A dear old lady came forward at an informal reception at the close of a recent Sunday evening service to have a word with the minister (writes the Rev. J. H. Bateson). Of course, it was about her soldier-boy that she wanted to speak. He had given the promise of all that is good and beautiful, and, alas! he turned away from his mother’s God and went far, far away into the far country. “But I prayed for him-day and night I prayed for him.” Tears ran down her cheeks as she told how the wanderer had returned. Oh, the joy of it! “God answers prayer,” she said. “God answers prayer—I know it because I have proved it!”