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Title: Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer

Author: S. B. Shaw

Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7026][Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule][This file was first posted on February 24, 2003]

Edition: 10

Language: English

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TOUCHING INCIDENTS and REMARKABLE ANSWERS TO PRAYER

For many years in our work among children, we have felt the need ofsomething similar to this book.

The cuts are made especially for this work. Pictures in this book willsuggest thoughts of God and heaven and awaken desires to live pure liveswhich will sooner or later result in the salvation of many of our youngreaders. God bless all our readers.

S. B. Shaw

We are sure these stories will interest you children (and most olderpeople, too). Especially good and true stories like these. In all thatwe have selected there are precious lessons of kindness and sympathy andobedience, gratitude, courage, and faithfulness: then there are two othervery important lessons which I wish you to learn. The first is thatchildren can be and should be true Christians, that is, have their sinsforgiven for Jesus' sake and their hearts changed so that they love Godand the right and hate everything that is wrong. The second lesson isthat we must be Christians to be ready to live or ready to die. You willfind in this book several accounts of happy deaths of Christian children,and you will find also much that tells of the good done by happy Christianchildren that lived.

Mrs. S. B. Shaw.

When I was a little girl about nine years old, my mother gave me thebook, "Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers To Prayer," for children.This book was published by Brother and Sister Shaw.

I still have that book, which is about fifty-nine years old, and I haveenjoyed the stories it contained many times. One time while teaching aSunday School class I gave them each one of these books. They liked themvery much, but there came a time when you could not buy these books, asother modern books took their place. But I feel that books like this oneare still needed, and I am sure that if Brother and Sister Shaw wereliving they would like to see the stories sent out again to the children.We are adding a few more true stories.

So we are praying God's blessings upon this book and dedicating it tothe memory of Brother and Sister Shaw who printed the first book in 1895.

Yours in Him,

Laura M. Conkle

(This dedication was written in 1955 for the first reprint edition.)

Always Tell the Truth

The Child Heroine of New Brunswick

Annie and Vanie's First Real Prayer

God Heals a Blind Girl

"Does This Railroad Lead to Heaven?"

The Young Martyr

A Child's Prayer Answered

The Converted Infidel

The Stowaway

The Golden Rule Exemplified

Only One Vote

How A Little Girl Utilized the Telephone

Jesus Answers Ruth's Prayers

Very Sick

The Dying Girl's Prayer for Her Drunken Father

Lost Treasures

The Little Girl, Who Died to Save Her Father's Life

"Forgotten My Soul"

Prevailing Prayer of a Child

The Dying News Boy

New Shoes

Little Jennie's Sickness and Death

She Died for Him

"I Don't Love You Now, Mother"

"Little Mother"

Robbie Goodman's Prayer

Carletta and the Merchant

How Three Sunday School Children Met Their Fate

He Blesses God for the Faith of His Little Girl

A Wonderful Children's Meeting

"They are Not Strangers, Mama"

Jessie Finds Jesus

"I'll Never, Steal AgainIf Father Kills Me for It"

Six Months' Record

A Child's Faith

Triumphant Death of a Little Child

The Child's Prayer

The Cat Came Back

How God Answered Donald's Prayer

Truthfulness is a mark of Christianity. The heathen go astray, speakinglies as soon as they are born. In China a mother will give her boy areward for the best falsehood that he can tell. Beginning so early, andregarding it such a fine thing to tell wrong stories, they become skillfulin falsehoods. Some parents in Christian America are very careless inthis matter. It made my heart ache one day when I saw a lady in a streetcar trying to keep her little boy awake by telling him that, if he wentto sleep, that man who had all those teeth in his window (referring toa dentist's office they had passed) would come into the car and pullevery tooth out of his mouth. The little fellow looked up dreadfullyscared, and did his best to keep awake: but I thought to myself, whenhe finds out what a wrong story his mother has told, he will not believeher even when she tells the truth. He will be like a little fellow ofwhom I heard once, whose mother told him that if he vent to play in abank from which the men had been drawing sand for a building, a bearwould come out and eat him up. One day another boy tried to coax him togo there and play, but he said, no, he was afraid of the bears. The otherboy said there were no bears. "But there be bears cause my mother saidthere be bears." While they were disputing, the minister happened tocome along, and they asked him if there were bears in the sand-bank. Hetold them there were none. "But," said the first little boy, "My mothersaid there be bears there." "I am sorry she said so," said the minister,"but the truth is, there are none." The child began to cry, and startedfor home as fast as he could go. "O Mama!" he said, "Did you tell me awrong story? Did you tell me there be bears down at the sand-bank whenthere aren't any?" She saw what a dreadful sin she had committed, andshe told him that she was sorry; but she was afraid that if he playedthere he would get buried in the sand, and she told him that to keep himaway. "But, Mama, it is such an awful thing to tell a wrong story." "Iknow it Tommy, I know it," she said, tears coming into her eyes; "andwe will ask Jesus to forgive me and I will never do it again." They kneltdown, and she was just about to pray when he said, "Wait, Mama, let meask Him; maybe you won't tell Him truly." That pierced her heart like adagger. She saw that her little boy had lost confidence in her truthfulnesseven when she prayed.

Jennie F. Willing

We have read a touching incident about three little children, who, lastautumn late in the season, wandered alone in a dreary region of NewBrunswick. The sun had already sunk in the west and the gloom of eveningwas spreading itself over the surrounding country.