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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 47.

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REQUESTS FOR PRAYER.

“DEAR sisters, will you allow me to ask an interest in your prayers for my dear father? He is nearly sixty years of age, and is slowly but surely passing away with tuberculosis. Pray that he may be converted, that when the time comes for us to part with him, it will not be without the hope of meeting him in the new earth.”
My husband is not a Christian, yet I have the blessed assurance that he will be. Will you and the other sisters join with me in prayer for him, and for me, that I may rid myself of everything that prevents the Holy Spirit from working through me for the good of my husband’s soul. He has nothing very bad holding him to this world—only the desire to make money. I try to live the truth perfectly before him, but very seldom mention anything on religion. When I feel it the Lord’s will, I repeat a verse of Scripture as an explanation of different views. I earnestly desire him to live the truth before our dear little boys. They look to papa, and do as he does. One of them asked me one day, “Why don’t papa read the Bible?”