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THE HONEST MAN'S PRAYER
The drought would not end and the people turned their pleading eyes heavenward but their prayers were not answered. Famine glared with hungry eyes.
Then stood forth the humble shopkeeper holding out his small scales, and he cried out. “Almighty, you have been a Witness to all my dealings. If I have been always honest in them, I beseech you to pour forth the refreshing rains on this parched earth.”
Then burst the clouds and the rains poured out in answer to his adoration expressed through humble yet honest dealings in his daily business.
