Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-12-26
CAMPFIRE STORIES.
GENERAL GRANTS SISTER.
Her Prayers Answered in a Remarkable
WAY After TwentY-five Years.

Her Prayers Answered in a Remarkable
Way After Twenty-Five Years.
The attendants at the Sunday evening
service at the Hanson Place Methodist
Church, Brooklyn, listened to nara
tive about the last days of General
Grant which has not before been made
public. After his sorman, the pastor,
Rev. DIR. A. B. Kendig, introduced to
the audience Mrs. c. w. Kramer, sis
ter of General Grant, who told OF her
efforts during the last twenty-five years
of her brothers life to secure his con-
version. Mrs. Kramer is the wife of Rev.
c. W. Kramer, who was Minister to
Switzerland during Grants second term,
and she was the Generals favorite sis
ter.
She told the congregation Sunday
evening that after her own conversion
in 1861 she became convinced that it
was her especial duty to win her broth
er's soul to God. By her prayers and her
influence she did every thing in her
power to that end from that time on. At
about the time of General Grants first
Inauguration she believed her object al
most gained. He was particularly i'm
pressed with the weight of responsible
ity that had come upon him, and the
passages in the Scriptures which his
lips touched when taking the oath Of Of
fee made a deep impression on his mind.
During his first term Mrs. Kramer was
much in his company at the White
House, and he often discussed with deep
feeling the subject that was nearest his
sisters heart. During his second term
his sister was abroad with her husband,
and they kept up regular correspond
ence, largely upon religious subjects.
When the General was taken sick Mr..
and Mrs. Kramer were still abroad. Re-
ports of his condition were cabled al
most daily. When it became serious
her husband was taken i'll, and Mrs.
Kramer was unable to leave him to go
TO her brothers bedside. Finally, she
said, the cable brought word that the
General was unconscious and low. But
she had full faith that he would rally,
and that her prayers would yet be an
swered. True enough, he did improve,
and he lived for some weeks. Finally,
in a fit of deep dependency Mrs.
Kramer, one day in her garden at Berne,
prayed most earnestly for the granting
of her hearts desire. And there came
TO her, as she described it to her hearers
Sunday night, 4 deep peace and solemn
conviction that her prayer would be
answered, and that her brother would
not be allowed to leave the world with
out making his peace with his God.
Within a day or two there came a cable
message from her daughter in New
York telling Mrs. Kramer that great
spiritual change had been experienced
by the dying man, and that in fact her
prayers of twenty-five years were an
sWered.
Some time later Mrs. Kramer and her
husband sailed for New York, and they
arrived the day after General Grants
death. In talking the matter over with
DR.. Newman she learned that her
brothers change of view of spiritual
things took place on the day of her
strange experience in the garden three
thousand miles away. Mrs. Kramer's
narrative made strong impression on
the large audience, which listened to her
with rapt attention.-N. Y. Sun.