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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 11, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 38.

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Settle Disputes with Prayer.

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Two neighbors, a cooper and a farmer, were spending the evening together. Both were professors of religion, but of different communions. Their conversation was first upon topics relating to practical religion; but after a time it diverged to the point of difference between the two denominations to which they belonged. It first became a discussion, then a dispute. The cooper was the first to perceive its unprofitable and injurious tendency, and remarked, "We are springing apart from each other; let us put on another hoop—let us pray." They knelt down and prayed together, after which they spent the remainder of the evening lovingly together, conversing on the things of the kingdom in which they both felt an equal interest. The suggestion of the cooper was an excellent one.—Spurgeon.