p. 539 | ANSWERED PRAYERS by Helen Swinger

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1901

ANSWERED PRAYERS.

By Helen Swinger

HELEN SWINGER.

(Saranac Junction, N. Y.)*

Several weeks ago I sent to the Battle Creek church a request for prayers for two little children, that they might not be sent to a Catholic home of the friendless. Praise the Lord, they are still with me; and although there is danger that they may be taken away, I know that God hears prayer, and I still ask prayers in their behalf. My husband has not yet sold our home, but we are expecting to sell soon.

Another request was for a Catholic lady who was somewhat interested in the truth. Praise the Lord, she has given up Catholicism, and is trying to live out the precious truth. It would do you good to hear her talk of her freedom and happiness. Still she has to suffer persecution from her husband. He now intends to take her to their former home, and not allow her to have any Seventh-day Adventist reading-matter, or even a Bible. She does not know what to do without reading, and with no one to go to for instruction or advice. She is quite poorly in health, was never strong, and is unable to earn a living by work. Her husband professes great love for her, but the hearing of wicked oaths and foul talk is a trial she must endure. She says she cannot go back to Catholicism again, and requests prayer in her behalf.

We must expect persecution, but thanks be to God that time will not last many years. We can rejoice if we are accounted worthy to suffer for His name.

I thought it no more than right that you should know how mercifully our Heavenly Father had answered our and your prayers. I am one of the isolated ones. My constant preacher is the dear REVIEW AND HERALD, so rich in instruction and counsel.