How a Poor Little Cripple Converted a Village

Mr. D. L. Moody relates the instance of a poor little cripple, whose prayer were answered to the conversion of fi/ff/- six people.

“I once knew a little cripple who lay upon her death bed. She had given herself to God, and was distressed only because she could not labor for Him actively among the lost. Her clergyman visited her, and hearing her complaint, told her from her sick bed she could pray; to pray for those she wished to see turning to Gk)d. He told her to write the names down, and then to pray earnestly; he went away and thought of the subject no more.

“Soon a feeling of religious interest sprang up in the village, and the churches were crowded nightly. The little cripple heard of the progress of the revival, and inquired anxiously for the names of the saved. A few weeks later she died, and among a roll of papers that was found under her little pillow, was one bearing the names of fifty-six persons, every one of whom had in the revival been converted. By each name was a little cross by which the poor crippled saint had checked off the names of the converts as they had been reported to her.”