The Anaconda Standard

PRAYERS PAID THE DEBT.
A Mortgage Which Was Liquidated in a Queer Manner,
From a New York Special.

Mrs. E. M. Whittemore, who is in charge of the Door of Hope, is rejoicing over a gift of $15,000, which she says has come to this home for fallen women entirely through the efforts of prayer. It enables Mrs. Whittemore to pay off a $15,000 mortgage which has been hanging over the property for a long time. "For some time after the Door of Hope came into my possession as a sacred trust," she said the other day, "the mortgage on the house seemed displeasing to the Lord, and last summer he placed a burden of prayer on me concerning it. I had faith to believe that the money would be forthcoming before the mortgage expired, and told my friends that before next June the mortgage would certainly be wiped out. I had not any conception then where the money was coming from. "My friends were incredulous, but I assured them my prayer would be answered before next summer. On January the 13 last, a dear friend of mine, a woman who had taken a great interest in our work, asked me to give her a little time, as she had some important matters to talk over with me. I did not realize until she told me what her mission was, and I was totally unprepared when she quietly said: 'I believe God wants me to wipe that amount all out, and on one condition, that my name be withheld. I will hand you a check for $15,000 for the purpose,' Mrs. Whittemore says that she was nearly overcome by the offer. Only a short time ago she refused quite a sum of money on account of the dishonorable way in which it had been obtained.