“The letter contained the sum I wanted, and five shillings over.  It is now eighteen years ago.  I never knew who sent it.  God only knows.  Thus God delivered me out of all my distress.  To Him be all the praise.”

PRAYING FOR A LOST POCKET-BOOK.

A contributor to The Christian writes as follows: 

“A few months since I lost my pocket-book, containing money and papers of a large amount—­more than I felt able to lose—­and which I should feel the loss of, as I was owing at that time about the same amount.

“On the day of my loss, I had been from home about a mile and a half, and it was about 9 o’clock in the evening, when I returned.  And it was not till then that I ascertained my loss.

“My health was very poor, and the prospect of regaining the lost pocket-book was quite uncertain; it was so dark that I thought it would be impossible for me to find it.  Consequently I determined to remain awake during the night, and at 3 o’clock in the morning search for it, and if possible, find it before any one should pass over the road.

“The seeming impossibility of finding it, and the reflections consequent upon the loss of the money were so unpleasant to me that I was led to make it a subject of prayer, fully trusting that in some way God would so direct that I should come in possession of it.  If so, I determined to give him $25 of it.

“As soon as I had formed this purpose, all that unpleasant feeling left me, and I did not admit a single doubt but I should get it.

“Accordingly, at 3 o’clock in the morning I made a thorough search, but could not find it.  Yet my faith in God’s guiding hand did not fail me, and I believed that my trust would be realized.

“While I was thus thinking of the certainty of the fulfillment of the promises of the Gospel to the believer, I was called on by a gentleman, a leading business man of the place, who came to know if I had lost anything.

“I told him I had lost my pocket-book.  He wanted to know how much it contained.  I told him.  He said his son had occasion to pass early on that morning, and had found it in the road, and that in all probability I should otherwise have lost it, as two men passed by immediately after it was found.

“Thus God found it and returned it to me.”

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LIVES OF FAITH AND TRUST

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