GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYER.
By Louis Albert Banks
[Louis Albert Banks, D.D., in S. S. Times.] MRS. FRANK LESLIE, who made such a marked success in the business world, paying off over three hundred thousand dollars of her husband's debts when he had died a bankrupt, said that there came a time when it seemed that she would certainly fail. She did not know what to do, or where to turn. She was forced to raise fifty thousand dollars at once, or everything would be lost. To meet it she did not have a dollar, and had no credit. The story is more interesting in her own language: "I went in my trouble to dear old Dr. Deems, and he prayed for me, and so did the congregation of the Church of the Strangers. I don't know, but it did seem as if their prayers were answered. When it appeared certain to me that everything would have to go, and I would be driven upon the street worse than penniless, a woman came to see me. She was a stranger. She said she had heard of my brave struggle and threatened ruin, and handed me a check for fifty thousand dollars. The name on the check was Eliza Jane Smith. God bless her! She did not want security, but wanted to make me a present of the money. I would not accept it, and gave her notes payable in instalments of five thousand dollars each. I paid the pressing debts, and with these out of the way I was able to boom the business. Six months later the first note came due, and I had met with such success that I was able to give my benefactress the entire fifty thousand dollars instead of five thousand." How many in narrower circles have found themselves against the same stone-wall of difficulty they could not scale until, in their helplessness, they cried out to God, and He opened a path before them in a way they knew not.