A BLACKSMITH PREVAILED WITH GOD FOR A REVIVAL
A story related by Mr. Finney, will illustrate the power of the mighty prayer of faith, even when every human aid seems withheld, and nothing remains but the burning, throbbing heart, breathing out its longings, and pouring out its groans and tears before ... read more
A CANCER HEALED, AND A WITHERED ARM RESTORED
Brother W. B. Bailey wrote us from Hybrid, Mo., January 7, 1887:
"I had a cancer in my left breast. It pained me very much; had become very bad and tender, and was a running sore. The saints prayed for me, and the Lord answered our prayers. Praise His ... read more
A CHILD'S PRAYER ANSWERED
The following touching incident, which drew tears from eyes, was related to me a short time since, by a dear friend who had it from an eye-witness of the same. It occurred in the great city of New York, on one of the coldest days in February.
A little ... read more
A CYCLONE OF POWER AND GLORY IN ANSWER TO PRAYER
At a convention of Christian workers, held in April, 1882, we witnessed a spiritual cyclone. Forty or fifty ministers and laymen of different denominations had come together, for prayer and counsel, concerning the most important doctrines of the Christian ... read more
A GREAT REVIVAL IN A SINGLE NIGHT
One of the most remarkable experiences we have had in seventeen years of evangelistic work, occurred in the spring of 1890. It will be remembered that at this time the United Brethren Church was sadly divided on the secrecy question, and in many places tw ... read more
A GREAT REVIVAL IN ANSWER TO PREVAILING PRAYER
During the winter of t885-86 we were called to hold a revival meeting in New Haven, Shiawassee county, Michigan. During the first few days of the meeting we found many difficulties, and the powers .of darkness arrayed against the work. Keenly realizing ou ... read more
A GUIDING VOICE
A touching story came to us from Minnesota. A farmer, living on the edge of one of the many lakes of that state, started to cross it in a small sail-boat one evening after dark. The wind changed, and a gust overturned the boat when he was in the middle of ... read more
A MAN WHO LACKED MORAL COURAGE
A few years ago I went to close a meeting, and said: "Are there any here who would like to have me remember them in prayer? I would like to have them rise!" And there was a man rose, and when I saw him stand up, my heart leaped in me with joy. I had bee ... read more
A MANIFESTATION OF PARENTAL LOVE
There are some who reject Christianity because it seems to them incredible that God would have taken so much trouble, as the New Testament represents him to have done, for the salvation of creatures so infinitely beneath Him as we are. They forget that th ... read more
A MOB QUIETED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER
In the early part of the summer of 1882, while we were holding a camp-meeting at C----, a drunken mob came on the ground, and disturbed the meeting by their profanity and quarreling. They came armed with revolvers, and were determined to break up the meet ... read more
A MOST MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
Mrs. C. Chipperfield, of Springfield, Ohio, sent us, in 1887, an account of several very clear and definite answers to prayer for the supply of temporal needs, received during her Christian experience of about ten years, during the greater part of which t ... read more
A MOTHER'S FAITH - THE LIFE OF BEATE PAULUS
In a sketch of the life of Beate Paulus, the wife of a German minister who lived on the borders of the Black Forest, are several incidents which illustrate the power of living faith, and the providence of a prayer-hearing God.
Though destitute of wealt ... read more
A MOTHER'S PRAYER ANSWERED
Trained religiously, I had reached a young man's years before yealding to God. Prior to my conversion, thoughts of the ministry sometimes flashed across my mind; but it was only a flash. After my conversion, I was earnest for the welfare of others, and w ... read more
A PERSECUTOR'S AWFUL END
The following is from the Journal of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends. Fox says of this wonderful occurrence
"Then I came again to Thomas Taylor's, within three miles of Halifax, where was a meeting of about two hundred people, among ... read more
A RICH MAN'S DEATH SCENE
A striking incident was communicated to the New York Press a few years ago, by a deeply humble minister. One of the leading members of his church was greatly distressed in his last sickness, on reviewing his mode of living and reflecting upon his family a ... read more
A SHIP'S CREW SAVED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER
I had a singular experience, which is very vivid to my mind. The precise year I cannot say, and I may be mistaken in the name of the vessel. But somewhere about the year 1860, the boat, Benjamin Burgess, sailed from Boston for Cienfugos. The crew were mos ... read more
A VISION OF HEAVEN
That heaven is real there can be no doubt. That others beside St. Paul have been allowed a view of Paradise, is evident from the testimony of the most reliable witnesses, such as Dr. Tennent, of New Jersey, Dr. Coke, and many others. One of the most inter ... read more
A WONDERFUL ANSWER TO PRAYER
Robert Green was born and brought up a slave in Charleston, S.C. His master was a Methodist minister, who owned a large number of slaves, and was consequently very rich; but the act of emancipation suddenly reduced him to poverty. This reverse of fortune ... read more
A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE
In 1890, Sister K. J. Convers, of Stanton, Mich., wrote us of her remarkable recovery through the faith and prayers of Sister N.G. Fisher, of the same place. We are well acquainted with these saints of God, and know the circum-stances as related to be rel ... read more
A WOULD-BE MURDERER'S ARM PARALYZED
A prominent minister in Canada relates the following remarkable instance of God's miraculous care over His people: "I am frequently impressed by the Spirit, to perform actions, at the time unaccountable to myself. These impressions are so vivid that I d ... read more
AN ARMY MIRACULOUSLY DELIVERED
We clip the following from an epistle of the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who was born in the year 121, and died in the year 180, as found in Vol. 2, of the "Anti-Nicene Christian Library." -- Editor.
The Emperor Ceasar Marcus Aurelius Antonius, ... read more
AN EFFECTUAL PRAYER
"No," said the lawyer, "I shan't press your claim against that man; you can get some one else to take your case, or you can withdraw it, just as you please." "Think there isn't any money in it?" "There would probably he some money in it, but it w ... read more
ANNIE AND VANIE'S FIRST REAL PRAYER
Two sisters, one about five years of age, the other older, were accustomed to go each Saturday morning, some distance from home, to get chips and shavings from a cooper shop. One morning, with basket well filled, they were returning home; when the elder o ... read more
AWFUL PROVIDENCES
The following are selected from a list of incidents recorded by Thomas Graham, the noted revivalist preacher, of the Erie Conference of the M.B. church. After his death they were found entered, under the above heading, in a small pass-book, as facts worth ... read more
BEHOLD, I SEND YOU FORTH AS SHEEP AMONG WOLVES
How continually, as we follow the Lord closely, do His own blessed teachings, His own words, come with full force to our memory, clothed with life and power! One such experience I shall never forget. We were holding tabernacle meetings in Shiawassee count ... read more
BISHOP SIMPSON'S RECOVERY
Bishop Bowman, of the M.E. Church, gives the following instance from his own experience:
" In the fall of 1858, whilst visiting Indiana, I was at an annual conference where Bishop Janes presided. We received a telegram that Bishop Simpson was dying. S ... read more
CAN I BE SAVED?
Away on the western coast of England there stands a steep rock that is known to everybody as' the "Lady's Rock." At high water it is surrounded by the sea; but at low water it stands upon a sandy beach, and is easily reached.
It gets the name from ... read more
CARLETTA AND THE MERCHANT
"If I could have your faith, Hawkins, gladly would I, but I was born a skeptic. I cannot look upon God and the future as you do." So said John Harvey, as he walked with a friend under a dripping umbrella. John Harvey was a skeptic of thirty years standi ... read more
CHARLIE COULSON, THE CHRISTIAN DRUMMER BOY
Two or three times in my life God in His mercy touched my heart, and twice before my conversion I was under deep conviction. During the American war, I was surgeon in the United States army, and after the battle of Gettysburg there were many hundred wound ... read more
CORN THE FROST COULD NOT KILL
By our request, Brother L.G. Whitney, a reliable Christian man, of Hemlock, Mich., writes us of a remarkable interposition of Providence in reference to his field of corn. This is his story:
"Two years ago, the seed-corn in this part of the country pr ... read more
DYING CHILDREN AND YOUTH
The grasp of the mind of childhood upon the great truths of religion is frequently felt most perceptibly when the little sufferers are near their end. When a boy, we heard the narration of a three or four-year old daughter, of good parents, living in the ... read more
DYING CHILDREN AND YOUTH
The grasp of the mind of childhood upon the great truths of religion is frequently felt most perceptibly when the little sufferers are near their end. When a boy, we heard the narration of a three or four-year old daughter, of good parents, living in the ... read more
EDWARD PAYSON, A MAN WHO PRAYED WITHOUT CEASING
This well-known man of God was for many years pastor of the Congregational Church at Portland, Me. His remarkable success was, to a very great extent, the result of his prevailing prayers. Oh, that many might follow his example! We clip the following from ... read more
EXPERIENCE OF A MINISTER'S WIFE ON THE FRONTIER
I remember a day during one winter that stands out like a boulder in my life. The weather was unusually cold, our salary had not been regularly paid, and it did not meet our needs when it was. My husband was away traveling from one district to another muc ... read more
FOR HIS SAKE
You ask me "How did you come into these new notions of giving?" Well, it was this way A year ago this winter our house took fire. It was in the middle of the night, and we were all asleep. The flames were first discovered by a poor neighbor, who at once ... read more
GEORGE MULLER, OF BRISTOL, ENGLAND
This mighty man of faith is too well known to the Christian world to need any introduction from us. We quote the following from a brief sketch of his life
"The support of his orphanage amounts to $230,000 annually. The milk-bill amounts to $10,000 yea ... read more
GOD'S CARE FOR THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS
At one of our children's meetings last summer, I invited the conductor of the train running to Cincinnati (who was a Christian man) to talk to the children. After speaking of his work among the prisoners of the Cincinnati jail, he proceeded to relate an ... read more
HE BLESSES GOD FOR THE FAITH OF HIS GIRL
"I came home one night very late," said Matthew Hale Smith, in his Marvels of Prayer, "and had gone to bed to seek needed rest. The friend with whom I boarded awoke me out of my first refreshing sleep, and informed me that a little girl wanted to see m ... read more
HEALED OF DIPHTHERIA
In the fall of 1885, our oldest boy, then two and one-half years old, was taken very ill. Diphtheria had for some time been raging to a considerable extent in the city of Grand Rapids, where we then resided. But a short time before, friends, who had just ... read more
HEALED THROUGH FAITH
"I am the Lord that healeth thee."
With a deep sense of gratitude to my Heavenly Father for my restoration to health, I write this testimony. I will begin with extracts from a statement of my condition at the time of my restoration, written by the at ... read more
HOW A LITTLE GIRL UTILIZED THE TELEPHONE
A mother, living not very far from the post-office in this city, tired with watching over a sick baby, came down stairs for a moment the other day for a few second's rest. She heard the voice of her little four-year old girl in the hall by herself, and, ... read more
HOW CARVOSSO PREVAILED WITH GOD FOR HIS CHILDREN
Carvosso, noted for the earnestness and faith of his prayers, tells as follows of the conversion of his children:
"I had always prayed for my children, but now I grasped the promise, with the hand of faith, and retired daily at special seasons to put ... read more
HOW THE PRAYER OF FAITH REACHED A FAMILY
A day or two after our conversion, we called at a neighbor's, and while there heard the lady of the house say some very hard things against the work of God, which was shaking that whole section of country like an earthquake. We were deeply grieved, but w ... read more
HOW WILLIAM TENNENT DEFEATED THE POWERS OF DARKNESS
During the great revival of religion in America, which took place under Mr. Whitefield, and others distinguished for their piety and zeal at that period, Mr. Tennent was laboriously active, and much engaged to help forward the work; in the performance of ... read more
I DON'T LOVE YOU NOW, MOTHER
'A great many years ago I knew a lady who had been sick for two years, as you have seen many a one, all the while slowly dying with consumption. She had one child, a little boy named Henry.
One afternoon I was sitting by her side, and it seemed as i ... read more
IN INDIA -- IN ANSWER TO PRAYER
The following very interesting account was written by request, expressly for this book. The author was a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in India for a number of years. He is, at the date of our publication, pastor at Huntington, O.: In Janua ... read more
INSTANCES OF DIVINE POWER
In the spring of 1858, during the prevalence of the wide-spread revivals described in Prime's "Power of Prayer," I was soundly converted to God. At that time I was in mature young manhood, and in business. My health had been poor for a number of years, ... read more
INSTANTANEOUSLY HEALED
Brother E. B. Williams, of Warren, Ill., writes us of instantaneous recovery of a woman in answer to prayer as follows "In the year 1830, in the town of Shelby, Orleans county N.Y., a woman of middle age lay very sick for a time under the doctor's care ... read more
INSTANTLY HEALED OF RUPTURE
During the fall of 1888 we witnessed the remarkable healing of Brother J.S. Whiting, then a pastor at Hilliards, Mich. The night of his cure we were wonderfully led out in prayer. We give the circumstances in his own words, as published in the Holiness Re ... read more
I'LL NEVER STEAL AGAIN - IF FATHER KILLS ME FOR IT
A friend of mine, seeking for objects of charity, got into the room of a tenement house. It was vacant. He saw a ladder pushed through the coiling. Thinking that perhaps some poor creature had crept up there, he climbed the ladder, drew himself up through ... read more
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