Answers To Prayer.

Dr. Newman Hall, minister of Surrey Chapel, London, gives the following

instances of answers to prayer from his own experience:



"The writer's brother, when superintendent of a Sunday School, felt a

strong impulse, one Saturday evening, to call on a member of his

Bible-class, whom he had never visited before, and to inquire if he was

in any need. He found him very ill. Though the mother and sister seemed

i comfortable circumstances, he felt constrained to inquire if he could

aid them in any way. They burst into tears, and said that the young man

had been asking for food which they had no power to supply, and that, on

Monday, some of their goods were to be taken in default of the payment

of rates. When he knocked at the door _they were on their knees in

prayer for help to be sent them_. By the aid of a few friends, the

difficulty was at once met--but the timely succor was felt to be the

divine response to prayer.



"With that brother, the writer was once climbing the Cima di Jazzi, one

of the mountains in the chain of Monte Rosa. When nearly at the top,

they entered a dense fog. Presently, the guides faced right about, and

grounded their axes on the frozen snow-slope. The brother--seeing the

slope still beyond, and not knowing it was merely the cornice,

overhanging a precipice of several thousand feet--rushed onward. The

writer will never forget their cry of agonized warning. His brother

stood a moment on the very summit, and then, the snow yielding, began to

fall through. One of the guides, at great risk, rushed after him and

seized him by the coat. This tore away, leaving only three inches of

cloth, by which he was dragged back. It seemed impossible to be nearer

death, and yet escape. On his return home, an invalid member of his

congregation told him that she had been much in prayer for his safety,

and mentioned a special time when she particularly was earnest, as if

imploring deliverance from some great peril. _The times corresponded!_

Was not that prayer instrumental in preserving that life?"