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THE INFLUENCE OF A MOTHER’S PRAYERS More than thirty years ago, one lovely Sunday morning, about eight young men, students in a law school, were walking along the banks of a stream that flows into the Potomac river, not far from the city of Washington. They were going to a grove, in a retired place,Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE HEAVEN BUILT WALL In the campaign of Napoleon in Russia, while the French army was retreating from Moscow, there lay in a poor, low cottage, in a little village, an invalid boy. This village was exactly in the course of the retreating army, and already the reports of its approach had reached and excitedContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE GREATEST REVIVAL OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA Dr. Lyman Beecher said of the great revival in Rochester, N.Y., conducted by Mr. Finney, that it was the greatest revival in the Christian era. During Mr. Finney’s evangelistic ministry, hundreds of thousands were converted to God through his labors, joined to those of the church. His LecturesContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE GOLDEN RULE EXEMPLIFIED Early one morning while it was yet dark, a poor man came to my door and informed me that he had an infant child very sick, which he was afraid would die. He desired me to go to his home, and, if possible, prescribe some medicine to relieve it. “For,” saidContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

Mr George Henry Cavell was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England on 4 December 1889. His parents were George Henry Cavell (1863-1927), a marine fireman, and Alice Florence Purkiss (1865-1945), both Hampshire natives who had married in Southampton in 1888. One of a reported thirteen children, his only known siblings were: Ellen Jane (1884-1959, later MrsContinue reading “George Henry Cavell”