Little George's Prayer

Tip! “Supplication” is the very soul of prayer in the way of pleading for some one thing, very much needed, and the need intensely felt.

A pastor writes us about this answer to Prayer:

"I knew a poor family whose son George, four or five years old, was accustomed to pray. They lived five or six miles from neighbors, and, at times, were quite destitute.

"One day, as little George observed his mother weeping over their poverty, he said, ‘Why, mother, don't cry any; we will not starve; God will send us something to eat, I know He will. I've just been praying, and asked Him to.'

"The little fellow just as much believed God would send them food, as if he had asked a reliable neighbor and obtained their promise to supply George's family needs.

In a day or two after this, some friends living at a distance and knowing they were poor, took them the welcome surprise of a truck-load of substantial material of food and other needed comforts.

The little boy grew up to be a Christian minister, and, about a year ago, on inquiry, his uncle told me he had been at the head of an institution of learning in the South-west."