Mrs. Moore was getting ready to go to a prayer meeting. She picked up her Bible and went to find her husband.He was seated at his desk working on his accounts. She bent to kiss him goodbye as he said, "Yes, yes, Margaret! You go and pray for us both," while hardly raising his eyes from his books.
It was not the first time that she had heard the same request. Her husband had gotten into the habit of never going with her, but he quieted his conscience by the thought that he sent his wife to pray for them both.
When he was alone he again began to check and verify his addition, but his eyes became heavy, his eyelids kept closing and the figures on the pages seemed to twist and turn in a senseless dance. At last his pen dropped from his fingers, his hands and his head settled down on the cushions of his chair and he was fast asleep.
Soon he was dreaming that he had died and was walking with his faithful Margaret towards the gate of heaven. "Now we will go in together," he said as he took his wife's hand.
Suddenly an angel appeared before them. He opened the gate before which the couple was standing and, turning affectionately towards the wife, he invited her to enter. He said, "You may enter for both, for this has always been your husband's thought."
The gate closed behind her, and the poor man was left standing outside.
Waking, he soon had a Bible in his hands and began searching for some assurance that his wife's prayers would be enough for both, but what did he find?
He then came to the conclusion, and rightly so, that the prayers of a wife can never put away the sins of a husband, and that if salvation is good for women, it must also be good for men! Careful reading led him also to the conclusion that the same Jesus Christ who in the future will be the judge, is now the Savior of sinners. He lost no time in seeking and finding pardon and salvation in Jesus Christ.