to him.  “It seems as if my life had been put back again ten years, and I was young again.”  “I never have any more wicked thoughts or imaginations, while I was once full of them.  Since I learned to seek the Lord and love his Bible, I have never had such peace, or purity.  I love the name and tender mercies of my God.”  If in a few months, prayer saved that man’s life, and so wholly changed it from a foul blot to a thing of purity, what can it not do again. No sin can ever be conquered until in humility either saint or sinner gets down upon his knees, and implores the love and power of the Lord in never ceasing prayer, to wholly emancipate him from the control of the evil habit. The Lord will surely hear it.  He can as truly deliver the body from the most persistent and enchaining habit, as he can wholly convert the mind and heart.  The result is not always instantaneous; more often gradual, but always sure if the sufferer always prays.

It is simple enough for the sinning one to believe that the Lord can, and seeking the Bible for the Lord’s own promise that he, will; to cling to it and never surrender.

The sin may be repeated when you can not resist it, and do not desire for it, but take all pains to avoid; still pray though you often fail; still try, still trust the Lord to loose your chains and remove your desire, and deliverance is sure to come at last.

RECOVERY FROM PARALYSIS.

“Between two and three years ago, the writer was struck down by paralysis, disabling entirely the limbs of the left side.  In this apparently helpless state, I employed a man to take care of me, and felt that unless God should interpose, I must be a continuous burden on my friends.  My kind physician gave me no hope of entire recovery.

“In this state I made my prayer to God continually, that he would so far restore my strength as to enable me to take care of myself.

“This prayer he was pleased to answer, for in eight weeks I dismissed my attendant, finding myself able to take care of myself.  I now walk more than half a mile each day, and attend to all the associations of home life.  I record with thankfulness this restoration of my disabled frame in answer to prayer.”

THE STOLEN BONDS RETURNED.

The New York Observer relates a remarkable instance of the return of stolen property, which in its extraordinary way can be accounted for only by the control of a Supreme Will, and all in answer to prayer.

“On February 16, 1877, United States and railroad bonds and mortgages to the amount of $160,000, belonging to Edgar H. Richards, were stolen from the banking house of James G. King’s Sons, of this city.  No clue whatever to the robbers could be obtained.  Several parties were arrested on suspicion, but nothing could be proved, and the mystery remained unsolved.