The Prayer Chest - Large Print Author:August Gold, Joel Fotinos Joseph Hutchinson, a hardworking farmer in late–19th-century Long Island. Though not a believer like his beloved wife, Miriam, Joseph has a special relationship with his attic. He not only prays in his attic, he prays to his attic, beseeching the room, for example, to help him safely deliver his first child. When, despite Joseph's pray... more »ers, Miriam dies of pneumonia, Joseph turns away from prayer and the attic, until one day he discovers a mysterious chest filled with scraps of paper and a notebook. This is, of course, the prayer chest, which contains three secrets to prayer: prayer is answered through you; prayers are answered when you listen; and prayer is answered when you welcome everything.« less