Another section of this article I thought was interesting was the section called "Someone had Prayed". "Someone had Prayed" was a list of different stories that had people in desperate or near death situations, but because someone prayed, that person or group was spared. This just shows the power of prayer! God can place someone or some place on your heart to pray for, and you may not necessarily know why but it is important to pray for them. I love hearing stories about people suddenly having an urge to pray for someone, and later to find out that person they prayed for was in a dire situation and needed God's intervention. In which situation God did intervene; God works in mysterious and awesome ways!
On a side note, this article had some very interesting and random "mini" sections, for example, "S'more money from the 'winter flannels man'", "The Biggest Tree in the World", and had section on the debate on whether Christians should wear wedding rings. The whole debate was based on the passage about not wearing anything flashy or showy and so on, but it surprised me because I never had thought that wedding rings was ever a controversial topic. I guess you learn something every day!
Thanks, Jessica. I think it's interesting how well some of these stories still resonate with us 70 years later, and it's also a useful reminder of the ways in which missions organizations would try to remind their readers that there is more at stake in this endeavor than just the questions of money and management that so often fill up these periodicals. And, by the way, the wedding ring issue was a very significant one in early Nazarene circles, particularly as the holiness groups from the two coasts merged with the more conservative holiness association in the South.
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