Bishop Simpson's Recovery.

Bishop Bowman gives the following instance from his own experience:



"In the Fall of 1858, whilst visiting Indiana, I was at an annual

conference where Bishop Janes presided. We received a telegram that

Bishop Simpson was dying. Said Bishop Janes, 'Let us spend a few

moment's in earnest prayer for the recovery of Bishop Simpson.' We

kneeled to pray. William Taylor, the great California street preacher,

was called to pray, and such a prayer I never heard since. The

impression seized upon me irresistibly, _Bishop Simpson will not die_. I

rose from my knees perfectly quiet. Said I, 'Bishop Simpson will not

die.' 'Why do you think so?' Because I have had an _irresistible

impression_ made upon my mind during this prayer.' Another said, '_I

have the same impression_.' We passed it along from bench to bench,

until we found that a very large proportion of the conference had the

same impression. I made a minute of the time of day, and when I next saw

Simpson, he was attending to his daily labor. I inquired of the Bishop,

'How did you recover from your sickness?' He replied, '_I cannot tell_.'

'What did your physician say?' '_He said it was a miracle_.' I then said

to the Bishop, 'Give me the time and circumstances under which the

change occurred.' He fixed upon the day, and _the very hour_, making

allowance for the distance--a thousand miles away--that the preachers

were engaged in prayer at this conference. The physician left his room

and said to his wife, '_It is useless to do anything further; the Bishop

must die_.' In about an hour, he returned and started back, inquiring,

'_What have you done?' 'Nothing,'_ was the reply. 'He is recovering

rapidly,' said the physician; '_a change has occurred in the disease

within the last hour beyond anything I have ever seen; the crisis is

past, and the Bishop will recover_.' And he did."



The doctor was puzzled; it was beyond all the course and probabilities

of nature and the laws of science. What was it that made those ministers

so sure--what was it that made the patient recover, at the exact hour

that they prayed? There is only one answer, "_The ever living Power of a

Superior Spirit which rules the world_."