A
prominent minister in Canada
relates the following remarkable instance of God’s miraculous care over His people:
“I am frequently impressed by the Spirit, to perform actions, at the time
unaccountable to myself. These impressions are so vivid that I dare not
disobey them.
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“Some time
ago, on a stormy night, I was suddenly impressed to go to the distant house
of an aged couple, and there to pray. So imperative was the call, that I
harnessed the horse and drove to the spot, fastened the horse to the shed,
and entered the house unperceived by a door, which had been left open. There,
kneeling down, I poured out my petitions to God, in an audible voice, for the
divine protection over the inmates; after which I departed and returned home.
Months after, I was visiting one of the principle prisons in Canada, and
moving amongst the prisoners, was accosted by one of them, who claimed to
know me. I had no recollection of the convict, and was fairly startled when
the latter said: “Do you remember going to such a house one night, and
offering prayer for the inmates?” I told him I did, and asked how he came to
know anything about it. He said: “I had gone to that house to steal a sum of
money, known to be in the possession of the old man. When you drove into the
yard, I though you were he, and intended to kill you while you were hitching
your horses. I saw when you spoke to the horse that you were a stranger. I
followed you into the house, and heard your prayer. You prayed God to protect
the old people from violence of any kind and especially from murder; and if
there was any hand uplifted to strike them, that it ought be paralyzed.” Then
time prisoner pointed to his right arm, which hung lifeless by his side,
saying: Do you see that arm? It was paralyzed on the spot, and I have never
moved it since. Of course I left the place without doing any harm, but am
here now, for other offenses." -- Reported
by Lily Blake Blakeney Howe.
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