In the family of a missionary pastor in Kansas, was a
daughter of twelve years of age, seriously afflicted with
chronic rheumatism. For three years she suffered, until the
leg was shrunken, stiff at the knee, shorter by some two
inches than the other, and the hip joint was being gradually
drawn from its socket. The child read of Mrs. Miller's cure
by prayer, originally published in The Advance^ and won-
dered why she could not also be cured by the same means.
She repeated to her mother some of the promised answers to
prayer, and asked : " Don't Jesus mean what he says, and
isn't it just as true now as then ? " The mother endeavored
to divert her attention by representing the affliction as a
blessing. The physician also called and left another prescrip-
tion, and encouraged the child to hope for benefit from it.
The child could not, however, be diverted from the thought
that Jesus could and would heal her. After the doctor's de-
parture she said : " Mamma, I cannot have that plaster put



onP



"Why, dear.''
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258 ANSWERS TO PRAYER.
" Because f viofJier, Jesus is going to cure mCj and he must

have all the glory. Dr. doesn^t believe in God ; if we

put the plaster on, he will say it teas that tohich helped me;
and it must be all Jesus" So earnest was she, that her
mother at length placed the package^ just as she had received
it, on a shelf, and said no more about it.
The little girl and her mother were alone that day, the
father being absent from home. When the household duties
were done she called her mother to her.
