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THE DYING BOY I have an anecdote to tell. It was Ralph Wallace who told me of this one. A certain gentleman was a member of the Presbyterian Church. His little boy was sick. When he went home his wife was weeping, and she said: “Our boy is dying; he has had a change forContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE CONVERTED INFIDEL Some two miles from the village of C., on a road that wound in among the hills, stood a great white house. It was beautifully situated upon a gentle slope facing the south, and overlooking a most charming landscape. Away in the distance a mountain lifted itself against the clear blue sky.Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

The Conversion Of Hudson Taylor Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission, says that about 1830 his father became so interested in the spiritual condition of China, that he was led to pray that if God ever gave him a son, he might be privileged to labor as a missionary there; a prayer unknown toContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE CLOUDS STAYED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER In his “Memorials of Methodism in Virginia,” Dr. W.W. Bennett relates the following incidents in the life of John Easter, one of the pioneer ministers who labored there nearly one hundred years ago. He is represented as being the most powerful exhortatory preacher of his day. His faithContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE CHILD-HEROINE OF NEW BRUNSWICK We have read a touching incident about three little children, who, last autumn, late in the season, wandered alone in a dreary region of New Brunswick. The sun had already sunk in the west, and the gloom of evening was spreading itself over the surrounding country. The night came onContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”