A Telegram of Prayer

An incident was related at one of the meetings by a clergyman who had written a telegram asking for prayers. God heard it before it was sent.

“When we were in Switzerland, my daughter was taken very ill, so that the doctor despaired of her life. I fell; the need of sympathy and help and prayer, and I made up my mind that T would send a telegraphic dispatch to this meeting, where I had so often united with you in prayer. I wrote the dispatch and was prepared to send it, when all at once” there was poured out such a joyful faith and confidence in God on me as I never felt before in all my life, and I fell on my knees in devout thanksgiving for the assurance that God gave me that he had heard and answered our prayers, for we had prayed for that dear daughter’s life. There lay the telegram ready to be sent. There I was waiting and praying. In less than half an hour my wife came into the room and said, ‘There is a change for the better in our daughter, and the telegram wa* never sent, though I believe the writing of it was the prayer that God answered.”