Scripture Verse

Introduction

Anecdote

I was stand­ing at a bank coun­ter in Li­ver­pool, wait­ing for a clerk to come; I picked up a pen and be­gan to print on a blot­ter in large let­ters, two words, which had gripped me like a vice: PRAY THROUGH. I kept talk­ing to a friend, and print­ing un­til I had the blot­ter filled from top to bot­tom with a co­lumn.

I trans­act­ed my bu­si­ness and went away. The next day my friend came to see me, and he said he had a strik­ing sto­ry to tell me.

A bu­si­ness man came in­to the bank soon af­ter we had gone. He had grown dis­cour­aged with bu­si­ness trou­bles. He start­ed to trans­act some bu­si­ness with the same clerk over that blot­ter, when his eye caught the long column of PRAY THROUGH.

He asked who wrote those words, and when he was told exclaimed: That is the ve­ry mes­sage I need­ed. I will pray through. I have tried to wor­ry through in my own strength, and have mere­ly men­tioned my trou­bles to God; now I am go­ing to pray the si­tu­ation through un­til I get light.

Charles M. Al­ex­an­der