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How
wonderfully God has answered prayer in behalf of good institutions founded to
alleviate human misery. Of this we have a striking instance in the Orphan
House, at Halle,
founded by Francke. His school was unendowed. In 1696, he had not money to
support the school a week longer. When the last morsel was about to be
consumed, a thousand crowns were received from an unknown source. At other
times of distress he received, answer to special prayer twenty, thirty, and
fifty crowns. He says: “Another time all our provision was spent, but in
addressing myself to the Lord, I found myself deeply affected with the fourth
petition of the Lord’s prayer, ‘Give us this day our daily bread;‘ and my
thoughts were fixed in a more especial manner on the words ‘this day,’
because on the very same day we had great occasion for it. While I was yet
praying, a friend of mine came before my door in a coach, and brought the sum
of four hundred crowns‘ — Power of
Prayer, by Prime.
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