KEEP ON PRAYING | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 4, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 40.

KEEP ON PRAYING.

ONE James Smith, an English laborer in the navy yard on the Thames, had a little boy, Johnnie, says the Wesleyan Methodist. James was a very intemperate man. After the death of his wife, sorrow kept him sober for a while, but he took to his cups again, and, as poor Johnnie expressed it, "got badder and badder all the time."

One night the drunkard awoke, a most uncommon thing for him at such an hour, and lay very still, for he heard a sound. It was his motherless boy praying by his bedside. He heard him say, "Please, God, make daddy a better man, for Jesus' sake."

James Smith could not sleep any more. He rose very early and went to his work. He came home early that night without having drunk a drop of liquor. His heart was melted. He said to Johnnie, "What put it into your head to pray for your worthless old dad?"

Johnnie told him it was because he loved him; and besides he had been to a Bible school where the teacher had taught him the commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother."

"Then keep on prayin', keep on prayin', little lad," said James. "I believe God has answered you already; I've been prayin' for myself, that God would make me a better man."

The prayer was answered. James Smith reformed, and from that time lived a steady Christian man. —Selected.