In One Man's Answers to Prayer Arthur Custance used incidents from a journal he had kept for forty years for examples of the Lord's faithfulness in answering his prayers.   The following incident is from 1931:

One winter day I was skidding logs, that is, driving a horse dragging the log from where the tree had been felled up to the saw itself.   I had a beautiful little mare whom I knew well and had a real affection for.  Queenie was willing and fast. Through my carelessness I allowed her, pulling for all she was worth and at some speed through the underbrush, to run the end of the log she was dragging against a tree-stump almost buried in the snow.  The log stopped instantly and, unfortunately for her, the trace did not break.  The sudden shock was too much for her chest muscles, and she tore them so badly that the vet subsequently said she would never recover.

Needless to say, I felt broken-hearted, for it really was my fault; and needless to say, the boss was more than a little displeased.  We managed to get Queenie back to the stable and into her stall.  The vet said, "If she ever lies down, she'll never get up. The best thing really is to shoot her."  I asked the boss if he would leave her for one day.  I wanted to pray about it -- though I didn't tell him so.  After quitting time that evening, I went down to the stable and put my hand on her breast and asked God if He could heal her.  Queenie was motionless, being reluctant to move at all because of the injury to her front legs.  In the morning I went down before breakfast to see whether she was still on her feet.  She was not only on her feet, but actually eating hay.  She moved over a little as I went in beside her, and though she hobbled she didn't seem to be in pain.  Naturally I told the boss about it at breakfast, but I don't think he really believed anything had happened except that he was surprised she was still standing.  Well, to make a long story short, three weeks later Queenie was hitched up to a cutter and took the boss's children to school.  She was never again used for logging, but there was no evidence in the subsequent months that she had suffered the slightest permanent injury.