Something Gives Way

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 18, 1879

"Something Gives Way."

A Christian woman in a town in New York desired to obtain a school-house for the purpose of starting a Sabbath-school, but was refused by a skeptical trustee. Still she persevered, and asked him again and again.

"I tell you, Aunt Polly, it is of no use. Once for all I say you cannot have the school-house for any such purpose."

"I think I am going to get it," said Aunt Polly.

"I should like to know how, if I do not give you the key."

"I think the Lord is going to unlock it."

"May be he will," said the infidel, "but I can tell you this, he will not get the key from me."

"Well, I am going to pray over it, and I have found out from experience that when I keep on praying, something always gives way."

And the next time she came, the hard heart of the infidel gave way and she received the key. More than this, when others opposed the school, he sustained her, and great good was done for perishing souls.

"Something gives way." Sometimes it is a man's will, and sometimes it is the man himself. Sometimes there is a revolution, and sometimes there is a funeral. When God's spirit inspires a prayer in a believing Christian's heart, omnipotence stands ready to answer it. "Something gives way."