A Prayer for a Horse

“My horse died, and, after traveling through the snow-drifts to my appointments, till I was lame, half sick, and unfit for service — as I had not means to purchase a horse, I thought of quitting the work and going to teaching, and laid the matter before God, in prayer; soon after which, some person at a distance, who heard that I had lost my horse, without my saying a word about it, raised the means by which I procured another.”