Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net In Answer to Prayer By THE RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP OF RIPON, THE REV. DR. CUYLER, THE REV. DR. JOHN WATSON ("IAN MACLAREN"), THE REV. CANON KNOX LITTLE, MR. WILLIAM QUARRIER, MR. L. K. SHAW, THE REV. DR. HORTON, THE REV. H. PRICE HUGHES, THE REV. DR. CLIFFORD, AND THE DEAN OF SALISBURY NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1899 _PREFATORY NOTE_ _The following pages were originally written for the SUNDAY MAGAZINE. In their present form it is hoped that they will reach another and not less appreciative public._ _Although Dr. Watson's contribution is of a character quite distinct from the other papers, it treats of a phase of religious experience so closely allied to that of answered prayer that it seems in the present collection to serve as a stage of transition from the sphere of the unseen and spiritual to that of the visible and tangible._ CONTENTS IN ANSWER TO PRAYER PAGE By the Right Rev. W. BOYD CARPENTER, Lord Bishop of Ripon 11 By the Rev. THEODORE L. CUYLER, D.D., of New York 19 By the Rev. JOHN WATSON, M.A., D.D. ("Ian Maclaren") 27 By the Rev. Canon KNOX LITTLE, M.A. 39 By Mr. WILLIAM QUARRIER, of Glasgow 49 By Mr. LEONARD K. SHAW, of Manchester 67 By the Rev. R. F. HORTON, M.A., D.D. 75 By the Rev. H. PRICE HUGHES, M.A. 89 By the Rev. J. CLIFFORD, M.A., D.D. 101 By the Very Rev. G. D. BOYLE, M.A., Dean of Salisbury 119 I BY THE RIGHT REV. W. BOYD CARPENTER, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF RIPON I have been asked to write some thoughts on answers to prayer. I am afraid that I cannot give from personal experience vivid and striking anecdotes such as others have chronicled. God does not deal with all alike, either in His gifts of faith or in those of experience. We differ also in the use we make of His gifts. But if I mistake not the object of these papers is not merely to gather together an array of startling experiences, but rather to unite in conference on the great subject of prayer and the answers to prayer.