“Mother, I heard you praying: if I had died you would have thought me lost: but I am saved. When I let go my hold upon the boat, the thought flashed across my mind—I am lost. I am going into eternity with all my sins unpardoned. I lifted up my heart to heaven, and said, ‘God be merciful to me a sinner. Lord save me!’ I seemed to hear a voice distinctly saying, ‘I will save thee, trust me.’ I am sure it was the voice of Jesus. All my fear was gone. But after that I knew nothing until I heard you praying for me. You would have mourned for me as lost; but mother I am saved.” And the result proved that he was right. As soon as he recovered his health and strength, he gave up all his wicked ways, and lived the life of an earnest and devoted Christian. How wonderful is the power of Jesus to save! “The Power of Jesus to Provide.” A Christian widow was dying. She was very poor, and had four young children to leave helpless and alone in the world. As she took leave of her little ones, Nettie, the oldest girl, about fourteen years of age, said amidst heart-breaking sobs and tears, “O, mother dear, what shall we do when you are gone?” “Nettie, darling,” said the mother, “God’s hand will help you. It is an omnipotent hand. Never let go of it.” The mother died and was buried. Towards evening of the next day, little Dick, the youngest of the children, came to Nettie and said, “Nettie, Dick’s awful hungry. Isn’t there a bit of crust anywhere?” “Poor Dick,” said Nettie, “what shall we do?” And then, remembering what her dying mother had said about the Omnipotent hand, she dropped on her knees, and said, “O God, our God, and our mother’s God, look on these hungry little ones, left in my care, and send them some food for Christ’s sake. Amen.” A rich merchant of the town was going home that evening. He was a widower, but had no children. Without knowing why, he took a different way home from the one ordinarily taken. As he walked slowly along he happened to be just under the open window when Nettie made that prayer for bread. The tone of deep sadness in it touched his heart. He stopped. He knocked at the door. Nettie opened it, and asked him in. He found out the sad condition of those helpless orphans. He gave them money to get what they needed. He continued to visit them, and finally became so much interested in them that he took them to live with him in his own home. Nettie felt the blessedness of holding on to the Omnipotent hand. Here we see the power of Jesus to provide. One other illustration shows us—“The Power of Jesus to Protect.”