“The letter contained a request for service of a peculiar sort, connected with some legal matters, contained money and promise of more. Over three times the sum I asked God for was finally given.  More than enough for a term’s expenses.

“I never mentioned the matter of my need at that time to a human being, nor spoke of the prayer.  I have always thanked God for that, and am sure he provides for me in accordance with his promise.”

HE HEALETH THE SICK.

“The wife of Deacon W. was sinking rapidly with pneumonia.  Friends gave up all hope of her recovery, and even the hopeful physician felt that he was hoping against hope.  In his despair the husband bore the case directly to God; he sought the prayers of his minister and of the church; and he asked all Christians to pray that the mother of his little children might be spared.  She lingered between life and death for several days, when unexpectedly to many, she began to gain strength, and in due season was about again.  This was several years ago, and she has been an active worker in the church and Sunday-school ever since.”

A POWERFUL DREAM.

“My father, a minister of the gospel, was prostrated by sickness.  A large family of little ones was dependent upon him for support.  Funds ran low.  One evening my mother remarked that she had broken the last dollar.  My father lay awake most of the night, praying to his God for help in this emergency.  That same night a man in a parish not many miles distant was much impressed by a dream.  He dreamed that a minister who preached in his church not long before, was sick and in want.  He knew neither his name nor his place of residence.  He arose at the first dawn of day, and going to his own pastor inquired the name and address of the stranger who had recently preached for them.  These obtained, he mounted his horse, and knocked at our door just as my mother drew up the window-shades.  She answered the knock, when, without a word, a stranger placed an envelope in her hand and immediately rode away.  The envelope contained a ten-dollar bill, which we all believed was the Lord’s answer to our father’s prayer.  Afterwards these facts were disclosed by the pastor to him whom the Lord chose to disperse his bounty.”

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE.

“In 1874, through Providence, I became sore pressed to provide for myself and family; two of my children had just begun to learn to read.  I was desirous to procure for them the ‘N.—–­,’ (a children’s journal,) but I could not see how I was to pay for it and meet other obligations.  So I carried it to our Father in heaven, asking if it was best and according to his will my children should get the ‘N.—–.’  In about ten days afterward I received a note from a lady friend, with whom I or none of our family had had any communication for weeks, and in that note she advised us that her little daughter, the same age as our second, had sent as a Christmas gift a subscription for the ‘N.—–­,’ to be sent to our Mary’s address.  ’If ye abide in me, and my words in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.’”