Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 146, 30 October 1942, Page 4

Everyman’s Hut

UNFORGOTTEN. I cannot tell why there should come to me A thought of someone miles and years away In swift insistence on the memory, Unless there be a need that I should pray. Old friends are far away; we seldom • meet To talk of Jesus or changes day by day, Of pain or pleasure, triumph or defeat, Or special reasons why ’tis time to pray. We are too busy even to spend thought r ‘ i s ' For days together of some friends away; Perhaps, God does it for us, and we / ought To read His signal as a call to pray, Perhaps my friend just then has fiercer fight, A more appalling weakness or decay Of courage, darkness, some lost sense of right; And so in case you need my prayer, I pray. Friend, do the same for me. z If I intrude Unasked upon you on some crowded day, < Give me a moment’s prayer as interlude; .Be very sure I need it, therefore pray.

—Marianne Farningham.

God has said, “Before they call I will answer,” and in no other way can many strange experiences be accounted for. The wife of a missionary in a foreign land was dangerously ill, living far away from civilisation. Her only chance of life was in a diet of oranges, and oranges were absolutely unprocurable in that part of the world, and it would take weeks to send a message and obtain a supply. Cast upon God for help, her husband prayed for oranges and then waited for the answer. Within a few hours an abundant supply had arrived and soon his wife was out of danger. How were the oranges supplied? Did God work a miracle in answer to prayer? A letter, accompanying the oranges supplied the answer. Some time before, another missionary friend in a place where oranges abounded, felt an urge to send his friends a supply. He had not heard from them for some little while, and never had the question of oranges been mentioned between them. Nevertheless, the to send oranges persisted as though some unseen one was giving the command. And so they were sent, and reached their destination just at the right time many days later. At the time they were sent the need was

not apparent, so mental telepathy could have nothing to do with it. How then can we account for it? Perhaps you say “Co-incidence,” but God says, “Before they call I will answer,” and He used one of His servants to answer a prayer which He knew would be made to Him many days later. He knows the end from the beginning. May we be in that condition of fellowship with Him, that He may be able to use us to answer the prayer of His children.