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JOHN BYERS’ PREVAILING PRAYER Maggie, an Irish girl of about twenty years, burned herself by lighting the morning fire with kerosene. Dr. Benjamin, the leader of the infidel club here, was called, who bound her up in cotton and oil. A neighbor sent for John Byers, an old Scotch shoemaker, to pray with her. AsContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

JESSIE FINDING JESUS A little girl in a wretched tenement in New York stood by her mother’s death-bed, and heard her last words: “Jessie, find Jesus.” When her mother was buried, her father took to drink, and Jessie was left to such care as a poor neighbor could give her. One day she wandered offContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

I’LL NEVER STEAL AGAIN – IF FATHER KILLS ME FOR IT A friend of mine, seeking for objects of charity, got into the room of a tenement house. It was vacant. He saw a ladder pushed through the coiling. Thinking that perhaps some poor creature had crept up there, he climbed the ladder, drew himselfContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

INSTANTLY HEALED OF RUPTURE During the fall of 1888 we witnessed the remarkable healing of Brother J.S. Whiting, then a pastor at Hilliards, Mich. The night of his cure we were wonderfully led out in prayer. We give the circumstances in his own words, as published in the Holiness Record a short time afterwards. HeContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

INSTANTANEOUSLY HEALED Brother E. B. Williams, of Warren, Ill., writes us of instantaneous recovery of a woman in answer to prayer as follows “In the year 1830, in the town of Shelby, Orleans county N.Y., a woman of middle age lay very sick for a time under the doctor’s care without any benefit and pronouncedContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”