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“DOES THIS RAILROAD LEAD TO HEAVEN?” In traveling we often meet with persons of different nationalities and languages; we also meet with incidents of various character, some sorrowful, and others joyful and instinctive. One of the latter character I witnessed recently while traveling upon the cars. The train was going west, and the time wasContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

WILLIAM CLOWES, THE SPIRITUAL MOUNTAINEER This man of God knew how to pray. George Lamb, in his memorial of him, says: “On a certain missionary tour he walked one day twenty-four miles, and while on the road, he said: “I fell into a profound meditation on the fall of man, his departure from original holiness,Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

TRANSLATION OF BISHOP HAVEN On Saturday morning, January 3, 1880, in MaIden, Massachusetts, Bishop Gilbert Haven’s physician said that his last day had come, and that it would do him no harm to see his friends. Many were near at hand. Others were summoned by telegram and by messenger, until groups gathered around that couch,Continue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THEY WHO TRUST THE LORD SHALL NOT WANT Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, whose husband is a member of the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who was for many years U. S. Minister to Denmark, and afterwards to Switzerland, and has also filled the chair of Systematic Theology in Boston University, has related forContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THERE’S THE LORD’S ANSWER Many years ago, when in my country charge, I returned one afternoon from a funeral, fatigued with the day’s work. After a long ride, I had accompanied the mourners to the churchyard. As I neared my stable door, I felt a strange prompting to visit a poor widow, who, with herContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”