p. 18 | Answered Prayer by L. Perrine

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 4, 1913

Answered Prayer

By L. Perrine

I WISH to relate an incident in connection with the conversion of a middle-aged, proud-spirited man. He had absolutely no interest in religious things; and after the death of his wife, when their two oldest daughters wished to unite with the Methodist Church he forbade it. I visited the daughters, frequently took them to church, and often gave them religious literature.

Finally their father became interested in a book on faith. When I called one day, he asked me if I believed the promise, “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” Although I had never thought much about it, I answered him in the affirmative. He then said, “I wish that you and one of the other good sisters would pray for me.” On my way home I stopped at the home of a friend and asked her to pray with me for the conversion of this man. We knew that we were asking something according to the Father’s will; and though the enemy tried in various ways to distract and discourage us, we kept his case before the Lord morning, noon, and night.

I soon learned from one of the daughters that her father was in terrible distress of mind, unable to eat or sleep. Several times he called a near-by minister in the middle of the night to pray with him. Finally he yielded to the Spirit of God and publicly confessed his faith. Our prayers were thus answered, and during the remainder of his life the subject of our petitions to the throne of grace rejoiced in the Christian’s hope. In order to receive that for which we pray we must, first, ask according to the will of our Heavenly Father; second, believe that he will answer; third, hold on by faith, nothing doubting. L. PERRINE.