In one of his great Gospel campaigns in Chicago, Moody asked his helpers to join him in prayer for $6,000 and to ask that it might be sent at once.

They prayed long and earnestly, and before they rose from their knees a telegram was brought in. It was in some such words as these: Your friends at Northfield had a feeling that you needed money for your work in Chicago. We have taken up a collection, and there is $6,000 in the baskets.

“God had prepared the people” (2 Chronicles 29:36 KJV).

In connection with the work of the West London Mission, the Revelation Hugh Price Hughes and his colleagues once found themselves in pressing need of £1,000, and to get quiet they met at midnight to pray for it.

After some time of pleading, one of the number burst into praise, being assured that the prayer had been heard and would be answered. Mr. Hughes did not share this absolute confidence. He believed with trembling.

When the day came for announcing the sum received, it was found that £990 had come in within a very short time and in very extraordinary ways—but there was the deficiency of £10. When Mr. Hughes went home he found a letter which he now remembered had been there in the morning, but through pressure he had left it unopened. It contained a check for £10!

I’ll trust Thy grace —’tis infinite; And knows no bound, nor end.

After Dan Crawford had passed to his eternal rest, it was written of him: “He lived (and his work was supported) by strong faith in the unlimited riches of God, and in the power of prayer. He felt, too, that those riches and that power were available for all Africa, though he knew that not all had the same faith.”

He had a strong sense of unity of God’s work. A certain missionary in Africa, held up in some work for God, wrote to Dan Crawford asking for £100, and excused himself by saying, “You are rich.” When he saw that the same weekly mail that had brought the request had brought also contributions amounting to about the sum mentioned, Dan Crawford sent the whole week’s income to his correspondent with this reply: “Rich? Yes, I am rich—rich in faith for you all.”

“And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8).

He might have doled His blossoms out quite grudgingly, God might have used His sunset gold so sparingly, He might have put but one wee star in all the sky— But since He gave so lavishly, why should not I?

A. C. H.