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HOW THEIR PRAYERS AVAILED, A story of the elficacy of prayer is told by The Times of India. The nuns of a certain charitable institution at Calcutta had an omnibus horse that had done much useful service. In course of time the horse died, much to the grief of the good ladies, whom he had served so faithfully and well. The providing of a successor was the next problem, and, as funds were short, the nuns decided to resort to prayer. They prayed long and earnestly for a horse, and one morning they discovered a horse grazing on the lawn, which, in due course, was harnessed to the omnibus. A few-days later the institution was visited by a prominent citizen, the owner of a number of race horses and a supporter of charity. He claimed the omnibus horse as one of his racers, in spite of the protest of the nuns that it had been sent them in response to their earnest prayers. He was good enough, however, to give them a real omnibus horse to replace the horse that he had claimed, so the nuns still hold that their prayers availed.
