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answer prayer. How often help comes from a person of whose existence, even, the suppliant did not know, in response to an existing need unknown to anyone but the needy. It has been said of Muller that “the ‘Lord’ who went before him was merely another form of his own German energy, his simple, feeling heart, etc., a form dear to him and imposing to the Eng lish public.” And so forsooth we are to account for the fact that during a half century, without ever applying to a human soul for a gift, he re ceived millions of dollars, to build those orphan houses, to provide food and clothes and all needed comfort for 2,000 orphans; and, in the crisis of want, lest it should seem that he was indirectly applying to the public for aid, he even withheld the annual reports in which the story of past needs and divine supplies is told! HEALING FAITH. Travelers in Germany visit that wonderful hospital within three or four hours’ ride of Tübingen, which is more interesting than the famous University of Wittemberg, where Reuchlin and Melanchthon taught. Here Pastor Blumhardt, a man of singular gifts and graces, of most serene temper and apostolic earnest ness, drew to him unceasingly the sick and suffering; and in the cham bers of that hospital, astonishing vir tue went forth in connection with prayers for their recovery. Even those nervous maladies, which mod ern medicine seems most powerless to reach, yielded under the prayers of this godly and apostolic man, until he was compelled to give up the pulpit and parish to give himself wholly to the prayer of faith for healing, and at times 300 persons were at once in the hospital. The story of Dorothea Trudell is briefly this: Miss Trudell’s mother was a woman of remarkable faith. It
was her custom, when any member of her family was ill, to appeal direct ly to the Great Physician for healing without the additional resort of medi cine. After her mother’s death, Miss Trudell Assumed her mother’s place as the head of the family, and fol lowed the example of her mother’s faith. So marked were the answers to prayer for the recovery of the sick that she was often asked to visit her friends who were ill or receive them into her house. Thus her home, be came in" time a hospital; and at her death, in 1865, her work had grown to such proportions as to attract pa tients from every part of Switzerland. But her mantle.fell upon other men and women, who are still in charge of the institution which she left at Mannedorf; and the account of the healings wrought there in answer to the Prayer of Faith are such as can be accounted for only upon the as sumption that “the Prayer of Faith shall save the sick,” as truly now as when this promise was fresh from the pen of inspiration. A young man in the State of In diana left home for a business open ing in Ohio. There a gentleman from his own native place found him, and was shocked to discover that he had become a profane swearer. Returning home,' he felt constrained to tell Iiis pious parents of his awful degeneracy. They said little, and, in doubt whether they had understood him, he called the next day and repeated the statement. The father calmly replied, “We un derstood you: my wife and I spent a sleepless night on our knees pleading in behalf of our son; and about day break we received the assurance from God that James will never swear again.” Two weeks after, the son came home a changed man. “How long since this change took place?” asked his rejoicing parents. He re plied that just a fortnight before he was struck with a sense of guilt so
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