“But how do you know He hears you?”

Putting her little hand to her heart, she said, “I know He does, because there is something here that tells me so.”

MY HEART TALKED.

A child six years old, in a Sunday school, said:  “When we kneel down in the school-room to pray, it seems as if my heart talked.”

WHY, SIR, I BEGGED.

A little boy, one of the Sunday school children in Jamaica, called upon the missionary and stated that he had lately been very ill, and in his sickness often wished his minister had been present to pray with him.

“But, Thomas,” said the missionary, “I hope you prayed.”  “Oh, yes, sir.”  “Did you repeat the collect I taught you?” “I prayed.”  “Well, but how did you pray?” “Why, sir, I begged.”

A LITTLE CHILD’S PRAYER FOR HEALING.

A very little child, who had but recently learned to talk, and the daughter of a Home missionary, had been for weeks troubled with a severe cough, which was very severe in its weakness upon her.  At last her father said to her, “Daughter, ask Jesus, the good Lord, to heal you.”

Putting up her little hands as she lay in bed, she said, “Dear Jesus, will oo please to cure me, and do please tell papa what to give me.”

The father, who was listening, thought several times of “syrup of ipecac” but did not connect it immediately with the prayer.  At last the thought came so often before him, that he felt, “Well, it will do no harm, perhaps this is what the Lord wants me to give her.”  He procured it, administered it, and in three hours the little child’s cough had wholly ceased, and she was playing on the floor with the other children.  A most singular feature is the fact that the same medicine was administered at other times and had no effect in relief.

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THE BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING

“Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.”

“Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase, so shalt thy barns be filled with plenty.”

“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it lendeth to poverty.”

“The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.”

“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay him again."

“Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.”

“He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor.”