The Prayer | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1868

The Prayer.

A YOUNG lady was taking a pleasant walk one summer day in a deeply-shaded woodland, and, being weary, sat down to rest on a secluded mossy bank, near the summit of a hill. Presently she heard a voice, as of one engaged in earnest conversation; and, on advancing a step or two, she saw good Mr. M— coming leisurely up the hill, the reins hanging loosely over his horse’s neck. “What can he be talking about so earnestly to himself?” she thought; but directly she heard the voice of prayer; and the words which God’s providence caused to be especially impressed upon her mind were these; “O Lord, have mercy upon the dear youth of this place.” The good old man rode on; but the voice of prayer was heard, after he had disappeared from her view, in the leafy depths of the forest. The young lady was struck with the thought: “Is this the way Christians go about the town, and mingle with the world? Do they pray thus for our souls? I have hardly ever prayed for my own.” From that day she began to pray, and became the first-fruits of a glorious revival.