The Wonders of Prayer Part 46

HEALING OF SOUL AND BODY.

"I have reason to rejoice that I have been greatly blessed in answer to your prayers. Two young lady friends of mine have been enabled to claim the blessed promise of full salvation, not only to the healing of the soul, _but the body also_.

My own experience helped them: On the 16th of January, last, in answer to constant prayer offered by myself and friends, I arose from what all thought to be my death-bed, and walked all over the house; also many miles on the streets during the next few months. I did not claim the full extent of the promise as I craved only relief from such terrible pain, as was then my portion to bear. I think G.o.d in his goodness would have granted full restoration to health, as I was so anxious to work for Him, but I pleaded with Him _not to heal my body_ until my mind had had the discipline I felt it needed."

AN INTEMPERATE HUSBAND SAVED BY PRAYER.

"Some three weeks since, I asked you for my intemperate husband, that you would pray that he might be _willing to be saved. He has been made willing to give up the intoxicating cup,_ and says he has _not any desire_ for it. To G.o.d be all the praise."

RELIGION LOST, RELIGION REGAINED.

"I wrote you two months since, asking an interest in your prayers for a young man that experienced religion a year ago, but failed to confess Christ by uniting with the church. Your prayers have been answered. Last night my heart was made to rejoice by seeing him confess Christ, before the world. He is now happy in the love of Jesus, and will he useful and active in the church."

DRUNKARDS REFORMED.

"Return thanks to G.o.d for two men signing the pledge, about one month ago, who have been enabled to keep it through great temptation. _They were drunkards for over twenty years_. Their reformation was in answer to a praying mother's prayers, and to the prayers for them at your meeting."

A HOPELESS CASE.

"A little less than a year ago, prayers were desired at the Fulton street prayer-meeting for a man whose case seemed wholly hopeless.

Shortly after he gave up drink, and became a Christian; is now a happy man, and has a happy family.

"Please carry this thank offering to G.o.d, that he has given us such a Savior, and such a way to escape from temptation."

A HARVEST OF CONVERSIONS.

"Last Fall, I wrote you to pray for us. You did pray. The result was a wonderful increase of spiritual life--_fifty conversions."_

A FAMILY MADE HAPPY.

"Two years ago, I wrote asking your prayers for a dear sister, brothers and nieces. Since then, one brother, about sixty, and my two nieces have been converted, and are now rejoicing in a Savior's love."

THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

"About two years ago we requested your prayers for the Holy Spirit upon a revival work then in progress in our church." _The Lord answered us_ by giving us _over four score souls."_

HEARTS MADE GLAD.

"We return most hearty thanks for the answer to prayer given. I wrote more than a year ago last August of our low state. Last Winter twenty young persons were converted, and continue to work faithfully."

GIVEN UP BY MAN, BUT RESCUED BY THE GREAT PHYSICIAN.

"The writer was himself raised up by prayer, from the gates of death, offered by the heart and lips of one who is now a sufferer. _Two of the most skillful physicians in the land had given me up_."

THE STORY OF A WAYWARD LIFE, SAVED BY PRAYER.

"In the last fourteen years I have stood beside the deathbeds of eight who were near and dear to me, and the last words that each spoke to me as they were leaving the world were, "_Will you not meet me in Heaven_?"

I have been a wayward child. Eight years ago I became addicted to strong drink. I became a drunkard, which brought my dear old father down to an untimely grave. I made a promise on his death-bed that I would not drink any more, and for six long years I kept that promise, but at last I broke it. I again became a drunkard, which began to tell on my wife. I promised her that I would not drink, but that promise was broken time after time. Within this year, in the week of prayer, I attended the prayer-meetings, asked prayers for me, and on the night following, I erected the family altar, which had for four years been neglected, and, thank G.o.d, it is there yet. I am now trusting in the promise that _He will not let his children be tempted beyond what they are able to endure_."

A WONDERFUL CURE.

An earnest Christian woman who believed the Lord greater than any earthly physician, cries, "_O, praise the Lord. He hath delivered me in six troubles, and in the seventh he hath not forsaken me_." "And the seventh was the worst. By the help of _eight physicians_, and in answer to prayer, partly of this meeting, a fearful tumor has been taken from me weighing twelve pounds, with three gallons of water in the sack. O, praise the Lord, for He is good, and his mercy endureth forever."

This case was one of extraordinary risk and apparently impossible achievement; but the Lord gave faith to try, and skill to win the victory. No earthly power could have dared the venture.

GIVEN UP.

"Our pastor, after four months' sickness, preached to us last evening the most solemn sermon I ever heard, and says he was raised up in answer to prayer. The physicians gave him up several times, and say they have never known such an instance of recovery."

CHAINS BROKEN AT LAST.

"Long months, week by week, I have asked you to pray that my husband might be saved from the eternal doom of a drunkard. G.o.d has mercifully given him strength to break the fetters that bound him fast."

BETTER THAN WE EXPECTED.

"We asked your prayers; they have been answered. They were answered more and better than we had hoped or dreamed they could be."