So a young man, without advanced education, prayed hard for an
opportunity to get mental training to fit him for the ministry. At the
same moment a principal of a New Jersey academy was in the gallery far
removed from the young man and he prayed for direction in finding a
suitable janitor. The academy principal mentioned his need to one of the
church members who "happened" to know the young man. It was arranged
that the young man should work for his board and tuition and have five
hours a day for study. The worshiper described himself in his sketch of
the answer to his prayers as one whom "God has led into the fulfillment
of all his highest ambitions." He is pastor of a strong church in
Cleveland. A little tot prayed for a "singing doll," and her mother told
her that a doll was too small a matter to pray for. But the father
overheard the conversation, and, after purchasing the most costly one he
could find at his noon hour, he left it on the little one's bed in the
night when everyone else was supposed to be asleep.
A widow prayed for some leadership in the sale of some wild land in
Louisiana. Her relatives urged her to let it go, as the "taxes will soon
eat it all." But the unexpected payment of a debt due her led her to
feel that, as she had been temporarily provided for, she would wait. In
about seven weeks she read in a paper that a company had struck oil on
the next section to her estate. She consequently leased the mineral
privileges of her land at a high price.
A minister prayed for a sermon text and found that the Sunday-school
superintendent had thoughtlessly left in the Bible the Sabbath before a
slip of paper on which was written the title which Mary Magdalene used
when addressing Jesus in the Garden near his tomb: "Rabboni." The
minister now remembers that sermon when nearly all others are forgotten.
A student whose mental faculties were unusually dull for his age prayed
that he might pass his examination in mathematics. That night in his
dreams his subconscious self worked out plainly on a blackboard the two
hardest problems. A farmer prayed for some deciding hint in his choice
of seed for his land. On his way home he held a bundle in his lap which
was in a newspaper wrapper. In one column on the wrapper directly under
his eyes was an article on the soils and products of his country which
opened his vision and made his farming safe and profitable. An Alsatian
girl prayed that her father and mother might come to America. They knew
nothing of her petition, but on that same day and hour, allowing for the
difference in the reckoning of time, the parents resolved to come to
America, and financial aid was promised them. A lawyer was asking the
Lord for some clew to lost evidence, so necessary to his case to be
tried the next day, when the name of a witness whose relation to the
case he had not before thought of, and whose name had been long
forgotten, was suggested to him. While doubtful of the value of the
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