Who can pray like a thoroughly Christian mother? Such a mother will continue to pray for her bad boy long after the father has given him up as hopeless.
Many years ago there was a mother in—, whose son, a young man, had begun to lead a dissolute life. One evening she begged him not to spend that evening away from her, but he declared that he would. He said, "Mother, I'm not going to be tied to your apron-string; I am going to go.”
"Please try and remember every moment tonight that, until you come back, I am going to be on my knees asking God to save you.”
The son, with a rude gesture and muttered oath, rushed from her presence and spent the night in a shameful carousal.
It was four o'clock in the morning when he got home. He had managed to keep his mother out of his mind during his revelry. As he got to the house he saw a light shining through the shutters. Turning the blinds down and looking in, he saw his mother on her knees, and heard her pray, "God save my wandering boy.”
Going to his room he threw himself on his bed, but could not sleep. After awhile he arose, then knelt down, and it seemed to him as though Christ's power proceeded from the room where his wrestling mother was pleading with God, and it led him to cry out, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" And that very morning he accepted Christ as his Savior.
The news of his salvation soon spread in the neighborhood, and in three weeks from that time a number of young people had been converted.
Could that young man doubt that Go hears and answers prayer?
"If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" John 15:7.