Right in the center of the tornado stood a small cabin.  Its sole occupants were an aged widow and her only son.  The terrible wind struck a large tree in front of her humble dwelling, twisting and dashing it about.  If it fell it would lay her home in ruins.  Desolation, death itself, might follow.  The storm howled and raged.  The great trees fell in all directions.  When it seemed her tree must also fall and there was no remedy, she knelt in fervent supplication to Him who gathereth the wind in his fists, that he would spare that tree.  Her prayer was heard.  The tree was spared, and was the only one left within a considerable distance of the widow’s cabin.

THE LORD PAID HIS INTEREST.

A most curious answer to prayer occurred in the experience of a home missionary in Brooklyn.  It illustrates how God, in his trials of faith to see if His people do really cling to the promises, compels them to march right into the scene of danger, and into the mouth of the cannon, that apparently is open specially to shoot them down.

The interest on the mortgage of his property was due in a few days.  Its amount was $300.  He did not have the money—­did not know where to obtain it.  With anxious heart during the day, he kept up his faith and courage by thinking of the Lord’s promises, and, the last night before the eventful day, was spent in prayer, until the assurance came that all was well.  Often he pleaded, often he reminded the Lord that, as his life was His, to save him from reproach, and not let his trust in the Lord suffer dishonor before others.

The last moment came—­no money—­no relief.  With sinking heart he went to the holder of the mortgage to announce his utter inability to meet his demand.  While there, just at the last moment, when he was about to leave, the gentleman said, “By the way, here is an envelope I was told to give you."

The missionary opened it, and out came six fifty dollar bills, just the three hundred dollars prayed for.  The Lord met and delivered him in the very jaws of the enemy.

WILL THE LORD DELIVER FROM BAD HABITS OF TOBACCO, RUM, LIQUOR, LICENTIOUSNESS, ETC., IN ANSWER TO PRAYER.

This question having been asked by a clergyman of Brooklyn, Rev. S.H.  Platt, he received a large number of communications, which evidently prove that the Lord is willing and does, either instantaneously or gradually in answer to prayer, deliver and take away wholly the bad habits and appetites of those who are willing to forsake their sinful ways and cleave only to Him. The Lord’s salvation cleanses and delivers the body as well as the soul.

We quote a few extracts from his correspondence, which is but a small portion out of many published in his volume, “The Power of Grace.”