“THIRTEEN AT THE TABLE”
Some years ago I came across a wonderful, miraculous testimony in the Assemblies of God weekly magazine, The Evangel. It was called “Thirteen At The Table.” They gave us permission to use it in our End-Time Handmaiden’s Magazine. Later, we invited the writer of that article, the wife of an Assemblies of God preacher, to give her testimony at our 1979 World Convention in Dogpatch, Arkansas. We will never forget it.
Her name was Gladys Triplett. When the miracle visitor came to her house she was living in Newberg, Oregon. Her husband was an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God. They had eight children. The youngest two were sixteen months and three months old. Her husband had gone to another city for revival meetings, leaving her alone with the children. But she was very sick and weak, as she had not recovered fully from the birth of her last child. She had not been able to sleep for some nights. Her house was in a mess, toys scattered everywhere, unmade beds, a mountain of dirty dishes in the sink, and a large pile of dirty laundry waiting for her. After the older children left for school, she sank, exhausted on the couch, only to hear the doorbell ring.
Upon answering it, she found a strange lady standing there, in the pouring rain, who told her that she had come to help her because she had prayed for help.
Gladys sank to her knees, the visitor picked her up, laid her on the couch, telling her, “Sleep now, my child, for He cares for you.”
When Gladys woke up three hours later, she found her baby had been freshly bathed and was sleeping in her crib, the older girl was sitting, playing in her high chair, the floor was cleaned, the big pile of laundry was washed, ironed, and put away (even though it was pouring rain and she had no dryer). This was a task that usually took her more than two days in good weather. The dishes were washed, dinner was ready, including a newly baked cake, and the table was set with her best linen for thirteen people. Gladys tried to find out who the kind helper was, but she only answered, “a friend, a child of God.” She said she had been sent by the Father, Who loved her and had heard her cry for help in the night.
Gladys told her that there wouldn’t be thirteen for supper, as her husband was gone, and they didn’t have that many children. But she answered, that there would be thirteen for dinner. Sure enough, her husband arrived, saying his meeting had been cancelled, and he brought five guests with him. There were thirteen at the table, and the little girl in her highchair. While they were eating, the visitor washed all the pots and pans, and when Gladys went into the kitchen, she was gone. They inquired if any of the neighbours, or even the police might know who she was, but no one knew anything about her. She was simply, “a friend, a child of God” who, as she had told Gladys, when asked how she got there, answered, “As a crow flies, so came I.”
Upon closer inspection, she discovered that all the children’s newly laundered clothes were in their correct drawers. Who but an angel would know what belonged to whom!
Site editor's note; My wife and I knew the people in this story and was close friends to the lady who wrote the story as it was told to her. It is a story worth sharing, may it increase your faith in a God who cares for us and sent His Son into the world to die and rise again to bring mankind salvation to everyone who repents and calls on Him.
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