A Very Present Help In Trouble.

"At one time, during a season of adversity, there was urgent occasion

for a certain sum beyond the income of the family, and there was no way

of borrowing it. I took the matter to the Lord in prayer, asking Him, if

the money were really needed, as it appeared to be, to send it, and, if

it were not, to remove the distressing circumstances. The answer came in

a sum five times the amount asked for, and in a manner totally

unexpected."



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"At another time, the mother of the family was very ill, and, when

apparently near death, the physicians had ordered a remedy which was to

be constantly employed, as her life, so far as they could judge,

depended on its use. One night, her symptoms became so alarming as to

compel the writer (who had charge of the nursing) to use this remedy

more freely than ever, and, about midnight the supply was exhausted.

There was no possibility of obtaining any more before morning, and the

rest of that night, while attending to the other directions of the

doctors, I spent in one earnest, agonizing prayer that God would so

overrule natural causes that death would not occur in consequence of

what I felt to be my own culpable carelessness in not having provided a

larger quantity of an article so necessary. In His great mercy, He

granted the prayer, the dangerous symptoms did not increase during the

seven or eight hours that intervened before the remedy could be

procured. One proof that it was a special mercy, is found in the fact

that there was no other such standing still of the disease, either

before this or afterward. And the doctors were astonished when they saw

that the disease had made no progress, under conditions that rendered

that progress inevitable in the usual law of cause and effect. And when,

on her final recovery, Doctor Parker told her that she owed her life to

the good care I had taken of her, my thoughts went back to the long

hours of that night of anguish, and I said, 'It was the Lord that took

care of her.' 'I meant your care, under Providence,' was the reply."