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The Widow's Shoes
A poor woman-a widow with an invalid son-a member of the church, could not attend church, or the neighborhood prayer-meetings, for the want of shoes. She asked the Lord for the shoes. That very day, the village…
Divine Impression
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The Influence of a Mother's Prayers
More than thirty years ago, one lovely Sabbath morning, about eight young men, students in a law school, were walking along the banks of a stream that flows into the Potomac river, not far from the city of Washington.…
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Married to a Drunkard
She arose suddenly in the meeting, and spoke as follows: "Married to a drunkard! Yes, I was married to a drunkard. — Look at me! I am talking to the girls." We all turned and looked at her. She was a wan woman, with…
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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…
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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…
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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 against the work of God, which was shaking that whole section of country like an…
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They Are Not Strangers, Mamma
Not long ago I stood by the deathbed of a little girl. From her birth she had been afraid of death. Every fiber of her body and soul recoiled from the thought of it. Don't let me die," she said;" don't let me die. Hold…
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I'm So Glad You Have Come!
I believe it to be a great characteristic of the American heart, that it clings to home and mother. I remember passing over a battlefield, and seeing a man just dying. His mind was wandering. His spirit was no longer on…
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Prayer Answered for a Debt of Ninety Dollars
A few years ago we owed a-man ninety dollars. When it came due we were unable to pay it. We went to him and asked his forgiveness, telling him our circumstances. He was a Christian, and manifested a Christian spirit in…
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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 Queen Elizabeth, die terrible Spanish Armada was scattered or destroyed in answer to…
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Miss Carrie Webb's Story of Her Restoration to Health by Prayer
Miss Carrie C. Webb, who believes that she experienced faith-cure recently, while sojourning at Northport, L. I., has returned to her home, 416 Gold-street, Brooklyn, and many friends and neighbors have called to see…
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Special Answers to Prayer
Our old friend, J. Baker, now preaching at Hartford, Mich., who has for years trusted the Lord for all things, both temporal and spiritual, sends us the following: At the Raisin Center campground, August, 1886, a…
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Can I Be Saved?
Away on the western coast of England there stands a steep rock that is known to everybody as' the "Lady's Rock." At high water it is surrounded by the sea; but at low water it stands upon a sandy beach, and is easily…
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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…
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The Lord's Way of Sending Help
A few years ago we were led out to pray for means to make a payment on our home, in Grand Rapids, Mich. The amount was one hundred dollars, and it was due in two weeks. We had no way of getting the money; and, realizing…