“My brother,” says Dr. Hall, “told me that when superintendent of a Sunday school he felt a strong impulse, one Saturday evening, to call at the home of one of his teachers whom he had never visited before.  He found his mother and sisters in such evident distress that he inquired the cause.  With much reluctance they explained that, being unable to pay their taxes, their goods were to be taken on the coming Monday, and they had been asking special help from God to save them from a disaster which they felt would be a dishonor to religion.  By the aid of a few friends the difficulty was at once met, but the timely succor was regarded as the divine answer to their prayer.”

RESCUED IN PERIL.

“With my brother I was once climbing the Cirrha di Jazze, one of the mountains in the chain of Mount Rosa.  When nearly at the top, we entered a dense fog.  Presently our guides faced right about and grounded their axes on the frozen snowed slope.  My brother, seeing the slope still beyond, and not knowing it was merely the cornice overhanging a precipice of several thousand feet, rushed onward.  I shall never forget their cry of agonized warning.  He stood a moment on the very summit, and then, the snow yielding, he began to fall through.  One of the guides, at great risk, had rushed after him, and seizing him by the coat, drew him down to a place of safety.

“No one could be nearer death and yet escape.  On his return home, an invalid member of his congregation told him that she had been much in prayer for his safety, and mentioned a special time when she was particularly earnest, as if imploring deliverance from some great peril. The times corresponded. His life was saved in answer to her prayer.”

A PHYSICAL IMPEDIMENT REMOVED.

“A clergyman, of great scholarship and genius, has told me of a remarkable answer to prayer, authenticated by three missionaries known to himself, who are personally acquainted with the facts.

“A Prussian, the master of a hotel in India, was anxious to relinquish his large income, and labor as a missionary among the Santil tribes.  Objection was made to him on account of an impediment in his speech which would render him, in speaking a foreign language, incapable of being understood.  Believing in the efficacy of prayer, he called together his friends, specially to ask that his impediment might be removed.  The next morning, he presented himself again at the Mission House—­the impediment had gone!  He was accepted, relinquished his business, and is now preaching the gospel to the Santils in their own tongue.”

RESTORATION FROM DEATH.

“My father, the author of the Sinner’s Friend, narrates in his autobiography a circumstance which he often used to speak of with great emotion.