The Wonders of Prayer - A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer by Various
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and confusion to me, as I had my eye on father, fearing he might fall,
it being very slippery, when the baggage-master said, 'Your checks, madam!' I handed them to him, and rushed into the car; but, before I got seated, the car started, and I had no checks for my baggage. Again my heart cried out, 'O, Thou that hearest prayer, take care of my baggage!' believing He could do that as well as make the conductor wait. In a few moments the conductor came to me with a face radiant with smiles, saying, '_Madam, I waited a whole half hour for you_,--_a thing I never did before since I was a conductor, so much as to wait one minute after my time_.' He said, 'I know it was your father that I was waiting for, because there was nothing else on the train for which I could have waited.' I exclaimed, in a half suppressed tone, 'Praise the Lord!' I could not help it; it gushed out. Then he said, '_At the very moment all were on board, and I was ready to start, such a feeling came over me as I never had in my life before. I could not start_. Something kept saying to me, _you must wait_, for there is something pending on that train you must wait for. I waited, and here you are, all safe.' Again my heart said, Praise the Lord! and he started to leave me, when I said, 'But there is one thing.' 'What is it?' was his quick reply. 'I gave the baggage-master my checks, and have none in return.' 'What were the numbers?' I told him. 'I have them,' he said, handing them to me, 'but your baggage will not be there till Monday morning. We had no time to put it on, we had waited so long.'" ANOTHER WONDERFUL RECORD OF $25. _A Christian minister_, living in Northern Indiana, was in want, and |
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