UP FROM THE LOWEST DEPTHS.

“One year ago I wrote you respecting prayer for my husband.  He has since been reclaimed from the lowest depths of a drunkard’s life, and is now a member of the Christian church.  Thanks be to God, the giver of all good.”

SAVED AND HONORED.

“Almost three years ago I asked you to pray for a young man that was wandering from God.  Thank God, your and my prayers were answered.  He is now an active Christian, a superintendent of the Sabbath school, and a most zealous member of the Young Men’s Christian Association of this place.”

ALMOST PERSUADED.

“Some weeks since I requested prayer for a member of this Institution who was ‘almost persuaded’ to be a Christian.  Thanks to our Father, and to those who have offered prayer in her behalf, she has been altogether persuaded, and has united with the Lord’s people.”

ANSWERED THE SAME DAY.

“You received a letter yesterday.  My husband rose for prayers the same night.”

OH, HOW PRECIOUS.

“I wrote five months since for prayers for myself, and I now write to say that I have found my Savior very precious to my soul.”

PRAYING FOR A PASTOR.

“Several months ago I wrote asking you to pray for a feeble church in need of a pastor.  Since then I am happy to say that this church has been blessed and we now have a pastor.”

A TELEGRAM OF PRAYER.

An incident was related at one of the meetings by a clergyman who had written a telegram asking for prayers.  God heard it before it was sent.

“When we were in Switzerland, my daughter was taken very ill, so that the doctor despaired of her life.  I felt the need of sympathy and help and prayer, and I made up my mind that I would send a telegraphic dispatch to this meeting, where I had so often united with you in prayer.  I wrote the dispatch and was prepared to send it, when all at once there was poured out such a joyful faith and confidence in God on me as I never felt before in all my life, and I fell on my knees in devout thanksgiving for the assurance that God gave me that he had heard and answered our prayers, for we had prayed for that dear daughter’s life.  There lay the telegram ready to be sent.  There I was waiting and praying.  In less than half an hour my wife came into the room and said, ‘There is a change for the better in our daughter,’ and the telegram was never sent, though I believe the writing of it was the prayer that God answered.”

HE DID NOT KEEP HIS PROMISE, BUT GOD DID.