SOME years ago I was sent for at midnight to go and pray for a young woman who was nearing her end in this world. When I arrived I found many of her friends gathered in the room where she was lying. I went to her bedside, and asked her if she knew Jesus as her Saviour. She said "Yes." We all knelt down, and had a solemn time of prayer. She afterward grew worse, and her friends would often send for me to go and see her and pray with her.
Oh, what power prayer brings from God when human efforts fail! Divine power from heaven often comes in and gives comfort in answer to prayer. It was Sunday night when I first called, and she suffered much till Wednesday, or rather Thursday, morning, when she had terrible pain, throwing herself from one side of the bed to the other. Whilst thus suffering she, all of a sudden, said, "Let us sing." I thought she said,
"O happy day that fixed my choice
On Thee, my Saviour and my God.
Happy day, happy day,
When Jesus washed my sins away.”
So she and I sang a verse together. Her voice was strong in the midst of all her sufferings. At 4 a. m. she passed away from this scene to be with her Saviour, where suffering cannot enter, where all is praise and worship.
Dear reader, can you sing, "Happy day, happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away"? If not, why not, since Christ died for the ungodly (Rom. 5:66For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6))? "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”