“In the Fall of 1858, whilst visiting Indiana, I was at an annual conference where Bishop Janes presided.  We received a telegram that Bishop Simpson was dying.  Said Bishop Janes, ’Let us spend a few moment’s in earnest prayer for the recovery of Bishop Simpson.’  We kneeled to pray.  William Taylor, the great California street preacher, was called to pray, and such a prayer I never heard since.  The impression seized upon me irresistibly, Bishop Simpson will not die.  I rose from my knees perfectly quiet.  Said I, ’Bishop Simpson will not die.’  ‘Why do you think so?’ Because I have had an irresistible impression made upon my mind during this prayer.’  Another said, ’I have the same impression.’  We passed it along from bench to bench, until we found that a very large proportion of the conference had the same impression.  I made a minute of the time of day, and when I next saw Simpson, he was attending to his daily labor.  I inquired of the Bishop, ‘How did you recover from your sickness?’ He replied, ‘I cannot tell.’  ‘What did your physician say?’ ‘He said it was a miracle.’  I then said to the Bishop, ’Give me the time and circumstances under which the change occurred.’  He fixed upon the day, and the very hour, making allowance for the distance—­a thousand miles away—­that the preachers were engaged in prayer at this conference.  The physician left his room and said to his wife, ’It is useless to do anything further; the Bishop must die.’  In about an hour, he returned and started back, inquiring, ‘What have you done?’ ’Nothing,’ was the reply.  ’He is recovering rapidly,’ said the physician; ’a change has occurred in the disease within the last hour beyond anything I have ever seen; the crisis is past, and the Bishop will recover.’  And he did.”

The doctor was puzzled; it was beyond all the course and probabilities of nature and the laws of science.  What was it that made those ministers so sure—­what was it that made the patient recover, at the exact hour that they prayed?  There is only one answer, “The ever living Power of a Superior Spirit which rules the world.”

THE SEVEN LETTERS.

The following incident is given by “The Presbyterian,” on the authority of a private letter from Paris: 

“At a Bible reunion, held at the house of an English Congregationalist minister, where several colporteurs, teachers and others meet for devotional reading and conversation, a brief anecdote was related by a clergyman living in La Force, who established there an institution for epileptics, where he has now three hundred, supported entirely on the principle of faith, like Muller’s orphanage.