Power Through Prayer

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.

The preacher is commissioned to pray as well as to preach. His mission is incomplete if he does not do both well.

There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer. The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a profession; it is a divine instit…

Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God.

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life.

It is easier to fill the head than it is to prepare the heart. It is easier to make a brain sermon than a heart sermon. It was heart that drew the Son of God from heaven. It is heart that will draw men to heaven.

Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it.

A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. The age may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization and its…