DEBTS PAID by J. R. C.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1879

DEBTS PAID.

By J. R. C.

I DESIRE to relate one of many incidents in my experience in answer to prayer. In September, 1871, my wife and myself were taken ill with fever, and brought near death’s door. Our sickness lasted more than two months. We have a family of eight; and during our long illness, became involved in a debt of about one hundred and seventy-five dollars, for the support of the family, doctor’s bill, and other expenses. On November 7, 1871, I wrote in my diary: “I am resolved by the grace of God to live differently than I have, and will try to keep my body under, and overcome appetite; will try to show more love and patience at home and everywhere, and endeavor to bear and hold up the cross of Christ before men, and to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. The late sickness of myself and wife has involved me in debt about one hundred and seventy-five dollars. I have commenced to-day to ask the Lord to give me this sum between this and March 1, 1872, that I may be free from debt.”

I continually brought this matter before the Lord in secret prayer. February 29, I was absent from home, and told a friend I expected some money the next day; and though nearly the last day had expired, and no money had come, yet I still expected the Lord would send it.

I went home the first day of March; and before I got into the house, my youngest boy came running out, and said to me, “Some money for you at the express office!” On getting the money, I found it was one hundred and eighty dollars. I paid the debts, and heartily thanked the Lord for so signally answering my prayers. The money was left me by a deceased relative, and it came just in time.—J. R. C., in the Christian.