‘ANSWERS TO PRAYER.'

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XX, 15 May 1897, Page 622

‘ANSWERS TO PRAYER.'

Mr Hugh Price Hughes, in the March Sunday Magazine, gives some of the results of his experience of answers to prayer. One of the examples he cites may be mentioned. Not long ago the West London Mission was greatly in want of money. He invited his principal colleagues to meet him near midnight, and they spent some time 'imploring God to send us .£l.OOO for His work by a particular day.’ In the course of the meeting one of their number • burst forth into rapturous expressions of gratitude,’ as he was convinced that the prayer would be answered. Mr Hughes confesses that he did not share this absolute confidence, but ‘ believed with trembling.’ However, the day appointed came, and Mr Hughes went to the meeting at which the sum total would be announced, and he says : — ‘ It appeared that in a very short time, and in very extraordinary ways, £990 -had been sent to the West London Mission. I confess that as a theologian I was perplexed. We had asked for a thonsand, there was a deficiency of ten. I could not understand it. I went home trying to explain the discrepancy. As I entered my house, and was engaged in taking off my hat and coat, I noticed a letter on the table in the hall. I remembered that it had been lying there when I went out, but I was in a great hurry and did not stop to open it. I took it up, opened it, and discovered that it contained a cheque for £lO for the West London Mission, bringing the amount needed for that day to the exact sum which we had named in our midnight prayer meeting.’ ‘ Of course,’ adds Mr Hughes, ‘ this may be described as a mere coincidence, but all we want is coincidences of this sort. The name is nothing, the fact is everything, and there have been many such tacts.*