Genuine Prayer Brings Revival
DR. CUYLER, in the NEW YORK Independent, on the subject of prayer, says: “This is God’s appointed channel ‘to convey the blessings he designs to give,’ I sometimes think that there are no equal number of utterances by reputable people in which so many falsehoods are told as in public prayers. Loving words are often spoken by people whose hearts rankle with mean spites and malicious grudges. Sins are glibly confessed in prayer which, if anybody else should charge upon the speaker, he would grow red in the face with wrath. Words of solemn self-consecration are fluently uttered by persons who are living to themselves, and not to Jesus Christ. Such prayers are a mockery. They cut no channels for God’s blessings. But genuine prayer—born of contrition and soul thirst, poured out with faith and wrestling opportunity—breaks its way up to the throne of Infinite Love. Such prayer always brings a revival; nay, it is itself a revival.”