Article February 24, 1906 Issue

I want to say that there is power in prayer, and that we...

Joseph Wagner

New York Globe

I want to say that there is power in prayer, and that we have a God who can answer prayer. I was a prisoner of the Civil War, confined in Andersonville, Ga. We had the very filthiest kind of water to drink, out of a brook over which the Twenty-sixth Alabama Regiment had its sinks built. A number of us gathered in the northeast corner of the prison and prayed to God to send better water. That same night a spring of pure, clean water broke out halfway up the hill from the brook, and we named it Providence Spring, and it is flowing to-day.

In this Anderson Prison I was taken so sick that the doctor said I would not live a half hour. I was then not quite nineteen years old. I prayed for God to make me well and He did, and I am yet alive and well and hearty at sixty-one years. There is power in prayer.

Joseph Wagner.
New York Globe.

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