SPECIAL REQUESTS FOR PRAYER.
I wish especially to ask all our sisters to remember in prayer at the noontide hour, or at any other time when it is convenient to do so, a sister who is in the insane asylum. She herself sends the request. The letter containing her request says that she has been in confinement several years, but does not seem crazy, only at times she is peculiar, but never violent. She is extremely devout, and very anxious to attend church, but is not permitted to leave the institution. She is a sister of our faith, and it seems to me that there should go up an earnest volume of prayer for her, which will bring the answer which we are assured shall follow the fervent, effectual prayer of the righteous. I also ask you to remember the requests for prayer mentioned below. A condemned murderer, twenty-eight years old, who is sentenced to be hanged the 9th of February. The sister sending in his name says: “He takes the literature that we gave him, and seems grateful for our interest, but he is more indifferent as to his personal relation to God than any one I ever met. He does not think God is good enough to forgive him his awful sins.” A sister asks prayer for her husband, who has been a formal professor of Christianity, but with whom the Spirit seems to be striving at present; and also for a sister and three brothers, one of whom has fallen into intemperate habits. A special manifestation of the Spirit for healing, or divine leading as to how it shall be brought about, for two sisters in Ontario, who are seriously afflicted. They request the prayers of our sisterhood. Also for many who are investigating the truth, and are at the deciding point.39 God’s children are “illuminated.” Heb. 10:32. They “shine as lights in the world.” Phil. 2:15. Their bodies are “full of light.” Matt. 6:22. Their “inheritance” is “in light.” Col. 1:12. Their “sun shall no more go down.” Isa. 60:20. “There shall be no night there.” Rev. 21:25. It is best to come to the light here that we may dwell in the light hereafter.