A MINISTER’S SUPPLIES FALL SHORT.

“When very much in need of funds to procure supplies for a coming Winter, all expedients failed; then I asked God for assistance, when, unexpectedly, a friend in California sent me a little package of gold dust, which I sold, at once, for $130.  This came when it was needed, and it did us good.”

A PRAYER FOR A SERVANT.

“Some time after, we failed to find anything like suitable help in the house, which we greatly needed.  Before starting out one morning, in secret I prayed to God to direct me as I went on my uncertain business, and prayed as I called at different places, and soon found a colored girl sixteen years old wanting a place, who came and proved to be the best help we ever had, before or since.  For seven years and a half she lived in the family, taught two of our children to read; was glad, from choice, to move with us to different places, till she left to be married, fell sick and passed away.  A dozen other times when driven in straits, in answer to prayer God has enabled us to procure necessary help, which was difficult to obtain.

“In 1874, while on my way to see my mother in Pennsylvania—­who had just been paralyzed, and died the next week—­I was suddenly paralyzed in my left arm, by which, I have since been helpless and useless.  After coming here to live, being in want of a man to lift me in and out of bed, dress me, etc., for which we inquired of people, and prayed to God to send us the needed help.  We had not means to hire and pay any person to do such work, even if he could be found.  Soon the right one came, in the person of a young German, who was tramping through the country in search of employment and food; was ready and glad to do any work for a living.  For pay that satisfied him and us, he staid in the family over a year, working out doors and in; could be trusted to do business with money, and return every cent correctly.  After being with us over a year, when we needed him no longer, he obtained a situation in a good family, where he is now living.  In many instances, I have prayed to be healed of special sickness, always using what remedies I thought best, yet asking the divine blessing on their use.”

HEALING.

“For over three years, I was troubled with frequent raising of blood from my right lung, which physicians failed to cure.  Of this I prayed to be relieved; after which, the soreness healed, and for several years it has ceased to trouble me.”

THAT $18.75.