SAVED BY FAITH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3240, 9 June 1911, Page 3

SAVED BY FAITH.

THE POWER OF PRAYER.

MISSIONARY’S MARVELLOUS

STORY

[SPECIAL TO TIMES.] AUCKLAND, June 8. In these clays of unbelief, it is like finding an oasis in the desert to come across a man who can tell you through actual experience of miraculous and Divine intervention brought about by faith. After hearing Mr. Oliver Burgess tell of his experiences as a missionary m China, at the Baptist Tabernacle last night, one could not help feeling that the age of miracles is not by any means past at least in China. These are some of Mr. Burgess’s experiences.-; When working inland in that vast empire on one occasion, when a narrow street was on fire, and it seemed impossible for the missionaries’ house to escape, Burgess prayed, and told his neighbors to put their possessions in his place. They did so, and at the critical moment the wind changed and the house was saved. Then when Mr. Burgess and his party looked like going without their breakfast one morning during famine time, an old fisherman, who had hardly been able to get a fish in bis net, made an enormous haul, as soon as the missionary arrived. The old man was most surprised, but Mr. Burgess explained that he had prayed that breakfast might be sent him, and thereupon the fisherman handed over the catch without a murmur. . Then, on another occasion, the missionary’s child was taken seriously ill. He was away and could not get back, and at a certain time of the day he heard a message from God which seemed to say: ‘‘And the fever left her.” He jotted down the time of the message, and some days later returned home, when he found that at that very hour, and on that very day, the fever had left the child, and she was recovering. Another miraculous Divine intervention occurred when the Chinese decided to kill the party. Mr. Burgess * and his friends went into a. house for shelter. and the Chinese decided to set fire to the place. After a prayer, however, a heavy thunderstorm came on and frightened the mob away. A few davs later they again came on the same errand, but, just at the right moment, a storm again drove them away, thus saving their party’s lives. ' Mr. Burgess related a number of exciting incidents, and his address was swallowed with much interest.