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The Power of Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 20.

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The Power of Prayer

DR. MACLAREN tells a story about a little girl who went into a neighboring town, where there was a revival. She attended the meeting, and heard the story of the cross, and gave herself to Jesus.
When she returned home, she went to an old man who was a Christian, and said to him: “Can’t we have a prayer-meeting?”
“We?” asked he. “I don’t know of another Christian in the district.”
“Well,” said she, “you are a Christian, and I am a Christian; can’t we have a prayer-meeting?”
“Well,” said he, “we can say ‘we’ then.”
They did have a prayer-meeting. The next day two or three more came. God answered their prayers, and now between twenty and thirty have found the Saviour.
In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for much work. These two — work and prayer, action and contemplation — are twin sisters. Each pines without the other. We are ever tempted to cultivate one or the other disproportionately. Let us imitate Him who sought the mountaintop as his refreshment after toil, but never left duties undone or sufferers unrelieved in the plain. Lord, teach us to pray.—Selected.