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. EFFICACY OF PRAYER IS HERE TOLD A story of the efficacy of prayer is told by The Times of India. Tlie nuns of n certain charitable Institution at Calcutta had an omnibus horse that had .done much useful .service. In course of time tlie horse died, much to the grief of tlie good ladies, whom he had served so faithfully aud 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, tjie owner of a number of race horses and a supportei .of charity. He claimed the omnibus horse as one o, his racers, ,n 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 onfnibus horse to replace the horse that he had claimed, so tlie nuns still bold that their prayers availed.
