Your ShelfYour Projects

Prayer Meetings

33%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 16, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 22.

Read the full edition

Prayer-Meetings.

SOME prayer-meetings are habitually conducted on the principle of stimulation instead of nutrition. Young converts who attend them unconsciously imbibe the idea that religion consists in “getting happy,” and at last they learn by bitter experience, what they should have been early taught by their spiritual advisers, that a man cannot live on cordials, but must have food. Many a case of backsliding might be traced to the disappointment resulting from spasmodic and fruitless struggles after religious joy, and might have been prevented by a steady pursuit of truth and duty.—Sel.