The Life of His Child Saved

“My eldest daughter now living fell sick at about five or six months old, and was wasted to a skeleton. She had a doctor to attend her, but she got worse and worse. It seemed as if God intended to bereave us of her, for he brought her even to death’s door.

“My wife and I have sat up with her night after night,, watching the cradle, expecting every breath to be her last, for two or three weeks together. At last I aisked the Doctor if he thought there was any hope of her life. He answered, no, he would not flatter me. She would surely die,

“This distressed me beyond measure, and as he told me to do no more for her, I left my room, went to my garden in the evening, and, in my little tool house, wrestled hard with God in prayer for the life of the child.

“I went home satisfied that God had heard me; and in three days the child was as well as she is now, and ate as heartily. This effectually convinced me that all things were possible with God.”