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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 6, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 6.

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The Noon-Hour Prayer

“Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.” “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.”

Answered Prayer

“I HAVE been impressed to tell of God’s healing power as manifested in my own experience,” writes Elder S. A. Oberg, now laboring in Porto Rico. “Three years ago I was taken with acute neuritis. Home remedies failing to afford relief, my wife took me to the Philadelphia sanitarium. The excellent care I received there resulted in a gradual improvement, when a change of weather brought back all the old pain, and drove me with renewed consecration to God. I had been at the institution five weeks. I had promised to deliver a number of books the next week. The work had already been delayed because of my sickness, and I felt that I could not let it go longer. While seeking the Lord I was impressed to call in the elders of the church. The following day they came, and while they were praying for me the pain entirely left. Although I had hardly been able to walk, yet the next day I returned home, and the following week made the delivery, God richly blessing my work.”
Writing from Kansas, a sister who several weeks ago asked prayer that she might regain her health, says:— “I had been suffering with spinal trouble for over a year, and much of the time was unable to get about without the aid of a cane. Physicians gave me no relief, although I spent nearly eight months at a sanitarium. Then help was sought of the divine Physician, and I am glad to tell you that he has heard our prayers. I laid aside my cane and have been walking without it. I have been slowly gaining strength, but am still weak, and ask that you join with me in praying, if it is God’s will, the healing balm of Gilead may be given me in full measure.”

Requests for Prayer

71. A pathetic plea comes from an isolated Iowa sister, who wishes us to pray that she may be healed of rheumatism, and that her sister, who has just accepted this truth, may have strength to remain steadfast in spite of the bitter opposition of her family.
72. A friend in California, who has recently identified herself with this people, makes the request that prayer be offered for the conversion of her two sisters; and for herself that she may have courage to do right in the face of opposition.
73. Another California sister writes: “Please pray that, if it is God’s will, he will restore my nerves, so that I may be able to read and teach others this truth; also that he will save my children.”
74. A brother in western Pennsylvania wishes special prayer for his eleven children, five of whom have married out of the truth.
75. A sister residing in Kansas asks that we remember her sister, who must undergo a very critical surgical operation. She wishes us to pray that the operation may be successful, and that the sick one may give her heart to Jesus and be wholly reconciled to his will.
76. From the same State (Kansas) a mother writes requesting prayer for the conversion of her daughter who has given up the truth.
77. From far-away India a sister sends the request that the members of the noon-hour prayer circle plead with God for the conversion of her husband.
78. An afflicted sister in Wyoming desires that prayer be offered for the healing of herself and daughter, and for the conversion of her three children who know and believe this truth, but make no profession of Christianity.
79. A burdened mother, writing from Texas, asks prayer for the conversion of her four children,—two sons who have never accepted this truth, and two daughters who have lost their first love and gone out into the world.
80. “I most earnestly desire the prayers of God’s people for my parents and brothers and sisters, that they may accept this blessed truth before it is too late. Please join with me in praying for them,” is the request of a Nebraska sister.
81. A sister in Oregon asks prayer that she may be willing to yield herself unreservedly to God, and make confession of sins that she knows are hindering others from accepting Christ.
82. From Missouri an anxious husband and father requests prayer that members of his family now estranged may be united in love for one another and for this blessed truth.
83. Another brother in the same State (Missouri) desires us to pray that he may be delivered from a loathsome disease and given physical and spiritual strength for God’s service; also that his son, a young man of promise, may be freed from the entanglements of political science and human philosophy, and brought into the love of this message.