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PROTECTED BY ANGELS A good clergyman was once sent to a wild and dangerous part of Australia on an errand of duty and traveled up to the place, he was too poor to be in any great danger from bush-rangers or robbers, but as he came back he had to bring in his saddle-bags aContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

 PREVAILING PRAYER OF A CHILD At the close of a prayer-meeting, the pastor observed a little girl, about twelve years of age, remaining upon her knees, when most of the congregation had retired. Thinking the child had fallen asleep, he touched her, and told her it was time to return home. To his surprise, heContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

PREVAILING PRAYER FOR A REVIVAL We knew a preacher, still living, who was appointed to the charge of a church in Springfield, Ill. The church seemed very much depressed. It’s life was at a low ebb. It was in the midst of the harvest, in the hot weather, when things seemed most depressed. The pastor,Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

PRAYING FOR WOOD E. B. Slade tells an interesting instance of answered prayer. One cold winter he was forty miles away from home, holding revival services, when, in the midst of a terrible snowstorm, during which travel was almost wholly impossible, his wife, at home, ran out of wood. To save the little that remained,Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

PRAYERS ANSWERED FOR RAIN Within two blocks of the Pacific Mission, in Chicago, is one of our large depots, the Rock Island and Lake Shore. Here is a good field for labor. One night, when inviting one and another to the mission, a. lady answered: “We are or our way to Oberlin.” “The place,” IContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”