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identity. Afterwards I had some corre spondence with him, and not so very long ago a letter full of thangsgiving was received, in which he tells me that every thing is all right; they are now happily married. Another, who signs herself “A Believer in Prayer,” writes : “I am in great trouble because of a v?in which I did not wilfully commit. I feel God has forgiven me, but the grief and shock to my dear husband are breaking his heart. I have confessed all to him, and he wants to love me as he once did, but is unable to do so. This trouble is not imaginary in any-sense of the word, for my husband has lost eight pounds of weight in three weeks.” FINANCIAL HELP God has blessed us wonderfully in the financial support . of the enterprise, Al though a great deal of money has been spent, we have never taken a collection, nor has a personal solicitation been made of anyone save of the Lord. Many people bring or send money to the church, some times anonymously, but as George Mueller used to say, “We do not always know who brings it, but we always know who sends it.” A Georgia woman whom I have never seen has sent altogether about $62 at different times. She never sends money orders or checks, but always currency. In one of her letters enclosing $10 she wrote,- “I enjoy very much sending this money.” One morning, in the same mail, there were received two dimes, securely sewed in cloth, from an old lady in Louisiana, who wrote : “I am old, have nothing but what my friends give me;” also two dimes from Virginia, wrapped in newspaper. The sender wrote: “Here is 20 cents. I hope it will give somebody something to eat.” I spoke of these four dimes, and a Memphis banker gave me $5 for them, then gave them back and said put them on sale and I will start the bid on them for $5 each. His bid not being raised, he paid $20 for them; so that the four dimes brought $25 in cash. This banker has been led to take renewed interest in 'the church and its
down. He wrote: “Again and again I have turned my heart to your noon-day meetings, and no other agency has brought me more strength. You cannot know, nor can your noon-day meeting people know how my heart has gone out in gratitude and love since you first told me of their prayers.” A WRONG START The following letter is from a young man who started wrong in life and who has been in the very depths of sin and shame: “I have lost my health' and am now a physical wreck, and I am without God. I do not know Him in the forgiveness of my sins. Have lived in the city for the past three years, and one thing has brought on another, until I am now in serious trouble and am afraid I will have to spend my last days in the penitentiary. I am charged with a serious matter. I was brought up in a respectable family, but like many boys, I departed from the training of my yputh. Having heard a great deal about your noon day prayer meetings, I am writing you this letter and earnestly asking that you pray for me one day. Pray that I may find my God, and know Him in the forgiveness of my sins, also that my health may be restored to me, and that I may get out of my present trouble.” God so gloriously answered prayer for him that he is now very happy and zealous in the Lord’s service. Matters of romance have quite a place in the meeting. Sometime ago a Baptist preacher came into my office in the middle of the forenoon. He seemed greatly bothered and desperate.- Said he had come many hundreds of miles from another State to marry a woman to whom he was engaged, and ,when he got here she informed him that she had changed her mind. He was then on the way back home. He said, “I have been walking up and down the street like a caged lion. I saw your sign and thought I would drop in.” Of cout»se our'first remedy was to prescribe prayer, and a cordial invitation to attend the noon’ prayer meeting, which he did. I stated the case without revealing his'
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