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...
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The Heaven Built Wall
In the campaign of Napoleon in Russia, while the French army was retreating from Moscow, there lay in a poor, low cottage, in a little...
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Triumphant Death of Three Children
Three children of Brother and Sister I.L. Miller, of Sycamore, O., died about the beginning of 1893, of diphtheria. Brother Miller wrote...
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Instances of the Power of Prayer
The instances in which, in answer to prayer, God has sent remarkable deliverances to people, are numerous and striking. In the days of...
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The Dying Boy
But I have another anecdote to tell. It was Ralph Wallace who told me of this one. A certain gentleman was a member of the Presbyterian...
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George Müller of Bristol, England
This mighty man of faith is too well known to the Christian world to need any introduction from us. We quote the following from a brief...
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The Escape of the Spree
Mr. D. L. Moody and others, who were on the disabled steamer Spree, believe that the vessel was providentially saved in answer to prayer....
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A Dying Child's Prayer for Her Drunken Father
A child from a poor family had an intemperate father, who often used to abuse his wife and children. This child had been to the...
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How Three Sunday-School Children Met Their Fate
When the Lawrence Mills were on fire a number of years ago—I don’t mean on fire, but when the mill fell in—the great mill fell in, and...
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He Blesses God for the Faith of His Girl
“I came home one night very late,” says the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, in his Marvels of Prayer, “and had gone to bed to seek needed rest....
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Remarkable Experience of C. H. Spurgeon
On his fiftieth birthday, Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was interviewed in reference to his long and eventful ministerial life, especially as to...
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A Most Miraculous Escape
Mrs. C. Chipperfield, of Springfield, Ohio, sent us, in 1887, an account of several very clear and definite answers to prayer for the...
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The Prodigal
The Rev. Theodore Clapp, for many years a minister of religion in the city of New Orleans, narrates the following incident, which...
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A Lesson for Mothers
A little girl once said: “Mother, does God ever scold?” She had seen her mother, under circumstances of strong provocation, lose her...
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A Manifestation of Parental Love
There are some who reject Christianity because it seems to them incredible that God would have taken so much trouble, as the New...
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A Mother's Faith - The Life of Beate Paulus
In a sketch of the life of Beate Paulus, the wife of a German minister who lived on the borders of the Black Forest, are several...
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Little Jennie's Sickness and Death - By Her Mother
Little Jennie was eight years old, March 30, 1886. The following April, she was taken very sick, and from that time until June 4, she...
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The Dying Babe
The following extract from an anonymous contribution in the New York Methodist, tells a story which many parents could adopt as their...
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The Dying Newsboy
In a dark alley in the great city of New York, a small, ragged boy might be seen. He appeared to be about twelve years old, and had a...
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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...
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