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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 18, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 21.

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Watchfulness and Prayer.

By J. A. SMITH

“How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?” Deut. xxxii, 30.
One could chase a thousand, but what a vast amount more could two do when together! One could chase a thousand, but let him have the help of one more and they could put ten times as many to flight!
Just so with prayer and watchfulness. Prayer is good, watchfulness is good, but one without the other would not be of much avail. But let both go together and what victories, what conquests, the Christian can gain! With them both, he can vanquish all his foes. Watchfulness would be of some avail alone, perhaps; but let it be accompanied with prayer and the Christian will stand ten times as good a chance to overcome. They must go together. “But the end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.” 1 Pet. iv, 7. “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” Eph. vi, 18.
J. A. SMITH.
Harrison Co., Iowa.