A Praying Mother | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 6, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 19.

A Praying Mother.

AN evangelist, Dr. Wm. A. Spencer, writes of an incident which we give in his own words:

"On my first circuit there was an old woman who prayed in a ragged, broken voice that jarred on my nerves and affected me most unpleasantly. I had reason to believe she was a good woman, but her voice was broken all to bits, and I could not understand why she should be called on for public prayer. One day I asked one of my brethren why, and he said, 'If you knew the history of that voice and how it came to be in that condition, each chord would be like sweetest melody to you. Once it was sweet and melodious, and every note rang true and pure; but her boy went into the army and fell into prison, and was there taken sick. He was unconverted, and that woman prayed all winter for his salvation. Night and day she was on her knees crying out aloud for his salvation. The spring came and her boy died, but he died a happy Christian, praising God amid the prison horrors with his dying breath. But his mother's voice was gone—prayed to pieces that winter, that her boy might be saved!' From that moment there was no music in the church so sweet as that woman's broken voice, and my voice is crying, 'Lord, give us a race of praying mothers who can get their boys saved!'' —Anonymous.