p. 5 | Prayer Which Prevails by Arthur Tappan Pierson

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 3, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 47.

Prayer Which Prevails

By Arthur Tappan Pierson

MORE than half a century ago, George Müller began to pray for a group of friends. I asked Mr. Müller, a short time before he died, if he had asked anything of God that had not been granted, and he told me he had prayed sixty-two years, three months, five days, two hours—with his mathematical precision—for two men to be converted, and neither of them showed any signs of that happening. I said, “Do you expect God to convert them?” “Certainly. Do you suppose that God would put upon His child for sixty-two years the burden of two souls if He had no purpose of their conversion?” Shortly afterward he died, and I was preaching in his pulpit, in Bristol, and referred to this occurrence. As I was going out, a lady said, “One of those men was my uncle, and he was converted, and died a few weeks ago.” I understand that the other man was brought to Christ in Dublin.—A. T. Pierson.