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"Who clears the grounding berg
And guides the grinding floe,
He hears the cry of the little kit fox
And the lemming of the snow!"

No more wonderful testimony, perhaps, has ever been given of God's
willingness to help in every emergency of life, than that which Mary
Slessor gave, when asked to tell what prayer had meant to her. "My
life," she wrote, "is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer.
For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given
marvelously, for errors and dangers everted, for enmity to the Gospel
subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that
goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and
often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer. _I know
God answers prayer!_"

I have been asked the question: "Has God _always_ given you just what
you have asked for?"

Oh, no! For him to have done so would have been great unkindness. For
instance: when I was a young woman I prayed for three years that God
would grant me a certain petition. Sometimes I pleaded for this as for
life itself, so intensely did I want it. Then God showed me very clearly
that I was praying against his will. I resigned my will to his in the
matter, and a few months later God gave what was infinitely better. I
have often praised him for denying my prayer; for had he granted it I
could never have come to China.

Then, too, we must remember that many of our prayers, though always
heard, are not granted because of some sin harbored in the life, or
because of unbelief, or of failure to meet some other Bible-recorded
condition governing prevailing prayer. (See Bible Study on pages 129,
130.)

The following incidents of answered prayer are by no means a complete
record. How could they be, when no record of prayer has been kept all
these fifty years? Had there been, I doubt not that volumes could have
been written to the glory of God's grace and power in answering prayer.
But even from what is recorded here I, too, can say from a full heart,
_I know God answers prayer_.

"He answered prayer: so sweetly that I stand
Amid the blessing of his wondrous hand
And marvel at the miracle I see,
The favours that his love hath wrought for me.
Pray on for the impossible, and dare
Upon thy banner this brave motto bear,
'My Father answers p