Life sketches and faith work . we went down in prayer toask the Lord about it. In prayer I said, Lord, will you give me abed, or shall I send to Washington for mine? I also said,* Lord, we shall want one hundred and fifty chairs. Will youfurnish them? Just that moment, a little girl from Hanoverstreet, came in and said that her ma wanted us to go and pray forher little crippled sister. We went round (Sister P. and I) andand prayed for the child. Since then, she has walked out onthe street like other children. Her mother said, Elder R., whatdo you most need, chairs or a bed? I smiled and replie
Life sketches and faith work . we went down in prayer toask the Lord about it. In prayer I said, Lord, will you give me abed, or shall I send to Washington for mine? I also said,* Lord, we shall want one hundred and fifty chairs. Will youfurnish them? Just that moment, a little girl from Hanoverstreet, came in and said that her ma wanted us to go and pray forher little crippled sister. We went round (Sister P. and I) andand prayed for the child. Since then, she has walked out onthe street like other children. Her mother said, Elder R., whatdo you most need, chairs or a bed? I smiled and replied, Ihave just asked my Father for a bed this morning. She said, It will be there in due time, and so it was. That day I wentup to the anticipated home to get it in readiness, and worked untilafter sun down and was just coming out, when a man met me onthe steps and said, * Do these chairs belong here? pointing to amonstrous load of one hundred and fifty. I said, No. (Myprayer offered in the morning did not then occur to me.) He. ELDER W. G. RAYMOND. 103 said, Is not this No. 9 N. Strieker street? Isnt this to be rfaith home? I answered, Yes, it looks like one. Isn**-your name W. G. Raymond. Yes. He s. owed me thebill for the chai rs directed to me. I thanked God and said,Unload them. I had not spoken to anyone about them orrequested anyone to do so. Afterwards I found that Bro. Nortonhad spoken to this man, telling him that I had opened a home andwould need tbe chairs, and that a banker had paid towarastLem. 1 now believe had I continued to ask my Father iorneeaea tnings. He would have furnished the whole house, forevery time the sisters came into the home for meeting, they wouldbring a piece of bedding or something else needful. Some of theworkers thought I had better go to an instalment store andpurchase what was needed, and pay weekly, that the house mightbe quickly in readiness. I did so, but afterwards much regrettedit, though I blamed no one but myself. This home was
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