A Child's Prayer Answered

Tip! Non-praying is the same as disorder, discord, anarchy. Prayer, in the moral government of God, is as strong and far-reaching as the law of gravitation in this material world, and it is as necessary as gravitation to hold things in their proper place and life.

The following touching incident brought tears to my eyes as it was told to me a short time ago, by a dear friend who had it from an eyewitness of the same. It occurred in the great city of New York, on one of the coldest days in February.

A little boy about ten years old was standing in front of a shoe-store on Broadway barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.

A woman riding up the street in a beautiful car, driven by her chauffeur, observed the little fellow in his forlorn condition and immediately ordered the driver to pull up and stop in front of the store. The woman richly dressed in silk, alighted from her vehicle, went quickly to the boy, and said:

"My little fellow why are you looking so earnestly in that window?"

"I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the reply.

The woman took him by the hand and went into the store, and asked the proprietor if he would allow one of his clerks to go and buy half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. He readily agreed. She then asked him if he could give her a basin of water and a towel, and he replied: "Certainly," and quickly brought them to her.

Tip! Prayer, as taught by Jesus in its principal expression, enters into all the relations of life. It purifies fellowship.

She took the little fellow to the back part of the store, and, removing her gloves knelt down, washed those little feet and dried them with the towel.

By this time the young man had returned with the socks. Placing a pair on his feet, she purchased and gave him a pair of shoes, and bagging up the remaining pairs of socks, gave them to boy, and patting him on the head said: "I hope my little fellow, that you now feel more comfortable."

As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes answered her question with these words:

"Are you God's wife?"