The Widow's Prayer Answered
A captain’s widow, whom I knew for many years of our chapel, was much concerned for the conversion of her son, who was a sailor. For a...
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Remarkable Prayer of Missionary Cox and His Brother, for His Brother
Melville B. Cox was the first missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Africa. He labored in Liberia but a short time, and died....
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Triumphant Death of Three Children
Three children of Brother and Sister I.L. Miller, of Sycamore, O., died about the beginning of 1893, of diphtheria. Brother Miller wrote...
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Edward Payson, A Man Who Prayed Without Ceasing
This well-known man of God was for many years pastor of the Congregational Church at Portland, Me. His remarkable success was, to a very...
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The Dying Boy
But I have another anecdote to tell. It was Ralph Wallace who told me of this one. A certain gentleman was a member of the Presbyterian...
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A Dying Child's Prayer for Her Drunken Father
A child from a poor family had an intemperate father, who often used to abuse his wife and children. This child had been to the...
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How Three Sunday-School Children Met Their Fate
When the Lawrence Mills were on fire a number of years ago—I don’t mean on fire, but when the mill fell in—the great mill fell in, and...
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“I’m so glad you have come!”
I believe it to be a great characteristic of the American heart, that it clings to home and mother. I remember passing over a...
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Dying Words of Miss Mary Willard
This devoted young lady was the sister of the well-known Frances E. Willard. She left this vale of tears June 8th, 1862. The record of...
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There is No Rest in Hell
About ninety years ago, there was in Glasgow a club of gentlemen of the first rank in that city. They met professedly for card-playing,...
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Little Jennie's Sickness and Death - By Her Mother
Little Jennie was eight years old, March 30, 1886. The following April, she was taken very sick, and from that time until June 4, she...
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The Dying Babe
The following extract from an anonymous contribution in the New York Methodist, tells a story which many parents could adopt as their...
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The Dying Newsboy
In a dark alley in the great city of New York, a small, ragged boy might be seen. He appeared to be about twelve years old, and had a...
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Visions of Heaven and Hell
In the “Life of William Tennent,” that zealous, devoted minister, and friend and fellow-laborer of Whitefield, the author of his memoirs...
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Dying in Despair
The following certified incident from real life we select from correspondence of the Canada Christian Advocate: A man who had indulged...
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Waiting for the Angelic Convoy
Seldom is the serenely expectant spirit of the dying Christian more graphically portrayed than in the beautiful letter of Rev. J.S.C....
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They Are Not Strangers, Mamma
Not long ago I stood by the deathbed of a little girl. From her birth she had been afraid of death. Every fiber of her body and soul...
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Carletta and the Merchant
“If I could have your faith, Hawkins, gladly would I - but I was born a skeptic. I cannot look upon God and the future as you do.” So...
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Miraculously Healed
We extract the following from the Methodist Magazine for July, 1827, being an account of a conversion that occurred in a revival of...
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She Died For Him
A poor emigrant had gone to Australia to “make his fortune,” leaving a wife and little son in England. When he had made some money, he...
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