p. 10 | GOD’S PROVIDENCE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 39.

GOD’S PROVIDENCE.

“FIFTY years ago,” writes an aged man from Vermont, “when I was a small boy, I had a good, pious mother. One time she was in a great strait for food or fuel, I have forgotten which.

“Tho without earthly resources, she had great faith in her heavenly Father, and looked confidently to him. I did not share her confidence, and thought within myself, ‘I wonder, mother, how you can think the Lord will send you any money.’

“But he did send it, and in a wonderful manner. Soon after, an old, rich miser came into the house, and somehow or other, dropped his old purse, nearly full of money, on the floor. The money scattered well, and rolled in all directions, and we picked it up and hunted for it till he was satisfied, and said, ‘I guess we’ve got it all; if there is any more, you may have it.’

“When he was gone, it seemed as if right under the soles of his feet we found just the sum she wanted. I believe that helped my faith wonderfully. It seems as if I have thought of it a thousand times since, when tempted to distrust my heavenly Father’s care.”

Accounts of God’s providences may be derided by the skeptic who shuts his eyes to the plainest evidences; but to the believer who has tested the promises, they are a source of never-failing comfort and inspiration.—Selected.