PRAYING FOR REPORTERS.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1337, 3 November 1884, Page 4

PRAYING FOR REPORTERS.

■•-., ;" , ■■■■■■ *?■ ~~, ■* '■ .Prating for reporters 'is' 'not confined) to the Salvation Array., .At. a midday meeting;; 'held ia the SajidHurst •theatre tecently, Mrs Hampson^tbe k H&j ewngelistj • announced' that orer 480 jequestiforv prayer .had been i.Te.ceiVed. .Hbf se included seyent special; pfases, which i she. mentioned separately.; The first rcqatst , was' for ..a husband, &ie' next' for two sons, and the third for '■m"t.KCilt' J iM rbose f Srere;pa 1 ssed o?er quickly, the. , audience contenting' tnemselTei rio 'doubt with ' offering up their supplications on j these cases m« wsrdly. : tTbe;neji:t c ', request read outj was "tiiat a prayer ( be offered up for the; dear, reporter i», who' attended the meeting 9 daily, tut' who were as, yet unsaved. Uj^ sooner had the good Jady^ nlade ! the announcement than a'■ unauimbus an 3 "bearty ."Aineh" went up from then asV iembled throng. The scribes present; were visibly, affected by this expression; of kiudly feeling and. regard for their! spiritual welfare, but .were rather un« . certain as to whether the cordial "Amen,' .with which the request was received, they were regarded «• "Being worse sinners than thdse mentioned m thr other cases, or whether it was a aign of the eood feeling .which , exists public, :x; * ■!