The Character of Prayer Meetings

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 26, 1874

The Character of Prayer Meetings

Nothing more clearly indicates the true character of a church than the quality of its prayer meetings. They are, in a peculiar sense, the outward sign of whatever inward grace the church may possess. If they are cold, formal, dead, be sure there is coldness, formality, and destitution of spiritual vitality in the heart of the church. A deep, earnest religious sentiment pervading the membership will as certainly make itself known in these meetings as sound physical health asserts itself in the ruddy cheek and glowing eye.