PRAYING FOR THE STRANGER

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

PRAYING FOR THE STRANGER.

A young lady from one of the British Provinces came to Boston seeking employment. In a church she attended, the pastor’s prayer had some fervent petitions for the stranger. Her heart was greatly affected by an allusion so interesting to herself. She felt she was cared for, though unknown to the preacher, and though far from her own home. She must attend that church again, under the influence of such an attraction. At her next attendance a sermon about the prodigal son gave her impressions speedily resulting in her conversion, and union with the church. She has returned to her distant home, rejoicing in such a blessed result of her visit to this city, and never to forget the kindness of her pastor, whose prayer for the stranger had an issue of which he had not dreamed, and which will give new stimulus to the fervor of his interest in behalf of strangers and visitors here from distant lands.

Cannot other preachers see their duty and privilege in the fact above related? “I was a stranger, and ye took me in.”—Selected.