At a recent meeting, after the altar call Sister Etter had been praying for many 'round the altar and God wonderfully healed them all. As she was praying for a lady, Sister Etter noticed there was a scorpion laying two inches from her hand. She reached to knock it off, and it stung her. The pain, she said, seemed to run all through her and go to her heart. Her finger turned red, and the Lord showed her that it was a fatal and poisonous sting. Nothing but the Lord could help her.

A brother standing nearby killed the scorpion, and several of the saints who saw what had happened went right to praying. Sister Etter claimed the promise that we should have power over serpents and scorpions, and all fear left her (Luke 10:19). She hung on to the Lord, and His promises, and the pain stopped. She went right on praying for the sick, and nothing was left but the mark of the sting.

--Carrie Judd Montgomery 1925