Jehovah Jireh

                                                             G. H. LANG

 

     The writer was in Egypt in August, 1914, at the outbreak of the late war.   Immediately after war was declared all foreign exchange stopped.  Having but little money in hand, and the receiving of money from abroad being all but impossible, a day soon came when his funds were reduced to the sum of fourpence halfpenny.  Of this none knew but God, and to Him constant prayer was made.  That very evening two letters were received.  One of these contained a draft for fifty pounds, the history of which, as afterwards transpired, was as follows.  Immediately after war was declared, a kind friend, then in Switzerland, thought of the probable difficulty of the one in Egypt, and desired to send money.  But shut up in Switzerland, and there likewise short of funds, it seemed impossible to do this, since no banks would grant credit or give foreign drafts.  But this friend remembered that a gentleman, then in England, had some money at his credit with a certain commercial house in Cairo, and wrote to him to send an order thereon.  The postal delay involved at that time of disorganisation did but serve to hinder the arrival of the help till faith and prayer had been fully tested and strengthened. 

     But this was not all.  In that period of financial stringency it took a few days for the firm to cash the draft, and this left no provision for those days.  But this detail God had foreseen, and had aforehand provided the supply by moving another loving heart in England to post, so as to arrive by the same delivery, a British postal order for five shillings.  This being payable at any post office (probably the only paper money negotiable at that time), just met the temporary need.  Let not unbelief again ask, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness ?

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