A Little Child's Prayer for Healing

A very little child, who had but recently learned to talk, and the daughter of a Home missionary, had been for weeks troubled with a severe cough, which was very severe in its weakness upon her. At last her father said to her, Daughter, ask Jesus, the good Lord, to heal you.’’

Putting up her little hands as she lay in bed, she said, Dear Jesus, will oo ‘please to cure me, and do please tell papa what to give me.’’

The father, who was listening, thought several times of “syrup of ipeeac^ but did not connect it immediately with the prayer. At last the thought came so often before him, that he felt, “Well, it will do no harm, perhaps this is what the Lord wants me to give her.” He procured it, administered it, and in three hours the little child’s cough had wholly ceased, and she was playing on the floor with the other children. A most singular feature is the fact that the same medicine was administered at other times and had no effect in relief.

•’ blessed IS he that considereth the poor j the Lord will deliver hint in time of trouble. ^’

‘^jSonorthe Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase, so shall thy bams be filled with plenty J^

^’ There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tend’ eth topoverty,^^

‘’ The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.^’

‘^ Me that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay him again J^

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cfy of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard,

*’ Se that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

‘* He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.’’

*’ He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that hideth his eye shall have many a curse.’’

“Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days,”

“If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones. And thou shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”

“He which soweth bountifully, shall reap also bounti’ fully”

*’ JSvery man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, nor of necessity, for