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WON BY HIS WIFE’S FAITHI have read the story of a man who was converted to God by seeing the conduct of his wife in an hour of trouble. They had a lovely child, their only offspring. The father’s heart doted on the child constantly, and the mother’s soul was knit up in the heart of the little one.One day, the child lay sick on its bed, and the parents watched it night and day. At last, the youngster died. The father had no God; he pulled his hair. He rolled upon the floor in misery, cursing his being, and defying God in the utter casting down of his agony.There sat his wife, as fond of the child as ever he could be, and though tears would come, she gently said, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”“What,” said he, jumping to his feet, “you love that child? I thought that when that child died, it would break your heart. Here am I, a strong man; I am mad; here are you, a weaker woman, and yet you are strong and bold. Tell me what it is that possesses you? How can you behave so peacefully?”She said, “Christ is my Lord, I trust in him; surely I can give this child to Him who gave Himself for me.”“There must,” said he, “be some truth and some power in the Gospel. What else could lead you to believe in such a manner under such a trial?” From that instant, the man became a believer, all because of how the wife was observed when she went through a very hard time.Wise Words:“I pray you so live that if you ever have to stand over your child’s dead body, you may never hear a voice coming up from that clay, 'Father, your negligence was my destruction or Mother, your prayerlessness was the instrument of my damnation.'”