLORIFIED LORD. She had many precious and glorious ex-
periences. This fast has proven beneficial in every way . . .

May Jesus bless you.

Brother F. Bythelli
Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

FEELS YOUNG AGAIN AND HAS POWER WITH GOD

AFTER TWENTY-THREE DAY FAST
Dear Brother Hall:
After fasting to Jesus a little over twenty-three days, I feel much better

in every way, both in body and spirit. I feel young again and in shaving my

beard it cuts as easily as it did when I was twenty or thirty.

Before fasting, I could hardly control my hunger appetite. I wanted to eat

all the time. When the fast was started itwas difficult, at first, to go without
food. I did not think I could do it. Jesus gave me power, and now I have
complete control of the situation. When we mean business with Jesus, He
gives us spiritual rewards and fasting is for us today the same as the Holy
Ghost. I believe we are in the last days of this dispensation when we need to
watch, fast and pray.
Brother Albert Fredrick Rowe
Vancouver, B. C., Canada.

REVIVAL POWER AFTER FOURTEEN-DAY FAST IN NEW ZEALAND

Thanks very much for sending me your book on fasting. ’’Atomic Power”
is the right name forAfter fasting to Jesus fourteen days, (my first time)
it.

I can truly say one does have power, and revival power in the soul to live and
serve Jesus Christ more excellently. I can follow His pattern more effectively
now and intend to further follow His footsteps and take a forty-day fast in the
near future. We are a Holy Ghost people, but we lack this great power that
fasting and prayer will bring.

Would be possible for you to send the other book, ’’The Fasting Prayer” 7
it

Restrictions are such thatwe still are unable to send money out of this country.
May God bless you in this great work and may this truth spread to this little
country where there have been plenty of churches but few revivals . . .

Yours in the Master’s cause,

F. Smith
Hastings, New Zealand.

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ings into practice?

FASTING BRINGS REVIVAL WITHOUT AN EVANGELIST

Dear Doctor Hall:
I never before
so very thankful for the light on fasting and
prayer.
I am
possibilities contained in this great truth. After just ending
realized the great
marvelous accomplishments, I have been encouraging
a ten-day fast and seeing
as the answer to some very
different ones in the church to try fasting and prayer
am especially encouraged with the wonderful victory I have
difficult problems. I

had in my personal life through the FASTING PRAYER.

Many of our people are becoming interested and are now fasting.

We had an EVANGELIST WITHOUT MUCH OF A REVIVAL BEFORE

OUR FASTING, BUT NOW WE ARE HAVING A REVIVAL WITHOUT
AN EVANGELIST Thank Jesus that ffisting will draw us close to His bosom.
. .

Your sister in Jesus,

Lucile Farmer, Superior, Wyoming.
SUFFERED TEN MONTHS—^HEAliED AFTER SERIES OF SHORT FASTS
Dear Brother Hall:
Fasitng and prayer God’s way for His people, and it is one hundred
is
for me but offered
percent Biblical. Two doctors told me they could do nothing
pills and medicine. I had heart specialists tell me there was but little hope.

After fasting five to seven days, five times within seventy-five days, Jesus
com-
pletely delivered me of my affliction. I had gone down to death’s door and
prayed earnestly, and Jesus gave me the Holy Spirit. Still, I was not healed

until I took the series of fasts.

I assure you there is nothing to fear, and I believe it is God’s way for an
old fashioned white HOT Holy Ghost Revival.
I regret to say I have seen too many preachers that would eat like hogs, and
these gluttons would fight and oppose help such ignorant people
fasting. God
who are supposed to be helping others, but, instead, are defeating their own

purpose. The world is filled with these overstuffed backsliding folk.

Brother Jacobson
Burt, Iowa.

12 DAYS ALONG ON FAST IN PALESTINE

A over a year ago the Lord directed me to come to Jerusalem to dis-
little

tribute certain religious literature to the Jews, and to pray for the second
com-
ing of Jesus. My work among the Jews has been blessed by the Lord, above
my expectations.

Weknow there will never be any peace until our Lord returns to establish
His Kingdom of righteousness, and this is what I am fasting for at this time.
After reading your sermons on the subject, I decided to begin fasting twelve
days ago, and am still on one. Please ask others to join with me in fasting and
praying for our Lord’s return to establish His reign. I seem so burdened with
this that, as I weep and pray, I feel that it is the very las't days of this dispen-
sation. Signs are all around us.

On walked through Jerusalem where Jesus had

the sixth day of the fast, I

been, and He was so real to me in my heaviness. I saw the burning buildings

and shops of the Jews the mobs had wrecked. The Arabs’ rage and protest
against the United Nations decisions in favor of the Jews was all but a
pleasant sight to behold. Surely, Jesus will come soon when more of His
people seek Him in fastings and prayer to glorify and exalt Him.
Sister M. E. Robinson
Bethlehem Road,
Jerusalem, Palestine.

EIGHT DAYS ALONG ON FAST AND STILL ON JOB

Dear Doctor Hall:
... At this writing, I am in the eighth day of a consecration fast and am
holding on to make it many more. However, I am having it hard and if God
does not allow me a bit more strength, I am going to break it soon.
I believe a cancer is passing from my system and I also have a bad case of
sinus that is being cleansed. A very foul odor and taste is being eliminated . . .

Your Brother in Christ,

Wayne Moufrey, Decatur, 111.

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 PLEASURE EMOTIONS

CAPACrTyfOfi THE ENJOYMENT Of PLEASURE

CD

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lu

6 B

WHEN GOING ON A HUNGER STRIKE FOR THE GLORY OF JESUS,

WE ALSO STRIKE OUT SATANIC INFLUENCES AND WORLDLY
PLEASURE. OUR CAPACITY FOR THE SPIRITUAL, THEN, BECOMES
AS GREAT AS IT HAD BEEN FOR THE NATURAL. (A) SHOWS
PLEASURE AND THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH AT A STANDSTILL. (B)
DEPICTS THE FLESH ARRESTED. IT CANNOT GO ON A RAID WHILE
FASTING. AN INNER REVIVAL IS THE RESULT. THE FLESH AND
THE SPIRIT ARE AT ENMITY WITH EACH OTHER.

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TUTC WOBID NU3IBEB 4 PLAYS AN EttPOBTANT PABI,
IN tutt. study of the FAST. FOUB IS THE NUMBEB OF
HUMANITY. IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF MAN, WE
FIND FOUB MANIFESTING ITSELF IN MANY WAYS. FOUB
IS VEBY MUCH BELATED TO THE SUBJECT OF FASTING AS
THF. RFADFR SHALL PRESENTLY SEE. WE ABE ALSO
INCLUDING OTHER INTERESTING FOURS FOB STUDY.

THE4 THE4 THE 4 THE 4

es;ential5 appetites APPETITES APPETITES
IN ORDER OF EVER/ NORMAL BEFORE AFTER
THEIR IMPORTANCE PER50N HA5-m£5E FASTING FASTING
1. 1. 1.

AIR HUNGER HUNGER

2. 2. 2..

SLEEP SEX SEX

3. J. 3 .

GREED
WATER GREED
COVETOU5NDj

4. 4. 4.

FOOD SPIRITUAL SPIRITUAL

SINCE MORB THAN NINETY-FIVE PERCENT OF OCR POPULATION

ABE AUTO-INTOXICATED WITH FOOD, HOW CAN WE OVER-STRESS
THE SUBJECT OF FASTING. ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION, JESUS
CONDEMNED OVER EATING AND SURFEITING, ALONG WITH DRINK-
ING, EVEN PLACING IT AHEAD OF DRINKING. MOST DRUNKARDS
BECOME FOOD DRUNKARDS FIRST. ALCOHOLISM CAN NOT SUR-
VIVE A SEIGE OF FASTING. FOOD DRUNKARDS BECOME DISEASED.
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 THE FOUR TASTES
The food abstentionist denys the pleasures of taste when fasting. The
tongue is the first part of the stomach. There are four taste zones or pits in
the tongue. These are located at different points on the tongue as shown on

the diagram. (1) sweet, (2) salt, (3) sour, (4) bitter.
These taste zones are:

The zones are not sharply separated, but overlap.In the center of the tongue
is a zone that has no taste pit bud, and consequently tastes nothing: this is

the silent zone. Try tasting something sweet on the back of the tongue or salt
on the tip of the tongue and find how devoid of the real taste they are! Almost
allour foods are composed of various substances, and consequently, stimulate
not one but several, often even all four taste mechanisms, thus producing the
mixed sensations of taste. A lemon has a bitter as well as a sour taste; an
apple is sour and sweet at the same time. On the front part of the tongue alum
produces a sour while on the back it creates a sweetish taste. There is
taste,

no such thing as a
taste. The tongue perceives not only a sweet or a saline
pure
sensation, but also the weight, fluidity, roughness or smoothness, mildness or

sharpness, temperature, viscidity, and volatility of food.

When these taste buds are given a vacation, a new spiritual stronger taste,

is acquired for the deeper things of Jesus. This seems to be a resurrection of

the deliciousness of the Spirit.
Taste means enjoyment. As we have stated, fasting is an anti-pleasure pro-

cess. Likewise, we sacrifice the enjoyment of tasting the many dishes that we
would enjoy while eating naturally.

the zone of
CANDY
SWEET
SILENCE

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 “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” Psalm 34:8.

"FEAST” on the goodness of the

Fasting gives us a better opportunity to
Lord.

When we once taste the good works and Words of God, we enjoy having
righteousness. "If so be ye have tasted that
regular and frequent tastes of His
the Lord is gracious.” I Peter 2:3.

Vinegar and salt are very

Some kindi of food are not so pleasant to taste.
Likewise, some parts of the Gospel are
unpleasant to taste by themselves.
one of the most difficult to
disagreeable to taste. The message of fasting is

forty long days. He w^t

taste and receive. Jesus partook of this process for
into every kind of misery that can be
encountered by all fasting people. He

tasted every phase of it. He not only entered into and tasted of fasting, but
He also went further and "TASTED DEATH FOR EVERY MAN.” Hebrews
imaginable.
2:3. In this, He tasted every awful disagreeable thing

taste of the spiritual when we

Let us remiember that we can more effectively
go into food abstention for a time.

DECEPTIVE TASTES
they imagine they are
Manytimds children do not eat certain foods because
this way, only to find out after tot-
not good. Sometimes adults ate also misled
Some adults have lived longer than
ing and eating a dish, they were mistaken.
only to find after giving it a thorough
fifty years without trying a certain dish,
How disappointed they were when finding they
try that it was very delicious.
enjoyment of a lovely dish for so
had lost out, usually through delusion, the
long a period! i

This also Applies spiritually with the word of God. There could be many
of God that we may not have tasted. Fasting
may
vital subjects inthe Word
only two or three days, but the
be one of them, not necessarily a fast of
This may also include the Jesus-length
prophet’s-early church-length fasts.
go into these various lengths of fasts.
fast. Any average person can
Why not taste and see?
flavoring extracts. Flavor
At one time the author handled many kinds of
right
will fool one by taste. A very strong vanilla flavoring, will taste nasty
because it is weaker
out of the bottle. weak A low priced flavor will taste better
upon more of the taste
and usually sweetened. The sweetened taste operates
whereby the strongr vanilla has only a strong bitter taste.
faculty on the tongue^
was
When the weaker and cheaper vanilla was used in cooking, the housewife
often fooled. The cake or pastry was not well flavored. To overcome the
competitors, I would add
competition of the cheaper grades of flavoring sold by
of milk slightly sweetened with
four drops of my stronger flavoring to a glass

After tasting, any housewife would be convinced of both the quality

sugar.
it would taste if used
and strength of my product, because she would know how
in her own cooking at home.

If fasting and prayer is in the Bible,not taste it and put it into ac^al
why
lives and be convinced through experience and by
the Spirit.
practice in our own

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 THE
DIMEM5I0N5
4 THE 4 THE4 THE4
THE5EMA/ HAVE DIVISIONS GOSPEL
OF THE TASTES
Smi REaTI0M5HIP
ALIMENTAfiy
DIVISIONS
lommiMoms CANAL
1. 1. 1.
1.

WIDTH MOUTH SALVATION

SWEET

z. 2. i. 2.

LENGTH STOMACH BAPTISM SALT

3. j. 3. 3.

SMALL DIVINE
HEIGHT SOUR
INTESTINE HEALING

4 4. 4. 4.
THE 4TH COMING
LARGE BITTER
DIMENSION
INTESTINE
KING

THE SPIRITUAL BALANCE SHEET

Brillat-Savarin begins his famous "PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE” with the
statement: "An animal feeds; a civilized person dines.” This sounds
man eats;
like Luke 21:34 and Matt. 24:38, where the world will be "eating” and "drink-
ing” [food, drinks and alcholic beverages] when the Son of Man comes. If the
above was reversed and man would feed himself, instead of living to dine, he
could be more glorifying to God Almighty. There is no wrong when eating
and without fasting, too, can be very grieving to God’s
to live, but living to eat,
Spirit. animals feed and they live eight times their growth period because
The
they are fed that which is necessary. Man, on the other hand, is the shortest
lived of all creatures, we seldom live more than three times our growth period.

SISTER OF SIXTY-EIGHT FASTS FORTY DAYS

Dear Sir: —
I am sixty-eight years of age and have broken a forty-day consecration fast.

I am so happy that Jesus completely healed me of many things. I can praise

Him for healing me of high blood pressure, cardiac asthma, and female trouble
so serious I could not have been relieved except through a surgical operation.

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 N

THE4 THE 4 THE4 THE 4

PARTS NATURAL METHODS
HUNGER5
1

OF THINGS OF
(FASTING
FASTING TO 00 1 ELirUNATION
MASTERS
1.
1. KEEP CLEAN
TRUE FIRST 3 LUNGS
WASH FACE
HUNGER DAYS NOSTRILS
DRINK WATER
NATURAL HUNGER ENA MAS

z. z.
z.
NEXT KEEP IN THE
HABIT SKIN
HUNGER RIGHT FRAME
DAYS
10
UlSr HUNGER
WEAKNESS
OF MIND
WHICH IS 51

3. 3 .
3. 3 .

HUNGER ROUTINE GET

PLENTY BOWELS
OF THE
EXPERIENCE
OLD MAN OF SLEEP
CARNALITV

4. 4. 4.
4.
HUNGER BREAK
HUNGER THE FAST KIDNEYS
FOR RETURNS
FAST ENDS PROPERLY
PLEASURE

master-
Thank the Lord for giving you the revelation to put out such a
piece” on the subject. Many would be willing to fast, but do not know how
to do so intelligently. All glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Mrs. Minnie Graham
Box 72, Blackburn, Oklahoma.

CANADIAN HEADED OF LARGE GROWTH

AFTER FASTING TWENTY-THREE DAYS
We have been greatly helped and blessed by your books on fasting and
prayer. We have given away many copies and are now ordering another
quan-
tity. Many folk are waiting and hungry for this message up here in Canada.
Many have been blessed through protracted Bible fasting. We, also, have
seen what the power of fasting will do in our lives. I had a large tumor or

growth in my breast. Several in our family set our hearts to God in fastings.

My son fasted for twenty-one days, my husband fasted for twenty-six days and

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 THE 4 THE4 THE4 THE4
TRIPLET PIVOTS
DIVISIONS IN THE ELEMENTS KINGDOMS
OFMAN ZODIAC
1 . I T.

HEAD FIRE
THROAT ARIES MINERAL
LUNGS

2 .

STOMACH
HEART CANCER WATER VEGETABLE
ABDOMEN

3 .
3 .
3
kidneVs
GENERATIVE LIBRA AIR ANIMAL
I

LIVER

4 . 4 .
4 .

KNEE5 EARTH SPIRITUAL

ANKLES CAPRICORN
FEET

I fasted for twenty-three days for the glory of Jesus. I was gloriously and

miraculously healed. In many other ways we were so blessed spiritually, re-

vived and filled anew in a greater way with the Holy Spirit than ever before.
In His service,
Grace M. Pelfrey
Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.

HEALED OF GALL. BLADDER TROUBLE

AFTER SHORT FAST OF SEVEN DAYS
Jesus healed me and praying seven days. I had been suffer-
just for fasting
ing for a long time with gall bladder and liver trouble. Jesus delivered me,
and I believe He will heal any sick person if he or she will give up everything,
including food, and trust Him.
Elder R. A. Bradshaw
Granite City, III.

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 THE4 THE4 THE4 THE 4
BI&RKUQS IMPORTANT GREAT
NECEJJiriETS
THINGS AFTER cIB5TACLE5
PEOPLE MU5THAVE CONSECRATED
FASTING F REMOVED
TO GET WELL FASTING
1. 1.
1.
1.
EAT ONLY WHAT
CONSERVE 15 NECE55ARV UNBCLIFF
CLEANSED
ENERGY AFTER THE FA5T
IS BROKEN RIGHT

2. 2.
2. 2
PHYSICAL KEEP LUST
PURE BELfVINGWIIH
REJUVENATION UNCLEANNES5
BLOOD PATIENCE
OF THE BODY
'

3. 3.
3. 3.
ONE NOW HAS A
perfect BETTER IN5IC-HT
PRIDE
CIRCULATION
REVELATION TOWOROOF.GOD
OF BLOOD READ IT MUCH

4. 4.
4. 4.
ANSWERED BE A MISSIONARY SPIRITUAL
HOPE -FAITH ENLIGHTEN. DISTORTION
FASTING PRAVER
MORE POWER OTHERS TO THIS DIVISIONS INTHE
WILL BRING
WITH GOD CHEAT TRUTH BODY OF CHRIST
AaTHESEABOIT

SHORT FAST OF SIX DAYS DOES WONDERS FOR BODY

Dear Brother Hall:
my hands on fasting that I liked very
Not so very long ago a tract fell into
much . . . !

and pray for the sick. If one is to

I am in the evangelistic field constantly
believe they must fast a
have a great deal of success in praying for the sick, I

lot. At least, I find it so in my ministry.

Fasting is a method to insure revival success and, at present, I am in one
the
here. At first, the people did not want to accept fasting as it is taught in
and they are accepting it now.
Bible, but the Holy Ghost came on the scene
After a recent six-day fast I entered into, I find it certainly has
done wonders
for my body.
Remember, I am the evangelist that conducted a revival for your brother,
Virgil Hall, a few years ago. Please give Brother and Sister Virgil Hall my
regards.
*
Your sister in the bonds of Calvary,
Evangelist Thelma Nickel
Bixby, Oklahoma.

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 OTHER THINGS LOST
PUTTING THE FAST IN A TEST TUBE

AFTER
A
PROPHETSl
LENGTH
FAST

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MATT. 17:21 LUKE 71:34 THAT WHICH IS

SPIRITUAL- PHYSICAL LOST OR GAINED

UNCLEANLINESS UNCLEANLINESS POWERS MORE POWER

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 FOOUSB SCRFEITERS
Luke 21:34
intelligence *at will t^*
People are eternally looking for some mystifying
care of their ailments and ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE THEIR SINS
Take, for instance, cathartics, laxatives, and
so-calleed
AND BAD HABITS.
physics They do not have power to move the bowels. The irritating dm^
the source of
They contain force the bowels to eliminate
energy through PASTING
same time, the waste. How much better to conserve
may function under its own powe^and
and proper eating so that your body
without the necessity of harmful prodding. When
eliminate waste naturally
twice instead of only once. It
drugs are taken, the body always has to recover
has to overcome the trouble for which the
medicine was given, and, later on, it
the drug taken. The drug do^ not
has to recover from the poisonous effects of
work on the body; rather, the body MUST TAKE CARE OF THE DRUG.

divine healing that Jesus gives in answer to fasting

and prayer is will-
The
ingly bestowed upon all His children when UNBELIEF IS CAST OUT. If
contrary to the welfare of the body, and the glory
there have been eating habits
person and undo the wrongs
of Jesus, the consecrated fast will also chasten the
to
of intemperance while enroute to building up the faith that is necessary
ELIMINATE UNBELIEF. The great WORK OF FASTING always operates
There no use in trying to make
in a two-fold manner, physical and spiritual. is

it work any other way.

Instead of a
Some people believe that certain drugs will cure their colds.
happens: When a body is going through a period
cure here is what actually
when present, and is forced to take care
of ELIMINATION, such as a cold is

additional amounts of
of some other unnatural condition, such as drugs and
food, the cold will, for the time, be suppressed, or put to one side, so that the
However,
body can take care of the new condition that has been forced upon
it.

now in a chronic stage, lying latent, aff^ing

the cold has not been cured. It is

the weakest organs of the body. That is the procedure that

most chronic in-
valids have passed through. The suppression of the cold,
which was not cured,
later on develops into some condition such as
bronchitis. Again the attempt is
made to cure the ailment in thesame erroneous way. The bronchitis is sup-
pressed for a time, only to develop into hay fever orpneumonia later. This, in
further weakens the affected organs. The final effort of the body to
time
eliminate the poisons and FILTH FROM OVER EATING is
through a condi-
tion which may be called asthma, and by this time other ailments may have also
MOST CHRONIC CONDITIONS ARE THE DEVELOPMENT
developed.
OF AILMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED IN THE PAST.
When one enters a protracted season of FASTING, these suppressed ills
come out open again. The physical weaknesses felt in the fast are
into the
expelled
usually nothing more than many hidden and suppressed afflictions being
The weaknesses are the suppressions carried into
in the form of eliminations.
the
the blood stream, and the blood is carrying these very poisons out into
proper channels of elimination. These hidden sicknesses must come OUT into

the open to become eradicated. When they come to a head in fasting it is

similar to a boil coming to a head and the subsequent removal of the core.

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 GLORIFIED FASTING

It is unpleasant, but how wonderful the person feels after the ordeal! Fasting
works along the same line. It is a miserable, painful, trying experience while
it is so wonderful, both spiritually and physically afterward.
in the process, but
The headache that is often felt during fasting is also an indication the fast

is needed from the physical standpoint. Coffee drinkers suffer more severe
headaches than those who do not have the habit. The caffeine from the coffee
comes OUT OF SUPPRESSION and into the blood stream. The blood circu-
lates the poisons within the head and pain is the natural result. In a few days,
the fast will have removed the cause and the headache disappears. Later on as
the FAST PROCEEDS to clean up the temple of the Holy Spirit, even the
weaknesses, in many instances, disappear, and to one’s astonishrpent the person
usually feels better and stronger than he did while indulging in the three or
four meal a day stuffing habit, believe it or not.

DEMONS CAN BE CAST OUT BY FASTING PRAYER

Matthew 17:21. “This kind goeth not out hut by prayer and fasting.” The
lesson in this chapter was mainly dealing with faith and “Because of your
unbelief.” The secondary part of the story had to do with demons. However,
Jesus teaches His followers that not only the casting out of demons but,
“NOTHING SHALi, BE IMPOSSIBLE UNTO
YOU.” This includes power
for all things if we follow His formula. The above illustration shows the
—
author’s conception of the average person who is afflicted these afflictions
being demon bondage. They are the works of Satan and Jesus came to undo
these works. Matt. 9:33, 1 Jno. 3:8, etc. The first figme represents the in-
dividual under affliction (it could be a hundred and one different ailments) ; the
demons are in operation. The right hand figure shows a person praying very
earnestly. Sometimes, these demons relax their hold while praying and are
eliminated entirely. Oftentimes, however, the demons relax their hold but are
not entirely cast out because of UNBELIEF, consequently they take up their
task again and continue in the person (unless a great degree of holding faith
is put into practice). Prayer, combined with fasting, sees the demons not only
release and relax their hold, but a greater amount of faith is developed so they
can be cast out entirely. Oftentimes, the FAST has such purifying power,
both physically and spiritually, that demons are often forced to withdraw.
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 cbims *at
DEMONS AT WORK IN THE STOMACH. Medical science

auto-intoxicated (surfeited). Luke 21.3 .

95% of the American people are

from over eating and the failure to ou
Most functional diseases come the tongue
first thing a doctor loote at is
stomach a vacation. When sick, the
which is a part of
attract demons.
the stomach. weakened condition of the stomach
This could lead to a hundred and
A
one different things.
^
We
could be ulcer, tumor, cancer, rheumatism, asthma,
believe they are demons. It
paralysis, etc.
anemia, hardening of the arteries,

Whenfasting, the things we do

not want make the best of fuel for

their own destruction. Body tox-

ins, slowly and gradually,

accum-
ulate all through the body in almost

every person in time. Sometimes,

it shows itself in a visible manner
through muddy skin, blemishes,
pale complexion or lines and
wrinkles. Sometimes, it is not very
visible. At the bottom of the
hand,
we are depicting a condition where
waste matter can be visualized un-
der magnification. Demons are

more easily attracted through these

conditions. One of the first things

that takes place in the consecration

fast is the removal and eradication
of all foreign uncleanness of the
body. After only a ten day fast, in
most instances, the hand will ap-
pear as the fingers appear in the
top part of the illustration. spir- A
itual cleansing of the doubts and

our main objective to please Jesus.

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 GLORIFIED FASTING

Demons and disease breed on filth. The more vile it is the more potent
is its lure for all demons, and from this source we have the root of all sickness,
disease and sorrow. Demons seldom enter clean healthy people.
In spite of all the food that is eaten, there is truly a famine in the world.
There is a famine within the stomach, not because of the absence of food, but
because of an excess of food, and because of the failure to FAST and starve out
a condition within that is incapable of handling and receiving more food. Why
put new wine in old bottles 7 Why sew new cloth to old 7
The failure to eat plain simple food also causes the body to become so
depleted from the lack of minerals and vitamins that, even if folk would re-
ceive the secondary blessingsfrom fasting, which are physical, they could not
retain their new-found health very long if they did not adapt their menu to
natural plain eating. Of course, one can take vegetable concentrates, fish oils
and food minerals as a supplement. These are not drugs, but are concentrated
food in tablet form. These may be helpful, but the better way is to follow Jesus
in proper abstemious living.
Why close our ears to it? The very reason that it is not more understood
issimply that people are prejudiced and run from the truth, willingly becoming
the victims of their own foolishness —
just because they fail to earnesly and
intelligently seek KNOWLEDGE and TRUTH ON THIS GREAT, BENE-
FICIAL, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
FASTING will give a PERFECT BLOOD STREAM, INSURE the PER-
FECT DISTRIBUTION OF THE BLOOD AND THE CONSERVATION OF
ENERGY. THESE THREE THINGS ARE THE THREE ESSENTIALS vital
toany sick person and their desire to get well, and their chances for recover)\
Another ESSENTIAL that is a result of consecrated fasting is SPIRITUAL
HEALTH.
Many are seeking cures today. They are trying to find an easy way to over-
come their ailments, when the easiest, surest, quickest and most economical
method ever known to man IS THE FAST ROUTE. There are hundreds of
millions of dollars spent annually on patent medicines alone. Eighty percent
of every dollar spent is for advertising these cure-all pills. Five cents worth
of onions has more food value than all the drugs put together.

A government document. No. 264, informs us that ninety-nine percent of

the American people are deficient in minerals, and that a marked deficiency in
any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease.

Food is the major part of any right living program. Sick people are actually
starving amidst an abundance of food. The sick have stomachs filled with
foodless food.

WE ARE A PRODUCT OF WHAT WE EAT

Dr. Northen’s experiment with animals and soil chemistry has given the
world much information. He has discovered when rats are fed the same "re-
fined to death food" found in an over-stuffed community filled with stomach
ulcers, the rats likewise have stomach ulcers.

Experiments on rats and mice in Chicago definitely prove that the irritating
matter contained in canned foods, preservatives, canned spices and drugs will
produce cancer in animals eating such foods. We
know, also, that rats fed the

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—
61VIM6 PRAYER FASTING CHRISTIAN
CONCIOUSNESS COHCIOUSNESS CONCIOUSNESS FELLOWSHIP
seekinothe
MOHAMMED CALLS FASTING THE GATEWAY TO KINCDOMOF 600
RELIGION. A CLOSE STUDY OF THE WORD OF
GOD INDICATES IT TO BE ONE OF THE PIERS OF WITHOUR
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. THE PIER ON THE WHOLE HEART
RIGHT. ALSO INCLUDES BIBLE STUDY.

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 GLORIFIED FASTING

diet of the Britisher take on the temperament of the British people. When the
Sikh diet is fed rats, they become huge and have soulful eyes, the same as the
followers of that Hindu creed.

Human beings are also a product of what they eat. When we live by the
"words of God” instead of "bread alone,” the spiritual food that is received
through fasting makes us more spiritual for the glory of Jesus. The spiritual
gifts and fruit are developed in us plus other attributes.
«
Fasting will also prepare our stomachs for food, so that the digestive organs
will be capable of greater absorption of the mineral salts that our body is in
need of. When there is over indulgence in food, without fasting, only a smaller
amount of the vitamins and minerals can be assimilated, because of the con-
taminated condition of the stomach and villi.

The chart depicts the painted

coating of food film which is noth-
ing more than, weeks and some-
times many months old, decayed
and rotten contaminated food on
the intestinal tract. If this intest-
inal tract was placed in front of us
and was accessible, we would not
hesitate to give it a good cleaning.
Cleanliness is Godliness, we all ad-
mit. Because we cannot see this
precious: God given organ, we hesi-
tate to go food abstention to
into
give it a vacation and cleaning.
Fasting will eradicate this unclean-
ness and removes many pounds of
demon attracting filth that saps not
only physical but spiritual strength
MONTHS-OLD CONTAMINATION
from the temple of the Holy Spirit.

The tract is' clean on the thin narrow line, Fasting sonsumes the very things
not wanted. %

FASTED FORTY DAYS — DEMONS LEAVE BODY

Dear Brother Hall:
About the tenth day of October, 1947, I went into "The Book and Bible
House,” on Eighth Street, in Sacramento, California, to purchase a song book.
I wanted to practice singing so I could glorify Jesus by making a joyful noise

unto Him. An employee of the "Bible House” told me of having some very
unusual books they had never had on hand before in the history of the firm.
This was Sister Delmarie Bibb, and she got them out and showed them to me.
Miss Bibb informed me that the truth contained in them was unfolding un-
heard of precious experiences for people in the days that we live. I did not
know what they were all about, but I secured a set of these books on the
PROPHET’S-EARLY CHURCH-LENGTH FASTING.
At this very time, I was so very hungry for more of God. I wanted to go

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manner. I began reading and studying
deeper and seek Him in an unusual
these books on consecrated fasting
on October 14, the day I started my fast.
at times, but
I cried and prayed, and
the misery of fasting was painful
conquered. At times,
knew it would be a battle, and the old man had
to be i

praying as earnestly as I
seemed was getting nowhere, and I felt I was not
I
best and j«us m
should. Although if was hard to pray, I just did my
discouraging, but when the Fourteenth y
take me through. It was so
encouragement. The asthma that I had had fo
fast came around I found new
eight years left my body completely,
and demons left along with it. I actually
every corner of my room. I even saw
them come out
sould see these demons in
of my body. From then on I felt like a NEW MAN. Before the fast, I never

even knew they occupied my body until

in my life saw a demon and I never
be
very time. When these demons came out, other parts of my afflicted body
came well, healed and whole.
crooked bent-under toes. When the
For twenty years I had suffered with
and they pained me. They
demons left my body, the toes straightened upwards
suffered very severely, but I was sure
went out and upwards for two days. I

they were. The pains were from the

they were getting healed and sure enough
in order for them to become ad-
straightening out process that was necessary
justed to the right position, etc.
Because I cried and prayed to Jkus about
cried
this. He relieved me from all the
pains of the healing procedure. I then
He had done in my body by casting out these
and wept for joy at the miracle
—
demons He said in His word they would be cast
out, sometimes by nothing,
feet were
but by prayer fasting.” Matt. 17:21. My
and toes and
praying for a long time that this
made perfectly whole and sound. I had been
fasting with the prayer.
might be done, but, praise Jesus, it took
I also had a great need for
my own place to live. I needed a home but
could not find a place. Again I became
somewhat discouraged. Considerable
When fast was started, I weighed two hun-
weight was lost from my body. the

dred four pounds. There was a scale nearby and as I got on to weigh, a friend
This friend seeing my aggy
came up. I weighed one hundred sixty pounds.
clothes, asked me, 'What’s wrong, you
look like you have been sick, or some-

thing has come over you all of a sudden.’ I told

him 'I was not sick, but Satur-
and was somewhat disappointed
day would be the end of my forty-day fast I

that wanted and was fasting for! He asked

for it seemed I would not get all I
house trailer for a
me 'what I wanted,’ and I told him "I would like to have a
He informed me 'that my prayer was answered
place to call home and in.’ live

Ind he had just what I had been looking for. When I went over to see it I
it was just what
was delighted to know it was the answer to my
prayer, because

get the house trailer at a fraction of the cost, but

I
I wanted. Not only did I
groceries, a radio, two stoves,
was given over one hundred dollars worth of
electric plate, clock, furnishings, etc.
I feel wonderful in my
OnJanuary 26, 1948, I will be sixty-five years old.
twenty-five years of youth for my body.
body. It seems like I have gained about
Lighthouse Church where Brother Leroy Richard-
I attend The Full Gospel

pastor, in North Sacramento, Calif. They will verify these facts.

son is

This brought such great joy to my soul that I went

home and prayed all
to others, and I prayed
night asking the Lord to unfold this fasting message
they, too, would see the answers
that others would know about this testimony so

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to their hitherto unanswered prayers, like I had received. I prayed, if it be His

will, this testimony would go into Brother Hall’s new book, "GLORIFIED
FASTING," that will be full of testimonies about fastings of all lengths.

Your Brother in Christ,

(Signed) Thomas H. Lymons

Box 386 Yolo, Calif.
,

FASTING PRODUCES OIL OF THE SPIRIT

FASTING POWER: Fasting produces the greater oil that gives us the
spiritual fire of the Holy Spirit. into the spiritual OIL WELL,
It digs down
and there is plenty of fuel for revival power in us, to spread and spring forth
out of us, to ignite lost souls to Christ and help spread the revival fires to
others. Prayer is also an oil producer, but too many of us depend on prayer
altogether without fastings and, consequently, we get stuck at times. Fasting
is as necessary in the Christian’s life as oxygen is to keep the fire going. A
fire will bum a long time in an air tight room, but, sooner or later, the oxygen
will be used up and the flame will go out. A
person may get along nicely for
a very long time without fastings, but, sooner or later, carnality creeps in and,
unconsciously, the child of God thinks he is standing when he should take
heed lest he has fallen.
**Without faith it is impossible to please God.” We have seen, according
to the seventeenth chapter of Matthew, fasting and prayer is the great faith
producer. The left hand person has sufiicient oil and fire in his lamp. He is
laboring for Jesus in the harvest fields. We believe he is fasting and praying
a great deal. The middle person has both oil and some fire, but he is indiffer-
ent to fasting, therefore, there are very few signs following and very little
accomplished for Jesus. The right individual is typical of the five foolish
virgins (Matt. 26:18) who were NOT WATCHING. “Watching,” in these
scriptures, include everything necessary for the Bride of Christ to be doing,
ready and filled with the spirit. This includes fasting and prayer. When this
lamp is suddenly moved or trimmed it may go out. May we have more oil.
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 PART IV

THE BREAK FAST

The word, BREAK-FAST, used over and over by nearly every one, with-
is

out realizing exactly what it means. long time ago, people were not in the
A
habit of eating between meals, and were not able to go to the corner drug store,

or restaurant, and buy a soda, sandwich, cup of coffee and what not as ^sily
own time. Our great grandfathers worked hard and had
as one can do in our
healthy appetites. When a hearty evening
meal was eaten, they usually ceased
evening meal until the following
eating for a long interval, at least, from
the
was the longest period between any two meals It
morning. This interval
"FAST.” Please see, Daniel 6:18.
being so long that sometimes it was called a
passed the night fasting.” If any food was eaten after the
"The King . . .

between the evening med and

evening meal, it proceeded to break the period
the In the morning, when food was
the morning meal and was breaking
fast.

well be called a break-fast, because the fast period

eaten again, it could not very
and morning meals had been broken already.
between the evening
Break-fast is word that usage has welded into breakfast. At
a compound
breakfast, one usually eats a meal that is different from the other two eaten
Many adults are
during the day. (I am alluding to those who eat
breakfast.
power without eating break-
finding they have better health and greater
spiritual
twenty-four
This also includes the author who has not eaten breakfast in
fast.
dinner and breakfast being long enough that folk
years.) The interval between
desirable and wise to partake of food at the morning meal
have found it both
that is far more acceptable to the stomach
and digestive apparatus than that
this is quite evident; it is to prepare
eaten at any other meal. The reason for
the stomach and functions of the body to
break the fast, even though one has
approximately twelve to fourteen hours. Even
only done without food for
usually broken with care, how-
if one
this short a fast, may still call it that, is

ever unaware the average person is of the

fact. The breakfast eater usually h^
eggs, bacon and toast or cereal, etc. This
a glass of fruit juice or similar juice,
far more easily digested
menu, compared with any other conventional meal, is
to the break-fast period than any other of his or her eating
and more suitable
periods. It may not have been thought of in this light, but the fast was care-

fully broken for just that non-eating length of time.

If any adult not undernourished, and some undernourished folk

who was
would also profit by it, off any one of the three meals for a period
would leave
of thirty days, the third meal habit appetite would entirely disappear and new
increased spiritual
energy and strength would be felt, in addition to greatly
does not in
power and favor with God. Why? Because the average person
third meal. While any one meal could be left
any manner require this surplus
that greater compensation would be obtained by leaving
out, the author feels

off the breakfast —

or allowing the lunch period to be the breakfast. This longer
interval between the eating of dinner and breakfast (or lunch) would give the
rest up, and also the
organs of the body a greater period in which to relax and
more easily adapt itself to the new schedule. As one
appetite would, generally,
even food required. Sometimes one could eliminate the
grows older, less is

meal also and not be bothered with habit hunger appetite, after abstain-
second

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 GLORIFIED FASTING

ing from two meals a day for at least thirty days. This is one secret to long
life. Why? For the simple reason, what one does not need becomes burden-
some and a dead weight to us. Paul must have had this also in mind in
Hebrews 12:1: “Lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset
us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” At least, the
continued eating and stuffing habit, without fasting, becomes weight (not
necessarily physical weight) and a hindrance to our spiritual progress. Paul
brings this out to a fuller extent in Romans 16:17, 18: ’’Mark them which
cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and
AVOID THEM. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but
their own belly” Also, study Phil. 3:17-19. Please see charts on subject.

THE FOUR ZONES

LCARNALIT/ZONE

^PLEASURE ZONE

AVERAGE „ NATURAL
[CHRISTIAN] LIVI NG

H
U SPIRITUAL

3.PRAYER ZONE

T
Y
4-.TRAVAIUNG MOURNING
FASTING-PRAYER ZONE

Ihave a car that runs well, but many times I load it up with books and
tracts —taking
even the rear cushions out to pile in some more until I have
nearly two thousand pounds of material to carry from one town to another to
be used in speaking engagements where hungry folk desire and need the litera-
ture and books. The car, being overloaded, does not run so freely; it is more
keep on the road, the tires become overheated to a point where I am
difficult to

forced to slow down to keep from having a blow-out. (By failing to drive
around forty miles an hour with these loads, the author has had three new six
ply heavy duty tires to blow-out in one year, due to this excess weight.) This

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 THE A B C OF FASTING

burdensome weight eventually needed and can all be utilized, but

is
m^y
After learning some expensive
handicaps hindered me during my travels.
and have since progressed very satisfactorily.
lessons, I corrected the weight I

be applied to food power versus needed power Any

The same lesson can also
out the body prematurely, and act as
excess of food not needed now, wUl burn
Excess food will kiU spiritual power just as
a weight and a hindrance to it.
alcohol wiU, if not as quickly. (See Luke 21:34. Food temper-
thoroughly as
just as important as any other kind of temperance. Many times, un-
ance is
and souls, just because of our neglect
knowingly, we ate killing our bodies
along these lines.
illustrates our thought here:
A lady sends in a testimony from Australia that
LADY IN AUSTRALIA FASTS SIXTEEN DAYS
Ekar Sir:
Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
me from the U. A.
A friend of mine sent your “FASTING” book to S.

it was of God. I prayer-

Immediately, I read it through and was convinced
fully asked the Lord to make me willing to fast. My prayer was answered, and
complete abstinence from all food, just water drink-
now after sixteen days of
the Lord for the way He is able to show, teach and con-
ing, I write to praise
I was
did not find myself craving food or even being
distressed.
trol us. I
I am a busy woman and take care of my
just a little tired the first few days.
I also kept my house work up, cooked and
invalid mother of ninety years.
took care of our family of four, besides my
husband*

have told a number of other Christians about your

work and tracts. Some
I
the longer fasts and a revival stir is being felt in our
of them are entering into
community. I am also a temperance worker. Now I
shall add food temperance

to my work.
In His service,
Mrs. W. M. Tack
11 Rothesay Avenue, E. Malvern S. E. 5.
Victoria. Australia.

MISSIONARY FINDS FASTINO TO JESUS SUCCESSFUL

IN SOUTH AFRICA
Dear Sir and Brother:
on a journey to an outpost of our congregation, I visited my
Last week,
friend, Brother H. Hambrock, an evangelist, at Jeppestr. 96 Pretoria.
We spoke
about the necessity of fasting. I did not know too
much about it. He gave me
than ever convinced
two of your pamphlets. No. 16 and No. 2. I was more
was surprised to learn that
that fasting is necessary and I started out to
fast. I

was diminishing rather than increasing. I

on the third day of my fast, hunger
disappeared. I find that
had headaches the first two days but they gradually
you said the same thing.
I am eager to learn more.
Karl Buhr,
Hermansburg Lutheran Mission,
Jericho, via Brit. South Africa
Transvaal.

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 A tiny minute piece of the stomach wall greatly magnified. The entire
stomach is interspersed with delicate blood vessels in this way. Tremendous
amounts of energy and blood is called upon right after the fast is broken,
in order to readjust and reawaken the functions of digestion, assimilation and
elimination. Even when not fasting, one average meal calls approximately
half of the blood to the attention and services of digestion, etc. These illus-
trations are for the purpose of showing the people of God the great importance
of food and our being, in relation to spiritual power available when certain
processes are put into operation for Jesus* pleasure and master our desires.

THE TYPE OF FOOD

The best type of food is a thin watery food. Any kind of food could be
taken in a thin liquid form, in very small quantites, if necessary. Elijah had a
morsel of bread and water. One could also break the fast on a small piece of
dark bread chewed very finely into water and swallowed very, very slowly with
a large quantity of water. The same thing could apply to a tiny amount of
boiled potato, a cracker, or almost any other food, providing that it is a very
small quantity, and it is swallowed after it is chewed into milk, and taken with
plenty of water. The reason I am mentioning these different things is because
in some lands fresh fruit is difficult Fresh citrus fruit is, of course,
to obtain.
the best and most satisfactory food to break-fast on. On a twenty-one to forty,
or more, day fast, one usually takes a half glass of fruit juice diluted with half
—
water ^Two ounces of orange, grapefruit, tomato, grape, or other fruit juices,
plus two ounces of water. This can be taken three or four times the first day.
If these are unobtainable,one should use a small teaspoon of mashed potato, a
teaspoonful of bread or other food in same quantity, mixed with about four
ounces of water and chewed well, mixing with saliva, in the mouth before slowly
swallowing. This could also be taken three or four times the first two days to
break a twenty-one day or longer fast. The quantity could be increased by one-

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THE A B C OF FASTING
become sufficiently awakened
third on the second day and so on until the "villi"
receive more food. Please see charts on this elsewhere.
in the digestive tract to
weight, and since much nerve force
Since one will have lost considerable
for food reception, there wdl
will be required in getting the stomach ready
the few days of break-fasting, the ri^t foods
^
in great demand, soon after first

rr.nta.ning vitamins and minerals for the body to

gam strength on. The most
period. One may feel
weakening period of the fast is the initial breaking-m
weak and even sick the break-fast period begins. After the
when first days, fw
or only vegetables and soup, especially the greeri
meals consisting solely of milk,
vegetables are live vegetables and
raw or LIVE vegetables, can be eaten. Raw
vitamins are difficult to digest
give the most "life" to a person. Concentrated
later on.
right after fasting, but could be received
vegetables, milk and food to build
When it is difficult to obtain satisfactory
the vegetable concentrates in
up on after the fast, one could, perhaps, secure
from these vegetable concentrates or
vitamins and minerals, and, thereby, obtain
supplemental food values necessary for the body. Food
fish oils, the amount of
vitamins and minerals are not medicines and drugs. Whether we eat butter
are both food, only one
on our bread or concentrated fish oil from a bottle, they
from a fish. Only narrow minded Christians
is from a cow and the other

would aUow this to offend them. Our tabernacle of the

Holy Spirit requires
otherwise, may break down giving
certain elements to nourish and feed it, it

demons an opportunity to enter.

It is a good from strenuous work during the initial br^-

poliqr to refrain
ing-in period. Strength and energy should be conserved more at this time
than at any other period during the fast, because great strain and labor is re-
Please be patient at this
quired to enable the stomach to receive food again.
your strength is at a minimum.
time and do not become over-anxious because
and can readjust sufficiently to assimil-
It will pick up as soon as the stomach
villi

ate the nutritive elements from the heavier food soon to be received.

improperly broken, many uncomfortable condi-

Sometimes, when a fast is

days after the initial breaking-in period. Bloating,

tions can arise,even many
longer intervals,
and other conditions, can be corrected by spacing your meals at
on fast again, or by fasting without water for a few days, then
going a partial
proceeding to break the fast properly all over again.

The various illustrations, as contained within this volume, should be very

carefully studied, and one will find that as he becomes familiar
with the scien-
pains and care in feeding
tific side of fasting, he will be more apt to take
special

himself. 'Teed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny
thee.” Proverbs 30:8,9-

BREAKING FAST
DIET AFTER FASTING
After a rtiort fast from three to six days
First day: THREE OR FOUR MEALS OF CHOICE FRESH CITRUS FRUIT.
Second day: Light soups or a milk diet in moderation.
Succeeding days: Gradually work on into the regular diet, so that in a number
of days equal to the length of your fast you will be ready for regular eating.
After a fast from six to ten days
fruit or the juice of fruit,
First day: Three to four meals of choice citrus

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GLORIFIED FASTING

tomatoes, berries or easily digested melons in moderate quantity.

Second day: Same.
Succeeding days: For third day here, follow the second day schedule under the
breaking of a three to six day fast, and continue.

After a fast of ten to fourteen days

^irst two days: After the break-fast on any FRESH fruit juice, at the next meal
eat CHOICE FRESH CITRUS FRUIT moderately. For the balance of the
two days, eat three or four meals of fresh citrus fruit only, each meal four

and one-half hours or more apart and consisting of 6 to 8 ounces.

Third day: Light soups or skimmed, whole, or buttermilk at each meal time.

Vomtb day: Green salads or cooked light vegetables chewed to milk. Or to

gain weight, one pint of milk every hour, or sweet fruit and citrus fruit, or
soup at each meal time.

Fijth day and after: Three meals of fresh fruit and milk, or of sweet fruit and
milk (or buttermilk) Buttermilk is easier to digest than sweet milk. (The
.

over use of milk or the taking of food too soon may cause the body to bloat
slightly. To remedy this cut down the quantity or wait a few days before
going on the milk diet.) If one should bloat, fast and go without water.
Take enemas and hot baths.
After a fast of two weeks to twenty-one days

First day: Three meals of fruit juice in four to six ounce serving, diluted one-
third to one-half with water.

Second day: Three or four meals of same, somewhat less diluted, in servings

of from six to eight ounces.

Third day: Fruit for each meal.

Fourth day: Duplicate third day, or a half pint of milk or buttermilk every two
or three hours, or eat choice of one light soup, a small fruit or green vegetable
salad at meal times.

Fifth day: three light meals spaced properly apart, either fresh fruit or soup.
Always get plenty of rest.

Succeeding days: Very gradually work up from fruit, milk, and soup to vege-
table meals. Eat slowly and chew everything into milk.
—
Suggestions for sixth or seventh day. Noon ^Vegetables and whole wheat cereal
—
with one or two egg yolks if desired. Evening Similar meal without eggs.
After a fast of twenty-one to forty days or longer

The same program is followed as for a fourteen to twenty-one day fast, except

smaller amounts of food are eaten for the first two or three days. Add one or
two more days of fruit juices before beginning fourth day, described just
above. Orange juice, is the preferred juice, though any natural fresh fruit
juice or fruit, tomato, gruel, barley rice water, ripe watermelon, or clear vege-
table broth may be taken, in four to six ounce servings. The quantity may
be increased when prepared for heavier diet. Warm milk may be added to
the water-made cereal preparations later on after the fast is broken properly.
Fruit and milk are far preferable to other types of food, since they are

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 Peering Into the Wonderful Digestive Mechanism
The intestinal canal is crowded with five million finger-like
Each villus does its small part in the digestion process and wntains thrw
thousand c^ each. This would make fifteen billion cells in the intestm^
wim
that are very much alive and ready to act when brought into contact
food. After fasting they <»tn receive only minute particles of
food nourish-
ment at first. Among the ceUs, one finds single goblet ceUs that prince
mucus. Phagocytes wander out of the lymph nodes and participate m
traM-
porting food particles. (See bottom of diagram). When a protract^
fast
is broken, these cells gradually and very slowly become
reawakened from a
are
deep sleep. The sleep is so sound that only a few thousand of these ceUs
awakened when the first juice contacts the viUi after a major fast. Afirst

layer of these cells begin to yawn and come into activity. , Afew hoTO “.ot
the vim,
another “break-fast” menu is taken, a few more thousand, and even
this time, come out of their dormant condition to receive
food, convert it into
of
nourishment, and push it into the blood. Each time another iiwtallment
increase mto
the proper ‘*break-fast” menu is received, the vUli increase and
activity and receptivity until eventually, after a number of days,
tlm entoe
intestinal canal is fully activated and adjusted to food again for
our Messing.

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HOW THE BREAK-FAST ORADUALX.Y REAWAKENS THE FIFTEEN
BUXION CELLS IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT.

DAY FAST 21 DAY FAST 10 DAY FAST 7 DAY FAST

1st. DAY 1st. DAY
2ND.DAY
3RD day 2ND DAY 2 WO. DAY
4TH DAY 3RD. DAY 3RD. DAY
5TH.0AY
4-TH.DAY 4th. day
6TH.DAY
Sthday
7 th- DAY
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7th. day

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CHART SHOWING WHY THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS CANNOT BE

HOSPITABLE TO FOOD ALL AT ONCE AFTER FASTING. FOOD RE-
CEPTION IS AT AN ALMOST STANDSTILL IMMEDIATELY AFTER A
PROTRACTED FAST. THE FIVE MILLION VILLI ARE AWAKENED
VERY SLOWLY AT FIRST. THE DARK TRIANGULAR SHADED AREA
REPRESENT THE DORMANT INACTIVE VILLI AT THE BEGINNING
OF THE BREAK-FAST PERIOD. THE SHADED AREA SLOWLY AND
VERY GRADUALLY DISAPPEARS AS THEY ARE AGAIN ADJUSTED
TO FOOD. THE LIGHT AREA REPRESENT THE PERIOD OF TIME
NECESSARY FOR THIS ADJUSTMENT. (FIGURES are APPROXIMATE).
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 THE A B C OF FASTING
be digested and assimilated j^rfertly
and to
natural foods and more likely to
physical results secured by the fast.
perpetuate without interruption the

Remember, if you should suffer in any way, even though it should be m^y
is because you ate rushing
the breaking in period. The
days after the fast, it

go back to fruit juices, or fast again.

Two meals may be more
remedy is to

preferable to three, for a while anyway.

apparatus, gradually
The wonderful finger-like structure of the digestive
so to speak, as it first
and slowly reawakens. It yawns and stretches,
reacquainted with food. Impairment and shock, through the over-use of food,
that it w^
will abuse this marvelous organ so that it cannot be the blessing
blessings from t e
intended to be. Fasting proves itself to be one of the best
Lord for this vital organ.

THE REVIVAI. OF THE INTESTINAL. APPARATUS

we for our bodies, and give
When we ask Jesus to bless the food eat,

indirectly, are asking Jesus to bl^

thanks for these blessings, we also, though
comprise the Unless they are blessed,
villi.
all of the millions of cells that
these finger-like villi to extricate the nourishment
it would be impossible for
nutritative elements on into our blood stream, and
from the food and to carry

to all parts of the temple of the Holy Spirit.

million villi fingers (medi-

All of these fifteen billion cells that comprise five
in the complicated digestive system, have to be reawakened little
cal statistics)
BREAK-FAST PERIOD
by little after a protracted fast. Certain stages of the
and fingers coming oiit of a
may represent a certain proportion of these cells

slumber and waking up for breakfast.

These villi-fingers to a person’s hand or foot going to

may be compared
sleep for a long time. We cannot awaken the foot or hand immediately. But,

little by little, one feels the tingle or sensation of awakening until it gradually,

but with increasing tempo, becomes restored to normal.

dissolve
tiny fingers of the digestive system secrets juices that help to
The
food into nutriment. These hair-like fingers likewise become, though very

slowly at first, awakened and adjusted to food

reception again after the break-

fast. At they very, very slowly become reaccustomed to food intake, but
first,
canal is back into
the acceleration is more and more rapid, until the digestive
full swing again. Not only restored to the condition that it was in at the be-
ginning of food abstention, but the entire intestinal tubing has had a
complete

revival and is now like new.

The author is, herewith, presenting an estimate of the

reawakening in the
system, period by period, of the five million villi fingers that make up
digestive
the converter when breaking fast. We
are using a twenty-one day fast for a

yardstick; for a longer or shorter fast, one can make estimates from this schedule.

The approximate number of villi fingers that are re-awakened after breaking

a twenty-one day fast, and that are slowly acclimated to food again are:

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WHY THE FAST MUST BE BROKEN CAREFULLY

First twenty-four hours: 12,500 villi. (Approximately one-fourth of one
percent)
Second day: 25,000 fingers (About one-half of one percent).
Third day: 50,000 villi fingers (About one percent).
Fourth day: 100,000 villi (Two percent).

Fifth day: 200,000 villi (Four percent).

Sixth day: 400,000 villi (Eight percent).
Seventh day: 800,000 villi (Sixteen percent).

Eighth day: 1,600,000 villi (Thirty-two percent).

Ninth day: 2,400,000 villi (About forty-eight percent). Please note

from this time on, the percentage begins to drop. The breaking-in to-
the eating process tapers back the other way from the eighth day onward.
A person usually begins to feel a newness of strength and well-being
from this time onward. (Providing the fast is being broken properly.)

Tenth day: 3,000,000 villi.

Eleventh day: 3,600,000 villi.

Twelfth day: 4,000,000 villi.

There is still another 1,000,000 to yet be divided. This may be

distributed over a period of from one to two weeks (or even longer in

some cases) before they become fully awakened.

The purpose of our study is to reveal more vividly to the reader
this part of

that our digestive apparatus more complicated than is generally thought,

is far
and needs as much respect for its delicate and intricate nature as any other part
of the body for the Glory of Jesus. Let us give Jesus glory in our body, in
our soul, and in our spirit. If our stomach is part of us, why not let it also
glorify Him who also redeemed it. In the last chapter of Revelation, when we
eat the new food from the new tree of life, we will then have our new redeemed
stomach to enjoy to the utmost this delicious food.

ENGLISH BROTHER TRIES FAST AND HAS BETTER OUTLOOK

Dear Brother in Christ:

I was glad to receive the books and pamphlets, which I have distributed
among my Christian friends, and I am especially delighted with the book,
“Atomic Power with God Thru Fasting and Prayer." This is just what we lack
in England. As soon as I received the book I started on a fast. Although I
work long hours every day, I feel so much better and my asthma is almost gone.
I have suffered terribly and have been prayed for, many times I was at my wit’s

end. Now, praise the Lord, I have the solution and there is no fear of fasting
any more. Jesus has given me a brighter outlook. I am so happy and thrilled
over what Jesus is doing for me through fasting and prayer. Soon I expect to
send you a testimony of a much longer fast than this one.
Yours in Christ,
John Martin
39 Leek Road, Weston Coyney
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, England.

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 NINE LAYERS OF THE INTESTINE
In order that the reader may be
more appreciative and thankful to Jkus
presenting
organs in his body, we are, herewith,
for one of the most magic-like
a section of the "INTESTINAL
MUCOUS MEMBRANE
for your observa-
than a page of paper in this
tion. The intestinal waU is not much thicker
ingenious
volume, but yet possess a most
structure, there are no less than nine
layers (1-9) that make up this life pro-
ducing structure. The uppermost, inner
layer consists of high columnar cells. The
a
exposed ends of these cells exhibit
which probably
bright striated edge is

of
of great significance in the absorption
the digested food. Among these cells are

others, shaped like goblets and filled with

called
a special protoplasmatic product
mucin. In the upper left corner a goblet

cell is shown in the act of pouring

out

its contents: in the opposite corner an

empty goblet cell is seen in the resting
stage. Goblet cells are the smallest

glands in the body. When fasting, these

cells and layers are also renovated, puri-

fied and cleansed. This is one of
the key

points to which demons can become at-

tracted to an individual. Many times
they attack and leave. This may go on
for many months or even years. Then a
weakened condition results from millions
of cells and villi becoming contaminated
through our “surfeiting” habits (Luke
21:34, also see Psalm 78) and failure to
fast, and demons gain foothold and an

ulcer, cancer, tumor or some other dis-

ease that may, or may not, bear a fancy

name, will develop. Our digestive tract
is one of the most important
and mys-
terious organs of the temple of the Holy
Ghost. Let us protect it and give it
proper vacations for the Glory of Jesus.

JESUS HAS GIVEN US FASTING FOR CLEAN LIVING

AND FAITH LIVING
doctor and
If it is for us to be healed today, then every
not the will of God
They would be counter to the
hospital is a reproach to the cause of Christ.
why go d^ors,
wiU of Jesus. If it isn’t the Lord’s will to heal us today—
to

why take medicine, why go to a hospital and try to get well?

When did the
the sick than the method of
Lord provide a less successful method to heal
persons.
FAITH HEALING in His day? Jesus is no respecter of
than He used

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 .

GLORIFIED FASTING

If He healed people in His day in answer to FAITH, He surely wants to heal

members of His body today. He, surely, does not want a diseased body.
The Literary Digest contained the statement that there were thirty thousand
doctors too many in the United States. (The inefficient, undesirable doctors)
I cannot believe that Jesus wants doctors, hospitals and drugs to take the
place of DIVINE HEALING TODAY. Efficient doctors and hospitals have
their place and can be a blessing to people who do
not have Jesus to lean upon.
It is a disgrace, however, to the medical profession that, with the number of

doctors we have, there are so many sick people. Surely, there must be some-
thing wrong. How many people are told what brought on their partciular ail-
ment.^ How many sick people are taught how to live clean lives, and how to
prevent disease.? How many diseased folk are told that FOOD ABSTENTION
is the GREATEST NATURAL CURATIVE AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN?

We might ask a question of these doctors. How much do you know about
Jesus Christ’s plain simple method of clean living through FASTING?
Both cancer and diabetes are on the increase. “One out of eight persons
will die of cancer this year,” states a government report. Fasting and right
Christian living will ward off and prevent these two ailments alone. Jesus can
and will heal them if present, WHEN UNBELIEF is not present.

METHODIST PASTOR FASTS FORTY DAYS—MIGHTY REVIVAL

Dear Brother Hall:
Praise the Lord, I was by His help able to carry through the forty-day and
night fast, (only water taken) . I am fifty-four and lost forty-five pounds. At
the beginning I weighed two hundred-ten pounds. I came down to one hun-
dred sixty-five.

I had some bilious trouble along with an ether-like taste, otherwise, I got
along nicely. I would say it was a most glorious experience, perhaps, the great-
est in my whole life.

I feel somehow that fasting for the glory of our Lord is the answer to many
of our problems; it will also bring the glorious success to revival campaigns.

I am glad to say that we are NOW IN THE MIDST OF A MIGHTY

CITY-WIDE REVIVAL —with Mr. Harper and Mr. Long, Christian business
men of Iowa.
Spiritually, I am much stronger, but, even at that, I always feel that I need
much more of the 'POWER OF CHRIST in my life.

This is my eighteenth day of the breaking-in period and I have been eating
soups and vegetables. I have regained about fifteen pounds. My ankles are
swollen a little bit but not noticeably.

I would like to know

might be possible for your evangelistic party to
if it

come to Clinton, maybe some time next summer for a Revival ? . . .

Oh yes, I have both of your books, 'Atomic Power With God’ and 'The
Fasting Prayer.’ They are very good.
Sincerely in the Master’s service,

J.
Howard Machlan, pastor of “The Methodist Church”
Qinton, Iowa.

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 YEABS
lADrS BBOXHEB DBCNKABD FOB THIBXy fasxing
deuvebed foe good afxeb twelve days

Dear Brother in Christ:

EIGHT YEA^
PRAYED FOR MY "DRUNKARD BROTHER FOR
I
A
THEN GOT DESPERATE
WITH SEEMINGLY NO RESULTS. I

for twelve days. On the secotid day

HIS DELIVERANCE and fasted to Jesus
It seemed to help me and
continued
of the fast I got sick and ate some
rice.

a total of twelve days. I drank

J
distdled watM
the fast ten days mote, making
water. I felt weak at tim«
which tasted much better than the city Greater
Oirist Jesus who strengtheneth me.
this prayer: "I can do all things in
me than he that is in the world.”
is He that is in

I did housework and was surprised that one could

all my
go on, as I ^
underweight. I am five feet six inches tall, weigh one
twenty-five pounds
feel like twenty-five young in the
hundred pounds, fifty-nine years old and
Spirit.

the fast my sister-in-law wrote a letter to me

Just thirty days after I broke
desire or
telling that my brother was
completely delivered from drink with no
temptation to drink any more and is —
serving the Lord.

and he is still free from the drinking demon. He

It is now six months later

was a drunkard for thirty years.

There is pleasure in fasting, knowing

that our prayers will U answered.
fast for, so I can see
I have other relatives
that I intend going into another

them also converted.

mouth became sore, Next time I
The fast was broken too rapidly and my
will eat more wisely.
In Him whom we love,

Mary C. Wilkie
Pasadena 3, Calif.

HOSPITAL
FASTING TO JESUS TWELVE DAYS KEPT ME FROM
Dear Brother:

One of your tracts came

went on a consecration fast.
my way and I

I had been suffering and ill

for nine months, and Jesm
just what I needed.
the end of a twelve-day fast, on the
healed me the first day of the fast. Near
weakness came over me. This s^en^
tenth day, my side grew sore and
great
have been suffering from for years. On the
was caused by a bad growth that I

seemed the soreness was tearing right out. Them

twelfth day of the fast, it

healed my infirmity. I thought I would

great relief came and Jesus completely
to have an operation but Jesus completely delivered
Lve to go to the hospital
soul and Spirit. I am so
me and now I am enjoying perfect health in body,
you for the tract.
thankful to the Lord. I thank
Sister D. A. Campbell

Hillier, Ontario, Canada.

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THE 1X)BD REWARDED ME OPENLY AFTER FASTING ELEVEN DAYS
Dear Brother Hall:
I was so very sick when I went on my eleven-day fast for Jesus. Poison
was all through my body and I needed the fast to clean up the lx)dy as well as
the soul. I vomited frequently, and took warm water. Even with warm
water (which helped), I still had vomiting spells, but I was able to
obtain rewards from our loving Saviour. He gloriously gave me the gift of the
Holy Spirit and a spiritual gift of the Spirit. The wells of living water just
flow through me nearly all the time. The Lord surely rewarded me openly.
I do wish you could come to Jacksonville, Florida, this winter. People
really need this light. I intend going on a longer fast soon.

In Jesus Christ,
Mrs. Olier Baumusta
Jacksnville, Florida.

One of the five million Gastric Glands

contained in the mucous membrane of

the stomach, which secrete pepsin,

rennin, and hydrochloric acid juice.

The Gastric Glands are another rea-

son why a protracted fast must be
broken slowly and carefully. These
five million glands in the wall of the
stomach are very industrious. When
eating, they produce three quarts of
secretion daily.

THE MEDICINE MAN

In South America, the wild savage
has his tribal medicineman or witch
doctor. In order to become a medicine
man, he has to live for weeks without
food, and then chews bark, roots and
plants. He also has to go through
a ritual of weird and wild maneuvers
before obtaining this high position in
the spirit realm. He is supposed to
control warfare, crop failures, floods
and nearly everything else, and is also
supposed to have great influence with
the spirit world. If through fasting,
a savage is made almost a God in his

tribe, how much more ought Christians

to fast to have special favor and pow-
er with their God?
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 CLOSING OF THE AGE SIGNS
flood they
"For as in the days that were before the
reference included FOOD and
.

i»o" Matt 24-39 The "DRINKING” in this

diinks as weU as alcoholic drinks.

There is not a bit of harm in ^ting
borage
of harm to the Christian s spiriti^i^
and drinking good food, but there is plenty ^e
continued without fasti^. In
when the Itog and drinking habit is
thing stronger language. TRe OVER-
21-34 we are told the same in
condition that shall be prevalent in these
CHARGED WITH SURFEITING”
day language. Stop! look! listen! My
days might sound like this in every
and drink and other drur&enness. It
coming will be in the midst of both food
so wrapped up with the cares of these pleasures that
is possible for you to be

an/out into the nostrils*(one reason for the faster’ s foul breath), ano^«
other twenty-five percent is
twenty-five percent is lost through the skin, and the
poisons from the nostrils.
lost through the kidneys. The “BONFIRE”
exudes

a satisfactory deodorant for the breath when fasting.

* A tiny menthol crystal is

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 WHY THERE ARE DIVI5I0N5

4. TRAVAIL FASTIW6 PRAVERZONE

WITHOUT OCCASIONAL FASTING

CARNALISH EXPLODES TH 15 IN TURN EVENTUAL^

DIVIDES THE BODY OF CHRIST

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 FASTING TWELVE DAYS — SINNERS CONVERTED TO JBStJS
Deax Brother Hall:
upon the subject of/“t-
Your tracts received proved to be most interesting
What a deception Satan usk, hold-
ins They helped me to fast twelve days.
testify that one helped physically, rather than
ing so m^y of us under. I can is

harmed while fasting.

t ji

increased—I have victory over and the deinl. The Lord

self, flesh
My faith
Him after the
rewarded me by giving me souls, and backsliders came back to
Please send some more literature that I can give to my Christian friends
fast.

and use to help enlighten others to the bigger

fasts.

May the Lord bless you in your work for Him.

Mary C. Wilkie
Pasadena, Calif.

AN ADVERSE TESTIMONY and THE AUTHOR'S REPLY

Dear Brother Hall:
would
I suppose you would not
publish an adverse testimony on fasting,

has not been as ^

Well, this may not be adverse after all, but it
•

you.?
you the circumstances, and you may be able to
If I may. I would like to tell

advise me.

began Sept, 28 last—on water alone. I kept

on with my ^ual
My fast
(A group of the
activities—with even more STRENUOUS
work than usual.

small church and Sunday School for the under-

Lord's people decided to build a
so we sisters
privileged children. could not afford to hire the work done,
We
worked along with the men on the building.) My
fast lasted twenty days. I

weak that I could s«rce

would not have stopped then, only I had become so
y
(carpentering with the men) after
walk. I finally stopped all the outside work
about the fourteenth day. I continued on with my housework for my husban
and myself.
I had expected to get ‘over the hump’ and be feeling stronger long before
this but the weakness persisted and grew worse. Water became so loathsome
to me, I could scarcely get it down at all The city water that I
and nauseating
changed to distilled water and
tried to drink the first week was chlorinated. I

this proved also the twenty-first day, I took a teasj^n

difficult to drink. On
of lemon juice in each cup of water and figured I had broken my fast.
warm
fruit juice very care-
You would say so, wouldn’t you? I then began taking
pulp and all. Later on, baked or stewed
fully, and after three days, oranges,
apples and clear soup. I have been on this diet two weeks now and expect to
go on for another week before eating normally.
real benefit physically. I have re-
The results: Iam beginning to feel a
gained seven of my seventeen pounds lost during the twenty days of fasting.

I had ulcers previously, but I expect them to be gone. On the other hand, my
in a startling manner the past three days. The
feet and ankles have swollen
swelling is now going down. have developed a bad case of piles. Constipa-
I

tion was present all during the fast and enemas .were of little help.
drawn very close to
But my real reason for undertaking the fast was to be
unto the Lord. I believe they
Jesus, and have all my loved ones brought closer

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 GLORIFIED FASTING

are saved, but there is a lot of worldliness in them. As yet, none of these
blessings have come to them or me. I am still trusting that my relatives will
soon be brought closer to Him.
Now, Brother Hall, I could go on, but I have already trespassed on too
much of your time. Did you ever hear of a case like mine? Can you advise me.
Or must I just continue to wait on the Lord? I will, of course, do this any-
way. I shall never give up until I receive the blessings I am so hungry for.
Thanking you for your interest, and the hanky.
Your sister by His grace,
(Mrs.) Elizabeth Robertson
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
THE AUTHOR^S ANSWER TO THIS LETTER FROM CANADA
November 12, 1947
Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson
Edmonton, Alberta,
Dear Sister Robertson:

Your
letter, under date of October 31, 1947, received. I am happy to learn
of your efforts in serving the Lord Jesus through fasting and prayer.
I intend using your letter and the answer to it in my new book, “Glorified
Fasting,” as you shall presently see.
I dislike “advising” folk what to do, so I will only present certain beneficial

suggestions for certain problems, and you either can take them or leave them.
Lighter work is recommended rather than the heavier work that you say you
did. I marvel
at you keeping up work like a carpenter on the building while
fasting. would seem like a very difficult thing for a person not fasting to do,
It

especially a woman. While it may not prove to be too detrimental, it would

necessarily leave you weakened, whether you were fasting or not. We dis-
courage it in our books. Ordinary average amount of work may be immaterial.
One should put most of their work in praying, and if the travailing prayer is
put forward as it should be for the best results in the fast, this will be as
heavy work as one will ever care to go into. It would be most likely that weak-
ness would grow worse under these conditions. I might also add that one does
not, under every circumstance, grow stronger day by day while fasting.
Distilled water is preferable to city water, you were right to change the
waters. The poisonous condition in the system caused the water to taste as it
did. One does not break a fast to add only one teaspoonful of lemon juice or
some salt to the water to make it taste less obnoxious. This small amount will
not affect the fast one way or other. Most hard water would contain that
equivalent of other minerals within the water. This will not break a fast.
You bloated because your system was not cleansed and you evidently ate
—
things in too large a quantity perhaps drank too much water. To remedy this
condition, take a large enema-bag full of water. If necessary, repeat soon after-
ward and take this once or twice daily, and do not drink water (or very little
until the bloating goes down). Space the meals much farther apart; take very
little, if any, milk and eat lightly or go on another fast, without water, if the

bloating or piles become severe. Taking hot baths is also a very valuable
remedy. If this information is considered and tried, there is no reason why the
average condition can not be eliminated.

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 THE A B C OF FASTING
far enough apart if agree-
The baked apples in limited quantities and spaced
taken before the sixth or seventh day (when the
able. are satisfactory-if not
breaking-in period.
fast is fifteen days along) of the
over
as to the spiritual results: If you have
In regard to your disappointment
travail prayer for your problems, 's
earnestly prayed and went into the
every rison to believe the Lord
will yet work out every thing your m
life foi

and keep believing. It has been less

His glory if you will have the patience
than a month since you fasted, and
many times one is rushing God too im-
patiently to always expect the Lord to
answer immediately at the conclusion of
believing faith, and I feel certain you will
the fast Please hold on to Him with
is a trial of one’s faith and
A
fast patience.
see greater victories than ever.

THE FOCUSING OF ATTENTION ON JESUS

Fasting relaxes the five senses and the conscious-
ness of the environment. The new focus of
concentration blazes right through to Jesus.
"As they ministered to the
Lord, aitd fasted, the
HOLY GHOST SAID,”
Acts 13:2

Historical developments
were in the making. The
church at Antioch in Syria
was waiting on God and
fasting when the Holy
Ghost spoke. This is
called the FIRST mission-

ary journey in the first

church. The Holy Ghost

will always speak to us
when we wait on Him in
fastings. Many times our
attentions are so taken up
that it is impossible to

hear the Holy Ghost when

He wants to speak. Fast-

ing enables us to set free

the natural, it prevents the
flesh from going into a
raid and puts the Holy
Spirit to work. One can
have the Holy Spirit with-
out having the full power
and operation of Him manifested in our lives.

we are not close enough to the

Please note: "The Holy Ghost SAID.” If
to help us become adjusted to
the
Holy Ghost, then there is "FASTING”
spiritual environment.
had fasted and
Again there was more fasting and prayer: “And when they
prayed.” Acts 13:3. A revival began and Jesus was
preached.

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 LADY IN NEWFOUNDLAND FASTS TWENTY-THREE DAYS
Dear Brother Hall:
Last Spring I received fasting, and after studying
some of your writings on
the Bible I began wonderful hidden truth. In May of 1947, I
to see this
fasted for only six days. I had a desperate time and my eyes were just be-

ginning to open up to this wonderful truth. About two weeks later, I again
began to fast and reached twenty-three days. My bowels did not move during
that time, so you see how ignorant I was. Now, I have your books and its
teachings are helping me more all the time.
I was reproached, laughed at and persecuted as they did some of those
who fasted in the Bible days. (Psalm 109).

For eight long years I was bleeding from the womb. At times, I was al-
most without blood. My heart, nerves and head were in a terrible condition.
My bones were soft, the nails and lips were pale. How I suffered in body and
mind. I was desperate in agony and fear. Despair and dreadful days and
nights of longing for the termination of this life were spent in hopelessness.
I used to think about the time when the birds would sing over my grave, and

this gave me some relief of mind. But, Hallelujah, my ways are not God's
ways, praise Him forever. Jesus gave me such a wonderful and glorious victory
after the twenty-three days of fasting. The color has returned to my finger
nails and lips. My flesh is taking on a natural rosy youthful color. I feel like

a new person. Since I have been revived, I can now fast for others.
My brother next door has also started a fast . . .

Flossie Winsor, Triton, Newfoundland.

A FAMINE WITH FOOD

With stomachs packed, people are still in famine. Yes, a famine in days
of plenty. Here is the scripture:
BEHOLD THE DAYS COME
(Saith the Lord God)
WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LAND
I
NOT A FAMINE OF BREAD NOR A THIRST FOR WATER
BUT OF HEARING THE WORDS OF THE LORD
Amos 8:11
This scripture clearly indicates the trend of the very day we live in. In
prophecy, nearly three thousand years ago, Amos predicted a condition that
would be prevailing where the Lord’s people would have plenty of food, but
the lack of spiritual bread of the words of the Lord would result in famine.
The condition, of course, is the failure of the Lord’s people to seek Him in
Fasting and Prayer. When an ever present habit,
gluttony is we lose sight of
the spiritual and become unknowingly famished for same.
”Of hearing the words of the Lord.” We can not HEAR the words of the
Lord when we are satiated and gross ftom continually stuffing ourselves. This
therefore, leads us into a most deplorable state of affairs.
In behalf of a world-wide revival, before it will be too late, we ask the
reader to join with thousands of others in fasting and prayer, NOW!
Please send in names and addresses of Christians and we will mail free
literature on subject.

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Large colored chart showing lengths of fasts . . . . $ .25

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(ALL), “40 DAY FASTING TESTIMONIES.”
Most people after fasting 40 days, say, “I just begin to live.” Will be ready
January, 1949. Price includes large variety of sermons on subject . . $1.00

All books different.

NON-SECTARIAN INTERDENOMINATIONAL
By FRANKLIN HALL
Order from your bookseller or address all
communications to permanent address of:

FRANKLIN HALL
Box 217, North Park San Diego 4, Calif.
Printed In U. S. A.
Free tracts will be given for distribution to Christians.
Contributions accepted.
Distributor for books in England:
Birmingham Central Bible Depot
195 Yardley Fields Road, Birmingham 25, England
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