p. 6 | TONIC FOR DOUBTERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1900

TONIC FOR DOUBTERS.

A PASTOR was staying once in a country village where he was to visit a dying woman. He went to her and found her a Christian, ready and willing to die, but for one thing. She was anxious about her little children, and she begged the minister to pray that they might be provided for when she was gone.

Together the mother and minister prayed for that one thing, tho they knew not how their prayer could be answered in that little village, where none were rich enough to take upon themselves the expense of caring for three orphans. The woman died, and at her funeral the minister spoke of his visit and of her dying prayer.

Among those at the funeral were two strangers—a man and his wife, who were passing through the village—and by chance—as they supposed—they happened to enter the church at that hour. They were wealthy and childless, and their hearts were touched by the sight of the lonely little orphans. They took them to their hearts and home; and so that mother's prayer was answered.

A yet more striking instance of answered prayer was one that came to a poor woman in India. She had become a Christian, accepting God with simple and absolute faith.

Some time after her conversion her child fell sick—so sick that its recovery was very doubtful. Ice was needed for the little sufferer, but none was to be had.

"I'm going to ask God to send us ice," the mother said to the missionary.

"O, but you can't expect that He will do that," was the quick reply of the missionary.

"Why not?" asked the woman. "He has all power, and He loves us. I shall ask Him, and I believe He will send it."

She did ask Him with a faith which never faltered, and God honored her faith. That very day there was a heavy thunder-storm, and the woman, running out, with a glad heart gathered a great bowlful of hailstones. So was answered the prayer of this mother also.—Christian Endeavor World.