The Power Of Prayer
The Chicago Tribune gives Lm account of a lady, Mra. Janette M. Robinson, living in that city, who had for years been in a paralyzod condition from the effects of a fall, being restored to full health and strength through the mdinni of prayer. The lady was visited by a representativo of the Iribune, and the following is given as hor story : Tne extent of the paralysis Was such that when they stuck needies in my fle3h it had no eifect on me whatever, and I wouldn't have known they were doing it if I hadn't seen them. Well, it was getling on towards the end of the seventh year of my paralysis, when one day, the 24th of July, 1874- how well I remember it I - I was feeling quite baüly. I knew I ttaöh't getting any bétter, and I began to think that I was just entering upon the eighth year, and I was just as I was before. I was readin?, I remember, in the twenty-flrst chapter of Matthew, and I stopped at this verse : " All things whatsoeverye askand pray, beliedng, ye shall receive." That is just as it reads. I stoptted right tllere. It struck me so forcibly - that passage did - that I couldn't read any more. I thought God just said these words, and ' I laid hold on them. I thought God could help me. After I read that passage and studied on it, I then thought I should pray to God for help, because He says He wiii give it ; and I thought I would wrestle till morning in prayer, n imitation of Jacob, to eee what the üöïd woiiid do for tne. 1 prayed menwlly that He might restore my health, and I made up my mind that I would ray all night, as Jacob did, and maybe ! would get the blessing before mornDg. After I had decided on that point, as I was sitting in the chair, I feit such a strong impre? sion to kneel and pray. I was still praying in my mind, for I could not talk, but L did'nt obey the flrst oall. The impression, however, became so strong the second time- much stfohger than tho first--to kneel and piay, that 1 thoiight 't ffèa t cali fröni God, just as Samuel was called. I feit that God called me. I never feit such an impression before. I went to the foreside of the bed, took my crutch, and pulled the pillows on the floor, and kneeled down on them. I said just as Samuel said, " Lord, here am I. What wilt thoniiate me do V' Then I ftrayed that the Lord might remove my aiïliction and restore me to health. All this time I prayed in my mind, but all at once the blessing carne, j My jaws gave such a snap, and my tonguegave a leap. My jaws snapped as though they had been broken, and so loud that you could hear it in the next room. The strange thrill went all through me, right down to my toes. The flrst tliing I heard ■was the sound of a voice in the room; I knew there was no one in i Wfi.myfcBlfi biHritíll í heard a ?oice-, Í ogened my eyes to sée who was in the heaid the voice, and I putmy hand up and put it right in between my teeth, and I found that it was indeed my own voice, and that it was repeating the Lord's prayer. When I feit that my prayer was answered, I remembered that I was aekkig for the blessing, and it had come. I feit that all the contraoted muscles and the jaws and tongue gave way, so thftt I could talk and. praise God for hls göödbesa tó ine. Every nerve and muscle seemed to feel touched with the divine power that imparted strength , and activity to every organ in my whole system. It continued so, and found I could talk as well as ever. When I feit that the Lord had heard me, that my message had reached His heavenly mind, and had brought down the blessing, I laid my head on the bed and wept tor joy as 1 thought of what He had done for me. Then I arose from my knees and went across the room, almost to the door of the next room, before I feit that I had no crutch or cane to support me. Finding that I was alone, I stopped, j and saw that my hand, which had btfore this been turned in by the paralysis, as well as my limb, was straight, andl could open my hand freely, and I walked right along into the other room to see the woman that used to come ín and see tüe. She had been in a little while before, but I had feit so badly that I couldn't talk to her. I now walked in and called her by name, and as soon as sho saw me j she couldn't walk a step ; she was so perfectly overeóme with wonder that she oouldn't movo or speak. She isaid to me, " Whathas happened to you ?" and 1 told her to come and see what the Lord had done for me. She carne in, and I showed her my limb, my arm, my teeth, my tongue, and I could talk just as well as she could. I frightened the woman so much that she was j ust as still asa ghost. I then walked across the street to my neighbors and told them what had happened, repeating to theni the Lord's prayer. They were as much overeóme at hearing me speak as the woman had been. And they all wept, just as I did, for joy.
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