Amalek's defeat, Joshua's victory. Hezekiah's recovery. Solomon's wisdom, Peter's deliverance out of prison, the Apostle's triumphs in the downfall of idolatry and the setting up of churches, were all experienced in answer to prayer. All earthly glory perished, but prayer is "for a memorial before God" It is a "record on high," that will never be forgotten. For a time Jesus seemed to refuse the request of the poor woman of Canaan, but she persevered and gained her suit. Zion's watchmen should rever hold their peace. "Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence, and give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth."
"Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed," was a dreadful alarm, but Nineveh fasted and prayed, "And God repent d of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and did it not." Oh that we had such praying spirits as Noah, Daniel and Job. The first was saved when the world was drowned, the second by prayer recovered the King's dream by revelation, and the last by interceding for his three friends saved them from the judgments of God. Oh for such believing prayer, before which mountains depart Surely we may exclaim with Calvin, "O the Almighty-ness of the power of prayer."—John Bates.