AS NARRATED BY:
George Muller, W.W. Patten, D.D.,
D.L. Moody, Chas. Cullis,
C.H. Spurgeon, S.I. Prime, D.D.,
Bishop Simpson, E. Krummacher,
Newman Hall, D.D., Martin Luther,
Bishop T. Bowman, John Knox,
Chas. G. Finney, Abraham Lincoln,
AND HOSTS OF OTHERS.
The incidents which are published in this volume, are vouched for uponthe strongest proofs of authenticity possible to obtain, and are either ofcircumstances known amid my own experience, or connected with the lives ofmy correspondents and their friends. They are the thankful record andtribute to the power of persevering faith.
Nothing has been published concerning which there is the least shadow ofdoubt. All have been carefully investigated.
Every case has been one of real prayer, and the results that have come,came only in answer to the prayer of faith, and were not possible to obtainwithout it.
They demonstrate to a wonderful degree, the immediate practical ways ofthe Lord with his children in this world, that He is far nearer and moreintimate with their plans and pursuits than it is possible for them torealize.
Neither have we depended upon the relation of facts of a few, toconvince the world of the real power of faith, but have added concurrenttestimony of incidents actually known in the experience of such eminentclergymen as Charles Spurgeon, Newman Hall, Martin Luther, W. Huntington,Dr. Waterbury, George Muller, Dr. Cullis, Dr. Patton, Dr. Adams, Dr. Prime,Bishop Simpson, and many others.
Also we have added some incidents known and investigated and foundabsolutely true, by the editors of the following journals, who add theirunquestioning belief in the power of prayer: The Christian, TheEvangelist, The Observer, The Congregationalist, The Advance, TheIllustrated Christian Weekly, The American Messenger, The Witness.Likewise we have been greatly assisted by some of our Home Missionaries,who, from their daily experiences with the poor and suffering, have beeneye-witnesses to remarkable experiences and the wonderful help of the Lordin answering their prayers.
These testimonies here recorded must be accepted as true. Theydemonstrate that answers to prayer are not occasional, and thereforeremarkable that they do occur, but are of constant occurrence.
There may be many minds who, having carried no trial to the Lord, havenever been brought into intimate acquaintances of the ways in which theLord tries the faith of his children, nor led to see and observe hiswonderful control over human wills and circumstances. The power of the Lordis learned only by those who in deep trouble have faithfully sought Him andseen his ways of deliverance.
None can ever understand the full power of prayer until they havelearned the lesson of trust. It is only when for the first time inthe Christian's own life of faith, it realizes the hand of God in hispersonal dealings with him, how near He is, or how clearly he feels thepresence of that tremendous overruling Spirit which
"Turneth the heart whithersoever He will."
The actual existence of our God is therefore proved, not alone fromHistory, nor from the Bible alone, nor from current natural orreligious feeling and beliefs, nor from the testimony of old witnessesseveral thousand years old, but from the actual incidents of presentprayer, and the