Lester Sumrall on Stephen Jeffries and Pioneers video

Stephen would jump off the platform, run to the back, curse rheumatoid arthritis, for example, and scream, "Come out of him." People said you could hear bones pop for approximately thirty feet around as the person's bones began to relocate. Howard Carter told me of being in the auditorium one night whan a young man came along with one leg that just dangled, because it had never grown. Stephen Jeffreys put him on the platform and said, "Leg! I tell you, grow, in Jesus' name!" Thousands of people watched as that young man's leg grew out eighteen inches. Carter was a very conservative man in a country of conservative people. However, he said the people went berserk. He said, "Brother Sumrall, they did everything except stand on their hands. They jumped. They ran. They screamed!" When people are healed through prayer, it is sometimes very difficult to stay humble, because people praise you, adore you, and give you all the money they have. Stephen became very wealthy. Carter told me that he heard Stephen Jeffreys stand before thousands of people in Africa and say, "Ladies and gentlemen, the world is at my feet to worship me."

Stephen Jeffries 

He continued to preach his very simple sermons for some time, and they still were followed by remarkable healings. But the wealth began to affect him. In order to look more like a minister and less like a coal miner, he began to wear the attire of a Roman Catholic priest with vestments. By the time I returned to England in 1936, however, Stephen was sick. I took a train to Wales to see him, because he had followed stories of my missionary tours with Carter through Tibet, Java, Siberia, and Russia. He wanted to meet me. He had rheumatoid arthritis. I had to sit on the floor to look up into his face, and what a sweet face he did have! His head and neck were kinked over. His arms were twisted and his shoulders were twisted. As tears ran down his face, he said, "I'm so sorry to have let this number one thing that I delivered people from come upon me." I said, "I'm so glad to meet you. I have heard of all of your great revivals, and I have met people healed in those revivals in America, Australia, and different places. I just had to come see you." He said, "Lester, it has been weeks since any preacher has come into this room. Not one pastor whom I gave a church to has come to see me." "That is all right," I replied, "God sends in those who have a craving for the same kind of anointing that you used to have. I want you to know I will remember this day as one of the happiest in my life." For several hours, I stayed and enjoyed the presence of a man who once operated under a great anointing and power, although he had lost it. Later, I asked my mentor, Howard Carter, how this could happen. He said, "Lester, God will not permit His servants to have the gold or the glory" [that belongs to Him]. Out of possible ignorance, this boy from the mines of Wales accepted the glory that was lavished upon him by thousands of people. Stephen died soon after that, but he told me many things that have helped me. Numerous churches had been started by Stephen out of revivals, but not one of the pastors from those churches ever came to see himin his last illness. However, I learned from his example possibly one of the greatest lessons of my ministry. I try to pass it on to those young men who look to me for advice: Stephen Jeffreys lost his power because no one had taught him not to touch God's gold or His glory. - Dr Lester Sumrall ( The Pioneer’s Of Faith ) - JESUS SAVES