“Pa, we must hold up our hand’s and thank God before we eat…”
DW Whittle wrote an article called The Wonders of Prayer: A Record Of Well Authenticated And Wonderful Answers To Prayer published in 1885.
This is one of his recorded answered prayers:
A little German girl, who had never hitherto known the name of the Lord Jesus, was led to attend a Mission school. It was the custom at the school, before the little ones received their dinner, to lift their hands and thank God for their food.
When in course of time she spent her days at home, and her father’s family were gathered around their own table, this little girl said:
“Pa, we must hold up our hand’s and thank God before we eat. That’s the way we do at the Mission.”
So winning was the little one in her ways, the parents yielded at once.
At another time her father was sick and unable to work, and the little girl said, “Pa, I’m going to pray that you may get well and go to work to-morrow morning.”
At four o’clock in the morning she awoke and called out, “Pa, don’t you feel better.” The father said, “Yes, I am better,” and he went to his work in the morning, although weak and obliged to rest by the way.
There came a time once when he could not get work, and there was no food in the house for dinner.
This little girl knelt down and asked God to send them their dinner, and when she rose from her knees, she said, “Now we must wait till the whistle blows, till 12 o’clock.”
At twelve o’clock the whistle blew, and the little girl said, “Get the table ready, it is coming,” and just then in came a neighbor with soup for their dinner.