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Prayer, A Monument Of: A Monument Of Importunate Prayer
At the close of a meeting in a Vermont city, in which I had spoken
of the power of prayer, an old deacon came forward to say that he
could give me another illustration. Said he, "My son was in Albany in
a medical college. We always thought him a good boy until one day a
neighbor met me on the street, and said, 'I saw your boy in Albany
yesterday intoxicated.' I thought the news would kill me. I went home
to tell his mother, and when the other children had been put in bed,
we got down on our knees and began to pray. At midnight we were still
in prayer, but at one o'clock my wife rose from her knees and said,
'God is going to save him.' The next day about noon when the first
train came in from Albany my son was a passenger. He came to say that
he had been living a sinful life and that all the night before he
could not sleep, that at one o'clock in the morning he had risen from
his bed determined to seek God and then to come to us for assistance.
Instantly we were on our knees by his side and almost instantly he was
converted." Then he took me back to the church and introduced me to
his son, a practicing physician, and said as he did so, "This is my
boy and he is a monument of the fact that God hears and answers
importunate prayer. -- J. W. C.
By J. Wilbur Chapan, "Present Day Parables."
