Prayer For A Pair Of Boots.

In the Fall of 1858, H----, a student in the Theological Seminary at

Princeton, N.J., was in great need of a new pair of boots. His toes were

sticking out of his old ones, and he had no money to purchase new ones.

All the money he could command was barely enough to pay his fare to his

home, where be had promised a dear friend to be present on the

approaching communion Sabbath.



H---- was a man of great fai h, and was accustomed to carry all his

wants to God in prayer. To God he carried the present emergency, and

earnestly importuned Him, that He would send him a pair of boots, and

that He would do it before the approaching Sabbath. He was persuaded

that God heard, and would answer his petition, yet his faith was sorely

tried. Saturday morning came and still there was no answer; he resolved,

however, to go to his home, fully persuaded that God would in good time

grant his request. He took the morning train at the Princeton depot, and

reached home about eleven o'clock. It was a hard trial for him to go to

"Preparatory Lecture" with his boots in the condition they were in; yet

at two o'clock he went, still praying that God would send him a new pair

of boots. During the service, a merchant in the town took a seat in the

same pew with him, and at the close of the service, without a word being

spoken on the subject, the merchant, after shaking hands with H---- and

inquiring of his welfare, asked him if he would do him the favor of

going down town to a certain boot and shoe store and select from the

stock as good a pair of boots as he could find, and, said the merchant,

"have them charged to me." It was, as, H---- said to me on his return to

the seminary, a direct answer to prayer. Indeed, it might be said of

H---- that he went through college and seminary _on prayer_. He laid all

his plans before God, pleaded his promises, and never was disappointed.