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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 9.

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Have You Read It?

By Wm. H. Slown.

If you have not, get the paper and read it; and if you have, read it again; I mean Bro. Cottrell's article in Review, Vol. xxviii, No. 22, headed, “Pray without Ceasing.” When I read it, my heart responded, Amen. Brother or sister, did you ever think of the power of prayer? Says the poet,
“Prayer is appointed to convey, The blessings God designs to give.
If this is so, let us pray without ceasing. Let us have stated times to pray in secret, and stated times to pray in our families, morning and evening. And do not be in a hurry in the morning and have prayers before the children are up, nor wait in the evening till they have gone to bed. And mothers, do not let the family altar fall down when the father is gone away. What a responsibility rests upon parents. If we fail in our duty here, we shall regret it in the great day. I imagine I hear some children cry in that day, and say, I never heard my parents pray. Parents, how could you hear this?
And when we go to the social meeting, then let us pray. There is the place to encourage one another by praying with and for each other. So let us pray without ceasing. The Bible abounds with instances of the power of prayer. When God's hot displeasure was kindled against Aaron and the children of Israel, Moses prayed and God heard his prayer, and spared them. Elisha at the house of the Shunamite prays, and the dead child is restored. Hezekiah prays, and his enemies are all dead men. Daniel was a man of prayer, and God saved him from the design of his enemies, and shut the lions' mouths. Peter had been cast into prison and was to be killed; but God heard the prayers of the church, and saved him. Said the wise man, “The Lord heareth the prayers of the righteous,” and again, “The prayer of the upright is his delight.” James says that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” Paul and Silas prayed, and the earth quaked, the prison doors flew open, the foundations of the prison were shaken, and the bands fell off from the prisoners. Oh the power of prayer. Let us pray without ceasing, and pray with faith in Jesus' name.
Wm. H. Slown.
Gridley, Ill.