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THE WIDOW’S PRAYER ANSWERED A captain’s widow, whom I knew for many years of our chapel, was much concerned for the conversion of her son, who was a sailor. For a long time he had promised to be a comfort and help to his mother; but through the influence of bad companions he became veryContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE STOWAWAY On board an English steamer, a little ragged boy, aged nine years, was discovered on the fourth day of the voyage out from Liverpool to New York, and carried before the first mate, whose duty it was to deal with such cases. When questioned as to his object in being stowed away, andContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE SECRET OF JAMES CAUGHEY’S WONDERFUL SUCCESS This wonderful evangelist was known to only a few of the present generation. He died at a good old age in New Brunswick, N.J., but two or three years before the publication of this book. In one of his books, Mr. Caughey says: “I am now fully persuadedContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

THE QUAKER WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT We clip the following from Lossing’s Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War, Vol. 3, p. 79. It is certainly a remarkable evidence of God’s power to deliver them that put their trust in him. — Editor. There were some Friends or Quakers from South Carolina in the battleContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

The PRODIGAL Theodore Clapp, for many years a minister of religion in the city of New Orleans, narrates the following incident, which occurred within his experience:Several years ago there was a lady, mother-, residing in one of the Northern States, distinguished for her wealth, social position, and religious character. She had a favorite son, forContinue reading “Remarkable Answers to Prayer”