ILLUSTRATIONS OF BIBLE TRUTH

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A BUTTERFLY USED TO ANSWER PRAYER

An English evangelist, whom I have learned to know and love, Mr. H.P. Barker, tells an interesting story of a poor woman who was being pressed by a tradesman to pay an account which she knew had already been settled. In that case he demanded that she produce a reciept; quite certain that she had received one she hunted and hunted, but was absolutely unable to find it. She went through piles of papers and letters, but to no avail -- the reciept was not forthcoming. Finally the tradesman came to her again and made a very angry demand upon her for immeadiate payment.

In her distress she turned to the Lord in earnest prayer, asking Him to bring the reciept to light. Then in a moment or two, a butterfly flew into the room through an open window, and her little boy, eager to catch the beautiful creature, ran after it. The frightened insect flew over to the wall on one side and down behind a trunk. The boy in his eagerness to catch it, pushed out the trunk, and there, behind it on the floor lay the missing reciept! Snatching it up triumphantly, the poor widow showed it to the tradesman, who went away discomfited. As his own handwriting declared, the debt had been paid.

Who can doubt but that He who notes the sparrow's fall and who would have us learn lessons from the ant and the coney and other small creatures, directed even the movements of a butterfly in order that He might answer His handmaidem's prayer!



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