Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-02-16
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A Mother s Prevailing Prayer

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IT was at a religious meeting
A hale, robust man, somewhat i
years, arose, and with much emo
ton related the story Of his early
life, and his conversion to God.
gave it, as nearly as | can remem
Der, in his Cwn words.
81 had a good pious mother
What prayers she offered for me
her wayward son. ! did not like
to hear her pray. She sometimes
prayed with me, but very often
heard her pray for me in her own
room. l did not like to 90 by thai
door; was almost afraid to 90 by
it. / used to run out of the boust
to get away from my dear mothers
prayers. / was afraid that hel
prayers would be answered, and
should become a Christian. die
not love God, and did no
like to think of him, and l was al
most angry that my mother should
keep praying so much for mt. But
| never forgot those prayers, tho
my heart was so hard, and | did
not wish to remember them.
"My mother died; but her pray
ers did not die; they lived in my
memory, and often they would
come up before me and trouble me
But oh how wicked my heart was,
it would not yield to her Savior.
II grew to be man, and a fami.
ly of children gathered about me.
In an outpouring Of the Spirit my
two eldest daughters were convert
ed; but still their father remained,
with his hard. sinful heart.
"One Sunday morning, as went
into the sitting groom after break
fast, ] saw a row Of chairs placed
along by the wall. l asked my
daughters what that meant. Why,
father they said, we are going to
have prayers; please come too
So they got the younger children
and seated them, and then those two
girls conducted family Worship
You may be sure, this was a blow
to me. Mine had been a prayer
less home; and now these two
daughters Lad taken up my moth
er's prayers for me. l was misera-
BILE. | was proud and unwilling to
let any one know how much !
felt.
Sunday passed slowly away
The next morning as l started for
my shop, two members of the
church were talking together~at at the
corner. l knew that they were
or rne wonders that God
was working in town. | was afraid
they would address me on religion /,
so | went a long way round, by
difficult path, and reached my shop,
went in, and shut the door.
II was all alone--uo, was not
alone. God was there. Hetouch-
ed my soul by his Spirit, and ]
could hold out no longer. / kneel-
ed down on a pile of boards, and
prayed and begged for mercy. II
saw all my past life, how rebellious
and wicked | had been, how the in
fuence Of my mothe's prayers had
never left me, and now, how
those very prayers were being ta-
ken up and carried afresh to the
throne of grace by my own daugh'
ters. Oh, what a poor miserable
sinner was; could the blessed Sa-
vior have mercy for me? Then
and there renounced my unbelief;
then and there l gave my poor
heart to him who said, Son, give
me thy heart:' and then and there
the peace and the blessing came.
"That shop could not contain
this new found bliss; | rushed
home, to tell the dear ones there
what | had experienced, and there
was Joy and rejoicing there over
the lost one found.
"That evening, in the prayer
meeting, ] told Gods people how a
mothers prayers and daughters
faithfulness, through. the blessing
Of God, had brought rebel Of
over fifty years to the foot of the
cross. to tho joJ Of believing in Je-
sus."
Shall not mothers continue to
pray, though they do not see their
children converted 1t is God
who cannot lie that has promised,
"Ask and ye shall receive"
And those daughters. What a
trial it must have been to them to
set up a family alter in that goddess
home. But God rewarded their
loving faithfulness with an exceed
ing great rdward. May we always
be as ready to help Jesus bear the
cross. E.V.
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