A LITTLE QUAKER BOY’S PRAYER RIGHT OUT IN MEETING.

A little Quaker boy, about six years old, after sitting, like the rest of the congregation, in silence, all being afraid to speak first, as he thought, got up on the seat, and, folding his arms over his breast, murmured in a clear, sweet voice, just loud enough to be distinctly heard on the front seat, “I do wish the Lord would make us all gooder, and gooder, and gooder, till there is no bad left.”

WHAT THE LITTLE CHILDREN MAY DO.

At family prayer, little Mary, one evening when all was silent, looked anxiously in the face of her back-sliding father, who had ceased to pray in his family, and said to him with quivering lips, “Pa, is God dead?”

“No, my child—­why do you ask that?”

“Why, Pa, you never talk to him now as you used to do,” she replied.

These words haunted the father until he was mercifully reclaimed.

THE UNBELIEVING FATHER LED TO GO TO CHURCH.

An unbelieving father came home one evening and asked where his little girl was.  “She has gone to bed,” said his wife.  “I’ll just go and give her one kiss,” said the father, for he loved his little daughter dearly.  As he stood at the door of her bedroom, he heard some one praying.  It was his little Jane, and he heard her say, “Do, God Almighty, please lead daddy to hear Mr. Stowell preach.”

She had often asked him to go, and he had always said, “No, no, my child.”  After listening to her prayer, he determined, the next time she asked him, to accompany her, which he did, and heard a sermon which took his attention and pricked his conscience.  On leaving the church, he clasped the hand of his little girl in his, and said, “Jane, thy God shall be my God, and thy minister shall be my minister.”  And the man became a true follower of the Lord.

A CHILD’S PRAYER FOR RELIEF

An interesting little daughter of a professor in Danville, Kentucky, in the Summer of 1876, in eating a watermelon, got one of the seeds lodged in her windpipe.  The effort was made to remove it, but proved ineffectual, and it was thought that the child would have to be taken to one of the large cities to have an operation performed by a skillful surgeon.  To this she was decidedly opposed, and pleaded with her mamma to tell her if there was no other way of relief.  Finally, in order to quiet her childish fears, her Christian mother told her to ask God to help her.

The little one went into an adjoining room and offered her prayer to God to help her.  Shortly thereafter she came running to her mamma with the seed in her hand, and her beautiful and intelligent face lighted up with joy.  In response to the eager inquiry of the mother, the little one said that she had asked God to help her, and while she was praying she was taken with a severe cough, in which she threw up the seed.