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 BISHOP SIMPSON’S RECOVERY Bishop Bowman, of the M.E. Church, gives the following instance from his own experience: ” In the fall of 1858, whilst visiting Indiana, I was at an annual conference where Bishop Janes presided. We received a telegram that Bishop Simpson was dying. Said Bishop Janes: “Let us spend a few moments inContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

BEHOLD, I SEND YOU FORTH AS SHEEP AMONG WOLVES How continually, as we follow the Lord closely, do His own blessed teachings, His own words, come with full force to our memory, clothed with life and power! One such experience I shall never forget. We were holding tabernacle meetings in Shiawassee county, Mich. One night,Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

AWFUL PROVIDENCES The following are selected from a list of incidents recorded by Thomas Graham, the noted revivalist preacher, of the Erie Conference of the M.B. church. After his death they were found entered, under the above heading, in a small pass-book, as facts worthy of preservation, from an experience of almost fifty years inContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

ANNIE AND VANIE’S FIRST REAL PRAYER Two sisters, one about five years of age, the other older, were accustomed to go each Saturday morning, some distance from home, to get chips and shavings from a cooper shop. One morning, with basket well filled, they were returning home; when the elder one was taken suddenly sickContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

AN EFFECTUAL PRAYER “No,” said the lawyer, “I shan’t press your claim against that man; you can get some one else to take your case, or you can withdraw it, just as you please.” “Think there isn’t any money in it?” “There would probably he some money in it, but it would, as you know,Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”