God Sent The Bag Of Flour.

In about the year 1830, in Central New York, there was a time of great

scarcity of provisions. Grain was very high, and difficult to be

obtained at any price; and, of course, families of limited means were

very much straitened. In one family, the wife and mother of six

children, a Godly woman, worked at her trade (tailoress) to the extent

of her ability, and prayed earnestly that God would deliver them from

pressing wa t. Husband and children all knew of their need, and of the

fervent prayers of the wife and mother for their supply; but no one knew

by what means the supply was to come. Every day, as their scanty means

were being consumed, the prospect grew darker. On the farm was a large

quantity of pine timber. Four miles from there, in the next town, lived

a man who needed some shingles; and, casting about him to see where he

should obtain a supply, thought he would go and purchase a pine tree,

and himself and man go into the woods and work it up into shingles. As

he was about starting, the thought occurred to him, "Perhaps they may be

in want of wheat flour--a bag cannot come amiss in this time of

scarcity." So, putting two bushels in a bag, he proceeded to the next

town, entered the house, and made known his errand, saying, "I have

brought along two bushels of flour towards paying for the tree, thinking

you might be in want of it in this time of scarcity, and I knew you live

six or seven miles from the mill, and have no horse." "That is in answer

to prayer," said the noble woman; and the husband believed it, though

not a praying man. When, at night, the oldest son came in, the mother

said to him, "God has answered our prayers, and sent a bag of flour." It

is believed that, while this was not miraculous, it was as directly the

interposition of God, as feeding Elijah by the ravens; and it was in

direct answer to prayer for that special blessing."