Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-09-13
A MOTHERS AND A SISTERS PRAYER AN
SWERED.


Within q twelve month, there came from,
--, one of the West India Islands, to the
United States, man of business. He was
in truth, a man of the world deeply i'm
mersed in its cares, and prosperous in
reapng golden harvest; with which he
vainly hoped, ere long, to be satisfied and
happy. His nilsson led him to all the
principal cities on our Atlantic borders !;
an,l in them to associate with a most re-
spectacle class of our merchants. He first
visited a southern city; and while there,
was led, in theprovidencn of God, to listen
to the preaching Of a Jealous and devoted
clergyman of the Protestant EPlspocal
church. His attention was arrested and
his mind deeply solemnzed with eternal
realities. He visited intervening cities,
and at length reached Boston. There he
took lodgings in the - House. The
impressions made by divine truth were not
to be chaced from his heart, although he
was much occupied with mercantile opera
tons. He still thought ofhis soul, and be-
gan to set upon it a higher value than upon
the world. He went to hear faithful
minister of the Methodist church, and his
convictions of sin were heightened. He
went again and again; till, by the blessing
of God, and the operations Of the Holy
Ghost, he found Savior, and embraced
him in faith, and became a joyful witness Of
his truth. Surrounded as he was by the
world. on all sides, hearing constantly the
din of its business, and the noise of its folly
(miscalled pleasure } indeed engaged for a
part of the day in the former, and associated
at the meals, with many devoted TO the lat
ter, he did abstract his mind from worldly
thoughts, so as to spend hours daily with
his God, on his bendcd knees, seeking
Divine illumination in prayer and reading
his word.
He was now changed man. He felt
it within. He showed it in his very ccun-
tenance and manners. Yes! and he was
not made witness for Jesus to be DUMB!
or to testify only on certain great occa-
sions! Out of the abundance Of his heart
his mouth spake. He has now returned
to his home, to carry q pearl of matchess
price; and, in the benevolence which the
gospel inspires, TO use his utmost endeavors
that those endeared to him by the ties OF
affection and blood may not receive the
grace of God in vain. Nor will he be soon
forgotten in your CRY, among the brethren
who reoiced over his repentance, or by
those impenitent individuals whom he be-
sought in the ardor ofhis first love, to seek
the Savior he had found.
But what has all this to do with the
prayers of mother and sister! Let
me tell you, the man thus hopefully convert
ed, is the son of a mother in Israel! and
the brother of the rife ola missionary IN
India! The former has been for many
years, an ornament in the church in Eng
land, and now stands waiting but to hear
this blessed intelligence, that her son who
was lost is found--who was dead IS alive
again: and like Simeon of old, she will say,
"Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart
in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy sal
vation." The latter was so in love with
Gods word, that to enjoy and be benefited
with its glorious truths, she made the lie
brew language her study, that so she might
read it in the characters in which it was
originally penned.
Who can doubt that the prayers of that
mother and tlat sister, going up continually
for the son and the brother, widely separa.
ted from them as he was, were heard, and
he was blessed in his soul on account OF
them? Mothers! who have impenltent
sons and daughters, pray TOR them. Sis
tc-sl MO have brothers j ,cre El:h this