One time when I arrived home from one of my evangelistic tours I found that
my two young sons who were twins, eleven years of age, had been cutting
hay. It was all raked and rowed up ready for hauling, and they were
rejoicing that I had come as they were counting on me to help them haul and
stack the hay. They said, "Dad, tomorrow you will have to help us." I said,
"All right, we will have to get up early to get it done as I am leaving the
following day to start another meeting."
The next morning we started out. We had to drive eighty rods south on the
road, then we turned another eighty rods east to the hay meadow. Just as I
began to pitch the hay up in the rack the boys exclaimed, "Dad, it's
raining." "Yes," I said, and stuck my pitchfork in the ground, threw my hat
beside it and said, "Let's pray." I said to the Lord, "This hay is yours;
this farm is yours and I am your servant. This hay must be hauled today as
I leave tomorrow to minister unto the people, so please, at least keep the
rain off the hay meadow and off the road where we have to drive. Amen."
I went to pitching hay again; it was just pouring down all around us as far
as we could see across the fence and west of the road. The only spots where
it did not rain was where we were working and on the road we were driving.
It rained all day, and it did not just rain--it poured! We hauled hay all
day, until a little after six o'clock I slid off the stack in the yard and
then the rain just poured down. I said to the boys, "The Lord surely heard
prayer." They said, "Yes, He did," and we thanked the Lord.
After I had left the next day, our neighbor came over and seeing the stack
asked the boys when they stacked that hay. They told him, "Yesterday, Daddy
was home." (There was a distance of about twenty rods between his house and
ours). He said, "That is impossible. I took a rest all day for the rain
just poured down and I could not do anything." He thought it must have been
the day before that we hauled and stacked the hay. But the boys told him
that "Daddy prayed and it did not rain on our hay meadow, nor on the road
where we were driving." This man was greatly astonished at hearing this.
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