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has caused a rupture between them."

AWAY FROM HOME, BUT NOT AWAY FROM GOD.

"Some weeks since I sent in a request for prayer for my sons who had
fallen victims to intemperance and vice. My heart rejoices to-day in the
hope that it has.

"Two who left home, and had gone to distant cities to seek employment,
have written me to pray that they may be able to forsake sin in all its
forms, and come to Christ and be Christians. One of them was skeptical
when he left home. The one remaining at home has resolved to quit
drinking."

GOD ALWAYS ANSWERS BELIEVING PRAYER.

"Your prayers asked on several occasions have all been graciously
answered. Return thanks unto the Lord that sendeth mercy."

THE HARDEST HEART YIELDS AT LAST.

"Several years since your prayers were solicited in behalf of one who
seemed given over to hardness of heart and reprobacy of mind. Since that
time there has been some reform in his life. God only knows how far
those prayers have been answered in restraining grace. Last week he said
to the friend who had solicited your prayers for him, 'I wish you would
ask Fulton Street prayer-meeting to pray again for me. _I believe it did
me good._'"

UP FROM THE LOWEST DEPTHS.

"One year ago I wrote you respecting prayer for my husband. He has since
been reclaimed from the lowest depths of a drunkard's life, and is now a
member of the Christian church. Thanks be to God, the giver of all
good."

SAVED AND HONORED.

"Almost three years ago I asked you to pray for a young man that was
wandering from God. Thank God, your and my prayers were answered. He is
now an active Christian, a superintendent of the Sabbath school, and a
most zealous member of the Young Men's Christian Association of this
place."

ALMOST PERSUADED.

"Some weeks since I requested prayer for a member of this Institution
who was 'almost persuaded' to be a Christian. Thanks to our Father, and
to those who have offered prayer in her behalf, she has been _altogether
persuaded_, and has united with the Lord's people."

ANSWERED THE SAME DAY.

"You received a letter yesterday. My husband rose for prayers the same
night."

OH, HOW PRECIOUS.

"I wrote five months since for prayers for myself, and I now write to
say that I have found my Savior very precious to my soul."

PRAYING FOR A PASTOR.

"Several months ago I wrote asking you to pray for a feeble church in
need of a pastor. Since then I