THE GREAT PHYSICIAN.

“Nearly five years ago, after a decline of almost two years, I was brought very near to the grave.  Medical aid availed nothing.  I was fearfully emaciated, and my death was daily expected.  A devoted mother and a sister, who had watched over me tenderly during my long illness, were completely exhausted.

“I determined to apply to the Great Physician, as directed in James 5:14.  As I united with others in prayer, unconsciously I uttered these words, ‘I shall yet praise Thee in the great congregation.’  All present felt assured that it was the will of God to restore me to health.  Appearances were against me; for some time I could sleep but very little, and there was no perceptible gain.  But trusting in the sure promise, the next Sabbath I rode a short distance to church, and, as I thus ventured out little by little, my strength gradually returned.  A few months later, my mother, who through disease had been in a state of despair for some years, was enabled again to hope in God’s mercy.”

SHALL SAVE THE SICK.

“I was desperately ill.  My physicians had done all in their power, without success—­and yet I lived!  For my father’s sake, the hearts of hundreds waited the issue, and prayed for me!  For his sake, the bells in the neighborhood were tied—­the criers did not come within sound of the house—­nor was the sound of wheels heard upon the street.  There was a death-like stillness without and within.

“The physicians sat with folded hands and wept, because the blow seemed too heavy for my father to bear—­the thought that I was going to die without any assurance that I trusted in my Saviour!

“‘It cannot be,’ he said, ’I will wrestle with my God until He hears me!’ Sunday came.  In almost every church a special prayer was offered for my recovery.  After morning service, a band of devoted women met, and offered fervent prayers that God would spare my life.  Evening came—­the weary doctors went home, leaving the last sacred moments to my parents.  Early next morning they came again, and exclaimed, as they entered the room, ‘She is better!  Prayer has saved her!’ I still live, ’a spared monument of God’s mercy.’”

ALL-SUFFICIENT FOR ALL NEED.

“I am a mother of seven children.  By the help of our Father in heaven, we have all of us gone regularly to church and Sunday-school.  We are poor; and at length the time came we were not clothed so we could comfortably go to church.  I earnestly asked our Father to show me, within a week, which was right for us to do:  to go in debt for clothes, or stay at home.  Within that week, I received a large package of ready-made clothing.  The clothing came from a source I never thought of receiving anything from.”

A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE.