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A MOST MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Mrs. C. Chipperfield, of Springfield, Ohio, sent us, in 1887, an account of several very clear and definite answers to prayer for the supply of temporal needs, received during her Christian experience of about ten years, during the greater part of which time she was a widow; and added: “I wouldContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

A MOB QUIETED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER In the early part of the summer of 1882, while we were holding a camp-meeting at C—-, a drunken mob came on the ground, and disturbed the meeting by their profanity and quarreling. They came armed with revolvers, and were determined to break up the meeting. Not havingContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

A MANIFESTATION OF PARENTAL LOVE There are some who reject Christianity because it seems to them incredible that God would have taken so much trouble, as the New Testament represents him to have done, for the salvation of creatures so infinitely beneath Him as we are. They forget that the New Testament teaches also thatContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

A MAN WHO LACKED MORAL COURAGE A few years ago I went to close a meeting, and said: “Are there any here who would like to have me remember them in prayer? I would like to have them rise!” And there was a man rose, and when I saw him stand up, my heart leapedContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

A GUIDING VOICE A touching story came to us from Minnesota. A farmer, living on the edge of one of the many lakes of that state, started to cross it in a small sail-boat one evening after dark. The wind changed, and a gust overturned the boat when he was in the middle of theContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”