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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 33.

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REQUESTS FOR PRAYER.

A SISTER writes: “Please request prayer for the husband of a sister in Christ, who loves the truth, but has become a little discouraged because he can not overcome his habits, and consequently is sliding back into sin. Pray for his return. I know that the prayers of the faithful avail much, and God does answer prayer.”
“I have read in the REVIEW of so many sending in requests for their dear ones to be prayed for that I wish to ask the sisters if they will pray for my husband and my father. They used to keep the Sabbath, but they have both given it up, because, they say, they can not live the right kind of lives, and they will not be a disgrace to the truth. My husband is very tender on the subject of religion, and will stand in defense of the truth when it is opposed.”
“My heart is heavy and sad because of the condition of my husband. I wrote before, requesting the prayers of our dear sisters in his behalf, and the week of Sister Henry’s death he stopped drinking, abstaining for three weeks—the longest period for years. I had hoped that he had stopped forever, but it was just for my sake. He said that he did not stop because he thought it wrong to drink. He still used tobacco while he was abstaining from liquor, and I tried to get him to see that its use would stimulate a desire for liquor. I also told him that if he would adopt a plainer diet, it would help him, and that he could not hope to succeed without the help of the Lord. But he would not listen, and soon went back to the old way. I know that the fervent effectual prayers of the righteous avail much. Please continue to pray for him, and for me that I may have wisdom in helping him.”
“I have a neighbor who is also in distress about her husband’s condition. He did not drink for eight years or more, until last winter he took to it again. He and his wife pray together, and he is willing to abstain from condiments, or do anything that will relieve him from the appetite. Pray for him also,”