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by name, she said, Pray for my hus-
band that he may become a Christian.
Il went to see her husband one day
and told him that his wife had joined
our church. 7 don't know what has
come over her. he said, she used to
have a terrible temper, but that's all
gone. | can understand that, but she
refuses to eat, says the food chokes
her She eats few bites to please
me, but says she can never eat until
become a Christian
Why not become a Christian?. 1
asked.
Don't intend to-" he replied.
Better do it, I said, .syou can't hold
out against such prayers as those
"Oh, I don't want to do it-now.''
Three months after the talk with his
wife in the hospital, the husband was
converted.
Did you ever pray that way your
self? That's the real way.
In Puma, India, not far from Rama
bais school, there is another girls
school and also a boys school. There
is a gentleman living near Puma, that
had rejected Hinduism but did not care
to become a Christian. The truth was
that if he turned Christian his father
would cut off his patrimony. His wife
had been sent to a Christian school,
and while there was converted. She
wrote TO him saying that she had be-
come a Christian and intended to be
baptised: you have often professed
to be a Christian but have never been
baptised. Come up and be baptised
with me. But whether you come or
not I shall be baptised''
He went to see his wife and when
he got to the school, the girls all crowd
ed around him and began to pray. It
was ten o'clock, and they prayed until
four o'clock, no thought of luncheon;
they were determined to pray until
he was converted. He held out until a
little after four, then he gave in, and
was baptised with his wife.
The girls of this school had intend
ed to go home and testify to their fam
lilies, but they thought of their brothers
in the boys school who We're not yet
converted and they determined to pray
for their salvation,
They had prayer meeting and af-
ter a few prayers they sent a girl to
see how it was with the boys. She
reported that they We're Indifferent.
They prayed some more and another
was sent to sound the boys. But they
We're playing baseball. Then they de-
cjded that they must go where the boys
could hear them and asked permission
of their teachers. They prayed late
that night and finally the principal of
the boys school decided that they had
done enough praying for one night, and
decided to send them home. AS he OPEN
ed his door, he found the boys crouch
ed down listening to the girls praying.
AS ne opened the door, one by one these
boys went over to the girls and min
gled their prayers with theirs.
Dear friends, that is the power of
prayer And I ask you
again: Have you prayed that kind of |
a prayer?'
Jesus prayed all night. We are told |
that he got UP long before daybreak to |
pray.
The evening that I went to see Evan |
his mother said that he was
out and asked me to call at the next
morning. l went at half past nine and /
his mother. said, He came in early this
and is now asleep. I hate to /
wake him as he has been out all night
alone. Won't you come after lunch
aong Alone all night-in prayer.
Dear friends, what the Hawaiian Is
ands need more than anything else
IS microscopy prayer.
IF you want TO do any work, you
amt do anything stronger than that.
1hrist's great life was microscopy
prayer This is the blessed fact of it /
Ill. When he asks us to do something
which we have not yet attained, we
may cultivate it. None of his COM
hands are impossible. Let US cultivate
that power of microscopy prayer