Redfield in a Hard Place
John W. Redfield was a remarkable revivalist among the Methodists and Free Methodists. He died not many years ago. From his memoir,...
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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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"Can I Be Saved?"
Away on the western coast of England there stands a steep rock that is known to everybody as’ the “Lady’s Rock.” At high water it is...
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Behold, I Send You Forth as Sheep Among Wolves
How continually, as we follow the Lord closely, do His own blessed teachings, His own words, come with full force to our memory, clothed...
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Persecutors Put to Silence, And Converted
The following is from the Autobiography of that wonderful revivalist, Charles G. Finney. The circumstances as related occurred early in...
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Instances of Divine Power
I. In the spring of 1858, during the prevalence of the wide-spread revivals described in Prime’s “Power of Prayer,” I was soundly...
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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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A Wonderful Answer to Prayer
Robert Green was born and brought up a slave in Charleston, S.C. His master was a Methodist minister, who owned a large number of slaves,...
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The Wonderful Results of a Little Praying Band
In the year 1874, a little band of humble Christians was formed in Chicago, having for its one object the salvation of souls. Four of the...
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Revelations from God in Dreams
All dreams that make you better are from God. How do I know it? Is not God the source of all good? It does not take a very logical mind...
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Revival at Harvey, Illinois
During the spring of 1892, we held a five-weeks revival meeting in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Harvey, the new temperance town...
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The Sailor and the Picture of Christ
The following is stated by Rev. B. Fay Mills: “Some of you have seen the great picture that was painted by Muncakszy, of the Christ. That...
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A Prevailing Prayer of Mrs. Van Cott
In 1868, Mrs. Maggie Newton Van Cott held a revival meeting at Stone Ridge, Ulster Co., N. Y. At the opening of the meeting, she...
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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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“Saved from the Flames and Waves, and Shall be from Sins”
A Christian wife, whose husband was an officer on a Mississippi steamer (which was burned), as she prayed that her husband would be...
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He Blesses God for the Faith of His Girl
“I came home one night very late,” says the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, in his Marvels of Prayer, “and had gone to bed to seek needed rest....
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Remarkable Experience of C. H. Spurgeon
On his fiftieth birthday, Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was interviewed in reference to his long and eventful ministerial life, especially as to...
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A Great Revival in Answer to Prevailing Prayer
During the winter of 1885-86 we were called to hold a revival meeting in New Haven, Shiawassee county, Michigan. During the first few...
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The Prodigal
The Rev. Theodore Clapp, for many years a minister of religion in the city of New Orleans, narrates the following incident, which...
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Prevailing Prayer of a Child
At the close of a prayer-meeting, the pastor observed a little girl, about twelve years of age, remaining upon her knees, when most of...
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