The Great Need of Our Day Is Prayer
DR. A. TORRY says: “It was a master stroke of the devil when he got the church so generally to lay aside the mighty weapon of prayer. The devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations, and deftly contrive machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying. He laughs as he looks at the church to-day, and he says to himself:— “‘You can have your Sunday-schools and your Young People’s Societies, your Young Men’s Christian Associations, and your Young Women’s Christian Temperance Unions, your Industrial Schools, and your Institutional Churches, and your Boys’ Brigades, your grand choirs and your fine organs, your brilliant preachers and your revival efforts, too, if you don’t bring the power of God into them by earnest, persistent, prevailing, mighty prayer.’” “Prayer could work as marvelous results to-day as it ever could, if the church would only betake itself to it.”