Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1913 — HAD HIS PRAYER ANSWERED [ARTICLE]

HAD HIS PRAYER ANSWERED

Butcher’s Only Regret Was That the Idea Had Not Been Suggested ‘to Him Before.

A butcher whose business had been steadily declining, owing chiefly to a rival having set up on the opposite side of the street, confided to his minister that he saw nothing for it but to close his shop and leave the town.. The clergyman suggested that perhaps he had not made any serious effort to retain the trade; but the butcher replied that he had done all he knew without success.'

“But,” said the minister, "have you tried the effect of prayer?” No, he had not thought of trying prayer, but he would do sd before putting up the shutters. ? A week elapsed, when the minister, chancing to* pass the butcher’s shop, found him radiant with delight. “Well,” the cleric asked, “did you try the power of prayer?” “Oh, yes,” was the reply, “and I only wish I had tried*!!,., before. 7 prayed the very left me, and on the following morning the beggar over the road broke his neck.”