The Wonders of Prayer a Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer

Excerpt: ...to a brave-hearted sister--who, by faith alone, and not by money, had gathered some sick and poor about her, and lived only by prayer--and a note of apology and half-contempt that it was such a miserable pittance. She received, in reply, the following little financial statement: "My Dear Friend: --Remember the five loaves and two fishes, and listen to the message of your two dollars. This is the way I expended it: Corned beef, . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0 80 Chop and egg for sick aunty, . . . . . . 13 Sweet potatoes, . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 White potatoes, . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cabbage and bread, . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Tea, milk and sugar, . . . . . . . . . . 30 ----- $1 88 The balance bought the coal with which it was cooked, and fifteen people were fed!" Saved From Starvation. On the second floor of a rear house lived a lady well known once as among the foremost members of a wealthy church. The first blow of adversity opened a wide passage for a succession of disasters. She passed through the whole sliding scale, until the missionary found her in the poor, dilapidated tenement where, for two days and nights, she had lain in bed to keep warm; or as nearly so as her scanty covering would admit. It was Saturday, and the only food she had to keep her alive until Monday, was two soda biscuits! She had sold everything comfortable in the way of furniture; all her clothing but one respectable suit for the street, and the only thing remaining, that pointed to the history of better days, was a pair of gold eye-glasses, given her by her dying mother. Within a few months her dire necessity had often pointed to the glasses; but she could not see without them, nor could she sell the gold frames unless she had means to have the glass set in commoner ones. Moreover, the harpies who feed and thrive on the miseries of the poor, would in no case have given her more than twenty-five cents for them; and the short respite derived from that amount would not have...