“We felt full of peace; for we knew it was for God’s glory to answer that prayer.  No one outside of the family knew we were praying for money.  We did not go around among our friends and tell them we were praying for fifty dollars, in hopes that they would take it upon themselves to answer the prayer.  We told none but the God whom we serve.

“Some little time passed, and no money came, but we did not lose our faith or assurance.  One morning, at family prayer, I was led out to pray that we might see the Lord’s working in our behalf that day, and I rose from my knees with perfect confidence that our hearts would be made to rejoice in God that day.  When I came in to my dinner I asked my wife if any one had brought our mail from the post-office.  She said, ’Yes, there are some papers on your table.’  ‘What!’ said I, with surprise, ’no letters?’ I saw a peculiar expression on her countenance, and I asked no more questions, but sat down to the dinner table and turned over my plate, and there saw a letter she had put beneath it; and as soon as I saw the hand-writing I felt, there is money in this, though, of all sources, this was from the one least expected.  I opened the letter, and there was a draft for fifty dollars, ’a gift to aid in preaching the Gospel.’ If I ever recognized the hand of God in anything, I did in this; and if there was ever a time of devout thanksgiving to God, and a humbling of self before Him in my house, it was that day.  Since then, it has been easier to trust in Him than before.  He has said, ’I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.’  He has also said, through his apostles, ’Be careful for nothing; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.’”

CONCURRENT TESTIMONY OF THE VALUE OF PRAYER.

A request was published by the Illustrated Christian Weekly, asking that all who could report positive facts as direct results of prayer, and thus, tend to show that "God does answer prayer," should communicate them.  Very many were communicated, regarding all trials and troubles of the heart, and daily temporal or spiritual life.  No one can question they are authentic to the highest degree; they should silence the skeptic, and convince the worldly of the presence of the mysterious power and wonderful Spirit of God, which tempers the hearts and lives of men and controls them as He wills.

A WORLDLY MAN SURRENDERS.

A clergyman says, “I was very anxious for the building of a mission chapel to accommodate a flourishing mission-school that had been organized under my pastorate.  Knowing that a certain physician of the city was possessed of abundant means and had a praying Christian mother, though he had long since given up going to church, I resolved to call upon him.  Before starting from my study I knelt down and asked God to prosper me in my appeal.  Upon going out of my parsonage the physician was in the act of passing in his carriage.  I hailed him, explained to him my desire, and the result was not only a contribution of money as large as the largest, but a gift of a lot for the chapel worth several hundred dollars.”