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Prayer for the Preacher
John Livingston, of Scotland, once spent a whole night in prayer with a company of his brethren, for God’s blessing, all of them...


The Stone Chair
On Thanksgiving morning, six young men stood in quiet conversation, on the corner of Clark and Washington streets, in the great and busy...


How the Prayer of Faith Reached a Family
A day or two after our conversion, we called at a neighbor’s, and while there heard the lady of the house say some very hard things...


Carletta and the Merchant
“If I could have your faith, Hawkins, gladly would I - but I was born a skeptic. I cannot look upon God and the future as you do.” So...


Miraculously Healed
We extract the following from the Methodist Magazine for July, 1827, being an account of a conversion that occurred in a revival of...


A Mob Quieted in Answer to Prayer
In the early part of the summer of 1882, while we were holding a camp-meeting at C---, a drunken mob came on the ground, and disturbed...


Translation of Bishop Haven
On Saturday morning, January 3, 1880, in Malden, Massachusetts, Bishop Gilbert Haven’s physician said that his last day had come, and...


The Converted Infidel
Some two miles from the village of C., on a road that wound in among the hills, stood a great white house. It was beautifully situated...


Miracle of Healing
From “Remarkable Answers to Prayer,” by Patton, the following extract is made: The author has received a letter from James H. Black-man...


A Vision of Heaven
That heaven is real there can be no doubt. That others beside St. Paul have been allowed a view of Paradise, is evident from the...


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...


Awful Providences
The following are selected from a list of incidents recorded by Thomas Graham, the noted revivalist preacher, of the Erie Conference of...


The Conversion of Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission, says that about 1830 his father became so interested in the spiritual condition of China,...


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...


Charlie Coulson, The Christian Drummer Boy
Two or three times in my life God in His mercy touched my heart, and twice before my conversion I was under deep conviction. During the...


And Dying is but Going Home
Wending her way every Sabbath to a school in the west end of London, might have been seen a young girl, named Mary Jane Howes. Attached...


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....
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