Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer by Solomon B Shaw.
It is needless to say much by way of preface to this book. It will speak for itself. From the writer's stand-point, none but those “given over to hardness of heart” can read these "Touching Incidents" without having their souls wondrously stirred within them; and none but the willfully unbelieving can say, in view of the “Remarkable Answers to Prayer” herein recorded, that God does not hear and regard the cries of his faithful children. “Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer” is a collection of 144 stories of Divine support and intervention. This volume displays the overall picture of a faithful and loving God and His involvement in our lives when we trust Him.
But let it be remembered, that “prayer rises far above a mere form of good words. These, of themselves, are nothing, and may be much worse than nothing. The soul of the reader or speaker must be in them to give them life and power. God hears not my words, He hears me. I rise to Him upon the wings of prayer. I might recite good words forever, but unless my spirit is in them, they are nothing.” Yea, nothing but idle words, and mockery before God. The prayer of faith is always prompted by the Holy Spirit, and always receives an answer from the living Father whose Spirit moved its utterance in harmony with His own blessed will.
