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My Favorite Illustrations is gleaned from over eighty volumes of Dr. Hobbs’ Studying Adult Life and Work Lessons. Ronald Brown has compiled these illustrations into many categories, including age, atonement, evangelism, family life, praise, thanksgiving, and work.

I became pastor of the Dauphin Way Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, on January 1, 1945. The first ten Sundays were rainy. Nevertheless we had large attendance at both Sunday School and worship services. One Sunday in early March I said to the people, “If we had just one pretty weekend, what could we do?” Later I learned that one lady had responded, “We’d show him what we could do. We’d go across the bay.” The next Sunday I said, “Finally I have learned how to pray about